The parking lot of the Carriage Inn hotel came alive in a hurry as secret service agents and officials walked with presidential candidate Ronald Reagan on March 7, 1980.
It was the day before the S.C. Republican primary and Reagan stopped in Lancaster to speak inside the hotel. Former S.C. Gov. Carroll Campbell can be seen to the left of Reagan.
Former Lancaster News and Southern Living magazine photographer Gary Clark, who was a student at LHS at the time, cut school to get the chance to photograph the former actor who became president.
Clark was able to pull off five images of Reagan while backing up with his Minolta SRT 202 camera before he was swarmed by the group as they walked in.
Reagan isn't the only famous person to visit The Carriage Inn. In the mid 1990s, actor Andy Griffith stayed at the hotel while filming a movie in the area called "Gramps".
(Photo by Gary Clark/The Lancaster Archive/Image on File with Gary Clark and Travis Bell Photography)
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