This blog is for 1958 graduates of Russellville High School (Ky.), family, friends and other RHS graduates who are interested. If you fit in this category, feel free to post your comments, thoughts, responses to other posts, news from your famiily, related photos, etc.
Thanks for the Main Street photo, Lucy. I rememberd the Red Front store, but I couldn't figure out the order. Kuhn's was on the corner of Third Street. Next was Klein's. Was Red Front next? And, where did the Western Auto store fit in? I used to buy my bicycle parts there and taught myself how to rebuild both Bendix and New Departure coaster brakes. The New Departure had a huge number of parts. Andy
Glad to see this photo of Main St. and Andrews Drugstore, Lucy. I remember that Mr. Ed Hill ran the Western Auto store. When I was about ten years old he gave me a package of firecrackers, which I still have. It was to be a closely guarded secret between him and me, one I am just now revealing to the public! :-)
Thanks, Lucy, a lot of memories revolve around that store for me.
I walked down to Kuhn's at least once a week to check out the paper dolls which were an obsession for me. Sears catalogs were another way to "make your own" but it was difficult to find full views complete with feet, particularly of a man, but then I suppose Sears fashion pages were not directed to the man of the house.
The past for me is a floating island that sometimes seems very close though part of it is always shrouded in the country of "forget". When you guys share your memories it sometimes brings part of that forgotten country back into focus for me.
I think the Western Auto was next door to the Citizens Bank - ? Pictures of this area of Main are actually pretty hard to find. Most photos were made in and around the Square.
Charlotte, I loved paper dolls too. I especially remember Bentley's, and it fit into this area someway. I also love your "floating island" concept. Sometimes a picture will trigger some memory, which becomes perfectly clear and I can almost feel being there. We are so fortunate that our local Library has a wonderful collection of old photos, - thank you, Evelyn Richardson.
I'm back and ready to make a stab at identifying more stores shown in the picture. I'm guessing that the store to the left of Red Front is Klein's. To the right is Andrew's Drugs. I think the next store is Inman's because of the Philco Radio sign on the second story. Inman's later built a new building around the conner on third street, and I'm going to guess that Bentley's 5&10 moved into the the old Inman's building. If I'm right about Inman's, this photo must have been made in the late 30's or early 40's.
The next store is Leedom's, and I'm pretty confident that Keith is right about the next store being Mr. Hill's Western Auto. The next building is Citizens National Bank. I believe a later facad has been removed to reveal those long vertical windows shown in this photo. I've always liked that building. I will stop there.
Yes, that's where Bentley's was. I especially remember there was a pop corn machine out front - maybe just on Saturdays, and there was that great smell.
Well, I simply can't keep quiet about Bentley's. I worked on Saturdays for Mr. Bentley behind the candy counter, and on Saturdays he did want the popcorn machine moved outdoors so that we could "smell up the town"--his own style of marketing. Saturdays in the fifties in Russellville was quite a day for peoplewatching as you can imagine. Walter would frequently come to the store and keep me company on days when I was outside operating the popcorn machine. He would do all sorts of gyrations and clowning to try to embarrass me. He usually succeeded.
Andy, I well remember Inman's, especially when it was on 3rd Street, as my Dad worked there as an appliance repairman in the late 1940s, along with Roy Herndon. I don't remember it as well when it was on S. Main St., but I think that was its location before 3rd Street.
Tommye, Lucy, I also remember the smell of that popcorn machine in front of Bentley's. Thanks for the memory nudge!
Charlotte, I love your description of the past as a "floating island" shrouded in the country of "forget." That really rings true for me.
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Thanks for the Main Street photo, Lucy. I rememberd the Red Front store, but I couldn't figure out the order. Kuhn's was on the corner of Third Street. Next was Klein's. Was Red Front next? And, where did the Western Auto store fit in? I used to buy my bicycle parts there and taught myself how to rebuild both Bendix and New Departure coaster brakes. The New Departure had a huge number of parts. Andy
Glad to see this photo of Main St. and Andrews Drugstore, Lucy. I remember that Mr. Ed Hill ran the Western Auto store. When I was about ten years old he gave me a package of firecrackers, which I still have. It was to be a closely guarded secret between him and me, one I am just now revealing to the public! :-)
Thanks, Lucy, a lot of memories revolve around that store for me.
I walked down to Kuhn's at least once a week to check out the paper dolls which were an obsession for me. Sears catalogs were another way to "make your own" but it was difficult to find full views complete with feet, particularly of a man, but then I suppose Sears fashion pages were not directed to the man of the house.
The past for me is a floating island that sometimes seems very close though part of it is always shrouded in the country of "forget". When you guys share your memories it sometimes brings part of that forgotten country back into focus for me.
I think the Western Auto was next door to the Citizens Bank - ? Pictures of this area of Main are actually pretty hard to find. Most photos were made in and around the Square.
Charlotte, I loved paper dolls too. I especially remember Bentley's, and it fit into this area someway. I also love your "floating island" concept. Sometimes a picture will trigger some memory, which becomes perfectly clear and I can almost feel being there. We are so fortunate that our local Library has a wonderful collection of old photos, - thank you, Evelyn Richardson.
I'm back and ready to make a stab at identifying more stores shown in the picture. I'm guessing that the store to the left of Red Front is Klein's. To the right is Andrew's Drugs. I think the next store is Inman's because of the Philco Radio sign on the second story. Inman's later built a new building around the conner on third street, and I'm going to guess that Bentley's 5&10 moved into the the old Inman's building. If I'm right about Inman's, this photo must have been made in the late 30's or early 40's.
The next store is Leedom's, and I'm pretty confident that Keith is right about the next store being Mr. Hill's Western Auto. The next building is Citizens National Bank. I believe a later facad has been removed to reveal those long vertical windows shown in this photo. I've always liked that building. I will stop there.
Yes, that's where Bentley's was. I especially remember there was a pop corn machine out front - maybe just on Saturdays, and there was that great smell.
Well, I simply can't keep quiet about Bentley's. I worked on Saturdays for Mr. Bentley behind the candy counter, and on Saturdays he did want the popcorn machine moved outdoors so that we could "smell up the town"--his own style of marketing. Saturdays in the fifties in Russellville was quite a day for peoplewatching as you can imagine. Walter would frequently come to the store and keep me company on days when I was outside operating the popcorn machine. He would do all sorts of gyrations and clowning to try to embarrass me. He usually succeeded.
Based on the fact that I still remember that smell, I'd say it was a pretty effective marketing tool.
Andy, I well remember Inman's, especially when it was on 3rd Street, as my Dad worked there as an appliance repairman in the late 1940s, along with Roy Herndon. I don't remember it as well when it was on S. Main St., but I think that was its location before 3rd Street.
Tommye, Lucy, I also remember the smell of that popcorn machine in front of Bentley's. Thanks for the memory nudge!
Charlotte, I love your description of the past as a "floating island" shrouded in the country of "forget." That really rings true for me.
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