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By Connie L. Sheehan
Staff Reporter
Tuesday, 10:35 a m. . . .
The quiet of the depot reflected
the recent end of holiday break
Only the rush of traffic from 10th
St. and an occasional rise of voices
from the back shipping room filled
the 30-year-old building.
Bill Wilt, agent and manager of
the Greyhound Bus Station at <M0 P
St., said the station is quiet now,
but business will pick up again
closer to Spring Break.
Two people, a young man on a
bench and an older gentleman using
the telephone at the back of the
station, shared the waiting room
with four vending machines and
an occasional travel-by-bus poster
Wilt said the majority of travel
ers are either elderly or students,
and he was surprised by the num
ber of students who use the bus to
commute between Lincoln and
Omaha.
Mike Barrett, a student at North
east High School, was waiting for
his ride home since returning on
the bus from Omaha.
Barrett said he uses the bus to
visit relatives in Omaha, and while
we talk his ride arrives, honks, and
Barrett quickly gathers his belong
ings. The waiting room was empty
now except for one.
Donald E. Pohlmann has fin
ished on the phone and returned
to his seat for a quick sack lunch
His luggage pulled around his feet,
he quickly greets with a smile when
asked for a little of his time.
Pohlmann accepts the intrusion
good-naturedly, and his easy-going
manner belies the fact that Pohlm
ann travels with what most people
think of as a handicap. Pohlmann
has been blind since age eight,
when glaucoma finally took the
Cartial vision he had had since
irth
Pohlmann doesn’t see being blind
as a restriction to travel.
“Travel can be frightening even
for those who do see,” he said,
adding that often older people are
afraid to travel alone.
Pohlmann, a piano technician,
has arrived in Lincoln to tune pi
anos for Concordia College in
Seward, one of the contracts he has
in central Nebraska.
Asked if he liked to travel by
bus, Pohlmann just smiled and softly
said, “Well, I’ve been doingit for 42
years.”
Pohlmann said he has traveled
the bus systems of Nebraska since
graduating from the School for the
Visually Handicapped in Nebraska
City, where he learned the art of
tuning pianos.
Pohlmann has accumulated “bus
stories by the dozens” over the
years.
“One time, I was on a bus when
we hit a hog,” he said. “But we
never did find the hog."
Another time, Pohlmann was
riding a bus which took sideroads
into small towns to drop off mail.
“We came up over a (hill), and*
there were two farmers in pickup
trucksgoing in opposite directions,
visiting,” he said.
The bus had to go down into the
ditch to miss them, he added.
Even with all of these stories,
Pohlmann emphasizes that travel
ing by bus is a lot of fun, too.
“Because 1 don’t see and I don’t
have a car, I get to meet a lot of
interesting people (traveling by
bus),” he said
Pohlmann said he uses the bus
for his work trips, but has traveled
longer trips with his two adopted
sons and his wife, who also is
blind.
Pohlmann said he appreciates
the “helping hand” system pro
vided by Greyhound, where a blind
person can take a sighted assistant
along on the same ticket.
“So, for us four, this has been
the cheapest method of travel,"
Pohlmann said
Asked if he is close to retiring
brings another laugh
“I will be 60 on my next birth
day, but I’m not even thinking of
retirement because I've got a boy in
the sixth grade," he said
the conversation closes as a
young student from the college lets
herself and the street noises in, and
walks over to introduce herself to
Pohlmann as his ride to Concordia
Now, the depot sits empty until
the afternoon bus arrives and de
posits the next load of varied trav
elers Only the sun moving across
the tiled floor and the voices from
the back room keep the vend- fTI
ing machines company. I "J