From the Vault

Downtown Through The Decades

Compiled by Jennifer Cohron Photos courtesy of the Daily Mountain Eagle

A) A downtown urban renewal project entered its final stages in February 1979 as paving began on 19th Street. B) Employee Bobby Richardson is pictured outside the Jasper News Stand, which opened for business in 1983 on Third Avenue. C) Chuck Key, manager of Dairy Queen in downtown Jasper, presents a portable TV set to contest winner Billy Wade in August 1982. Also pictured are Billy’s sister, Deanna; mother, Peggy; and Dairy Queen employee Margie Heath. D) Lisa Ann’s, a women’s clothing store, opened on Aug. 6, 1982 at 107 West 19th Street. E) Burton Manufacturing, which began as a horse harness business, started making golf bags in the 1920s. By 1994, company president Jim Cannon estimated that a majority of the bags used on the PGA Tour had been made in Jasper. F) Young Jewelers expanded its sales area by one-third in 1982 when it expanded into the building formerly occupied by Records N Things.