MEMORY LANE: 1950s-style fairgrounds in Rogersville, Tenn.

Video by Jeff Bobo. About 10 years ago Otis Lawson bought an antique coffee grinder from the old country store near his birthplace in Blackwater, Va. Then he built a replica old country store in his back yard for the coffee grinder. Today his back yard, aka “Memory Lane” is a major tourist attraction and hosts more than 10,000 people every Memorial Day weekend for a 1950s car show and festival.

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