• Grimes School and receiving the red felt G's for good grades. (Orange C's at Cecil School)

• Going home for lunch if you lived close enough.

• Following the DDT spray Jeep and. trying to get lost in the mist.

• Playing hide and seek and "Ring a levio" by the street lights.

• Going to the Snack Shop for a hamburger and the malted soft ice cream with daily flavors posted in the window.

• Wanting to see what was inside the Red Pig-

• Going to high school and going out for lunch.

• Riding seven to a car to out of town football games. A

• Going to the Old Hickory, The Honey Monk, and Yarbrough’s for conversation (I was not supposed to go to Yarbrough's because there was motel behind it). ,

 • Taking notes on a sermon for Mrs. Hedrick’s English class.

• Our Senior trip to Washington and New York.

• Being quarantined for polio.

• Walking to the city pool.

• Delivering Valentines to people’s houses and running away.

• Pepsi shows at the Carolina Theater, paying with bottle caps.

 • Little League baseball games at Cecil School field.  

• The Donut Dinette.

• Parakeets, dyed chicks at Easter, and painted turtles at McClellan's dime store.

• Haircuts for 75 cents at the Sanitary Barber Shop.

• Buying $1 worth of gas for date night.

• Cruising Main on Saturday night from The Dairy Center to the Old Hickory.

• Hi Fi dances at The American Legion Hut --—--- DeMolay Dances

• Saturday morning movies~—-for 15 cents you got all cartoons, bingo and a serial.

• Dancy’s Market, McBride's, Mr. Fite’s 50/50, Pickett's Grocery, the Green Door, City Shoe Shop and Lexington Drug No l soda fountain.

• Polly Neal, the school nurse.

• Fish on ice at the fish market on First Avenue across from the bus station.

• Cecil Evans pumping your gas at the Shell Station on South Main, always with a cigar in his mouth or Hartley's Esso.

• The wonderful families in Erlanger and the annual barbecue lunch.

 • Checking out the new cars every October when there were so few makes and models you could recognize them all

 • The Chicken Shack in Spencer with their great fries- going "across the river" could mean only two things.

• Frank Clark, Coach Mull, Theodore Leonard, Coach Mashburn, VG Price , and Mr. Wike — most memories involving a "board of education?

 • Mrs Raper, Mrs Lewis, Mr. Holcomb, and all the other wonderful teachers at Lexington High in the 60's.

• The smell of baking bread from the Peeler Bakery next to Morgan's on Center Street.

• School field trips to Piedmont Candy or Coble Dairy or the Coca Cola plant.

• Howdy Doody, Superman, "Winky Dink", the Lone Ranger, and "l Love Lucy" on TV 

• Being on the “Safety Patrol”  at your Elementary School.

• Buying a 3—cent milk at your school's morning milk break and 5-cent Fudgesicles, Creamsicles, or Moo Bars at the school store after your lunch of homemade rolls and real butter.

• The Great Bolo, George Becker, Haystack Calhoun and Argentina Rocca

wrestling at the Lexington YMCA with former World Heavyweight

Champion, Jack Dempsey, as Referee!

• Elvis coming to Lexington and staying at the New Lexington Hotel where

several co-eds visited him!!!

• Roller Skating in the YMCA gym.

• Seeing the Ice Capades at the YMCA.

• Milk delivered to your door by Swing’s Dairy or Coble's.

• Christmas Parades...Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) Riding Topper!

• Calling home to have your mother pick you up from Briggs Hobby Shop next door to the Carolina Theater with a "real Santa"  at Christmas and an outside popcorn machine.

• Getting out of school early to decorate for the prom and for making floats for the annual homecoming parade.

• The enthusiastic voice of the Jackets, Harold Bowen!

• Watching the Lexington Indians play at Holt-Mottitt Field where Bobby Bonds had his start.

• The Granada Theater with all western shows featuring Lash Larue, Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, the Cisco Kid, and Bob Steele!

• Town Characters: Pearl and Arthur, Sheriff and the Durango Kid.

• Raylesses' change tube, McClellans and Mack's Dime stores, and Mann's Drug Store cowboys.

• Jack & Louise Michael’s Family Super Market and Curry Lopp's Piggly Wiggly where you got a Super Baby Ruth Bar for 10 cents.

• Pickett & Green and Fred Thompson's where we hung out with Tommy Wicks, Tommy Sink, and the, infamous, Sam Eanes.

• Pop Cline's service station for valuable baseball-football cards with bubblegum as a bonus. _

• Enjoying Bill "Caskey" Swaim's expert  impersonations of Elvis Presley and Marlon Brando from grammar school on.

• Friday nite dances at the old “Y" with Shockey acting as DJ with the latest"45" records. We learned to "Twist" and “Twist Again" with ChubbyChecker.

• The first two week football summer camp at Kamp Kiwanis in steamyAugust for two-a-day practices.

• Beating RJ Reynolds August of ’64 in football for the first time with only Twenty-Nine Players versus the close to Eighty—Nine players for Reynolds that dressed out!

• LSHS vs Salisbury in baseball in spring of 1964 when Thompson Miller set the NC State record  by beaning five players in a row! (He blamed it on his catcher and signal caller, Steve Smith.)

• Buddy Lohr, Danny Bullaboy, Max Gainor and Jerry Lovell our unsung  hero's who managed the Football Team.

• Anne Bingham, Jane Myers, Becky Lopp, and Evelyn Hackney who cheered their hearts out for us!

• Coach Mull and Coach Price overweight and chewing tobacco whileriding the seven man sled during Football practice in 99 degree ‘temperatures. .

• Khakis, Weeguns, Madras shirts and belts while Dancin' the Shag!

• Cecil School when we shared popsicles with our best friend (Anne Quigley House)
• Riding my horse from Honeymonks down I-85 to Bruce Everhart's to do a senior class project! (Myra Evans Daniel)
• Going skating on Friday nights at Anchor skating rink. (Judy Milner Forrest)
• Riding the city bus from home to the square and having to walk to school from there. (Danny Spurrier)
• Hearing Coach Price and Coach Mull chuckling at Sidney Fritts' idea for a diet (leaving the catsup off his french fries). (Don Knepper)