Since early August people from the Land of Logan-current and former-have been digging into the recesses of their memories to conjure up recollections of people, businesses and events who have been integral parts of their lives. They have been posting those memories on the Facebook page
“You Know You are from Russellville or Logan County (KY) if You Remember…”
Thousands of posts have been entered in the weeks that have passed. It’s been one of the most fun mental exercises we’ve been part of in a long time.
The LoJo has spent many hours categorizing and compartmentalizing the posts. We left out posts that were unkind or negative toward individuals. We couldn’t include everything that has been said so far, but many names, businesses and places follow that help form an informal history of our towns and county.
Adairville area
Natalie Shelton Wells:
You knew where the town of DOT is.
Robin Foster:If you've spent a Saturday night hunting for ghosts at The Keysburg Hotel.
Debbie McMurtry:
Jesse James’ home was and is still standing the last I saw off 431 before you get to Adairville.
Stanley Fleming:
The teachers at Adairville where I did my student teaching, Mr (Jesse) Richards, Mr (Tommy) Cummins, Mr. (Jim) Thompson, etc
Ralph Gilliam:
Savage Cave is an interesting one. Around '54, several of us became amateur spelunkers and went in this cave and several others including Mud River Cave (Spring Acres). I don't know what we were thinking as I wouldn't dare to do it again because we could have fallen off a ledge or whatever. Among
this bunch of idiots wereDorris Burchett, Charles London, Kerry Kenady, Walter 'Rhodes' Reed, Jerry Gilliam, Jack McLean, and Ralph Gilliam.
Marilyn Ramsey:
Savage Cave (or once called Cook's Cave) was practically in my backyard when I was a child. I played there, had cookouts there, went spelunking, and even helped excavate it for a museum as a work-study program while I was a student at WKU. Dad sold Mrs. Genevieve Savage the five acres she built her log cabin on and helped her reassemble it there on the property. Mrs. Savage was a close friend of our family and lived just up the road before she built the cabin. Many fond memories of the cave and Mrs. Savage!
Phyllis Saunders:
I met Mrs. Savage while working on her house, she invited me to bring Steve and come back, We went one Saturday and spent the entire day with her, she was amazing and held so much history and knowledge. She told me she was a swamp witch but since she liked me I didn’t’ have to worry. It was 30 years ago but I have never forgotten her
Vivian Hillard:
The Adairville Enterprise. My friend Shelly Barrett's parents, Marion and Betty Barrett, published it on Wednesday. We used to spend the
night there on Tuesdays and help out.
Adairville Café:
(Laura Hunter)
Adairville Pool Hall
(Debbie Jarman West)
Adairville Teen Town:
(Laura Hunter)
Amos (Gardner) the Sailor’s Market:
(Debbie Jarman West, Marion Goodwin)
Betts Funeral Home:
(Laura Hunter)
(Doodle) Violette’s Barber Shop:
(Marion Goodwin, Andrea Anderson)
Joe’s Café:
(Laura Hunter)
Harold and Mag Cowan
, who ran Western Auto in Adairville:
(Laura Hunter)
Joe and Hazel Gambril
of Adairville:
(Laura Hunter)
Roy’s 5&10:
(Debbie Jarman West)
Savage Cave:
(Laura Hunter)
State Line:
(Lillian Gower Winn, Shelia Haley)
Agriculture
Jeannie Leedom Bowles:
Tobacco not only brought food to the farmers’ families but to storeowners and a lot of other business families! My dad had a clothing/dry goods store
and extended credit to farm families and got paid once a year, when their tobacco was sold! And, guess what, they were good friends and good neighbors.
There was never any mention of interest being paid! That older generation was so much smarter and so much kinder than we are today!!!
Deborah Evitts:
When I was young, my dad raised a crop with another man so we would have food on the table thru the winter. with several mouths to feed and not many
painting jobs thru the winter. You did what you had to do. He was too proud of a man to look for a handout like some do today.
Marion Hutchison:
My family was dependent on the income from the sale of tobacco for food and the essentials of everyday life. The sale of tobacco was the difference
between extreme poverty and making a living for us. Sometimes it was close to extreme poverty anyway.
Rob Williams
If you see a barn smoking and know that everything is OK and no need to call the fire department.
Kitty Oberhausen Perkins:
I miss the smell of fired tobacco.
•Clayton McMeen: You know you went to LCHS if you ever sold FFA fruit.
