Monday, May 25, 2009
Looking back: May 25
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Photo courtesy of John Montgomery
This picture of the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke was taken in 1924 at the old Roanoke Country Club, before the new building opened in August, 1924 . The picture was taken by George Davis, a prominent local photographer. The Roanoke Kiwanis Club was chartered Jan. 28, 1920. As the club prepares to observe its 90th anniversary, current club leaders seek to identify the people in the picture. If you can help, please call John Montgomery at 761-6751 or e-mail him at jmonty@cox.net.
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1999 (10 years ago)
n "A proposal to merge the Roanoke Valley's economic development organizations -- an idea that has been debated informally for years -- was rejected Tuesday when it was put to its first public vote."
n "Another day, another masterpiece. The Art Museum of Western Virginia on Thursday bought an oil painting by revered American nature painter Winslow Homer -- its second major acquisition in as many days. The purchase at the New York City auction house Sotheby's follows Wednesday's purchase of a work by American impressionist Childe Hassam."
n "No one is sure why he was here, but everybody who saw the unshaven diner at Ernie's in downtown Roanoke on Saturday agreed: It was Jerry Seinfeld at that table, eating scrambled egg whites and sipping O.J."
1984 (25 years ago)
n "Seven months after meeting at a cocktail party in Reno, Nev., Roanoke developer Richard Hamlett and entertainer Debbie Reynolds were married Friday at a friend's home in Miami Beach."
n "William DuPre has performed for kings and queens, exchanged table talk with Princess Grace and traveled around the world. ... And yet, despite the intoxicating airs he has imbibed, he can talk to cops as well as kings and eat three hot dogs -- loaded -- from the Roanoke Weiner Stand in a single day."
1959 (50 years ago)
n "From now on, anyone downtown can go to a meditation room at the YWCA for inspiration, quiet thought, reading or prayer."
n "Greenfield, historic Botetourt County landmark where George Washington visited when he was a surveyor, was razed by fire early today."
n "'Miss Botetourt County of 1954' has been named 'Mrs. Virginia of 1959.' Down at Virginia Beach yesterday, Mrs. Bruce Ikenberry of Roanoke ... walked off the winner over eight contestants in a day-long contest."
n "The Roanoke City Health Department reports it has launched a major 'anti-jungle' campaign designed to clean up and clear out at least 'three or four' overgrown, nuisance spots throughout the city."
1934 (75 years ago)
n "Classrooms in older school buildings in the city are without artificial lighting, it was learned today."
n "Add signs of improved business: a total of 58 conventions and sales meetings have been held or booked here so far this year."
n "Several persons interested in raising rabbits met at Hotel Roanoke on Wednesday night and organized the Roanoke Cooperative Rabbit and Cavy Breeders Association."
n "Two important actions taken by City Council at yesterday's meeting were the adopting of an ordinance changing the end of the fiscal year of the City of Roanoke from December 31 to June 30, and the passing of a resolution offering $70,000 for the purchase of the entire tract of 303 acres of the Cannaday farm to be used as a permanent airport."
n "Organization of the Roanoke Community [baseball] League for Negroes was completed at a meeting last night."
n "Roanoke College will graduate 13 girls at its eighty-first commencement exercises June 4. Seven members of the first co-ed class ever to enter the Salem institution will complete their four year course at that time."
n "Everywhere the iris blooms, reminding Roanokers that the iris is not their city flower in name only."
1909 (100 years ago)
n "The Roanoke almshouse, however, affords an example of a startling escape, and four of the inmates took part in it."
n "Sunday was the day set apart for the inauguration by the Virginian Railway of a passenger service between Roanoke and St. Albans."
n "Mayor Cutchin has given positive instructions to the police department to see that the Market Square is preserved for the uses of a market and not devoted to the conduct of all kinds of business."
n "Lightning yesterday evening about 9 o'clock, cut a lot of capers in Roanoke, but the most singular antic was that which created consternation in the ten-pin alley of C. B. Mills, No. 12 Nelson street. ... The flash of lighting played on the wires in the alleys for almost a minute, making a pyrotechnic display not often duplicated."
