The Mule gets it right again......Mr. Childress was his name and a gracious gentleman he was.
Some more info.......The Hardees' location was about where a backstop for PE and some recreational softball / baseball was played. In the early 60's, there was no Second Street bridge. Traffic either took a left back to Front Street or a right on Allegheny. If you went strraight on Second Street, it was a dirt / gravel road that terminated about where Hardees is located. A softball / baseball field was actually located where the Magic City / Community Home Care complex sits. The football field was long gone by now, having gone to the RHS campus (sitting 90 degrees to the present stadium btw). The football field that was used in town sat about where the popo back parking lot is located. A baseball field was located there as well. The poor fellows that played in that location probably thought that was field turf compared to the brickbats on the old casket factory field (actually located a bit closer to the old Kern's Bakery store).