On 3/14/2022 at 5:06 PM, The Professor said:

Opened in 1950 and named in memory of the Perry County servicemen who died in WW2. 
They have it looking pretty good for a 72 year old facility. The new lights they have installed are a huge help because it had always seemed to be poor lighting in the past. The new ones must be LED. The floor looks great and the interior has been painted.

There’s a lot of history inside Memorial. 

Grew up in that gym….mom would drop me off and come back  to pick up …I was 8….gym savvy! Regional  tournaments there were incredible! 
cannot think of a better environment for high school basketball! 
 

On 3/15/2022 at 11:08 PM, Runcible Owl said:

Lyon County's Travis Perry breaking "King" Kelly Coleman's state scoring record is perhaps inevitable. Here are some pics of Coleman, the gymnasium, and Wayland HS (c. 1941) in Floyd County where the "King" once reigned.

? Credits: 1. J. R. VanHoose; 2-4. "Kentucky Travels" - Facebook; 5-6. Jamie Middleton's blog "Jamie in Wonderland."

Looks like the Wayland gym and the old Garrett High School gym could have been built from nearly the same set of plans.

Garrett High School was just a few miles up the road from Wayland High School, also in Floyd County. They both closed in 1972 along with Martin High School and Maytown High School to form Allen Central High School.

Here are some old pictures of the Garrett gym, home of the Black Devils, from the Floyd County History Collection.
 

1933


1934


ca. 1960


1965


1967


Date Unknown


1948-49


1963-64


1966-67


1973-34 (Eighth Grade Team)