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Courtesy of James W. Michael Jr.

This photo, taken about 1925, shows Michael's Bakery at 317 Market St. S.E. in downtown Roanoke. Walter Michael started the business in 1906, and the Market Street site was the bakery's third location. Michael's moved to Williamson Road in 1950 and operated there until it closed in 1986.

2000 (10 years ago)

-- "Looking out the window Sunday afternoon told the story, no matter where you were. Snow fell. Sleet fell. More snow fell. More sleet fell. It grew monotonous, especially as not much -- save a few accidents on Interstate 81-- seemed to be going on throughout the day."

-- "Four Roanoke Valley events will be part of the Library of Congress' 'Local Legacies' project this year, recognizing cultural events throughout the country. Roanoke Festival in the Park, Roanoke's Local Colors, the Roanoke Valley Horse Show, and the Bells of Fincastle will be included in the project, which is part of the Library of Congress' bicentennial celebration."

1985 (25 years ago)

-- "Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver and the Seldom Scene headline the weekend's lineup of bluegrass attractions at Roanoke's Iroquois Club on Salem Avenue Southwest."

-- "It happened too late to save Madeline Adams Tate, but Roanoke housing and health inspectors have condemned the rented shack in which the 76-year-old woman froze to death during the record cold last week."

-- "The opening weekend of the Roanoke Comedy Club appears to be a complete success."

-- "The indoor 'mud bog,' newest form of off-road competition, will be introduced to the Roanoke Valley with a championship bog at the Salem Civic Center, Feb. 15-17."

1960 (50 years ago)

-- "A blue-eyed brunette, 17-year-old Cheryn Lee Coller of Roanoke, last night became Virginia's first Junior Miss."

-- "The Roberto Iglesias Spanish Ballet, first dancing group to perform in Roanoke in years, will be presented by the Thursday Morning Music Club Saturday night."

-- "Forty dogs are sharing quarters at the Roanoke Dog Pound, described by Jack Nichols, city dog catcher, as 'the nicest pound in the state.' "

-- "Attorney Ben M. Richardson was appointed bankruptcy trustee for Lemarco Manufacturing Co."

-- "Influenza's winter-long grip on Roanoke may be weakening, school and health officials reported today."

-- "Roanoke County will build five new elementary schools costing $1,300,000 without increasing taxes."

1935 (75 years ago)

-- "When Mrs. S. A. Ward died last night at 9:30 at the home of one of her daughters ... she left behind 134 descendants -- or more than one for every one of her 95 years."

-- "Faculties of William Byrd and Andrew Lewis high schools plan to shed their cloaks of dignity long enough Saturday night to muster two basket ball teams, who will battle for a new Roanoke county championship at Vinton."

-- "Orders to clear the entrances to the City market building of loiterers, particularly on Saturday night, were given police today."

-- "The city school board at its meeting last night received petitions for the erection of a junior high school in the Northwest and for a small school in the Riverland road S. E., vicinity."

-- "Police have been asked by City Manager W. P. Hunter to investigate the presence of children under 18 years of age in pool rooms."

-- "The class of 1935 at William Byrd high school, Vinton, began yesterday to receive the first rings a class at the school has had."

-- "Twenty-five mules, representing the first shipment of livestock for rehabilitation farms in this area, arrived in Roanoke yesterday from Atlanta, Ga."

-- "The Red Cross emblem painted on the roof of each of three cottages located on the county farm just west of Salem in the Fort Lewis neighborhood, has been attracting much attention lately. These emblems identify the cottages as units of Mercy House."

-- "Gripped by the spectacle of surging smoke and red flame pouring from the roof of the N. W. Pugh company building, Roanoke turned out in unprecedented numbers for such a startling occasion to witness the battle between the fire demon and men who fought almost superhumanly to save the city, yesterday afternoon."

-- "Roanoke College leather pushers will have no more opportunity to display their prowess this season, authorities at the college having announced the discontinuance of the sport for the remainder of the current season."

1910 (100 years ago)

-- "One of the early games of the coming preliminary baseball season in Roanoke will be with the second team of the New York Nationals."

-- "Thursday evening of this week at 8:15 o'clock, Mr. Tali Esen Morgan, of New York City, who is considered one of the foremost chorus conductors in this country, will come to Roanoke for the purpose of meeting the music loving people of this city."

-- "Mayor Cutchin has instructed the police to be more watchful in cases of persons arrested for drunkenness, with a view to ascertaining where the liquor was secured which results in intoxication."

-- "No new cases of scarlet fever have developed at Hollins Institute since that of Miss Roberts last week."

-- "After being a bachelor for sixty and odd years, Mr. Jacob W. Funkhouser, assistant manager of the Ponce de Leon hotel, last Sunday decided to end his days of lonesomeness and take unto himself a bride to cheer his life."

-- "A force of men is busily engaged installing the large crusher at the Catawba mines of the Cooper Silica and Glass Co."

-- "The Shank Milling Co., Inc., yesterday put their new flour and corn mill [in Salem] into operation."

-- "A new novel musical feature will be introduced at the Amuzu this week ... A large $200 Victrola singing machine will reproduce music and song by the most noted singers of the world."