By the time this is published, the demolition of several historic buildings in the heart of downtown Reidsville will be complete or nearly so. For those who grew up in the 1950s through the early 1980s, it is painful to watch. We remember the vibrant Friday afternoons and Saturdays and those memorable people who made those days so enjoyable. In the late summer months, there was the unmistakable whiff of flue-cured tobacco on the clothing of tobacco farmers mixed with the distinct sweet aroma of boiled peanuts sold in ten cent bags by farm boys or, in some cases, by their parents. In those days, an afternoon’s sale of 250 dime bags earned much-needed cash in a time when cotton was handpicked for three cents a pound or $3.00 per 100 pounds.