Question: What Texas town was the subject of a 1949 TIME Magazine article about an election to decide the location of a popular wooden bench?
Answer: Whitney. The mayor moved the bench in front of D. Scarborough’s drugstore to a nearby alley after many of the town’s women objected to the old men who loitered there, cursing and spitting tobacco. The men who previously sat on the bench successfully lobbied for an election to decide whether it should remain in the alley or be moved back to its original location. The men and their supporters won, and the bench hasn’t been moved to this day.