Bond’s Feed Mill:
(Cindy Bromm)
Brown’s Tobacco Warehouse:
(Scott Sansom)
Chick Ray’s Poultry:
(Bob Collins)
Farmers Hardware
on Main Street:
(Mary Lucy Franklin)
Gill & Jennings:
(Stanley Fleming)
Kelly’s Feed Mill:
(Mike Gilliam)
McCarley & Richardson Feed Mill:
(Larry Johnson)
McCarley Implement:
(Jim Turner)
Russellville Loose Leaf:
(Mary Lucy Franklin, Scott Sansom)
Shipp Implement:
(Pam Britton Pitts)
Stockyard on West Third:
(Chuck Holloway)
Auburn/Chandlers area
Auburn Antique Mall:
(Scott Sansom)
Auburn Hosiery Mill:
(Scott Sansom)
Burkhart’s Mill:
(Jimmy Belcher)
Cox’s Variety Store: (
Paulette Canler, Judy Kenner)
Fisher’s Store
at Chandlers:
(David Holloway, Sharon Smotherman Crossley
Hinchee’s Grocery
near Chandlers:
(Boyd Epley)
Hobo’s Gas Station:
(Scott Sansom)
Mutt Young Store
on Duncan’s Hill:
(Boyd Epley)
Robbins Brothers Mills:
(Jimmy Belcher)
Scott’s Auburn Mills:
(Jimmy Belcher)
Shaker Tavern:
(Laura Hunter)
Strickler Stained Glass:
(Veronica Johnson)
Tobacco warehouse
on Third Street:
(Scott Sansom_
VC Fertilizer:
(Gary Taylor, Elaine Carnall Cox)
(Vernon) Walton’s Store
at Bucksville:
(Jimmy Belcher, David Holloway, Judy Watson Pettet)
Businesses in the Russellville Area
Rebecca Ammons:
If you remember when Wal-Mart was where Dollar General Market is now, Houchens was where Save-A-Lot is, and Sonic was where The Harvest is now.
Pat Basham:
Having lunch at Perry's Drug store. Grilled cheese sandwiches were the best! (real butter, too). Too busy for lunch....Mr. (Ooh) Page would
deliver to offices.
Penny Bellar::
The highlight of my week. Every Saturday I'd get to go to town & meet my grandmother. We would eat at Kuhn's one week,. the next would be Duncan's,
the next The Pantry. Then we start over again. Granny would shop all day then go to the grocery store & I got to stay with her.
Eric Blackwell:
Buying the Logan Leader & News-Democrat for a nickel and selling them at the traffic islands around the square for a dime. Everybody tried to get
the spot for the Rockwell & Emerson traffic
John Paul Brady:
Did anyone ever go to the Ice House down by the railroad tracks near the old train station? We would buy block ice to make homemade ice cream. Had to
chip it in pieces small enough to fit in the old crank ice cream maker… You hung out at the Tastee Treet Those tasties, fries and milk shakes were
wonderful. Remember getting my first transister radio at Hickey Stovall’s: a little Channel Master. Haircuts every Saturday at Wren’s Barber Shop; Mr.
Wren always gave me a nickel. I remember going with my dad and grandfather to Jockey Day on West Third. Watched my Uncle Bob work in his blacksmith
shop, also on West Third. Shopped at Leedoms, and Wrights clothing. Remember pulling the goose’s neck to get an egg filled with prizes after my mom
bought me shoes.
Steve Johns:
Remember Kuhns, Hancocks, Kleins, Youngs, The Louisville Store, Leedoms, Wrights, Perry's Drug Store, Scott Furniture and the Dollar Store was where
the bank is. That was when you shopped downtown before Wal-Mart.
Gary McDougal:
Cream Station
bought and sold and bought chickens and most anything where the water plant and mini shopping center are now on North Main.
Betty McLean:
Who remembers the Parkview Restaurant where Riley White is located? I think that Johnny Barrett was the proprietor. I had my first taste of
pizza there. It was called "pizza pie" then.
Missy Maxwell Perry:
I thought that Santa lived upstairs in Hancocks and all the toys in the basement were his handywork - best memories.
Laura Simmons:
My favorite memory was going around town with my Mom, shopping at Houchens, Klein's for carpet/flooring, and going to the Bethel Dipper for a hot fudge
sundae with extra fudge!
