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From: "Robert Barnes" <>
Subject: Re: [ARKANSAS] What were Jitney Cars???
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 18:33:47 -0500
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There used to be some "Jitney Jungle" grocery stores in Tulsa.

Robert Barnes


----- Original Message -----
From: "Nichols, Sharon L." <>
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Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 2:35 PM
Subject: RE: [ARKANSAS] What were Jitney Cars???


> Jitney is an old term for taxis. I know because my great-grandmother
> never
> called a cab or a taxi--always a jitney.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fran Warren [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2003 10:56 AM
> To:
> Subject: [ARKANSAS] What were Jitney Cars???
>
>
> Does anyone know what a Jitney was? I've noticed a lot of news items about
> them in the 1914 and 1915 newspapers
>
> July 30, 1915
> Van Buren Press-Argus
> JITNEY LINE TO SHIBLEY AND ALMA
>
> Some of the former Jitney Owners have established a line of jitneys
> between
> Fort Smith and Alma and are being very liberally patronized. The cars are
> making three round trips daily, having a regular schedule.
>
> During the busy fruit season that is now on, there will be much use of
> Jitneys between Van Buren and Alma, and especially between Van Buren and
> Shibley where the Van Buren Fruit Growers' Union is loading peaches.
>
> Fran Alverson Warren
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