Monday, September 07, 2009
Looking Back: Sept. 7
The Roanoke Times
File This photo was taken at Mill Mountain Zoo's Little Red Schoolhouse exhibit, probably in the mid-1950s. The scene depicts "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and the animals were real. The zoo set an attendance record in 1959, according to N.J. Dalton, zoo superintendent at the time.
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1999 (10 years ago)
"Rain, rain, don't go away. Thanks to Tropical Storm Dennis, which dropped as much as 7 inches of rain in parts of Southwest Virginia on Sunday, the water level at Roanoke's Carvins Cove reservoir has risen nearly a foot."
"William Fleming played as well as it needed Friday night, even if it wasn't as well as the Colonels would have liked. Thanks to six E.C. Glass turnovers, the Colonels escaped City Stadium with a 26-14 nondistrict victory over the Hilltoppers and a still-perfect 3-0 record."
1984 (25 years ago)
"A center that will specialize in women's health problems will be established by Community Hospital."
"Sky King's got nothing on Roanoke County school officials. Eager to restore power to blacked-out Northside Junior High School, county school officials Friday leased a private airplane and sent an employee to fetch a needed part from a General Electric plant in western Tennessee."
" 'Friday Football Extra,' a 15-minute locally produced show that is scheduled to run 12 weeks, makes its debut on Channel 7 at 11:30 p.m. ... The emphasis ... will be on area high school football."
1959 (50 years ago)
" 'The Sheriff of Cochise' is coming to Roanoke for the Harvest Bowl. Actor John Bromfield, who plays the lawman of the television series, will see the football game between William and Mary and Virginia Tech, Oct. 3, from Gov. Almond's box."
"Wreckers are starting to tear down the 50-year-old Sears Building at 12 East Church Ave. this week and a 50-car parking lot will be opened there about Nov. 1."
"Roanoke children 7 to 16 years old could play hooky from school yesterday without breaking the law. But not so today. City Council passed a local compulsory attendance law yesterday, and made it effective immediately."
1934 (75 years ago)
"More than 120 football candidates reported for practice at three schools here yesterday, showing the interest of the boys in the sport."
"Mundy's football schedules are now available for fervent fans everywhere. Compiled annually by Guy Brown, of the Jefferson street cigar store's staff, these schedules are widely known throughout the country."
"Apparently as indifferent as any person in the packed courtroom, Major Robert C. Kent, Jr. ... sat in circuit court here [Fincastle] this afternoon at 3:30 and heard read a jury verdict that said he was guilty of kidnapping Mrs. Mary Jane Hastings, 50, from Blue Ridge Springs."
"Harry Breithaupt, Jr., of Salem, the youngest member of this class at Roanoke College, will receive his degree before he has reached his nineteenth birthday."
"Soft ball players of the city who prefer to remain single yesterday proved their superiority over their married foes by taking both games of the doubleheader at Wasena Park."
"Camp Triangle of the Civilian Conservation Corps, at the base of Catawba mountain, is to be abandoned, but when officials at the camp do not know."
1909 (100 years ago)
"Two great big trains of Lynchburgers and those from intermediate points, came to Roanoke yesterday just because Roanoke offered them a source of entertainment."
"Since the announcement in this paper several days ago of the vast improvements to be made in the Crystal Spring Addition, and the coming sale of between 600 and 700 fine building lots in that section, the Crystal Spring Land Company, which owns the sites, has recived [sic] many inquiries from persons who wish to build new homes in that quarter."
"Last chance this afternoon. Last chance for what? Why to see the Roanoke Tigers, prospective champions of the Virginia League perform."
"This part of the city [Southeast], as well as all other sections, has been freer from sickness this season than in nay previous one."
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