In 1973, 45 years ago, the blood bank netted 146 pints of blood.

Along with groceries in 1973, the A&P offered copies of the Funk & Wagnalls encyclopedias for 49 cents each. Now you just Google whatever you are looking for. Oh, how times have changed.

I saw that Moore’s had a big sale on the Bobbie Brooks brand of clothing. Back in the day this was one of the better brands to clothing. Now I see the label in regular stores. The same thing happened to White Stag and any number of other brands.

City stores were asked to remove ‘dirty’ books from the shelves. Too much dirt was getting to the youngsters.

The city was undergoing a building boom with a new shopping center going up on Lindburgh Ave.

Piggly Wiggly had also jumped on the bandwagon and was also selling books like the A&P, but their encyclopedias were $1.99 each.

There was a story in The Atmore Advance about the capture of “the Coke bandit.” This was a thief who left empty cans of the soda at the scene of the crime.

Fort Mims was also featured. For many years the place of the famous battle of 1813, had been left to almost fade into history. A group of people attempted to clean up, but they used big machinery and scraped off the top soil, the very thing they should not have done. Archeologists said there was probably lots of valuable information lost because of the way they treated the ground.

There was an “Old Folks Day” held in Bratt, Fla.. This was an annual event that had been going on for years.

Two inmates at Atmore State Prison Farm were murdered by fellow inmates.

An announcement was made of the building of a $300,000 fabric plant to be built by SAMCO.

Two Atmore residents were featured for raising pigeons. The two were Dr. James Dukes and Floyd Currie.

“Song of the South” was coming to the Strand Theatre. Do you remember this movie? Today it would not be politically correct, but it was a favorite back in the day.