THE PLACE WHERE WE HAD OUR "50TH" REUNION

THE WORSHAM AMERICAN LEGION POST #40 WAS BUILT ON GREEN STREET IN 1940, THE SAME YEAR I WAS BORN. THE HENDERSON GLEANER-JOURNAL NEWSPAPER OFFICE AT THAT TIME, WAS JUST ACROSS THE STREET (WHERE SALLY CASEY AND JOE CROFT WORKED). NOW, TO THE LEFT OF THE POST IS AN ALLEY, AN EMPTY LOT WHERE THERE USE TO BE A BUILDING AND ON THE CORNER, WHAT WAS QUINN'S DRUGSTORE #2, WHERE THE DENTIST DR ROBINS HAD HIS OFFICE ABOVE (ROBINS LATER HAD AN OFFICE NEAR WHERE CITY HIGH WAS BUILT).

IN 1938, WHERE THE EMPTY LOT IS NOW, WAS WHERE THE HENDERSON-UNION RURAL ELECTRIC HAD THEIR FIRST OFFICE, WHERE MY FATHER WAS THE MANAGER. I REMEMBER VISITING THE REA OFFICE AND COULD NOT HELP BUT NOTICE THAT THE POST BLDG, BEING SO NEW, WAS SUCH A BRILLIANT WHITE.

ABOUT 1946, REA MOVED TEMPORARILY INTO THE FARM BUREAU BUILDING, ON THE CORNER DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE COURTHOUSE, BEFORE BUILDING IT'S OWN PLACE IN THE SOUTH "Y" IN 1948. A GROCERY STORE MOVED INTO THE BUILDING TO THE LEFT OF THE POST. EVENTUALLY, THE BUILDING THE GROCERY WAS IN WAS TORN DOWN, BUT YOU COULD STILL SEE THE FLOOR TILE IN THE PARKING LOT, JUST A FEW YEARS AGO.

AT LEAST A FEW "LANDMARKS" OF OUR YOUTH STILL REMAIN IN HENDERSON.

JOHN HARDIN