Tyler in the 1950s5 cards: 2 claimed firsts and 3 beginnings
- Tyler Civic Theatre opens a building for theatre in the roundWhat the theatre calls the nation’s first building of its kind.
- The Tyler Municipal Rose Garden officially opensNearly 3,000 bushes, donated by local nurseries.
- KLTV Channel 7 signs onFounded by Lucille Buford, whom KLTV calls “the L in KLTV.”
- Elvis Presley plays the Mayfair ClubIn 1955 a young Elvis Presley, touring with the Louisiana Hayride, played the Mayfair Club at the Tyler fairgrounds three times.
- Andrew Melontree Sr., a first in the hospital laboratoriesA lab technician and a laboratory director, both in 1956.