the family founded eaton media and started a community radio station in the same nearly 100-year-old building. joey right here, this is the man that made it all possible right here and he and louie, my grandmother, we miss them dearly. they said he was about 22 years old when the massacre took place and he was shining shoes down there on black wall street. a lot of memories here in this old house. if we weren t able to hold on to that, i wouldn t be here right now and i wouldn t have a radio station and we would be like the other families who lost all their properties. man, if the walls could talk, but being that it s here and not many of my peers are able to have family property that s over 100 years, you know, over 100 years old. not too many of us have buildings with our names on it.
this whole community. this freeway is on my inheritance. who s to say that my great grandfather would not have left this for me. a business on greenwood, which i desire to this day. by the early 1970s,you urban renewal gobbled up more than a thousand businesses and homes. and it moved west and east rather than the more prosperous neighborhoods south of the railroad tracks. urban renewal, which i call urban removal, came in and knocked down all the old housing and old buildings and really destroyed our community. bobby eaton jr. and his son trey continue to carry on the eaton legacy. the barbershop is closed, but the family founded eaton media