Shop/Dine Downtown

The Cotton Carnival Parade

Britling's Cafeteria next door to the Lowe's Palace Theater

The Enchanted Forest at Goldsmith's

Fashion Shows at Goldsmith's

Kress

The Planter's Peanut Shoppe on Main Street

The King Cotton Hotel had a downstairs lunchroom.

Gerber's had an upstairs sandwich shop.

Bry's (pronounced 'breeze') Department Store (Main @ Poplar). You could buy Christmas for the whole family for ten bucks.

Round revolving restaurants on the top of the UP Building downtown and the Midtown Building at Watkins & Union. That one became "2001" disco in the late 70s, back when 2001 seemed a long way off.

Submitted by: Glenda H. Coy : 05 Jan 2008, 20:00

Does anyone remember a downtown restaurant that served bar-b-q beans in a small individual bean pot? Delicious and cheap!
Thanks for the memories! Thanks for this site! I love it!

Submitted by: Bill Gray : 23 Jan 2009, 16:56

Who could forget "Earl's Hot Biscuits" at Third and Crump. It was open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It was particularly busy late Saturday nights after the stock car races in West Memphis. Earl and Louise Ridling owned it. I worked there as a busboy for a short time in 1960. I fell in love with a waitress named Nell. It was right around the corner from some serious Barbeque joints on Third Street. We wore out many a set of tires between there and the PigNWhistle.