Larry Murray

5th Street Wildcats with Sonny Rawlings and Boyce Weir (what ever happened to him?) If anybody knows, I would like to know. Halloween was always an exciting holiday as we would go trick or treating all night, shoot fireworks and walk all over our side of town. And New Year's Eve, we would gather all the old Christmas trees from the neighborhood and have a bonfire, shoot fireworks, roast marshmellows and just have a good ole time, till one year the cops came and arrested two of the older boys for illegal fireworks. This was in the Sleganhoffs (Spelling????) back yard. Sonny tried to teach me to drive an A-model when we were 14, and I almost ran it into a ditch.

Loved to go to the football games and basketball games at Wray Junior high. Why didn't we have a Gym? Oh well, at least we didn't have to take PE. Everyday before lunch in algebra class I remember hearing the juke box (our class window was close to the student center) playing "Just Beyond the River" by Elvis. Someone said the assistant principal always played this(???) I can tell everybody I walked to school every day (Have you ever heard that?) but I don't say I lived two blocks from the school.

Started working at Major League Lanes as a manager trainee and moved to Spartanburg one year later as manager of Pinewood Lanes there. I did that for 18 years. While working there, I started Larry's Trophies and worked there till I sold the business to my partner, Terry. While doing trophies, I started Larry's Chevys and am still doing that. Some of you may wonder why "Larry" when I was always Lawrence. Well, this is what happened. While bowling in a league at Major League, I bowled against Harry Suddeth. He was writing the names on the telescore sheet (the plastic score sheet that was reflected on the overhead screen). He could not spell Lawrence, so I told him to just put Larry on the sheet. So that was the name in lights, and well, you know the rest. So call me Larry.