Pickens High School wasn’t always the Blue Flame. Long before, it was once the Pickens Wildcats. Around the late 1920s, Gary Hiott Sr., the former editor of the Pickens Sentinel, once wrote that the ...
Nearly 50 years ago, on Oct. 23, 1970, the Milwaukee-built Blue Flame rocket car blasted through the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, setting a world land speed record of 622.407 mph for the "flying ...