WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. — The legendary Pancho’s Mexican restaurant sign has a new home.
According to organizers with The Broadway & Missouri Streets Merchants’ Association (BAM West Memphis), city leaders worked together to save the historic sign following last week’s demolition.
Pancho’s Mexican restaurant in West Memphis demolished
Now, to keep the memory alive, it’s been relocated to the Broadway Food Park.
Last week, the original location, and West Memphis landmark for decades was demolished. It opened in 1956 and closed in late 2021, after briefly reopening following the pandemic.
At one time, there were several Pancho’s locations throughout the Memphis area, but the restaurant’s Broadway location was the last…