Table decoration from Blue and Gold Banquet, 1964?
Mrs. Hale was our Den Mother and also a neighbor on Fairground Street. Her son, Billy Hale, was a good friend of mine. This photo was taken in November, 1964. She wrote the note to me in 1966. I last saw her in 2008 when she attended the evening viewing of my mother at Arrington Funeral Home in Jackson (December, 2008). I subsequently wrote her a letter thanking her for being such a good Den Mother to an active group of young boys and she wrote a kind reply. A sweet lady, she passed away in 2008.
Bob McCoy was also our mailman. He delivered the mail in one of those 3-wheeled mail carts ( I later purchased one). He would let me stand in the doorway and hang-on while he floored the mailcart in a long stretch run up Fairground Street to Lambuth College before he returned around to continue deliveries. Things you could never do now.
The City Hall tour, February, 1964. We all took turns with Mayor Smith’s gold-plated telephone. Joe Carroll, a good friend of mine, is in the lower center. He is a banker in North Carolina.
A few original newspaper articles. “New Dens” is from October, 1964. “Indian Theme” is from March, 1964.
This bus trip to Nashville occurred sometime in 1964. We drove the trip using Highway 70. The only part of the trip I remember is the War Memorial Building Museum. We parked in front of the building in what is now War Memorial Plaza.
