EVANSVILLE, Indiana, is more than the band instrument city of the world. It is, in many ways, a link between the busy, rushing North and the quiet South. Once a great port on the Ohio River, the city still continues as an important route for trade, with its harbor one of the best on inland waterways where a large volume of freight still makes an impressive figure.
Transportation made Evansville. The city's position as a transportation center brought industry to it early in its history. The resultant expansion of factories gave the city such products as auto bodies, steam and electric shovels, electric and gas refrigerators, infant foods, and grain products for a nationwide market. Today a total of 225 factories employ about 16.700 workers in a city where the population is almost entirely native-born.
Bus transportation for the city centers about the Dixie Greyhound Lines' new Terminal. Employing the last word in functional architecture, this smartly designed station creates an atmosphere of modem comfort and convenience that is a tribute both to the architects and to the Greyhound Lines. Consideration for the likes and dislikes of passengers, coupled with a need for greater efficiency in expediting terminal management, led to the construction of this fine Evansville Terminal.
Architects: WISCHMEYER, ARRASMITH & ELSWICK. Louisville, Ky.
Associate Architect: Edwin C. BERENDES. Evansville, Ind.
Services: Dixie Greyhound Lines. Great Lakes Greyhound Lines of Indiana, Southeastern Greyhound Lines, Carbondale-Harrisburg Coach Line, Evansville & Southern Indiana Coach Line, Southern Limited, and the Wabash Valley Coach Company.
Structural Details and Facilities
This Terminal is an island type unit with a structural system entirely of reinforced concrete design and saw-tooth type loading platform.
EXTERIOR. The facade of the building is faced with buff Indiana limestone, trimmed in black terra cotta and parallel bands of white porcelain enamel.
A display window stands between the 2 front entrance doors. Over the entrance is a large GREYHOUND sign of white porcelain enamel, running horizontally. Above this sign is another, jutting vertically and neon-lighted. Glass blocks flank the lower portion of this sign. Two racing Greyhounds on each side of the building are of white porcelain enamel.
A composition roofing is used with a cut stone coping.
INTERIOR. The floors of the building are of asphalt and tile, with tile used in the toilets.
The material for the walls is plaster and burlap, with plaster for the upper walls. The wainscot material is burlap, painted buff and pink.
Fluorescent lights reflect against a cream-color plaster ceiling. Natural walnut benches are located in the Waiting Room, while dark blue leather upholstery is used in the Restaurant and Lounge.
The Ticket Office features built-in ticket cabinets with linoleum counter finish.
Twenty-eight Parcel Checking Lockers are situated on the loading platform close to the Waiting Room entrance.
The heating unit for the building is located in the basement. It is of the forced air type.
The stairway between the lower and upper parts of the Waiting Room has a wood handrail on metal brackets.
Plaster on metal lath and channel partitions are used in the Men's and Women's Rooms.
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