From: grammatim@verizon.net   
      
   On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 3:41:00 PM UTC-4, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:   
   > On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 1:14:52 PM UTC-4, Peter T. Daniels wrote:   
      
   > > When were the last grandeurous railroad stations built?   
   >   
   > I don't count Toledo, so generally the last grand stations were built in the   
   1930s.   
   >   
   > > And when were the first bus stations built?   
   >   
   > The 1930s.   
      
   So WPA funds couldn't be justified for use on private facilities.   
      
   > When railroads, then and now, had a non-agency station, they still built at   
   least a little shelter and a seat.  But bus lines would just use a street   
   corner and provide nothing.   
   >   
   > I remember Greyhound using the parking lot of a porn store as its local   
   terminal.   
   >   
   > Also, bus stations often had the reputation--deserved--as being unsavory   
   places.   
   >   
   > For instance, in Newark-Penn, the Greyhound portion just seems not as nice   
   as the railroad proper.   
      
   The whole thing wasn't nice when I went to find out where PATH would take me   
   if I let it. It's a sort of depressing mix of the last attempt at Beaux Arts   
   trying to mingle with that newfangled Deco thing.   
      
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