"It was just a big family town. Nobody was rich, and everybody had plenty to eat and plenty to wear, and Lyndon was no different from the rest of us. I miss that little town, that feeling that everybody would do anything for anybody else. It was just a good, sweet, country town."
No plumbing. No electricity. Unpaved streets. No place to buy a loaf of bread or a pound of meat. A cafe that sometimes hung out a sign, "Closed for lunch." The courthouse, a cotton-gin, a ramshackle hotel. Three churches.
This was the Johnson City of Lyndon B. Johnson's youth. Here, comfort and amusement came mostly from one's family and neighbors.
Many of the buildings of Johnson City's early days still stand. The strong sense of community that forever attracted Lyndon Johnson back to this place still endures.
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