Around the Banks: Life in 1956

I am writing this column on the 66th wedding anniversary of my parents, the late John Wade Bullard and Mary Lou Taylor Bullard. They were married on June 8, 1956, in Statenville, Ga. The judge's secretary was out for the day and mama typed her own marriage certificate. I think it cost them $25 and that included a tip for the judge. Daddy was almost 29, mama was 22. Life in 1956 was very different than today. Gas was 29 cents per gallon. Dwight Eisenhower had just been elected for a second term. The first pavement for the interstate highway system, which would prove to be the death nail for small communities where US 41 and 90 were, had just begun construction. The salvation of Lake Cit