Saturday, January 14, 2012

The kids from Clarksville - mid 1970s

  On Thanksgiving my mom brought a box of pictures to my house for my sister Morgan and I to look through. I pulled out a few to scan and I have been meaning to add them to the Clarksville blog ever since. Most of the kids in these photos I can identify, but the dates are a little sketchy. I can only estimate at best, so I will guess they were all taken between 1974 and 1978. Enjoy!

This picture was taken on the back porch of our house on the corner of North and Factory Streets in Clarksville. That's Cindy Redman on the left, my sister Kelly Ross, Leslie Bennet, Jimmy Falcon and  Dawn Carter in the background. My parents must have taken this picture about the time we moved to town, which was around 1974. I know this is an early shot of the house, because the somewhat-intact porch was later removed to make room for an expanded kitchen. The house was built by my grandfather's uncle J.L. Ross.


Georgeann Millward, who lived on Main Street, came to our house and apparently got caught up in some sort of modeling shoot.

 
Keith Perkins and Bobby Redman and an unidentified dog.

 Kelly Ross and Dawn Carter raided the dress-up box  for Halloween. I guess Kelly was some sort of beauty queen and Dawn was a baton-twirling, hat-wearing bandit.
But even more interesting is that can of gasoline just hanging out in our yard!
 What the heck is that about?

 Kelly Ross skateboarding on Market Street. That's Gerald Fowler's old house in the background. The date on the back of the photo is 1977.

Lynn Milward, Keith Perkins and Dwane Christy modeling some cool sweaters.

1 comments:

Chip Guesman said...

30 years later,still have my crush on Kelly!