From America’s Bus Empire to Factory Shutdown — The Fall of Greyhound

From America’s Bus Empire to Factory Shutdown — The Fall of Greyhound In 1955, one American company controlled 85% of all intercity travel in the United States. Not the airlines. Not the railroads. A bus company. Thirty years later, Greyhound couldn't stay out of bankruptcy court, and it didn't fall to a competitor. It fell to a single way of thinking inside its own boardroom. This is the complete rise and fall of an American empire: the immigrant who built it from one unsold car, the strike that shattered a nation's trust, and the factory shutdown that nearly buried a century of work in a single small town. The decision that doomed it is quietly repeating in companies you trust today. #lostindustries #vanishedamericanbrands #closedfactoriesamerica #industrialdeclineCanada