Opinions

This sketch was made in 1973 from the memory of Don Malone, of Norco, California, the son of a former resident, Elaine (Drennan) Calliham, also residing in California. Highway 11 (in Newsome) ran past the front of the Mobil station and at this point paralleled with the railroad. This was the favorite “gathering place” when Tom Dowse and Johnny Stewart owned and operated the state. In the background was T.H. Barrett’s potato house and a blacksmith shop, which was owned and operated by several families at different times.

From My Perspective

Warrick’s Hot Links owner Gene Warrick is joined by his son Sabin Warrick in the restaurant in the early 1970s. Warrick’s family has a direct connection to the delicacy which was first brought to Pittsburg by German descendant Charles Hasselback in the late 1800s. Now a trademarked, internationally-recognized brand, the Warricks first made their mark selling hot links in the 1940s. By 1960, the E.B. Warrick Hot Links business, then located at 156 Marshall St, was born. In 1962, Gene Warrick, Sabin’s father, opened Warrick’s Hot Links and later it became what is today the Pittsburg Hot Link Restaurant in the official Hot Link Capitol of Texas.