i googled "negro boys club" and found this link that has a photo of the building http://www.fortsmithhistory.com/images/gallery7.html Charlie Ward Realtor, GRI First Texas Realty 361-241-9468 Fax 361-241-2786 "Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened" -Anatole France ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ginger Smith" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 1:47 PM Subject: Re: [ARSEBAST] Negro Boys Club, Fort Smith > Hi Jack, > > There used to be a boy's club that was housed in the old jail building > (3rd and Rogers, near the Nat'l historic park) along with the welfare > office in the 1930s. I'm not sure, but isn't this close to 7th street in > downtown? > > Ginger > > [email protected] wrote: > > > I don't know the years it was in operation. I am trying to find that out. > A subscriber wrote to say that she believed it was on North 7th Street and > that her brother was going there until it closed in the mid-1960s. I would > enjoy hearing more about this club. > Jack > > Jack James > Researching Surnames: James, Goff, Fallon, Smith, Segars, Pool, Solley, > Looper, Herring, Stewart, Tidmore, Brixey, Buchanan, Jones, DePierne, > Parent, > Darneal, Taylor, Mastin, Czarnecki, Zielinski, Swiatlowski, Ellis, Hollar > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > Now that's room service! Choose from over 150,000 hotels > in 45,000 destinations on Yahoo! Travel to find your fit. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >