Old Knightstown

Welcome to the
"Old Knightstown"
Web Site

If you have any problems with this site please let me know about them. I know there are some compatibility problems with certain browsers and I'm trying to work them out..
Here's my email address: simman@charter.net

The purpose of this site is to describe what it was like to grow up and go to school in the little town of Knightstown, Indiana in the late 1940s and throughout the 1950s. I'm trying to convey to later generations what a wonderful time and place it really was.
The description will be based primarily on the memories of those who lived it supplemented with data from old issues of the "Banner" newspaper and pictures on loan from various sources including "Historic Knightstown", High School annuals and kind folks like you.

Often I think of the beautiful town
Often in thought go up and down
The pleasant streets of that dear old town,
And my youth comes back to me.
Longfellow

To go to any of the existing pages click on the menu at the top of the page.

Some of the sections describe:

• The social scene
• Dances and Proms
• Dating
• The Music (Rock and Roll)
• The early years
• The special days - Christmas time, Halloween, Jubilee Days, etc.
• The Cars we drove
• Commerce in Knightstown in the 50s
• The jobs kids had
• The town's love of High School basketball and the teams of the 50s
• Our High School Band