[GreenKeys] [External] Re: FedEx Ground Surcharges notice

[bill riches]

When I was stationed in North Bend, Oregon in the Airforce  (1960-1964) I
had a side business repairing fishing boat radio and radar equipment up and
down the Oregon coast.  A surplus dealer in San Francisco was selling APN-9
Lorans and the 400 hz converters at a good price. They would put them on
the Greyhound bus and I would pick it up at our bus station the next day.
5 bucks for about 75 pounds of gear.  Good old days!

73,

Bill, WA2DVU K7TKU SV0WR
Cape May, NJ

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 7:29 PM John C Mcclurg <j-mcclurg at sbcglobal.net>
wrote:

> I agree, YEA Greyhound!!!
>
> I worked for KOLO-TV in Reno ,NV and had gone to a Mountain top near Ely,
> NV, to work on a Lenkurk Type 78 Microwave system and found I had left my
> Frequency Counter in Reno 320 Miles away!!!!!
>
> Chief Engineer took it down to Greyhound and I picked it up in Ely at 0800
> the next day.................
>
> Saved my having a LOOOONG trip back and forth.
>
> Wish they still ran here in Nevada.
>
> Chuck McClurg
> KOLO-TV
> 1967-1993
>
>
> On Sunday, June 7, 2020, 12:39:11 PM PDT, Jones, Douglas W <
> douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu> wrote:
>
>
> From: craig andrews [andrewsofbg at gmail.com] --  Friday, June 5, 2020 4:46
> PM
>
> > Wow. Greyhound. I remember parts sales counters offering “you want us to
> put that on the bus?”
>
> I remember Greyhound package express.  You may have had to go to the bus
> station to get it, but in some parts of the country, that can be a really
> useful service!
>
> In the late 1960's, my father had a lab on the summit of Mount Evans,
> Colorado.  He was looking as cosmic rays, and if your experiment was too
> heavy to launch into orbit, mountain tops were the next best thing.  Mount
> Evans had (and may still have) the highest paved road in the world, and
> there was a little restaurant/gift shop, the Crest House, near the summit.
> Continental Trailways ran a daily bus from Denver to the summit and back
> for the tourist trade, and the lab regularly ordered replacement parts and
> supplies to be delivered by bus -- it sure beat the 28-mile round trip to
> the curbside mailbox at Echo Lake (a mere 4000 feet lower in elevation) or
> the 76 mile round trip to the nearest hardware store in Idaho Springs (7000
> feet downhill).
>
> As a teenager, having nothing better to do, I spent many hours at the
> experiment working as an unpaid technician, soldering electronics, making
> cables, and sometimes acting as gofer -- run over to the Crest House to
> pick up a package from the bus that had just arrived (and, while there, buy
> a slice of pie and a cup of hot cocoa) -- the pie was very good.
>
>               Doug Jones
>               jones at cs.uiowa.edu
>
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