In the photo above you can see the home of a famous Lexington County resident. Some of you will know who I’m talking about and where the house is. For the rest of you, read on for the answer.

Our county has changed dramatically over the years. We want to start you talking with each other about the good ol’ days and what they were like. Communities, like families, need a sense of the past.

At the much loved Charlotte News, now gone but treasured in memory, senior reporter Dick Young, Sr. wrote a brief “Remember When” with little nuggets of local history.

The Charlotte News produced some notable almuni including Marion Hargrove whose hilarious “See Here, Private Hargrove” became a bestseller and movie, and Charles Kuralt of “On the Road” TV fame.

If that worked in Charlotte, we reasoned, it would work here, too. All of us treasure our memories of good times in the past.

Reader Catherine Renard Saleeby was among the first to respond with a long list of her memories. These will tickle the fancy of any of us older than 39.

“I love this,” Catherine wrote us of the Remember When that appears each week on the Chronicle’s front page.

“So much of the old memories are leaving with our older citizens, and I love to try to remember when.

“When the Chronicle asked a couple of years ago for old photos and things, I dropped some off. I look forward to reading more about our fine little town.”

A few of Catherine’s memories of Lexington’s Main Street predate us. We’ve been here only 35 years. Her memories include:

• Chris Corley’s hardware store

• Jimmy Brown at the Western Auto

• The bicycle display at Christmas

• Horry Wessinger at the Theatre

• Dodd’s 5 and 10 which was where Tim Driggers and few other lawyers practice across the street from The Needler.

• Eli Mack Sr. and Victory Jewelers

• EL Taylor’s Hardware and Furniture

• Roberts Grocery, Addy’s and SCE&G

• The Dispatch News which has been located in at least 4 different places, all of them in the Old Courthouse block.

• Harmon Drug and the Esso Station

• Lexington Bank on the opposite corner of Main and North Lake Drive

• Shepherd’s Drug and maybe Eargle’s

• Tree Sessions’ Department Store

• Renard’s Toastees

• Rawl’s Restaurant

• Sam George and Citizen’s Telephone

• Wayne Addy and the Pure Oil Station

• Looney Chevrolet

• Eugene Jackson’s Dry Cleaners

• Stanley and Catherine Liverman’s Hospital where so many of us were born

• Harry Hite’s Restaurant & Dairy Bar

• Mrs. Shealy and the Noodle Shop

Please send us your recollections, too.

P.S. Have you figured out the photo is of Godfrey “Uncle Josh” Harmon’s home at Main Street and South Lake Drive? For you late arrivals, Uncle Josh founded the Lexington Dispatch newspaper 149 years ago.

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