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Larry Smith Collection: Celebration 1950s Lebanon, KY 2011-07-15 - Main ST, Lebanon, KY - Photo from Larry Smith Collection. Historian Larry Smith, in real life Operations Manager for Shoreline Communications, shares this photo from his collection. It's a scene from the 1950s, he's been told, showing a huge crowd on Main ST in Lebanon, KY. He pointed out the old signs, no longer there, including Louis & Dick's Cafe, and the Corner Drug Store building. He was just a little baby boy when the photo was taken, but even if he had been able to go, his parents would not have let him, in those days. "Children from Green and Taylor Counties were forbidden to go to Lebanon in those days. They had beer there." Lebanon is still wet, but it is no longer an oasis town. Alcoholic beverages are served legally, and quite discreetly, in Campbellsville in Taylor Co., and Greensburg has just voted one precinct wet. Far from being a sin city oasis, today Lebanon is considered a model, progressive city - a laboratory town others to emulate. Permalink | Comments?

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