Ask around a little, and nobody, save perhaps for a handful of petty crooks, really misses the Bakersfield Greyhound bus station all that much.
Built in 1958, in the wake of the Bakersfield earthquakes that leveled much of the city’s downtown, the low-slung and theatrically nondescript concrete cinder block of a station was, for decades, a place where grifters, killers, drifters and some of the FBI’s most wanted were picked up and dropped off.
For most of its 60-year run, the Bakersfield Greyhound station was something of a living true crime novella…