American General Insurance:
(Scott Sansom)
Andrews Square:
(Scott Sansom)
Barber Brothers:
(Doug Pendleton, Kym Coleman, Lauri Warden, Patti Knight)
Ben Franklin:
(Joyce Noe, Cindy Bromm, Clay Bilyeu, Lynn Noe Sahlin)
Bentley’s 5&10:
(George Guion, Connie Lynnm Lloyd Chapman, Jeannie Leedom Bowles)
Berkmans:
(Mary Lucy Franklin)
Beert’s Market:
I
(Annie Blake)
Bethel Beauty Shop:
(Madonna Anderson Mann)
Bethel Dipper:
(Mark Griffin, Janice Belcher, Vivian Hillard, Patrick Appling, Fadocia Annette Nole Hall, Sherry Stanley, Randy Davenport, Sandra E. Oberhausen)
Bethel Shopping Cener:
(Wendy Gibbs)
BG&H Bus Line:
(Lillian Gower Winn, Bobby Yarbrough)
Big K:
(Tim Thomason)
Black Tie Chinese restaurant:
(Judy Hurd Jones)
Bluegrass Fitness:
(Milissa Fleming)
Bob’s Market:
(Carol Holman Hendrick, B. Marie Brown)
Boggess Video:
(Ginny Major, Lisa Miles Prentice, Amanda Sharp)
Bottom(s), The:
(Ervin Hollins)
Bowling Alley
on the Hopkinsville Road:
(J.D. Shaw)
Brown and Brock Funeral Home:
(Boyd Epley)
Buck Rosser’s Service Station
on the Square:
(Kym Coleman)
Calico Inn:
(Joyce Noe)
Carry Out, The:
(Michelle Johnson Holloway)
Christmas Motors:
(Rebecca Christmas, Mary Lucy Franklin
Citizens National Bank:
(Scott Sansom
)
City Shoe Rebuilders:
(Brenda Sisk Senseney)
Classique Fashions:
(Joyce Noe
Claude’s Barber Shop:
(Paul Vick)
Claude White’s Body Shop:
(Clay Bilyeu)
Claude White’s Laundry:
(
Clay Bilyeu. Sonja Spencer Cauley)
Clothes Tree:
(Kym Coleman, Amanda Sharp)
Coca-Cola Bottling Company:
(Chris Gadbois, Lou Ann Holman Cowan, Mark Hooper, Jacqueline Denise Gaines)
Colburn Vending: (
Denise Cauley Silvey)
Collins Blacksmith Shop:
(Boyd Epley)
Colony House:
(Kym Coleman)
Cooksey’s:
(Becky Stanley Boeck, Debbie McMurtry)
Copper Kettle:
(Clay Bilyeu, Shirlee Yassney)
Croslin Hat Shop:
(Mary Lucy Franklin)
Cuzzin Jacks:
(Valerie Gregory Hughes, Machelle Lee Williams)
Dairy Castle:
(Steve Johns)
Dairy-O:
(Linda Mackey Williams, Jimmy Belcher, Sandra Armstrong Inman)
Davis Shop:
(Janie Gregory, Wendy Gibbs)
Dick and Ruth Rich’s Corinth Grocery:
(Anita Carol Gambrell, Sherree Settlemoirh )
Dink Dinkins Café:
(Ralph Gilliam)
Dixie Theater:
(Lou Whalen, Mary Boisseau, Larry Johnson, Billy Rippy, Mary Lucy Franklin, Jean Carver Spanko)
Dollar Tree:
(Clay Bilyeu
)
Dotson’s Grocery:
(Larry Johnson)
Druther’s/Burger Queen:
(Kathy Stuart, Valerie Gregory Hughes, Derek Poore, Greg Carter, Kenny Stewart
Duncan’s Drug Store’s Soda Fountain:
(Brenda Hope, Larry Johnson, Elaine Carnall Cox, Linda Perez Howard, Patricia Rainwaters, Vanessa Jo Rigsby)
Earl Taylor’s Service Station:
(Steve Johns, Terry Stuart
Edwards Grocery:
(Kym Coleman, Rebecca Kemp)
Estalyn Longhoffer’s Beauty Shop:
(Shirlee Yassney, Karen McPhaill Ashby, Linda Mackey Williams)
Family Bowling Center:
(Elaine Inscoe, Scott Sansom)
Felts Hotel:
(David Ramsey)
Felts Restaurant:
(Amanda Sharp, Scott Sansom, Debbie McMurtry)
Firestone:
(Larry Johnson)
Flowers Hardware:
(Mary Lucy Franklin)
Floyd Clark’s Restaurant:
(Linda Mackey Williams, Boyd Epley)
Fourth Street Drive-In:
(Doriis Burchett)
Franklin Furniture:
(Clay Bilyeu)
Gateway Market:
(Scott Sansom)
Ghan’s Pantry:
(Eric Blackwell, Cindy Huffines)
Floyd Grayson’s Service Station:
(Sheila Shelton, David Holloway, Joyce Grayson Dozier)
Fourth Street Drive-In
run by Jack Owens and Charles Head Jr.:
(Billy Rippy, Phyllis Majors Kennedy)
