Jayne Mansfield in Marietta in 1962

This morning in THE MARIETTA DAILY JOURNAL's Historic Photos of the Day is dated Aug 16, 1962, about Jayne Mansfield making a personal appearance at the grand opening  at Thrift City.

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  Thrift City would become K-Mart then Sears Discount Store and so on.  Interesting, is less than 500 feet where Leo Frank was hung by a well organized lynch mob in 1913

I remember that night in August when Jayne came to town.  A bunch of us stood by her big shiny car waiting for her to come back out so we could get a closer look at her. 

Inside the car, her young daughter,  alone sat and glared at us.

I remember seeing Jayne at a distance inside the store, or at least her white-blond hair, with a crowd of heads around her.  But I don't remember seeing her  closely as she returned to her car.  Her security must have shooed us away.