The Academy Awards Oscar for Best Song went to “the Atchison Topeka and the Santa Fe” sung by the Andrews Sisters.

The ‘Baby-Boom’ continued here when World War II veterans and their families began building new homes in a growing Houston.

The first International Film Festival was held in Cannes France; at the same time, a two-piece bathing suit named for an island in the South Pacific – the bikini – came into fashion.

CARE packages (Co-operative American Remittances to Europe) were sent to aid a slowly recovering Europe.

Skyscrapers were beginning to rise above Downtown Houston, where Foley’s would open the next year to provide Houston shoppers with revolutionary design and merchandising.

The Houston Buffaloes were playing baseball in an all wooden stadium on the Gulf Freeway.

AT CLARK’S HARDWOOD LUMBER CO., WE SUCCEED WHEN WE INSURE THAT OUR CUSTOMERS ARE SUCCESSFUL.

For over 50 years we have been asking our customers “What do you need to succeed?”. The changes and expansions we have made in the past, and the ones we are going to make in the future, are the answers to this question. Because our success is dependant on you, our customer.