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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, January 9, 1993                   TAG: 9301090094
SECTION: CURRENT                    PAGE: NRV-3   EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: PULASKI                                LENGTH: Short

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PULASKI IS GETTING ANOTHER ANTIQUE STORE

Still another antique store for downtown Pulaski is being planned. Memories, specializing in country antiques but not limited to them, will be opened next month on North Jefferson Street by Carmella Jessee of Bluefield, W.Va.

Jessee, who has been a self-employed real-estate agent for five years, will join the other antique outlets coming on line in Pulaski this year. They include an antique mall on Main Street owned by Sargent Hoopes and opening later this month, and rented antique outlet spaces above Eddie Hale's drug store.

It is no coincidence that Roscoe Cox, Pulaski's Main Street improvement program director, is designing a bumper sticker proclaiming Pulaski the antiques capital of the country.

Cox was instrumental in bringing Hoopes to Pulaski to open his facility, and helped Jessee find quarters for her enterprise as well. Both her mother and aunt have been involved in the antiques business, she said, so she has been around it all her life. She has been looking at various places where she might open a shop.

When she contacted a real estate agent in Pulaski, she was referred to Cox who was involved in bringing antiques stores to downtown Pulaski.

"It took me a week to make the decision, and I have a real good feeling about it," she said of locating her new business in Pulaski.

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