Monday, November 02, 2009
Looking back: Nov. 2, 2009
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The Roanoke Times
File 1984 Botetourt's Tinker Mill had been a mill, an antiques shop, a dinner theater and a restaurant before it was sold in 1984. The mill was built in 1847.
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1999 (10 years ago)
n "He doesn't wear a long, brass-buttoned coat or a sharp looking hat, and he doesn't get paid for his services, but J. Melvin Bradley may be downtown Roanoke's only doorman. ... Bradley, who has been acting as a voluntary doorman [at the post office] for at least a year, said he does it just to help people out -- especially elderly customers or people with large packages."
n "No one, not even William Fleming football coach George Miller, dreamed the Colonels would have one of Timesland's most potent passing attacks."
n "Former Roanoke mayor Noel Taylor, who grew up in a rural community in Bedford County, was buried Friday near the edge of a field on the family farm where he worked and played as a youngster. ... The funeral procession, escorted by Roanoke police motorcycles, stretched more than two miles and took an hour to make the trip."
1984 (25 years ago)
n "Halloween pranksters were up to their old tricks, and some new ones, making Wednesday night no treat for the Southwest Virginia police dispatchers who dealt with the resulting complaints."
n "The circulation of video cassettes at the Roanoke Public Library continues to be a booming business."
n "If any deer, turkeys, communists or other popular targets had wandered into the Roanoke Civic Center Saturday, the sight would have terrified them." The Metrolina Guns and Militaria Collectors Show was at the civic center.
n "Botetourt County's historic Tinker Mill was sold at auction Saturday for $63,900 to A&E Investment Properties."
n "Towers Shopping Center in Roanoke has been sold to a group of Chicago investors for $9.1 million."
1959 (50 years ago)
n "With his hand on a Bible that will become the treasure of his nine-month-old grandson, Ted Dalton took his oath as a U. S. district court judge in Roanoke Saturday."
n Two Roanokers were on the Piedmont Airlines plane that crashed near Charlottesville. Only one passenger survived.
n "In addition to being perhaps the tallest painter in the state of Virginia, Lewis Thompson, of the art department of Hollins College, is one of the most deliberate."
n "The Aristocrats, Salem's newest high school fraternity, met Sunday to elect officers for the coming year."
n "VMI's undefeated freshman team, which has rolled over four straight opponents, will toss away its record book Saturday when it collides with Virginia Tech freshmen in the 9th annual Shrine Bowl classic at Victory Stadium."
n "Roanoke's proposed 1960 budget is bigger and more out of balance than ever."
n "If City Council is willing, the city will start using a couple of dogs for police work at night."
n "They've done it again. Those talented youngsters in the William Fleming dramatics department have presented another top evening of entertainment."
1934 (75 years ago)
n "An inventory of the city's status from a property standpoint today indicated to police that Roanoke's 1934 Halloween celebration was perhaps quieter than usual."
n "A party of 65 men of the United States coastal and geodetic survey are spending a few weeks in Roanoke county establishing markers of latitude and longitude."
n "An investment of $3,085.17 in subsistence gardens in Roanoke county during the past season brought an estimated return of $14,640.65 to the needy of the county."
n "Jefferson high school catapulted into the forefront of the State class A championship race with a spectacular 8-0 victory over Glass high."
n "The two leading high schools of Roanoke county, Andrew Lewis of Salem, and William Byrd of Vinton, will heal a three-year rift a week from today at Salem when they clash on the gridiron."
n "A teacher of history at a local school asked her pupils to name some of the world's major religions. Among the 'religions' listed by one pupil were barbarism and patriotism."
n "Roanoke's popular 'New Dealer,' Clifton A. Woodrum, was returned to the House of Representatives for his seven consecutive term by voters of the sixth Virginia district yesterday."
1909 (100 years ago)
n "Randolph-Macon Academy defeated Roanoke High School by the score of 49 to 0 at Bedford City Saturday."
n " 'Realizing the danger in the use of the public drinking cup, the management of the Norfolk and Western Railway Company has recently installed in each of the coaches employed in the service devices from which individual drinking cups may be secured by all passengers on the penny-in-the-slot plan.' "
n "There is a fire on Mill Mountain, and it has already done a great deal of damage."
n "W. E. Greenwood, Organ Builder of New York, is in this city repairing during this week the Greene-Memorial organ."
n "Forest fires are raging in Roanoke county to such an extent that the loss of many thousands of dollars will be entailed on the parties in the vicinity the fire has reached."