Gilliam’s Grocery:
(Larry Johnson, Ralph Gilliam)
Green Meadows Dairy:
(Milissa Fleming, Sherry Watkins, Carmen Austin McFadyen),
Guion and Johnson’s Grocery:
(Larry Johnson)
Guion’s Market:
(Heather Wilson Allen, Scott Sansom)
Hancock’s:
(Carla Thomas Grubbs, Sherry Stanley, Wendy Johnson)
Hardee’s:
(Lori Abbott Dunlap, Carol Inscoe, Carl Lamb, Scott Sansom)
Hardy Ralls
car dealership:
(Clay Bilyeu, Robin Foster)
Heilig Meyers:
(Scott Sansom)
Helen’s Dress Shop:
(Scott Sansom)
Henry B. Edwards:
(Ila Epley Holder)
Herndon’s
: (Richard McCranie)
Hickey Stovall TV & Appliance:
(Stanley Fleming)
Hillcrest Restaurant:
(Robert Young, Clay Bilyeu, Marion Hutchison)
Hines Tiny Tots:
(Joan Dodson)
Houchens:
(Debbie Sandlin Marshall)
Howard’s Pharmacy:
(George Guion, Lynn Noe Sahlin, Bill Milam)
Humphries Jewelry:
(Lou Ann Holman Cowan)
Hunt’s Barber Shop:
(Kym Coleman)
Ice House:
(Scott Stevenson, Tonya Gorrell Gregory, Paula Haines, Katherine Maddox
Ike Duncan’s Gulf:
(Gail Harris, Scott Sansom)
J&H Video:
(Mark Griffin)
Jack Russell’s Store:
(Patti Knight, Patricia Wells Byrd, Sherry Elliott Jackson, Tonya Anding)
Jean and Sue’s Hair Salon:
(Sonja Spencer Cauley, Scott Sansom)
J.E. Stuart Finance:
(Doris Farmer Fuller, Sharon Brown)
Jenkins Store
at Olmstead:
(Vivian Hillard)
Jesse James Drive-In Theater:
(Jamie Boisseau)
Jim’s Texaco:
(Phyllis Saunders)
Jockey Alley:
(Jimmy Belcher)
Joe’s Pool Hall:
(Billy Rippy, Janice Belcher)
Julia’s Beauty Shop:
(Linda Mackey Williams)
Kaintuck Hotel:
(Karen McPhaill Ashby, Larry Johnson, Louis Kees, Brenda Sisk Senseny, Shannon Cook Hall)
Kleins Department Store:
(Kym Coleman, Clay Bilyeu
Ko-Kleaners:
(Greg Carter)
KQ-101:
(Duane Spencer, Brian Chambers)
Kroger:
(Brenda Watkins)
Kuhn’s Diner:
(Marie Brown, Brenda Sisk Senseney, Sandra Armstrong Inman. Clay Bilyeu)
L&N Railroad:
(John Stuart)
Leonard Glenn’sTackle Shop:
(Cindy Bromm)
Logan Auto Parts:
(Joyce Appling Hinton_
Logan County Bowhunters:
(Linda Mackey Williams)
Logan County Hardware & Furniture:
(Larry Johnson)
Logan Theater:
(Ralph Gilliam, Mary Lucy Franklin, Marion Hutchison)
Louisville Store:
(Cindy Bromm, Scott Sansom, Vanessa Jo Rigsby)
Lucy’s: (
Tonya Gorrell Gregory
M&H Cleaners:
(Gail Harris)
Mamie Lee’s Restaurant:
(Debbie McMurtry)
Margie’s Beauty Shop:
)Judy Watson Petett)
Mary-Lynn Children’s Shop:
(Carole Chandler)
Mary Frances Stovall’s Beauty Shop:
(Mary Lucy Franklin)
Mayfield Funeral Home:
(Boyd Epley)
McPhaill’s Store:
(Boyd Epley)
Memorial Funeral Home:
(Scott Sansom
)
Modern Dry Cleaners:
(Terry Stuart)
Montgomery Ward:
(Clay Bilyeu)
Morris Amusement:
(Dan Sandlin)
Oscar Brasher’s Shoe Repair:
(Boyd Epley)
Otasco:
(Jimmy Belcher)
Page Brothers Motor Company:
(Kimberly J. Harris)
Paul Sawyer’s Salvage:
(Boyd Epley)
Perry’s Café:
(Leslie McCullough Fantauzzi, Sandra Armstrong Inman, Rick Elamon II)
Perry’s Drug Store:
(Larry Johnson, Valerie Gregory Hughes, Paul Vick, David Ramsey)
Red Ace:
(Duane Spencer, Sandra Armstrong Inman)
Red Front Grocery:
(Boyd Epley)
Reeves Motor Company:
(Joyce Appling Hinton)
Richardson Funeral Home:
(Boyd Epley)
Riley-White:
(Mary Jo Huffines)
Rite-Aid:
(Scott Sansom)
Rockwell:
(Stanley Fleming)
Russellville Concrete Products:
(Brenda Rager)
Sandwich Builders:
(Joyce Noe)
Scott Furniture:
(Billy Rippy)
Signs by (Hayden) Boren:
(J.D. Shaw)
Simpson’s Taxi Service:
