The demise of the three two-story buildings on the corner of Main and East Cedar Street in Warren, directly across from the Bradley County Courthouse, brings back lots of memories. Entering the J. T. Ederington & Company from the corner of Main and Cypress, a side door opening at an angle to the building, always…
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Pastime: All those many magazines in Wayne’s front window
As the Warren community prepares for the inevitable wrecking ball to come crashing through the crumbling brick walls of some of the most iconic storefronts of a couple of generations of the last 100 years, I simply cannot think past the front window of Wayne’s. It was here that I, like countless others, encountered some…
Pastime: Remembering Sam and Fufa Fullerton
This feature is indeed a Pastime but also a tribute to a fine couple, sadly, who recently passed one within one month of each other here in Warren. Sam and Fufa Fullerton were indeed a team. United in marriage for 69 years and if one paid close attention to the goings on in Warren in…
Pastime: Collecting ‘pop’ bottles for cash
This Pastime, given the almost absolute absence of glass bottles from the soda industry to plastic, has since faded into obscurity. It was always about this time of year, with the spring-like temperatures that as a kid I found myself, trying to earn a little bit of cash. This was before in the 8th grade when…
Pastime: Chimes, bells introduced to concert band
This Pastime has such a range of tones from the tinkling of a tiny, tinny sounding bell to the deep throated bong of a deep, deep chime. It is about the first set of concert chimes purchased by the Warren High School Lumberjack Concert Band (circa 1970-71). Of all the printed band programs that survive…
Pastime: Snow and ice, I need to read the Hardy Boys even by kerosene lamp
This is written as a Pastime of one of the many times I’ve spent a ‘snow day,” or “icy weather day,” at home from Warren Elementary School with at least a couple of my best fictional pals. The Hardy Boys. Now the Hardy Boys, brothers, Frank and Joe Hardy, are fictional characters who appear in…
Pastime: Bradley Mill once powerful force in State’s economy
This Pastime has me thinking about a beloved issue of the now defunct Arkansas Almanac and how the “movers and shakers,” of the state’s business climate has changed. The 1954-55 edition of the almanac almost always jumps into my mind as I see some old holdover almanacs on display at the bookstores and mass retailers…
Pastime: New buildings, old buildings create memories
There is much excitement over the opening of the new athletic facility in Warren, as there should be. It is a new basketball gymnasium and much more. The District will showcase this by hosting the upcoming regional basketball finals this Spring and that, within itself, is also exciting. I see from Facebook posts, there is…
Pastime: Clicking on the typewriter, keyboards at Warren High
If there was ever a life skill, I learned at Warren High that has served me well it was typewriting, or as I believe it was listed as Typewriter I/Office Machines back in the old school days. The small two classrooms on the far west side of the old Warren High School complex on Pine…
Pastime: Dishware back in the day, service stations, grocery stores or ‘Green Stamps’
Here is a Pastime from my childhood of families like mine collecting everyday dishware sets at local service stations, grocery stores or with the amassing of those coveted “green stamps.” I can recall when the Gulf Station gave away Ironstone – a name brand dishware set for faithful patrons at its stations. If you, for…
Pastime: Past Christmas memories of Warren, Bradley County
As the week of Christmas approaches, I often find myself transported back in both memory and times of now, long ago. I imagine my 10-year-old self, sprinting down the south side of Main Street to the Sears & Roebuck Co., Catalog Store, hoping that the long awaited “mystery” order form the Chicago mail-order house was…
Pastime: Rolling at the Lumberjack Roller Rink
This is a Pastime of dizzying speeds and horrendous falls on the polished hardwood floors of the old Lumberjack Roller Rink. It was a skating palace that drew roller skaters from all over the Southeast Arkansas area. And what a crowd could be found out there on the old Fordyce Highway on a Friday or…
Pastime: Delicious cheese straws from a cookie exchange
A tasty Pastime of my past surfaces each and every Christmas. It is more about an event and yet the culinary treat that came my way for simply moving a few card tables and pieces of furniture around, makes me write this after a half century of memories. Of my many duties as a Printer’s…
PASTIME: A paper bag of ‘parched’ peanuts
oh, they are such tasty memories This is a shell and eat Pastime. The memories for this Pastime of “parched” or roasted peanuts came from a unique little businessman who once roamed the streets of Warren. Parched peanuts have become a winter time specialty, I now equate with deer hunting or sitting outside around a…
Pastime: Thanksgiving memories built around the same dish, prepared differently
Thursday is Thanksgiving. At least that’s what the calendar tells me. More of this predication to being thankful later. Right now it is all about the main dish of that yearly holiday meal and I’m not writing about turkey. I am having a pastime about two strong women and how differently they prepared what my…
Pastime: Fresh baked bread to warm the winter soul
Here is another cooking/baking Pastime to share over the coming holidays. There are some mighty well known bakers of bread in Warren – the town with the Red Brick Streets. In a recent mention of Thanksgiving foods, I have had several requests for me to contact Cliff Morgan for his Salt Rising Bread. Now the…
Pastime: Those old, metal lockers at WHS
An old, outdated photo of those little metal lockers in the upstairs of the Depression Era Warren High School, really set the only tumblers of my mind racing recently. A Pastime of memories, of numbers on a small combination dial and the hijinks of yesteryear. Ron Mosley, I am pretty sure, posted the photograph on…
Pastime: A pastime of mischief: Rolling houses with toilet paper
Ah, those days of misspent of my youth: And how some of these acts today do number me in age of me and my classmates. This Pastime, now that Halloween approaches, will deal with some of the cases of innocent mischief that we all engaged in back when the fall equinox holiday approached each year.…
Pastime: Mary Lou Martin’s chili dogs
Mary Lou Martin’s delicious, spicy, wonderful ‘Band Concession’ chili dogs As the cool evening nights of October draws near and Lumberjack football heats up in this take-no-prisoner style of football that now permeates Warren; all I can think about on the cool, fall evenings at a high school football game are Mary Lou Martin’s signature…
Pastime: The Homecoming Week activities included parade, floats, and fun…
As football season progresses, the recent court of Homecoming at Warren High School was announced. And this Pastime leads us back to the Homecoming festivities of yesteryear. Oh the weeks leading to football Homecoming was indeed a social, school and community activity that still lives on as a pastime to cherish. First there was the…
Pastime: Jack Scobey filming for the Lumberjacks
While the first week of 2022 high school football may have had some rain showers, it brought me back to a Pastime memory of the heroic ways that one Warren man filmed Lumberjack football almost 55 years ago. There was no man braver than Jack Scobey in the late 1960s through all the 1970s. I’ve…