Cooper Square

do any of you in cooper remember setting around on the square back in late 80's late at night ?

i sure do gone are the good ole days and when you got bored you would make the y we had a world class sheriff that knew kids would be kids then things were not so mean dam i miss those times

old school wrote:

i sure do gone are the good ole days and when you got bored you would make the y we had a world class sheriff that knew kids would be kids then things were not so mean dam i miss those times

that the truth... could watch a good fight or drink a cold one and not worry to much.... what year do you remember

74 thru 82 3ks bud skinners texaco millers hootens chandlers marions pool hall things were good then when i go thru there now i cant beleive how much fun i had there those brick have ever right to be loose

I remember back in the late 60's to mid 70's. We could set up there and enjoy ourselves. Sure there was a fight or two (mostly two girls over one boy). But all in all it was fun.

I was on the square around 1985-1989...Poor old L.C.Talley trying to patrol... was always people on the square having a good time sitting on the tail gates talking and whatever

I remember L.C also. He was the night watchman when I was there. Good old man. I remember older kids than me riding on hoods of cars, cutting donuts, and one winter I remember some boys from Lake Creek tying an old car hood behind a car and someone riding on it. Dangerous yes it was but still great memories.

L. C. Talley was a good man and a good sheriff.

I was sitten there a little, well alot, later than ya'll but I agree it's some of the best memories I have. Whenever I bring friends from college back home they always come back talking about the 'square'. Good place. Also remember LC, it was after he retired though..I was really little but remember he always use to give me suckers!

The best times were the 60's. Hot rods, 3.2 beer smuggled in from Oklahoma, meeting up after a date and going in a caravan to the truck stop in Paris for a chicken fried steak, watching some fool lighting a fart, making the "y", the old Dairy Queen on Dallas, drag racing at the bridges, girls in pony tails, or mini-skirts.

American Graffiti in real life.

Oh yeah, listening to WLS from Chicago or KLIF from Dallas.

In the early 70's....there was one very imaginative guy that put a couch in the back of his truck to make it more comfortable to sit on the square. There were many romances that were started on that square...and many were ended.

I remember that (the couch in the truck can't remember who it was)

The square is where me and my husband got together 41 years ago.....and we're still together!!!!
Wasn't it fun just to sit up on the square and watch who was up there???
Does anyone remember Lloyd Slough as a Deputy???? He was cool!!!

How about:

Hop Hopkins
Pete Bledsoe
Floyd Duke
Johnny Talley
Averet Vaughn
James Bernard

They were law men. The ex-county judge used to work for the Texas Liquor Control. He would come to Cooper to visit his in-laws and make a pass through town or two and gather up enough beer and whiskey to last him a week or two.

Anyone remember hiding beer under a bridge? How about parking at the old City lakes? How about the glowing gate at Oaklawn cemetary? Chasing parkers?

How about:

Dennis Alley
Lone Oats
Wonnie Crowder

About three of the toughest guys and fightingest guys to ever come from Cooper, at least in the last 40 years.

How about Mr. Henry Sparks and Mrs. Sparks leaving the show after closing. Mrs. Sparks carried the money, and Mr. Henry followed behind with the little .32 long Colt in his pocket, just in case.

How about caravaning to Paris after we took our dates home about 11:30, to the Loop Truck Stop for chicken fried steaks. They were good. Maybe going to the Cardinal drive-in on North Main in Paris after hours.

Drag racing, beer drinking, chicken fried steak, necking. What else could you ask for?

yeah i remember back in the good old days of summer 2008. we would sit there for ten minutes before we got bored.... good times....

I remember those days back in the 60s. They were great, no worries, no problems to speak of. It was a great time to be alive. Poor little Cooper has just gone down hill and will never be like that again. I drove through there a few months ago and it looked like a ghost town. Too bad.

78-82 the square was where every party started and where you stayed if there was no party. the law men left the kids alone and encouraged them to stay on the square where they at least knew where they were and what they were doing. Nowadays the law men pull over every car and harass more than protect the kids. How I wish for the good old days and the level headed thinking of those log ago law men.

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78-82 the square was where every party started and where you stayed if there was no party. the law men left the kids alone and encouraged them to stay on the square where they at least knew where they were and what they were doing. Nowadays the law men pull over every car and harass more than protect the kids. How I wish for the good old days and the level headed thinking of those log ago law men.

I have even seen them stop kids that are out walking, one of the great parts of living in a small town is you aren't affraid of letting your kids walk all over or walk to a friends house - I didn't know it was a crime to walk about the town but I guess you can't even do that anymore

These pigs today are truly "pigs."

The sheriff says he doesn't want them to be friendly. That isn't their job. We were warned of an ex-big city jerk being sheriff.

Thing is, he wasn't even a beat cop in Ft. Worth. He was a desk jockey who wished to be a real policeman.