HYDE LAKE AT SHELBY FARMS

MID-SOUTH MEMORIES

25 years ago — 1997

U.S. credit-card loan losses reached a seven-year high in February, Moody’s Investors Service said Wednesday. Credit-card loan balances written off as uncollectible reached 6.4 percent in February, compared with 4.58 percent a year earlier, based on a review of $190 billion in credit-card loans that back securities. It’s the 11th straight month of rising losses and the highest charge-off rate in the seven years that Moody’s has tracked credit-card charge-offs. 50 years ago — 1972

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – FBI agents arrested an amateur skydiver and law enforcement student Sunday for the hijacking of an airliner two days earlier, but failed to find the half-million dollars paid to ransom 91 persons aboard the plane. The suspect, Richard Floyd Mccoy Jr., 29, was a combat helicopter pilot in Vietnam and once taught Sunday school for the Mormon Church.

75 years ago — 1947

Memphis’ No. 7 manual exchange, first to feel the effect of the three-dayold nationwide telephone strike, was “flooded” with calls yesterday, part of them “nuisance calls,” Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph officials said yesterday, D.R. Brachey, Southern Bell manager, disclosed most of the calls flooding the exchange actually were completed, apparently indicating connections were made and conversations carried on.

100 years ago — 1922

The ear, eye and throat specialists of the city of Memphis, members of the Memphis Society of Ophthalmology and Oto-laryngology, today will hold a series of clinics for the members of their branch of the Tennessee State Medical Association, which convenes in Memphis tomorrow for three days.

125 years ago — 1897

HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Mrs. J. C. Norfleet of Memphis arrived in Hot Springs last night and is staying at the Arlington Hotel for several weeks.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FILES July 15, 2017: Class participants get into a pose on top of their stand-up paddle boards during a yoga class on Hyde Lake at Shelby Farms Park.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FILES BELOW, Sept. 4, 2016: Park visitors cruise along the boardwalk in front of Shelby Farms’ new visitors center. The public got its first taste of the $52 million Heart of the Park renovation this weekend with thousands of Memphians flocking to the newly enlarged and renamed Hyde Lake.

JOE RONDONE / THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL LEFT, June 11, 2020: Courtney Tran, from left, sons Chris, 6, and Blake, 10, and Linh Pham set off to a paddle a canoe on Hyde Lake at Shelby Farms Park.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FILES Aug. 30, 2017: A kayaker paddles in Hyde Lake as Noah Allen, 6, throws a rock during a visit to Shelby Farms Park.

THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL FILES March 31, 2020: A boy rides his bicycle around Hyde Lake at Shelby Farms Park in Memphis.