To make a long story short it was getting dark by the time we got to our bus stop..The snow eventually reached eighteen plus inches. The most snowfall in one day for Knoxville. The record still stands..Electricty was off throughout the area and it took about two weeks to get it restored. But, it didn't slow the kids down as we delighted in no school and plenty of cold and snow to play in.
THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE ASKING WHY
THE WEBSITE DIDN'T HAVE A THEN AND NOW PAGE.
SORRY IT TOOK SO LONG TO GET IT STARTED
I'M ASKING ALL CLASSMATES TO SHARE
A PICTURE OF THEM NOW.. ALSO A MEMORY FROM THEN.
BE SURE TO SCROLL TO BELOW THE PICTURES FOR OTHER CLASSMATES MEMORIES.
ARLEN KING
RETIRED: UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
KNOXVILLE
CHUCK MERIDIETH
RETIRED: SAM'S CLUB
MEMORIES
CHUCK MERIDIETH
Around November 20, 1952 when I was ten years old it was raining when we walked the 1/2 mile to catch the school bus on Clinton Highway. It wasn't real cold as I remember but, by lunch time it was snowing out side and school was dismissed.
ARLEN KING
REMEMBERS SEPTEMBER 1, 1950
My Mom and her 3 young sons were sitting in her old Chevrolet in the Woods
Motor Company parking lot at the end of Bradshaw Gardens Drive looking across
Clinton Highway down into the Sunset Drive-In Theater the night it opened. The
first movie to be shown there was that night and it was a Roy Rogers western
called Sunset In The West and we saw it free without any sound. I imagine that
is where the theater name came from or so I was told then.
HAROLD LAWSON
CLASS OF 1958
Have so many good memories of growing up in Powell.Will always remember going to the Powell theater.It cost nine cents and it was usually a cowboy movie.They were big back in the 50s. The little library out by the high school.Rosie Jones` cafe.His sister ran a cafe right out from there next to Gill Lumber.Do you remember the Powell Bus? You could catch it next to Evans Cleaners and ride to down town Knoxville for 25 cents.A guy by the name of Bill Needham was a driver.He recently passed away.There was Mutt Arnolds garage.It was up next to the theater and the Powell barber shop.A hair cut was 35 cents.There was a place up the hill from Bells Bridge called The Truck Stop.Talk about a great hamburger.It cost 25 cents,30 if you got cheese.A Coke was 5 cents.As you can tell I like to go down memory lane.Your site makes it so great.
GUESS WHO ANSWER" Arlen King Backroom of Malcolm's Dairyland circa 1960
