Monday, October 26, 2009
Looking Back: Oct. 26, 2009
The Roanoke Times
File 1959 The new Temple Emanuel was dedicated Oct. 30 to Nov. 1, 1959. The building, at Persinger Road and Brambleton Avenue, replaced the old one on McClanahan Street, which the congregation occupied in 1937.
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1999 (10 years ago)
"Twenty-five years ago, the Bradley Free Clinic, which has received national recognition for its success, opened its doors with the help of six volunteers."
"Darlene L. Burcham was hired by a divided City Council Monday to be Roanoke's first female city manager."
"The Rev. Noel Calvin Taylor, who arrived in a segregated Roanoke in 1961 and 14 years later was its first black mayor, died Friday at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital. He was 75."
1984 (25 years ago)
"Today, digital audio. Tomorrow, credit card scanners, libraries at one's fingertips, the world. Compact disc players may only be the first step in what John Cosgrove, sales manager for Lee Hartman and Sons, calls a digital revolution."
"A Florida company plans to build a retirement center on the downtown Roanoke site of the Coulter building."
1959 (50 years ago)
"Additional 'policemen' will be on duty Saturday night to pull rein on any Roanoke youngsters who happen to display an over-abundance of Halloween spirit."
"With five applicants for every available job, the leading department stores in Roanoke have started selecting part time employes to handle the coming Christmas rush."
"Complete replacement of Jefferson and Lewis-Gale Hospitals with a 400-bed, $8 million community hospital was recommended yesterday in a report to the boards of both hospitals."
"Two Roanoke men -- David Wood Findlay and L. Williams Peake -- were aboard the missing Piedmont airliner believed crashed near Charlottesville."
1934 (75 years ago)
"The rambling Roanoke College Maroons rambled away from Salem again this morning with their eyes on Williamsburg as today's goal and the College of William and Mary's goal-line as tomorrow's."
"The Laundry Routemen's Social club was formed at a meeting held last night at the Ideal Laundry."
"Seventy-five extra men will be employed as special officers and the entire police department will be on duty Wednesday night to preserve order during the Halloween celebration."
1909 (100 years ago)
"The Breckinridge home, one of the most attractive and one of the most costly homes in Botetourt county, was entirely destroyed by fire Sunday morning."
"Announcement is made today that the Campbell avenue station of the Norfolk and Western Railroad, what is known as the old Roanoke and Southern depot, will be opened again tomorrow morning."
"Roanoke will have the pleasure of entertaining this afternoon and tonight the party of automobile tourists who are participating in the endurance run over the national highway between New York and Atlanta."
"Hammering of the kind that attracted attention to the work being done on the new First National Bank building, at the corner of Jefferson street and Salem avenue, has been finished."
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