(Dorris Burchett)
Smith’s Barber Shop:
(Larry Johnson)
Southern Deposit Bank:
(Barry Johnson, Scott Sansom)
Spring Acres:
(Kym Coleman, Sonya Shoulders Critser, Patrick Richardson, Damon Hunt)
Sterling’s Market:
(Kathy Stuart, Sherry Watkins, Ralph Gilliam)
Suzanne’s Style Shop:
(Brenda Sisk Senseney)
Sweet Shoppe:
(Linda Stanley Thomas, Sandra Armstrong Inman, Billy Rippy, Doris Farmer Fuller, Pamela Hunter Holdcraft)
Sylfoni’s:
(Craig Bailey)
Tastee Freeze:
(Carl Lamb, Patricia Rainwaters)
Tastee Treet:
(Veronica Johnson, Rita Grayson, Carmen Austin McFadyen, Cal Stuart, Catherine Hancock McCarty, Mary Ann Young, Sherry Stanley)
3D:
(Tiffany Bales)
Tommy Higgins’ Café/Place
(Helen Meyer Wilson, Mary Lucy Franklin, Larry Johnson)
Town and Country
(Kym Coleman)
Town Motel Swimming Pool:
(Milissa Flemming)
Train Depot:
(Mark Hooper, Debbie McMurtry)
True Value:
(Sharon Smotherman Crsosley)
Utley’s Grocery:
(Gail Harris)
Village Barn:
(Patti Knight, Robert Young, Cal Stuart)
Wal-Mart Snack Bar:
(Christopher Phillips)
Western Auto:
(Joan Dodson)
Western Sizzlin’:
(Tim Thomason)
Whistle Stop Liquors:
(Brenda Knight, Madonna Anderson Mann)
(A.B.) Worley’s Jewelry Store:
(Brenda Harris Glover)
Wren’s Barber Shop:
(Rick Matar, Scott Sansom)
Wright’s Department Store:
(Cindy Bromm, Kym Coleman, Suzanne Cox Robertson_
WRUS FM:
(Stanley Fleming)
Yellow Cab:
(Shelia Marable)
Young’s Department Store:
(Carol Holman Hendrick, Debbie McMurtry)
Doctors and Health Care
Sheila Marable:
You knew everybody's medical condition before they even scheduled an appointment with their primary doctor AND you didn't have to travel beyond the
city/county limits for a diagnosis. HIPAA was for city folks. In the country we know everybody's business because we care.
Dr. Al Arney:
(Suzi Burgher Payne, Joyce Noe, Missy Maxwell Perry, Lori Abbott Dunlap, Angela Bailey Estep)
Dr. Walter Byrne:
(Terry Stuart, Connie Borders Williams)
Dr. C.V. Dodson:
(Linda Brown, Joyce Noe
)
Dr. Jim Dodson:
(Jon Paul Stuart)
Dr. Bob Hindman:
(Kim Graham Keown, Scott Sansom)
Dr. John Pepper Glenn:
(Connie Borders Williams, Joyce Noe)
Dr. W.L. Harris:
(Joyce Noe, Connie Borders Williams)
Dr. Jack Holt:
(Joyce Noe
,
Barbara Simpson Penrod)
Pat Holt:
(Lauri Warden)
Dr. L.E. Johnson:
(Joyce Noe, Randy Davenport)
Dr. Pat Kirkpatrick:
(Janet Menser)
Dr. Lewis Martin:
(Laura Hunter)
Dr. Charles Mathis:
(Connie Borders Williams, Laura Hunter)
Dot McLean
, director of volunteers at Logan Memorial Hospital:
(Lauri Warden)
Dr. Merrill Patterson
(Rebecca Ammons)
Logan County Ambulance Service:
(Jason Heltsley)
Logan County Hospital:
(Linda Howard Perez, Gail Harris, Laura Hunter, Judy Cole, Julie Webb, Connie Borders Williams)
Dr. Bob Sawyer:
(Scott Sansom)
Dr. Oscar Snyder:
(Ralph Gilliam)
Dr. Tom Threlkeld:
(Terry Stuart, Mary Pat Helton)
Dr. Bill Webb:
(Laura Hunter)
Dr. Dewey Wood:
(Amy Bryant, Scott Sansom
Education
Tina Robertson Moor:
At RMS when there was fight everyone would meet behind the old jail and not get in trouble with the teachers.
Debra Pedigo Hazel:
Powder puff football games at Rhea Stadium, I think it was 7th grade against 8 th grade girls? And the Relay races 6th, 7th and 8th grade. How much fun
was that!
Missy Maxwell Perry:
Attending Logan Elementary not Stevenson. Went to school from K thru 8 in one building.
(Jeannie Leedom Bowles):
Walking home for lunch from RHS!
