January 4, 1953 was long-remembered by many in Lamar. On that cold Sunday morning, twenty-five small aircraft flew into Lamar and landed on Railroad Avenue in the heart of town for a meeting of the South Carolina Breakfast Club. The entire length of Railroad Avenue was converted into an airstrip for the occasion. In earlier years, it had been the old roadbed of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The roadbed had just recently been acquir4ed by E.H. Segars and a remote section west of town had previously been made into a landing strip to accommodate two locally-owned planes — those of Harold Segars and Marvin White. PHOTO COURTESY OF DCHCM