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Comb’s Jewelers Owner, Milton Combs, presents the keys to new owner, Lynda Miller, 1980. Miller and her husband, Kenneth, owned and operated Miller’s Jewelers on Cedar Street.
A Pictorial History of McKenzie, Tennessee: Comb's Jewelers
Comb’s Jewelers Owner, Milton Combs, presents the keys to new owner, Lynda Miller, 1980. Miller and her husband, Kenneth, owned and operated Miller’s Jewelers on Cedar Street. File photo … more
Leave Nothing to Chance
My eyes must have been big as saucers. The air somehow wasn’t reaching all the way down to my lungs. Sweat was coming in such waves the wooden stick was sliding to and fro in my hands. And my … more
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Barksdale Auto Service, Cedar St., 1955. Tri-County Motors Co.’s wrecker tows a ‘55 Olds. Front (L to R): Warren Barksdale; driver of wrecker is his brother, Kenneth Barksdale; in back is Warren’s son, Kenneth W. Barksdale. Warren maintained a business relationship with Tri-County for many years, including the years he instructed students at the vocational school, who became employed by Tri-County Motors.
Pictorial History of McKenzie: Barksdale Auto Service
Barksdale Auto Service, Cedar St., 1955. Tri-County Motors Co.’s wrecker tows a ‘55 Olds. Front (L to R): Warren Barksdale; driver of wrecker is his brother, Kenneth Barksdale; in back is … more
Ricky Plays Sigmund Freud
One of the great advantages of getting older is you don’t have to endure the “first day back to school after the Christmas break” bombardment. Maybe that’s no big deal to you. … more
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Life Over By The Vegetable Oil
We were halfway down aisle 8, trying with all our might to stay out of the way. Luke had picked out his beef jerky and loaded a case of root beer on the cart. He was through shopping. I only came … more
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WKTA-FM Radio Station occupied the former Drewry’s Food Center building in the 1980’s.
A Pictorial History of McKenzie, Tennessee
McKenzie Lions Club, 1982. (L to R): Harold Kee, Donald Drewry and Glen Sacks.
A Pictorial History of McKenzie, Tennessee
Gloria, in Excelsis Deo!
Christmas takes you back.Me and Leon and David Mark would fight over who got to carry the ax. And we fought over which tree we thought was “the perfect one.” Then we’d fight over … more
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Roger Makes A Big Car Small
We got to talking about people we’d like to meet, or would have liked to have met. Abraham Lincoln came up quickly. Someone mentioned Babe Ruth. A golfer in the group wanted to play a round … more
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Long-time Bethel supporters and brothers (L to R): Joe Morris, Ray Morris and Jack Morris.
A Pictorial History of McKenzie, Tennessee
Long-time Bethel supporters and brothers (L to R): Joe Morris, Ray Morris and Jack Morris. File photo originally published in “A Pictorial History of McKenzie, Tennessee,” by The McKenzie … more
Don’t Misunderstand What You See
I should be writing some silly story about Christmas shopping this morning. Or maybe sharing a memory of buying a special gift for a special person at this special time of the year…hoping it … more
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City Attorney Ralph Stobbe administers the Oath of Office to Mayor H.B. “Swat” Scarbrough, 1980.
A Pictorial History of McKenzie, Tennessee
Talk About The Short End Of The Pulley Bone!
I’ve always been on the wrong side of Thanksgiving. Don’t misunderstand here. I love the holiday. I would, and did, give genuine and grateful thanks for anything that got me out of the … more
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The Log Cabin on Bethel’s campus.
A Pictorial History of McKenzie, Tennessee
Amherst Report Blames Leon
My hair has turned white and is falling out.People ask if my grandfather was bald. Well meaning folks explain in graphic detail how hair loss is inherited from “your mother’s side of the … more
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A photo of a young Dr. Orvis C. Wells. The photo was taken around 1956.
Dr. Orvis (O.C.) Wells
Born Orvis Clulon Wells, Jr., January 10, 1916, Dr. Wells was the eldest of Dr. and Mrs O.C Wells of Murray, Kentucky.The Wells family was one of the pioneer families in Calloway County, Kentucky, … more
Not Your Average Gap Standers!
Chandler King was the first veteran I ever heard talk about his time in the service. He was in the Navy. And he was at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He came to our second grade class in 1954 and … more
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Road Industries, early 1980s. L to R: Lynn Russell and Judy White.
A Pictorial History of McKenzie, Tennessee
Gathering to fire the cannon in honor of Veterans Day, early 1980s, were: Vester Washburn, Chief Raymond McDade, Bailey M. Wrinkle, Wilburn Headden, Cecil Purvis, Dale King, Franklin Howell, Gaylon Hickman, David Hickman and Barney Forbes.
McKenzie Remembers
As we mark another Veterans Day, I find it all the more important to write this week’s article paying some semblance of a tribute to the veterans of McKenzie. The men and women of McKenzie hold … more
Talk About A Bad Rap!
The first president that affected my life directly was Herbert Hoover. It didn’t matter that he left office fourteen years before I was born. Dad referred to him every time we asked for money. … more
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