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Looking back: June 3, 2013

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The Roanoke Times | File 1961


Opened in 1893, the Third Ward School became the Gregory Avenue School and finally the Northeast Nursery. It was torn down in the early 1960s.

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The Roanoke Times

Monday, June 3, 2013


1988 (25 years ago)

  • “If crowd reaction is any indication, Roanoke fans haven’t forgotten the rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd, even after its decade-long absence from the music scene.”
  • “Maybe 300 shouldn’t be a perfect game anymore. In fact, it almost isn’t news anymore. The Roanoke Bowling Association should raise the standard to 301. Now that would be a feat.”
  • “Roland Macher, an owner of Macado’s restaurants, was beaming Friday when he announced he had bought the 168-year-old Huntingdon property in Northeast Roanoke.”
  • “Conquer the hills, win the race. Sounds simple. But only the strong mastered the final two Jefferson Street hills on a Saturday in the Dominion Bank Festival Classic runs in downtown Roanoke.”
  • “ ‘D-day: The Invasion of Normandy,’ a half-hour documentary, comes on Channel 15 at 9 tonight. The film, which combines 31 recent local interviews with wartime combat footage, is part of a permanent exhibit at the Roanoke Valley History Museum.”
  • “This week’s state Republican Convention may excite or bore politically, but it’s bound to prove stimulating for the Roanoke Valley economy.”

1963 (50 years ago)

  • “Only 15 players have been assigned to the Salem Rebels thus far, but those 15 could apply for a branch charter of the United Nations.”
  • “An estimated 50,000 persons made Oral Roberts’ six-day stay in Roanoke what ministers describe as a ‘real success.’ ”
  • “Western Virginia District Judge Thomas Michie Monday approved Roanoke’s five-year school desegregation plan.”
  • “The Police Athletic League made it 27 straight victories in a row, defeating Elizabethton, Tenn., at National Guard Armory Monday night.”
  • “An armed bandit robbed a Roanoke branch bank of about $4,500 in cash Tuesday and eluded a widespread police search.”
  • “A new type of aerial map in which a traditional type of distortion has been eliminated is on display now at the City Health Department. … Roanoke was selected as the pilot project for the new process known as orthophotography because of the variety of terrain available locally and the contrast between urban and rural areas near the city.”
  • “The merchants of Salem will celebrate the 161st birthday of the town with a four-day Founders Festival starting at 10 a.m. today.”
  • “The lights at the driving range of Brookside Golf Club in the Boxley Hill area of Roanoke County legally ‘are not nuisances,’ Roanoke County Circuit Court Judge Fred L. Hoback has decided.”
  • “Vice Mayor Robert Garland, disturbed over recent outbreaks of juvenile delinquency in Roanoke, wants City Council to consider a law providing for the registration of firearms and other weapons.”

1938 (75 years ago)

  • “There will be no more hot lunches for children in seven city public schools because of lack of funds.”
  • “The opening of the new Camera Shop this week marks the latest step in the progress of one of Roanoke’s oldest firms, The Roanoke Photo Finishing company, a progress which has paralleled the growth of the city itself.”
  • “Louise Brown, local colored woman who held a ticket on Pound Foolish, the horse which finished in fourth place in the [Epsom] derby, was $2,650 richer yesterday.”
  • “Edward L. Stone, president of the Stone Printing and Manufacturing company, rare book collector, world traveler, lover of fine printing, civic and business leader here for more than a half a century, died in a local hospital last night at 7 o’clock.”
  • “A few rays of Dixie sunshine broke through an overcast sky long enough yesterday afternoon to smile on the unveiling of the William Watts chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, monument dedicated to 62 veterans from the ranks of the Gray now buried in Evergreen cemetery.”
  • “At long last softball came to Roanoke and a goodly number of fans shivered through the first demonstration under the arcs at Maher field last night.”
  • “Thomas Moore, 14-year-old eighth-grader at Addison high school, yesterday won his way to the championship of the colored city marbles tournament with a spectacular brand of plunking at Washington park.”
  • “Development of the Municipal airport into which the city has put approximately $200,000 including purchase price, was brought to an abrupt halt yesterday afternoon when Council, by a vote of three to two, refused to appropriate further funds for runway paving.”
  • “Jimmy Londos, a lot of Greek mashed down into not much length, downed Father Lumpkin in the main event of the weekly wrestling show at Roanoke auditorium with his famed airplane spin after Papa flung himself into the aisle on a missed flying tackle.”

1913 (100 years ago)

  • “The closing exercises for the Gainsboro and Gregory Avenue Schools, colored, were held at the First Baptist church, colored, corner Fourth avenue and Jefferson street last night at 8:30 o’clock.”
  • “Roanoke’s amusement loving people did not over look the opening of Mountain Park last night and the attendance was large.”
  • “Roanoke is the only team in the Virginia League which has won the league pennant twice.”
  • “Probably twelve thousand people witnessed the performance of Buffalo Bill and Pawnee Bill’s Wild West show yesterday afternoon.”
  • “Those who came to town to see Buffalo Bill and his Wild West contingent evidently absorbed a good portion of the spirit of the Bad Lands as well as an abundance of the spirits dispensed in wet goods emporiums of the city.”
  • “The pyrites plant on the property of the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke Company, at the East End furnaces, has started operation on a small scale.”
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