1961 8th Graders

HHS 1966 Code Of Behavior - 1

HHS 1966 Code Of Behavior - 2

HHS 1966 Code Of Behavior - 3

Hamlet Basketball Team 1924
Photo Courtesy: Neal Cadieu

Rickey Fetner(right) - one of a kind - we miss you....

Help identify those pictured. Year 1951
Photo Courtesy: Jim Crooke

Help identify those pictured. Year 1951
Photo Courtesy: Jim Crooke

Pictured Left to Right: Robert (Bobby) Rea, James Wise, Earnest King, Ed Currie, Oscar Cole, Ed Richardson, Rex Howell, Kent Hicks, C. Howard.
Photo Courtesy: Wayne Fuller

The “ROCK”

1965 - Richard Fetner - Sara James - Barney Martin

Hamlet Hospital by Catherine Monk

Sam West - Shag Champion

1968 State Champions

Hamlet Coal Chute 1954

James Field. July 1923. Ty Cobb is a player in the picture.

I took this picture Thursday, April 5th, 2007 on Oak Street, here in Hamlet.
The Home of Wade & Winnie Weatherly
Photo Courtesy: Bill Dennis

Benny Parson’s racing at “The Rock”.

Buddy Warr, Wes McIntyre, Jimmy Ritter, Mike Howie, William Calloway,
John Muse, Dean Meacham
Photo Courtesy: Jean Nelson

Halloween 1962
Jean Raby, Shirlee Russ, Gail Way & Rosalie McGee.
Photo Courtesy: Jean Nelson

1949 Happy Hours Kindergarten.
Photo Courtesy: Jean Nelson

Could we go back to these prices?
Photo Courtesy: Jean Nelson

1960 Hamlet High Band
Photo Courtesy: Jean Nelson

Betty Moore, Shirlee Russ, Jean Raby shooting Carrom
Photo Courtesy: Jean Nelson

Class of 1962 45th ReUnion

Seaboard Festival Poster

Do you remember your own first Junion-Senior Prom? The
 corsages, the dresses... the tux. This photo
should stir up some good old Hamlet High School memories.
Photo Courtesy: Bruce Sellers

Town Doctor, Dr. Ralph Garrison and HHS Principal,
 W.L. Haltiwanger are flanked by their wives, Evelyn and Hazel
 in this photo taken at the 1956 HHS Junior-Senior Prom
Photo courtesy: Bruce Sellers

Bruce Sellers and his date, Velta Allen.
This photo was taken at the 1955 HHS Junior-Senior Prom.
Photo Courtesy: Bruce Sellers

Here is a picture, taken sometimes my Senior Year..
1956 graduation. It is with the two senior class teachers,
 Grace Phifer and Lina Bauersfeld.
I am sure from left to right are Floyd (Mutt) Capps,
Bobby DuMeer, Maetrell Tarlton, Jean Parrish,
Lina Bausersfeld and Grace Phifer seated.
This picture is 50 years old...
Photo Courtesy: Bruce Sellers

Dr Weatherly - math teacher 1972

Seaboard Motor Coach
“Doodle Bugs”

Hamlet Fire Dept and trucks
ca. 1955
Remember the siren going off every Saturday at noon?

North Carolina Motor Speedway

John Raby and Charles Utter are assisted by Johnny Raby as the Hamlet Christmas Lights go up in December 1963.

HAMLET HIGH SCHOOL LETTER & FLAG GIRLS
Early 1960's
Standing (L-R) (H) GinnyHowie (A ) SarahBrooks
(M) BeverlyGriggs  (L) JeanMcKee (E) SusanAtkinson
(T) PattiQuinn
Sitting (L-R) Brenda Horne, Ginny Barlow. Vicki Blanton

Hamlet High 1972

Main Street Hamlet

Main Street Hamlet

Hamlet Hospital 1944

Charlotte Street

Hamlet Hospital 1944

Hamlet High 1960

Dr. Bill James

Buttercup Logo

City Lake

Hamlet Opera House

Bank of Hamlet

Gene Ross’s grill

Gene Ross’s grill

1966 Homecoming Pin

1966 Homecoming Football

Depot before move

Dr. Fred McQueen, left, and Allen Mask at the state
historical marker erected in 1992.

Aerial Photo of the Hamlet Yards

John Coltrane

Seaboard Restaurant

Hamlet Depot

Buttercup Sign

Bobby Carroll - Dec. 15, 1960

Presbyterian Church - Charlotte St. - Hamlet, NC early 1900’s

In Memory of those we lost.

1970 VW Bus purchased by Bill Dennis from Bert Unger
in 2001 and restored by Vernon Craddock.

Last summer on our way to vacation on the Gulf Coast,
 we stopped into a well-know produce stand -- Burris Market
 in Loxley, Alabama -- and imagine my surprise to see
the wall decorated with an old Buttercup Ice Cream sign! 
Diana Holland Faust

Lackey St opened 1897 (looking south)

Hamlet First Main St., along westbound RR tracks (behind old Sanitary Laundry) ca. 1980’s

Hamlet’s First Post Office 1901

E.A. Lackey’s Bar, Main St. 1902

Lackey Distillery (1891 -1901) East side of Lackey St.