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Larry Smith's Spotlight on his hometown, Summersville, KY
In Progress, Click on Headline for introduction with photo(s)
Larry Smith has sent a few more photo(s) of his hometown, Summersville, KY, the cross county rival city of his other hometown, Greensburg, KY. This album links the new pictures.
While Summersville, KY, is unincorporated, it has a population of 568, according to ZipCodes.com larger than many county seats in the United States - maybe some in Kentucky. That's over 25% of the population of Greensburg, KY, the county seat, 2,168 in 2010.
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Picture from the past (and present): Skyline Drive-In
2007-12-15 - Summersville, Green County, KY - Photo By Larry Smith.
LARRY SMITH, NEWS ANCHOR AT THE WAVE FM 92.7 and South Central Kentucky historian and chronicler of things past and present, sends one of both in a single picture today. It's the famous old marquee at Summersville Drive-in Theatre, extant to this day, on the north edge of Summersville on KY 61, five miles north of Greensburg. ColumbiaMagazine.com receives a huge number of comments on the work of Larry Smith, who does so much good in the neighborhood. He can be reached, most mornings, at (270) 384-7979, at WHVE. The photo is a reminder of Adair County's own proud past in movies, when we had a hormone heaven, when Doc Walker brought outdoor, in-car movies to Columbia.
Click Here for link to photos of historic Adair Drive-in, once located on what is now Old Burkesville Road Loop.
Click Here to access the entire "Welcome To the Drive-In Theater!" website,
Click here to access archives story by Ed Waggener on order of appearance of Adair County Theaters.
Clicking Read More accesses "Today, Sat. Dec. 15, 2007" feature and other stand-alone photos posted today.
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Larry Smith photo: Summersville Days
2008-07-21 - Summersville, Green Co., KY - Photo By Larry Smith.
Larry Smith, WHVE the Wave 92.7 FM news anchor writes, "Summersville Fun Days were held Saturday in Downtown Summersville, KY, my hometown. This military plane taxiing down the middle of KY 61 was a part of the parade."
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Historic Green Co., KY: Summersville Bank
2012-08-03 - Summersville, KY - Photo by Fayette Hewitt Smith.
It was a time of great promise in Summersville, KY when this photo was taken by my grandfather, Fayette Hewitt Smith, in 1940, in front of the Farmers Bank of Summersville. If you look closely, you'll see a Photography banner over the right window. That was an advertiser fror Fayette Hewitt Smith. Weren't those sturdy, majestic buildings in those days! - Larry Smith, Operations Manager, The Big Dawg, 99.9 FM, Campbellsville, KY.
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Great moments Green Co., KY: Larry Smith, boy projectionist
2012-09-05 - 5600 Hodgenville Road, Summersville, KY - Photo from the collection of Larry Smith. Larry Smith, of the Big Dawg, 99.9 FM, has these two favorite old photos from the 1970's of his days as a projectionist at the Skyline Drive-in in the 1970's. He was a student in high school at Greensburg, and was also working as an announcer on the Greensburg Radio Station, up on Buckner Hill. The projection room provided many memorable moments. One incident he remembers was the 14-20 minute-reels of Gone with the Wind. He left out three of them, he says, and some of the patrons weren't real happy about that. There were two projectors in the booth. One, showing the film, the other in waiting for a smooth changeover. Patrons rarely noticed a reel change but if it weren't synchronized, there would be a white screen and plenty of horn honking from the audience. Smith says one of his favorite things is talking about projectionists with some of the great ones among them: Robert Flowers of the Columbian Theatre; Jimmy Cravens of the Cozy in Campbellsville; Prof. A.W. Reed, at both the Kentuckian, next to the Post Office in downtown and the Green River Drive In in Liberty, KY. Smith is the only one who stayed in show biz, unless politics counts, in which case they all qualify as theater types. -CM
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Historic Green County, KY: Holmon Lewis, Summersville, KY
2013-02-12 - Downtown Summersville, KY - Photo by Fayette Hewett Smith. Larry Smith, Operations Manager, 99.9 FM The Big Dawg, in Campbellsville, KY has fond memories of this building, regrettably razed about two years ago, which was once the main market in his native Summersville, Green County, KY. "The business was owned by Holmon Lewis, the father of Summersville's leading merchant, Leon Lewis, Sr., the father of Columbia's Leon Lewis, Jr., owner of Jeffries Hardware on Jamestown Hill," Larry Smith reports. "The store above was on KY 323, the turn off KY 61 toward Taylor County. "Leon, Senior, is proprietor of Summersville's leading deli/grocery and post office, still thriving on KY 61 (Hodgenville Road) in Summersville. From the looks of the cars, the H.Hunter Durham-esque courtin' car two tone Chevrolet two tone four door, ca 1948, the photo would have been taken along about then." Fayette Hewett Smith was Larry Smith's grandfather, and father of recently deceased Mr. Fayette (F.H.) Smith, Green Co., KY (1924-2011)
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Summersville, KY: Holmon Lewis Dodge dealership
2013-02-12 - KY 323, Summersville, KY - Photo by Larry Smith, FM 99.9 .
Holmon Lewis operated this Dodge Dealership in Summersville, KY. The Ram pickup and the sedan appear to be from the early 1950's. At that time, Chevrolets and Fords were sold in Greensburg, KY, but a fine set of wheels were available in Summersville, my hometown from Mr. Holmon Lewis. -Larry Smith, Operations Manager, The Big Dawg, 99.9 FM
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Spotlight on Summersville, KY: The Lord Mayor
2013-02-13 - Summersville, KY - Photo from Larry Smith. H.B. Cavin was the self-proclaimed Mayor of Summersville, Green County, KY. He was a barber and chiropractor, and often called in with the Summersville Report on Radio Station WGRK in Greensburg, the capitol of Green County, KY, as "Lord Mayor of Summersville." In the background is the Holmon Lewis Hardware & General Merchandise, located just a few hundred feet from Leon Lewis, Sr's, present day successor general store, deli, and Summersville Post Office. - Larry Smith, Operations Manager, 99.9 FM, the Big Dawg, Campbellsville, KY.
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Summersville, KY: Bud Price's station
2013-02-16 - Hodgenville Road, Summersville, KY - Photo from collection of Larry Smith. Larry Smith sent this photo from his collection of the Bud Price Station on KY 61, Hodgenville Road, in downtown Summersville, KY, his hometown. The station building is still standing, but the business is no longer open. The year could be dated approximately from the cars; maybe the late 1950's or early 1960's. The large two story house on the left was the home of fertilizer dealer and money lender James Skaggs. Larry Smith, Operations Manager for the Big Dawg, 99.9 FM, grew up in Summersville, KY. Clicking ReadMore accesses on collection of from his Summersville photo archives
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Summersville, KY 1890: The Louisville & Nashville Turnpike
2013-02-17 - Summersville, Green Co., KY - Photo from collection of Larry Smith. The buggy on the right is about to make a turn onto the Louisville & Nashville Turnpike, now known as Hodgenville Road, in Downtown Summersville, KY, leaving today's KY 323. The old Farmers' Bank is the two story brick building on the right, and the two story white building which also still stands, was the original Holmon Lewis Gen. Mdse. building. Summersville remains the only town in America where both Larry Smith, Operations Manager of FM 99.9 The Big Dawg, and Leon Lewis, owner of Jeffries Hardware in Columbia, KY, both grew up, the only Green County Community ever to have a drive-in theater - and it's still in operation; and maybe the only Green County Community with it's own college center, at Jacob Grove Baptist Church.
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