Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, February 21, 1993 TAG: 9302190198
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-6 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: PULASKI LENGTH: Medium
STICKER INVITES LOVERS OF ANTIQUES
One of the state's most popular bumper stickers used to be "Virginia Is For Lovers." Now downtown Pulaski has its own sticker: "Pulaski, Va., is for Antique Lovers."Instead of the blue and white of the old state sticker, it's maroon and yellow - which happens to be Pulaski County High School's sports colors. In fact, the new sticker carries a notation in one corner that the Cougars are the 1992 state football champs.
There also is an outline of the state with a star at the point where Pulaski is.
The stickers have been distributed to merchants in downtown Pulaski. They also have gone to top officials in places such as the state Department of Economic Development and the Department of Historic Resources.
Acting Town Manager Rob Lyons and Town Council members Andy Graham, Roy D'Ardenne and Alma Holston delivered one to every member of the General Assembly during a recent trip to Richmond.
Since Roscoe Cox became executive director of the Pulaski Main Street program, he has aggressively - and successfully - marketed some of the empty stores downtown to antique and art dealers.
The Pulaski Antiques Center, the first antiques store to announce an opening on Main Street, has been up and running for weeks. Also open is Briar Patch Antiques on Jefferson Avenue, run by a couple from Carroll County.
The Court Square Antique Mall, offering rental spaces to antiques dealers, will be open as soon as a few more of the dealers who have signed up bring in their wares.
Memories, on North Jefferson Street, and two shops next to that first one on Main Street, Summer House and Gibson Girl, may be open by the end of the month - perhaps in time for the Wheelin' Thru Winter downtown extravaganza planned for all day Feb. 27.
The festival will feature a plastic-models contest, radio-controlled vehicle and airplane contests and demonstrations, an antique car show and bicycle clinic and obstacle course, among other activities.