Harry Wesner News Today

Today, Rogers boasts an incredible variety of eating places with every kind of food. But when my family moved to Rogers in the early 1980s, there were only a few restaurants in downtown Rogers -- the Crumpet Tea Room, the Lakeside Restaurant, the Susie Q, Wesners Grill, and maybe a few others.

My dentist, Dr. Shawn Lee, is a great lover of Rogers and its history. Recently, he shared a box of old Rogers Daily News newspapers that had been preserved by his family, some going back to 1927. As I examined each page, the year 1956, the 75th anniversary of Rogers, stood out as very interesting. Here are some glimpses of life in Rogers from that year with excerpts from the Diamond Jubilee special edition of the Rogers Daily News: