Jitney Jungle

Jitney Jungle was the name of several grocery stores in Hattiesburg from the 1920s until the early 2000s.

The first Jitney Jungle was somewhere on Main Street in downtown Hattiesburg, but closed in the late 1920s.

On September 2, 1938, Hattiesburg's first modern "cash-and-carry" Jitney Jungle opened at the corner of Hardy Street and West Pine Street.

Just a few months later, on November 9, 1938, a second store was open at 212 Main Street. A year later it was expanded, doubling its size, and reopened on November 23, 1939.

On September 2, 1948, another Jitney Jungle opened at 712 James Street in the Hospital Shopping Center across the street from what is now the Hattiesburg Police Station.

By 1957 there was another Jitney Jungle in Petal.

On September 29, 1960, Jitney Jungle opened in the Hardy Street Mart.

Around 1964 Jitney Jungle opened at 114 South Main Street in Petal.

On February 3, 1975, Jitney Jungle opened another location at Cloverleaf Mall where Captain D's stands today.

For a few years, from around the mid 1990s until the early 2000s, the Winn Dixie location at the Lincoln Square Shopping Center was a Jitney Jungle.