Take a Greyhound to the Texas Centennial — 1936
by Paula Bosse
“Dallas, please…”
by Paula Bosse
Thanks to the promoters of the Texas Centennial, advertisements placed in national publications in 1936 showed Dallas to be quite the desirable destination. The Centennial — the World’s-Fair-that-wasn’t-quite-a-World’s Fair — made Dallas the place to be in 1936. This ad for Greyhound Lines (a company which, incidentally, is now headquartered in Dallas) need only show a fab deco poster on a wall for people to want to jump on a bus and head to Big D.
The full ad is below. Nary a mention of “Dallas.” (Click to see a larger image.)
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Sources & Notes
Ad from Hollywood magazine, May, 1936.
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Flashback : Dallas 
Of course, Dallas was OK unless you wanted to travel to San Diego. Greyhound didn’t care!
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[…] And, finally, I was pretty excited when I saw this “stealth” Dallas-related Greyhound Bus Lines ad (Dallas isn’t even mentioned) — it appeared in a national magazine in 1936, the year of the Texas Centennial Exposition in Big D. From the December post “Take a Greyhound to the Texas Centennial — 1936.” […]
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