Learning to Love Pea Salad at Wyatt’s Cafeteria

Not long after we moved to Longview in June 1968, my paternal grandfather took us to dinner at Wyatt’s Cafeteria, which anchored a shopping center on High Street just off downtown, the same center where Tatum Music is today. He was newly widowed (but not for long — the man liked having a wife). We lived with him in his ranch-style house in Greggton until my parents could find a home to buy. (Greggton was initially known as Willow Springs, founded around 1873 as a railway stop. The name was changed in the early 1930s during the oil boom. A few miles west of downtown Longview, it was annexed...

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