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Veteran Bus Driver Ends Career
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Elmer Markin, veteran Greyhound Bus driver, completes his last trip in his 35-year career. Markin helps a passenger exit from the bus at the Madison Union Bus Station. Markin drove the bus over two million miles, the equivalent of 80 times around the world, without a chargeable accident over the past 23 years.
August 1960
Vinje, Arthur M., 1888-1972 (photographer)
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