Today’s picture, taken outside the Badin Theater, is believed to have been taken on March 6, 1938. The group was a combination of the Badin Band, which was made up of local residents, and the Badin School Band. The members of this combined band were, from left, front row: Leo Gabriel Sr. bandmaster, Betty Palmer, Eddie Hinson, Benny Crib, Charles Peterson, Aldon Anderson, Earl Miller, Dick Crib, Bob Honeycutt, Billy Brown Fesperman, Bob Osborn and A.L. Scott; second row: S.A. Copp, works manager, Gordon Lowder, Dwight Fickling, Ruth Coward, Jaquline Coward, Douglas Venters, Jimmy Vann, Buddy Littleton, Tom Garrison, Jim Garrison, Harold Cotton, Ted Gayle, and P.M. Dulin, high school principal; third row: Fritz Frazier, Clyde Miller, Travis Venters, Don Beck, Pete Gabriel, Cello Lowder, Ben Carter, Lamar Coward, Arley Culp Jr., and Oscar Bain Lackey; fourth row: Jack Lanning, Johnny Jones, Keith Ross, Joe Ross, Oris Crisco, Jim Sanges, Bill Adkins, Jack Luck, Buck Gamewell and Joe Gabriel; fifth row: Joe Russell, P.G. Reynolds, Jack Whitener, Bill Lowder, Leo Gabriel, Jr., A.E. Blackerby and Starkey Burns. {Lewis Bramlett – Stanly County Historical Society}