"We screamed and hollered and ran out," Kennedy said. They woke up to a mass of light shining in a mirror from escaped bugs. ![]() They caught lightning bugs and once set the jar on a dresser and went to sleep. Kennedy has it still, and the notes they wrote remain inside. Greer Senior High School, the Greenville-Spartanburg Jetport, Allen Bennett Memorial Hospital.Īs children, Karen and Vicki played office and school around Aunt Elsie's antique sewing machine, the treadle kind that looks like a desk. Big projects were completed in those years. ![]() ![]() Textiles remained strong, construction steady and life easy for those like her. Drive-in restaurants, a movie theater, car lots. Now stacked with strip shopping centers and big-box stores, the Super Highway when Dillard was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s was still residential with some small businesses intermingled. Connecting Spartanburg with Greenville, it was one of the first four-lane roads with a landscaped median in the state. Highway 29 or Wade Hampton Boulevard, but always the Super Highway to the locals. ![]() They lived on the Super Highway, officially U.S. Karen Dillard, an only child, lived with her parents, Inez and Wilson, known as Wit.
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