Debbie Sandlin Marshall:
RHS had a smoking area and kids were allowed to smoke and you brought frozen canned RC for lunch
Sherry Watkins:
We could walk down town from school to Perry's Drug Store for lunch, stop at the Dime Store (where Riley White is now) for candy and head back to
school. Then Duncan's Drug Store after school for a cherry coke.
Marching Panthers in Sun Bowl in El Paso:
(Cathy Caver, Steve Johns, Kathleen Gorrell Collins)
Stewarts Chapel one-room school:
(Stanley Fleming)
Teachers
W.N. Alexander:
(Shirlee Yassney)
Ken Barrett:
(Scott Sansom)
Mrs. Binkley
(Lewisburg): (Jon Hollingsworth)
Bob Birdwhistell:
(Stanley Fleming: Mr Birdwhistell's first day at Lewisburg HIgh School, white shirt, black pants, thick tie and a club that he used for a
paddle. The only padding I got in school was from him and it was not a love tap: he was aiming to hit it out of the parking lot. When I got home told
my parents and they said ‘good.’ )
(Laura Wyatt Porter)
Mrs. Russell Bow:
(Kym Coleman)
John Paul Brady:
(Laura Wyatt Porter)
Jane Garrett Brantley:
(Shelia Marable)
Cola Brown:
(Billy Rippy, Mary Allen)
Mrs. Joe Morgan Brown:
(Laura Hunter)
Bobbi Jean Burnett: (
Patti Neal Haeberlin
Helen Carpenter:
(Brenda Knight)
Ruth Price Carpenter:
(Ralph Gilliam)
Hazel Carver:
(Sherry Watkins, Kathleen Gorrell Collins)
Larry Chelf:
(Jim Robinson)
Margaret Day:
(Norma Pillow Kutzman)
Denny Doyle:
(Gail Harris)
Jeff Edwards:
(Shelia Marable)
Nora Edwards:
(Sherry Watkins
Sarah Flowers:
(Shelia Marable)
Mary Forgy:
(Stanle Fleming)
Doc Franklin:
(Helen Hunt)
Ruby Fuqua:
(Brenda Watkins, Laura Hunter)
Clarence Gamble:
(Shelia Marable)
Betty Garrett:
(Amanda Borders)
Hettie Gonzales:
(Kym Coleman, Steve Johns)
Eloise Hadden:
(Sandra Lennon)
Gerald Hildabrand:
(Laura Wyatt Porter)
Hester Hunter:
(Brenda Watkins)
Neva Jenkins:
(Patricia Rainwaters)
Chuck Lynch:
(Ralph Hildabrand
Hilda Lynch:
(Gail Harris)
Gwyneth McKinney:
(Clay Bilyeu)
Steve Meredith:
(Shelia Marable)
Joe Milam:
(Stanley Fleming)
Ruth Montell:
(Shiila Marable)
Roy Mosier:
(Shelia Marable)
Helen Raby
, who had her RMS 8th grade students study a country and make displays about them:
(Joyce Grayson Dozier, Rocky Pierce, Vanessa Jo Rigsby, Carole Chandler, Melissa Baldwin, Lauri Warden, Kym Coleman, Brenda Harris Glover, Patti
Neal Haeberlin, Jill White Steward),
Roy Reynolds:
(Jim Turner)
Jesse Richards:
(Vivian Hillard)
Mike Roberts:
(Joyce Wright, Kym Coleman, Janice Belcher)
Joann Russell:
(Darla Davenport Spencer)
Morris Shelton:
(Tim Thomason)
Marguerite Simmons:
(Cheryl Poore Barth, Shelia Marable, Dana Cavanah)
Sarah Sweatt:
(Shelia Marable)
Jim Thompson:
(Wendy Johnson)
Laura Thurmond:
(Brenda Rager)
Matt Tipton:
(Shelly Leigh)
Phil Todd:
(Shelia Marable
Shelby Traugott:
(Natalie Shelton Wells)
Marie Turner:
(Brenda Knight)
Mary Ann Steele:
(Denise Kay Silvey Cauley)
Esther White:
(Marie Brown. Debbie Duncan Rowe)
Mary Walker:
(Cindy Bromm)
Wayne Wells:
(Connie Baugh Hardiso)
Wanda Wiedeman:
(Kim Walker Littrell)
Sandra Wilhelm:
(Linda Stanley Thomas)
Entertainment
Eric Blackwell:
Remember the "Main Street Disco" on Fridays and Saturdays at the pool room when Barclay Parrish ran it..
