FLORENCE POLICE TRAFFIC OFFICERS – From left, Andy Griffin, S.M. Anderson, Richard Moore, J.C. Blackwell and Lt. Ray Eason are pictured in the traffic office in 1974. Photo courtesy of J.C. Blackwell.
The Flamingo Restaurant, formerly located at 522 South Irby Street, was opened by Gus Hondros in 1963. Andrew Kampiziones later joined him and ran the business until the property was purchased by Florence General Hospital in the mid 1980s. Photo courtesy
COUNTRY SINGER TEX RITTER poses with Slim Mims, center, and his Dream Ranch Boys in the WJMX Radio Studio in the 1950s. Mims’ radio program, Dream Ranch Jamboree, was a popular show in Florence. He and his band were also on television on WBTW in Florence
Florence High School, circa 1943. Shown at left are the officers of the graduating class of 1943: Dick Dusenbury, president; Bryant Hicks, vice-president; and Betty Lou Hickey, secretary.
The interior of Ziegler’s Drug Store as it looked in the 1920s. The drug store was located on the northwest corner of West Evans and North Dargan streets.
JUNIOR, SENIOR DANCE at Wilson High School in 1962. From left are Maurice Austin, Edward Anderson, Monya Reese, Henry Thomas, Alphonsa Davis, and Patricia Timmons. The dance theme was ‘Fantasy of the Sea.’ Photo from the 1962 Wilsonian Yearbook.
