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The Way We Were

Photos 33Issue August 2015
Family time on Kiawah Island, circa 1975Author Harlan Greene in 1975The “Little Pig” on Broad StreetThe Dock Street Theatre on Church Street, where Harlan lived that summer in a third-floor apartmentGovernor James B. Edwards at the State of the State AddressThe Dock Street Theatre, which reopened with air conditioning in 1975Clippings from the ongoing “Folly Beach Strangler” news storyJennet on stage in The Taming of the Shrew for the re-opening of the Dock Street TheatreChurch Street in the 1970sGovernor James B. Edwards in the early 1970s while serving the South Carolina SenateWith dad/step-dad Neil at Captain Sam’s InletThe kids go loco.Author Edward Marshall’s stepmother, Lynn, stands ready to catch crabs with her extended brood.Wild pigs root for some front beach real estate.Step-brother Richie enjoys the view.The Vanderhorst house was gated after development began.The Marshall-Harrill gang poses for posterity.Marshall’s dad, Neil, drives the family on front beach jaunts in their Willys jeep.The family house on KiawahColeman’s Hardware on Pitt StreetShrimp boats clustered on Shem Creek.June 15,1975: the day the USS Yorktown arrived in Charleston HarborThe Pitt Street PharmacyA trawler on Shem CreekThe Grace and Pearman bridgesThe Old Village home of author Ann Thrash’s auntThe soda fountain at the pharmacy with Miss Linda behind the counterAnice’s mother, Mrs. Wilhelmenia Geddis, who was the first African American to own a licensed day care in Charleston. She passed away in October 2004.Anice on her birthday in August 1975The Brooks Motel and Restaurant at the corner of Morris and Felix streetsAuthor Julian Buxton as a 15-year-old in his boatDr. Julian Thomas Buxton Jr., for whom the James Island Creek bridge is namedJulian standing with four of his siblings on the steps of their North Shore Drive home

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