Doris Burchett
Teen Town started in school year 1951-1952, Several of our mothers had the idea to give us some place to go (as opposed to the pool hall, etc.). Lula,
my wife (AKN as Lulu Reynolds, Martha Sue Jackson was the Judge, Robert (Bob) Balance was the Sheriff and I was the Deputy Sheriff. Ralph, The two
brother, singers last name started with a "T", "Aunt Faye," as Faye Benson was lovingly known, was our chaperone for many years. The first Mayor
was Howard Wren, Vice Mayor was my wife, Lula Reynolds Burchett, Martha Sue Jackson (Cole) was the judge, Bob Balance the
sheriff, and I was the deputy sheriff.
Susan Guion Coursey:
If you made the big circle (Hardees....Arcade...& then around the old Sonic) at least 25 times in one Saturday night.
Vivian Hillard:
Teen dances with "The Monarchs"
Shelly Johnson:
Or how about the drive-in and Gameland and the skating rink on Bethel Shopping Center--miss those good old days. Kids now have nothing to do!
Martha Jane King:
Teen Town Dances, in Russellville behind the Woman's Club and in Adairville across from the school. We had great bands back then, and danced all the
time. Remembering the Monarchs’ Bobby Davis, Jimmy Warden, Larry Henley, Bob Lane....Great memories
Scott Sansom:
Aaron Tippin
and Sawyer Brown came to Russellville and Eve Seles came to she wrote a song about Russellville
Terri Taylor:
You look back with fond memories of the movie theater AND the drive-in, skating rink and "the club." Can’t remember the name of it but it was in the
building that also used to be Cuzzin Jack's.
Bisbee’s Commedians Tent Show: (
Ralph Gilliam)
Concerts in Russellville: Aaron Tippin
(Christopher Phillips),, Sawyer
Brown
(Tracey Woods Scarbrough),
Oak Ridge Boys
(Rocky Pierce, Joyce Appling Hinton)
Dogwood Lake:
(Natalie Shelton Wells)
Heart Fund Sports Spectacular:
(Tim Thomason, Carole Chandler, Kym Coleman)
Ice Cream Suppers at Churches
(Ralph Gilliam, Dorris Burchett, Mary Lucy Franklin)
Skating Rink
in Bethel Shopping Center:
(David Droge, Lisa Miles Prentice, Rick Elamon, Vicky Populorum Lyons, Angie Winders Bradshaw, Pam Britton Pitts, Dana Summers Jones)
Swimming in Lickskillet Creek:
(Cal Stuart, Janie Gregory)
Live At Libby’s
on The Beaver:
(Christopher Phillips)
Logan County Fair:
(Janie Gregory,Vicki Harrlson. Linda Stanley Thomas, Suzi Burgher Payne, Annie Blake, Jill Smith, Crystal Biggs Birdwell, Mecia Martin Ryan)
Red River Band:
(Patrick Richardson)
Skating
at the old armory:
(Barkley Mayberry)
Russellville’s 175th Anniversary Celebration in 1973:
(Penny Bellar, Rocky Pierce, Lauri Warden, Mary Boisseau, Marie Brown)
Sacred Heart Bingo:
(Mary Lucy Franklin)
(Ellsworth) Strickler’s Lake:
(Pam Britton Pitts, Glenda Boisseau, Phyllis Saunders)
Teen Town:
(Sue Stevenson, Janie Gregory)
Totem Soul music group:
(Mark Griffin)
General
Phyllis Saunders:
You remember family outings going to Lickskillet and Dripping Springs with your mom and your granny to pick turnip greens on Saturday, or to go with
your mom and your Aunt to the fabric shop at Epley Station to get yards of material and sewing supplies. We thought it was cool because we were at the
highest point in Logan County, I didn’t know it then, but we were on top of the world and life was innocent and kinder then…. You remember being able
to walk anywhere at any age, trick or treating without an adult and not being afraid to knock on any door, if you remember knowing every face you meet,
even if not directly, knowing their family, if you remember how good it felt to be a child in a small town, if you remember you could always get a job
at Emerson, Rockwell, Bilt Rite, ER Carpenter, or any of the Red Kap Plants, or Hosiery Mills, downtown shops or restauraunts. Remembering being proud
to be a resident of Logan County. Times change, the town has changed, but I am so proud still to be a small town girl.
Craig Bailey:
If the only time you buy a new outfit and shoes is for 8th of August weekend...
Greg Carter:
You had milk delivered to your door in Chapman Subdivision
Ralph Gilliam:
My dad had a neighborhood grocery during World War II, and Sunday afternoons were spent around the dining room table, sorting and counting ration
stamps and tokens that had been received during the week. Each member of a family received a book of ration stamps in order to buy items such as sugar,
coffee, etc. as well as shoes, tires, gas, etc. I don't remember how often you got a booklet. I have some partial booklets & coins from that era. I
remember Dorris Burchett and I collecting scrap iron, schools collected paper, a lot of us purchased 'Uncle Sam Saving Stamps' from the post
office that you pasted in a booklet and it seems like a full book amounted to $17.50 and it matured to $25 in maybe 7 years.
