Bus Fare Question

$22.50 If I remember about that much...

Might find it in the archives...

http://www.apta.com/resources/statistics/Pages/transitstats.aspx

Thanks SE.

In the movie the guy got charged $5 for a one way tticket from Dallas Texas to Lisbon Maine and that seemed very low, even for 1963, and using your ticket in a straight comparison of miles to dollars suggest the fare should have been around $33 one way from Dallas to Maine in the 60s.

I watch a lot of movies and they usually get the details about right but that one struck me as way off and it seems it was.

Thanks for the help, nice find on that ticket!

Oh I thought that was a roundtrip ticket I found there....and had the mileage at just over 1k....

I used this for your ticket's mileage - 667 miles round trip using N roads.

https://www.google.ca/search?source=hp&q=norfolk+va+to+philadelphia+pa&oq=nor&gs_l=psy-ab.3.1.35i39k1l2j0i131k1j0i20k1.44981.46209.0.50826.6.3.0.0.0.0.77.225.3.3.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..3.3.225.0.wkkpqb81XLM

And this for Dallas to Lisbon - 1902 miles one way.

https://www.google.ca/search?source=hp&q=dallas+tx+to+lisbon+maine&oq=d&gs_l=psy-ab.3.1.35i39k1l2j0i131k1j0.68795.68795.0.73367.3.1.0.0.0.0.86.86.1.1.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..2.1.86.0.YWPFyu8wF7s

yes you're correct....I was looking at another ticket, but this price...anyway $5, might have had a discount of some sort, but certainly not full fare I would think...The 60's was a turbulent time for buses...

..."In 1955, the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled in the case of Keys v. Carolina Coach Co. that U.S. interstate bus operations, such as Greyhound's, could not be segregated by race.^[23] In 1960, in the case of Boynton v. Virginia, the U.S. Supreme Court found that an African American had been wrongly convicted of trespassing in a "whites only" terminal area.^[24] In May 1961, civil rights activists organized interracial Freedom Rides as proof of the desegregation rulings. On May 14, a mob attacked pair of buses (a Greyhound and a Trailways) traveling from Washington, D.C., to New Orleans, Louisiana, and slashed the Greyhound bus's tires.^[25] Several miles outside of Anniston, Alabama, the mob forced the Greyhound bus to stop, broke its windows, and firebombed it.^[26][27] The mob held the bus' doors shut, intending to burn the riders to death. Sources disagree, but either an exploding fuel tank^[26] or an undercover state investigator brandishing a revolver^[28] caused the mob to retreat. When the riders escaped the bus, the mob beat them, while warning shots fired into the air by highway patrolmen prevented them from being lynched.^[26] Title II and Title III of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 broadened protections beyond federally regulated carriers such as Greyhound, to include non-discrimination in hotels, restaurants, and other public accommodations, as well as state and local government buildings.^[29]

Later in the 1960s, Greyhound leadership saw a trend of declining ridership and began significant changes, including using the profitable bus operations to invest in other industries.^[21] By the 1970s, Greyhound had moved its headquarters to Phoenix, Arizona and was a large and diversified company, with holdings in everything from the Armour meat-packing company (which in turn owned the popular Dial deodorant soap brand), acquired in 1970; Traveller's Express money orders, MCI bus manufacturing company, and even airliner leasing. Indeed, Greyhound had entered a time of great change, even beginning to hire African American and female drivers in the late seventies.^[30]"....

^{...but there was a great deal of turbulence everywhere....hippies, protesters, Vietnam....It was all happening...}

^{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyhound_Lines}

Nice read here...

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/07/25/back-on-the-bus

https://www.amazon.com/Strange-Career-Jim-Crow/dp/0195146905

There's a few references to the turbulent times in the movie.

If you like time travel movies I highly recommend 11.22.63.

Maybe the movie people couldn't find out either and just took a guess.

Yes maybe.