As I was driving carefully to work this morning because of the slippery road conditions I ended up behind a school bus since the schools had a two-hour delay. As we drove carefully along I happened to notice a decal on the bus's back bumper that said Blue Bird. Wow! Blast from the past... Throughout my youth and childhood I spent a lot of hours on Blue Bird buses. In fact, I think if anyone ever did a study they would find a correlation between children who rode school buses many miles over bumpy country roads and adults who develop back trouble (but that's a subject for another blog).
I caught myself thinking "I didn't even know they still made Blue Bird buses." Then I got to wondering who "they" were and so I googled Blue Bird Bus and discovered that the company has been building buses since 1927. Note: I was not riding in the original bus, although there is a nifty picture of it on their website. I discovered that the factory is located in Fort Valley, Georgia, they now have 1500 employees, they bill themselves as the "world's finest school bus" (who am I to argue?) and they sell their buses in more than 60 countries. The one burning question that still remains is why the name Blue Bird?
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