MABANK -- Back a half-century ago, a popular CBS television sitcom called "Petticoat Junction" aired weekly, and a café in the Cedar Creek Lake area capitalized on it with the same name Petticoat Junction Café operated on Business Highway 175 as a gathering spot for local residents and travelers. That was in the days before the current four-lane State Highway 175 routed traffic around Kemp and Mabank. The café was one of the most popular eateries in Mabank and the surrounding area for residents and travelers -- especially truck drivers -- for a quarter of a century in the early 1970s and 1980s. The café has long since closed, and the building, which was a former train depot, has fallen into disrepair because of mold and other health hazards. The Mabank City Council recently ordered its demolition, and the current owner did not object. The show first aired in 1963, and it finished its run in 1970. It reflected the life of people living in the country on a railroad line that stopped at a hotel and café called Petticoat Junction. The producers of the television show cooperated with the owners of the café by sending them photographs and other memorabilia from the show that were displayed in the café. The café opened in 1970. The Mabank depot-turned-café building was moved from the railroad line to its current location on Business Highway 175 because café customers reportedly were parking on the railroad line, and the café owners were unable to purchase the land where it sat. Much of old Mabank no longer exists in the downtown historical area, such as the old movie theater and other buildings. The demolition of the old train depot building represents yet another loss of the community's history. .