The WALK-OF-FAME park was built by the Arkansas Municipal Auditorium Commission to honor the people that performed on
the stage in the Historic Arkansas Municipal Auditorium (AMA) since it's opening in 1930. The AMA was one of the stops on the
circuit made by the stars of the Louisiana Hayride in Shreveport - people like Elvis, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jim Ed Brown (to name a few).
Performers like Mae West and Louis Armstrong also appeared there. You may remember the movie 'Walk the Line', where Johnny Cash, Elvis and others were in Texarkana, TX (according to the movie)? Well, that was actually in this auditorium attached to one of our fire departments right next door to this park. As money becomes available, various types of art will be put into this park.
The WALK-OF-FAME park also contains a brick wall made from brick that was saved when the building that had fallen down on that site was
leveled and removed. At one time, part of that building had been used as the stable for the fire horses that pulled the fire wagons. One of the
wooden frames in the wall (and all of the bars) were part of the original building - they were used to let air into the stable for the horses.
If you look to the south while signing the log, you will notice a building painted light blue.
Just as every person has a past, so too does every city and town—a vibrant, colorful past that can easily be forgotten, unless an effort is made to memorialize it. And that's precisely what a group of enterprising fourth graders have done in Texarkana, with the help of Milken Educator Amy Braswell and the Milken Festival for Youth.
Working from old postcards of the city provided to them by Texarkana Mayor Horace Shipp, Amy and 38 fourth-grade students at College Hill Elementary Magnet School created a mural celebrating the city's rich past. Capped by the image of an unfurling blue banner with the words "Postcards from Our Past," the mural spans the outer wall of the old Wellworth Building, a venerable structure in downtown Texarkana that has been home to the Wellworth Five & Dime for more than 40 years.