Greyhound Bus Station
The Greyhound Bus Station was built in 1946 at 201 South Jefferson and East Alabama, where one of Guaranty Bank and Trust’s branch office is now.
A headline in a Mt. Pleasant Daily Times July, 9th 1946 newspaper clipping said “Mt. Pleasant’s bus terminal is now in operation, three lines begin use of building on Monday afternoon”.
The building was erected for the purpose by Gus Presley, in cooperation with O. W. Hubbard owner and operator of Hub Motor Coaches, and the management of Southwestern Greyhound Lines, and accommodated a third line, the Dixie Trailways.
The building housed a cafe and coffee shop and a ticket office with a benched waiting room.
At that time it had eighteen schedules per day operating out of Mt. Pleasant: three to Tyler, two to Paris, three to Atlanta and five each towards Dallas and Texarkana.
Earlier bus lines in Mt. Pleasant were the Red Ball Bus Line to Paris in 1926 leaving out of the Main Hotel that was at the Southwest corner of North Jefferson and West Fourth Street.
In 1933 a ticket for the Southwestern Greyhound bus could be purchased at the Jefferson Hotel at the Southwest corner of South Madison and West First. In 1945 that same hotel was renamed the McDonald Hotel. It had a Greyhound ticket office that offered Mexican food and short orders in their Aztec Room. There was a beauty shop and millinery (lady’s hat) shop. The hotel later became the Hotel Stephens.
