The best thing about Newman, Illinois is leaving city limits.

Is a sexy guy named andy dewitt

A very quiet, peaceful and tranquill town with a great atmosphere.

It is a few miles away

The wonderful childhood memories from my summer visits to see my Uncle Jay.

Newman was boomin back in the sixties and seventies. There isn't much there anymore. Things i remember that were there, a doctor, a drug store with a soda fountain, a mens clothing store, a womens clothing store, a hardware store, Eppersons market, Wagoners market, Louis Woods market, a grab-it-here grocery store, four gas "service stations, a dog n suds, a pool hall, Tuckers machine shop, a watch shop, a couple cafe's with home cooked meals, the intersection truck stop and great food, a savings and loan, a dime store, the old telephone switchboard above the dime store, a noon whistle, the church bell clock, four churches in town, a barber shop, a few beauty shops, the old city hall and firehouse, the cannons in the park, the horse shows at memorial park, boy scouts and cub scouts, two schools, the opera house, a laundry mat, Fritz shoe shop, a dentist office, a chevrolet dealership, Ray Davis the town cop, the snake dance at homecoming, a furniture store, Ted Shepherd's mechanic shop, a tv shop, two taverns, a circus at times, the festival when there was a huge tent, farm implements, and a nice parade, the cone bar, a hospital 15 miles away, the coal mines, the smell of coal stoves in the winter, a movie theatre and bowling alley were in the fifties or early sixties along with the dance hall? These are things that were at one time. Now there is a pizza place, a bar, a bank, a little quick stop type store, a lumber yard, grain elevator, and funeral home. Newman was boomin years ago, but is a quiet little community now!

Is there anyone out there from Newman that remembers seeing the green letters painted on the buildings downtown just west of the stop sign in the center of town. Someone wrote on the brick walls way back when. It say's "build before depression" on one wall, and across the street it say's "give basetball a chance". That must of been some good paint because it's been there for along time. The last time i went through Newman you could still see the green paint. Does anyone know who put that there, and when? I always wondered why it was never sandblasted off the buildings along time ago! While traveling through Newman recently we stopped at the old resturant on the hi-way. It is a pizza place now with some old pictures of Newman in there to see.