June 5, 2025 3:20 a.m. 

A tiny park in downtown Roseburg is being transformed into a recreational gem with the donation of cornhole boards and a ping pong table.

A City of Roseburg release said in late May, Stone Age Concrete Games of Roseburg built and installed a 2,400-pound concrete ping pong table and two concrete cornhole boards weighing 400 pounds each in Eagles Park on Southeast Jackson Street. Thrive Umpqua helped connect the family-owned company with city officials and Parks and Recreation staff.

The park already offered two concrete picnic tables with inlaid chess/checker boards in a quarter acre of green open space. However, the park has often been overlooked by those coming downtown to shop, dine or work.

However, that is starting to change with a recent influx of students living across from the park in Umpqua Community College’s new dorm, Hawk’s Hideaway.

Stone Age Concrete Games is owned by the James family and began 15 years ago. It was the first business to focus on concrete table and lawn games in North America and remains the principal company with that focus. Most of their products are shipped to California, Texas and Florida.

Stone Age Concrete donated the ping pong table and cornhole boards to Eagles Park in memory of a late Roseburg resident, Bobby Troup. Troup was a former tennis pro who came to love ping pong and opened the “Pit” – a large warehouse style room with a ping pong table in the back of the of Mid Oregon Printing on Southeast Stephens Street – to a devoted “underground” ping pong club that played together four nights a week.

Josh James has organized regular play at the park on Thursday nights at 6:00 p.m. A Facebook page where participants can get more information has been created: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1797773937440516/