Along Gladewater's Main Street, the vendors trade in memories.
But that wasn't always the case. Once a booming oil town, this mini-metropolis near Longview felt the slump of the 1980s with a vengeance.
With the finality of a townwide going-out-of-business sale, Main Street dried up, buildings were boarded up, and once-flush inhabitants found their economic prospects on the grim side of fair to middling.
"We needed to reinvent ourselves," said Margaret Larkin, one of the founding vendors of a movement that helped Gladewater rise from the ashes.
Forty-year-old Robert Johnson is a Minneapolis, Minn., native who spent the past two decades living in Austin, continuing his education, serving in the military and promoting economic development and better business through the Texas Historical Commission.
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