Darlene Gooch:
When Western Auto moved to the Bethel Shopping Center I remember the bats flying down to circle the lights at night from the belfry tower of Bethel
College; wonderful summer days at Spring Acres; delicious burgers from Bethel Dipper; Tastees; floats created totally out of flowers, the huge tanks
that made your insides rumble and Little Johnny Phillip Morris at the Tobacco Festival; crisp fall nights watching RHS play football; and riding the
old fire truck during VBS at Whitaker’s Grove Baptist Church (now called Southern Heights).
Elaine Inscoe:
My husband, Mendell, said he remembered as a boy on Thanksgiving there was always pigeon shooting right on the square in Russellville.
Shelia Marable:
When you could go into a bank and complete a transaction without requiring an ID. No questions asked, not one raised eyebrow… When everybody knows your
relatives by their nicknames (Goat, Lil' Goat, Piece of Meat, Chicken, Neckbone, Hambone, Pig, Tiny, Pie, etc.) vs their real name.
Barry Johnson Y
ou called 726-8211 (or when I was younger, just 8211) to get the time and temperature from Southern Deposit Bank.
Donna Schiess Renard:
If you remember the great snow storm of 1978 when they had to get the tank from the Armory out to rescue a woman who was having a baby and stuck in her
car halfway between Russellville and Adairville. Also, who remembers riding in the Schnook to drop supplies to people stranded in the county. The
hospital put up cots and employees just stayed there until it was over.
Sheila Scruggs:
Remember when 68/80 was just two lane all the way to Bowling Green? Can you imagine what it would be like if it still was?
Mark Woodward:
You drove to school with a gun in the back window of your truck and no one said anything about it.
Shirlee Yassney:
James Milam, John, Paul Stuart, Jack Carver, Butch Klein
and others played really dirty tricks on one another,,,moved an outhouse (a real one they stole) and put it up in front of Perry's Drug Store...moved
racks of used clothing to the front of Kleins Department Store with a big sign, going out of business sale,, Moved a car from the curb to the
sidewalk...all of this done before daylight..I know cause i was busy in the Copper Kettle getting ready for breakfast... i could see them.laughing sooo
hard.. All went fishing carried a batch of Brownies that James's secretary made with a laxitive.. Chocolate brownies, out in a boat, oh my goodness
Industry
Bilt-Rite:
(Scott Sansom)
Rockwell:
Names mentioned included
Harry Whipple, Joe Hardy, Floyd Wilhelm, Owen Sandlin, Fletcher Farmer, Jim Basham, Judy Woodward, Kenneth Goley, Floyd Cauley, Wilbur Cauley,
James Stuart
(Tony Graham, Becky Stanley Boeck, Samone Neely, Vickie Nash Sandlin, Stanley Fleming, Doris Farmer Fuller, Wendy Johnson, Pat Basham, Angela
Woodward Rollings, Richard McCranie, Karen Ward-Chabot, Phyllis Saunders, Denise Kay Silvey Cauley, Jeff Forgy,Debbie Cole Harper, Mary Boisseau,
Beverly Goley Nicholson, Sharon Smotherman-Crossley, Nancy Cauley Meyer, John Stuart)
Red Kap:
Names mentioned included
Clay Franklin, Sidney and Margaret Spears, Jimmy Prince, Archie Wells, Georgia Sanko, June Graham, Roberta Warden, Ruby Thomas, Sue Cauley Kemp,
Zora Brown, Shirley Thacker, Laura Mae Humphry, Janey White, Ricky Williams, Judy Barger, Betty Stanley
(Cindy Bromm, Belinda Arnold Milam, Rhonda Warden Johnson, Laura Hunter, Stanley Fleming, Amy Bryant, Debbie Jarman West, Linda Brown Alexander,
Brenda Knight, Marion Goodwin, Kimberly J. Harris, Mary Allen, Duane Spener, Tammy Hendricks
Law Enforcement
Brenda Knight:
Did you ever hitchhike? I did once (only once).(State Trooper Truman Epley stopped and picked me up, took me back home and gave me the third
degree on how unsafe it was for a 12 year old to hitchhike.
Buffalo Ellis
, Lewisburg Police Chief:
(Gary Taylor, Carolyn Elaine Carnall Cox)
Gail Harris:
Parking out at the city park and getting run off by (Officer) Curtis Robertson....
Lewisburg area
Michael Brady:
Lloyd Taylor
had the grocery store somewhere along the drug store barber shop and bank. Ranger Cafe was THE place to eat. Rachel Nuchols was an icon in
Lewisburg. She was the nicest lady and loved kids and could put up with our stupidity. She had the best barbecue sandwiches in the world. Open bun with
barbeque on both buns..Wish I had one!
Rebecca McReynolds: