May 8, 2023 - Many Shelby County residents and visitors were presented the opportunity to time travel a little bit, as a retake of a photo from 1923 was done on Friday, May 5, 2023.
Participants in the photo event mostly staged at the inside corner just across from the Rio Theatre where photographer Lawrence Davis climbed a tall ladder to get the shot.
Buster Bounds was also taking an aerial view of the proceedings with a drone camera.
Native to Center and son to the late Joe Louis Jones (former Shelby County Historical Courthouse docent, and historian), Ben Jones and his wife Michelle, had seen on Shelby County Today that the photo was being taken and traveled from College Station to participate in this event. They remarked May 4 was his father’s birthday.
Once the photo was completed, the crowd dispersed and the regular hustle and bustle of traffic on the square continued.
Print availability will tentatively be announced a week from the publication of this article.
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