Standing in front of the RoundUp Bar & Grill one night, looking toward the intersection, where on August 14, 1945, crowds congregated for an impromptu street dance to celebrate the end of World War II.
Eddie Hanna, Art Alderman and Willard Binder, standing together during 2016 burial services for their classmate, Joe Sochor. They and Joe all graduated from high school in 1945. Art left early to join the Navy. Eddie’s orchestra played for Table Rock’s impromptu victory dance. Years later, although I knew and talked with Eddie, Art, Willard, and Joe about those times, not one ever mentioned that enormous celebration.
Something Enormous Forgotten
After a late supper at Table Rock’s Roundup Bar & Grill last week, I strolled out into the middle of the intersection at what we call the “Bank corner.” In the middle? Of course. We’re a little town with little traffic.
It is a grandly wide space bounded by brick buildings, and there I stood in the empty intersection, thinking of a newspaper article I had just discovered. Something enormous had…
