Did you ever have to ride a bus from town to town? Searcy Arkansas bus stop.

I remember a bus line that operated out of Searcy called May's Bus.  I had an uncle who lived in El Paso AR and I would take the bus to there via Center Hill and Floyd.

Also, the were a couple of times during the 1940's that someone tried to get a city bus route going.  They never did last very long, however.  They would use an old, repainted school bus.  I remember catching it a few times to go downtown from where I lived at 1212 West Race.  However, that was only about a mile so most times we just walked.  It's hard, now, to believe that anyone thought they could make money running a privite city bus in a small town like Searcy was then.

My wife, Carolyn Cranford, lived near McRae and on Fridays she would leave school at noon, catch the Grayhound bus up to Searcy, eat a hamburger lunch at the Black Cat Cafe on Market Street , take her music lesson from Mrs. Ward who lived on Center Street, and then catch the Grayhound bus back to McRae.  Some years she did this by herself and later with her younger sister.  Who would let their little girl(s) do that today?????  Times have really changed!

I'm the husband of Carolyn, I just forgot to include my name.

I'm trying to place 1506 W. Race.  W. Race use to end just before the 1500 block so it must dead-in into your office.  One of my friends once lived in a house there.

Loved the picture of the bus stop.  Many packages were delivered by bus as they are now by UPS.

I picked up records for Quattlebaum Music there for many years.

Barbara, I used to ride the bus to visit my dad every summer.  I rode the bus to where he lived and back again after my visit.  When I came home, it was good to see the Rendevous again.  This was back in the 1940's.

On my walk home, I knew everyone along the way out Park Ave.  They would be sitting out on their front porches, in a porch swing or a cane rocking chair.  They would talk with me as I made my way down the street.  Can you imagine that today?  We stay in air conditioned homes and don't even know our neighbors sometimes. 

Teachers, Ms. Key, Ms. Wilson, and Ms. Redus all lived on Park Ave. at that time. 

WELL, GROWING UP ALL I REMEMBER IS THE GREY HOUND BUS STATION THAT WAS ACROSS FROM SUBWAY ON RACE ST, BESIDE HARDING, BUT MY MOTHER HAS TOLD ME  MANY STORIES OF HER AND A GF ON FRIDAY NIGHTS, NOW MIND YOU SHE LIVED OUT SMITH RD, WHICH IS OFF HWY 16 QUITE A WAYS, AND THEY WOULD CATCH THE BUS FRIDAY EVENINGS FROM THE CORNER OF SMITH AND MT. PISGAH AND WOULD GO TO TOWN TO SEE A MOVIE OR WHAT HAVE YOU, AND THEN CATCH THE BUS BACK, BUT SHE TOLD ME WHEN THEY GOT DROPPED OFF IT WAS A MILE AND A HALF TO THIER HOME, LOL CAN U IMAGINE, SHE SIAD THEY WAS NEVER SCARED UNTIL THEY HAD TO WALK PASSED A HOUSE THAT EVERYONE SIAD LIVED A OLD MAN THAT WAS SCARY LOL, SHE TOLD ME THAT HER AND HER GF NEVER SEEN HIM BUT THEY WOULD ALWAYS RUN PAST HIS DRIVEWAY LOL, ANYWAY THATS MY 2 CENTS ON IT, I DO WISH WE HAD A BETTER PUBLIC TRANSIT HERE NOWADAYS, WE HAVE GROWN SO MUCH, YOU WOULD THINK WE WOULD HAVE SOMETHING BY NOW!!!

I owe my life to the Rendezvous Cafe. My Mother O'Dell Cato worked there as a waitress. My father from Selma AL was station in the Air Force at Newport, AR and he would ride the bus to Searcy to find girls. He met My mother working. They soon married and after the war moved us To Selma. They later broke up and mother brought us back to Searcy.

Mays Bus line ran from Gravel Hill to Searcy. When I was a child in th 50s, we would put cream in a large can out on the dirt highway 36. Mays bus line would pick up cream and take it to Yarnells ice cream. That night he would bring can back with money for the cream and leave on side of road for us to pick up........man what honesty.....