Column: Do you remember?

1995

▪ The death of Mickey Mantle prompted the Fort Mill Times to run a 23-year-old picture of the baseball legend signing a baseball for Hiram Shannon during a 1972 visit to Fort Mill.

▪ Fort Mill students scored above the national and state average in all areas on a nationwide standardization test taken last year.

▪ A gateway project, which would beautify an entrance to Fort Mill at a cost of $8,500, was in the planning stage.

▪ The SCDOT agreed to put a “school speed limit 35 mph when flashing sign” in front of the Indian Land schools. The speed limit was 55 mph at all times.

1975

▪ Leroy Springs & Co. announced that a giant new recreation complex would be built on a 40-acre site on Tom Hall Street.

▪ TV series “Movin’ On” production crews and actors rented Hammond’s Grill, at U.S. 21 and U.S. 21 Bypass, north of Fort Mill, for a day for the filming of several scenes for the series.

▪ Sgt. Gary D. Plyler, 1971 Fort Mill High School graduate, was assigned to Kincheloe AFB, Mich., from Taiwan AB, Taiwan.

1955

▪ Frank Lytle, retiring president of the Fort Mill Yellow Jacket Club, handed the keys to a new activity bus, which was purchased by the club, to A.O. Jones Jr., superintendent of the Fort Mill schools.

▪ Showing at the Center were “Strategic Air Command,” “Love Me or Leave Me,” “Outlaws of the Panhandle” with Charles Starrett and Disney’s “The Living Desert.”

1935

▪ The JC Penney store in Rock Hill invited all Fort Mill children to visit the business for a free ticket to the Stevenson Theatre and a photo of Shirley Temple.

▪ Frederick Mack was disappointed to hear that the Great Scout Jamboree, to be held in Washington, was canceled due the presence of infantile paralysis

1915

▪ A band of Gypsies, all dressed in the conventional costumes of their race, arrived in town traveling in a new 40-horsepower Chalmers automobile.

▪ Due to the absence of the Fort Mill ministers, there was no preaching in any of the churches Sunday morning. Dr. W. W. Daniels of Columbia delivered a sermon in Confederate Park Sunday evening.

This story was originally published August 17, 2015 at 10:54 AM with the headline "Column: Do you remember?."