July 8, 2010
Four or five years ago, Madison photographer David Spear stood in a camera store in Greensboro and harrumphed about the future of photography. He said digital photography would never offer the quality and lasting beauty of the old-fashioned black-and-whit...
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May 3, 2010
Jim Schlosser joined the Greensboro Record in 1967 and retired from the News & Record in 2008. This is his last Monday column. We would say that we’re going to miss him, except that we have no intention of letting him completely get away.
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April 26, 2010
Sometimes it takes a second blink to realize a building or house along a familiar route has vanished. That’s not happening along Spring Garden Street in west Greensboro’s Pomona community. It’s a scorched-earth situation. The huge former...
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April 19, 2010
Bill Snider bucked other classmates by calling him “Barack.”“Everyone called him Barry,” Snider says. “I didn’t. I loved the name Barack.”Thirty years ago, Snider, who now owns Simple Kneads Bakery...
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April 12, 2010
GREENSBORO — In 1941, you could stand beside the railroad tracks in rural Guilford County and commute to Winston-Salem or Greensboro. According to a 1941 Southern Railway timetable, passenger trains could be flagged down at:
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April 5, 2010
As spring shows its colors, memories of Alma Pinnix bloom. She made Greensboro more beautiful with her gift for landscaping.
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March 29, 2010
An old road that mill workers traveled before it disappeared long ago will soon carry traffic again.
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March 22, 2010
Those who sipped Coca-Colas mixed the old way with syrup and carbonated water at Fordham’s Drug Store downtown delighted in listening to the man doing the mixing, Charlie Sharpe.
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March 15, 2010
A driver passing Aycock Middle School the other day saw the past in action. The baseball team was playing on the same field used when the motorist was a student 60 years ago.The wooden bleachers looked the same. Teams still sat on planks without covering.
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March 8, 2010
SEDALIA — The old rail car stopped rolling in 1937 when it arrived on the back of a truck to be placed beside Burlington Road in this small community. It’s a fixture along the old highway. Newspaper stories and passing motorists have made it a...
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March 1, 2010
The ruins of the school stand in a grove in eastern Alamance County. Woodpeckers have pecked holes in the walls, and time and vandals have caused other damage. Still, the building can be saved — and restoration is the intention of nearby Elon Univer...
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February 22, 2010
“Don’t let anyone convince you,” warns Bill Blair Jr. of High Point, “that Sam Rice was a saint, because he wasn’t.” Blair remembers a man who talked big, hauled booze, got caught for tax evasion, gambled and didn&rsquo...
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February 15, 2010
GREENSBORO — Three years before the 1960 Woolworth sit-ins, Rodney Jaye Miller staged his own sit-down. A white man, Miller took a seat and opened a textbook in a classroom at previously all-black N.C. A&T. Unlike the four black A&T students...
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February 8, 2010
As Greensboro awaits state action on a UNCG pharmacy school, let’s be careful about using that dangerous word “first.” The school would not be a first here, just as the Elon University Law School wasn’t when it opened four years ag...
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February 1, 2010
After the International Civil Rights Museum opens today, everyone should know the who, what, where and when of the 1960 sit-ins, which took place at the old F.W. Woolworth five-and-dime store, now the museum site on South Elm Street. One lingering quest...
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January 29, 2010
That day, Monday, Feb. 1, 1960, there were no golfers at whites-only Gillespie Park Golf Course.
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January 25, 2010
Ralph Johns called himself “a humble hero,” which indicated he was anything but humble. A hero, yes. If he had only known how to keep his mouth shut, his role in the Greensboro sit-ins would be better known today.
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January 18, 2010
Channel 2 might want to rub in Vick’s VapoRub to soothe the hurt. The N.C. Highway Historical Marker Advisory Committee recently rejected — for now — a marker honoring WFMY Channel 2 as the state’s first television station to...
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January 11, 2010
Greensboro visitors to San Francisco will find in Shreve & Co.’s mahogany-walled ambience that much of what glitters really is gold. The prices and atmosphere can be intimidating, but it’s a home away from home. Just mention Arnold (Tony......
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January 4, 2010
Where’s the rush? The gold rush? In these hard times, get the lead out, grab a pick and a pan and go gold-grubbing. Beneath southern and southwestern Guilford County lies gold, awaiting excavation at the current price of about $1,000 plus an ounce.
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December 28, 2009
In the new year, the phone won’t ring at the News & Record or at the Greensboro Historical Museum with the caller announcing: “This is Old Man Lisk.”
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December 21, 2009
Here are some symbols and activities from Christmases past that should be restored to Greensboro’s Yule season:
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December 14, 2009
Jim Lutzweiler found the ideal Christmas present for himself recently far from its London origins. It’s an artifact from an organization people associate with Christmas: the Salvation Army. In the early 1900s, the organization saved and sobered up L...
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December 7, 2009
Photographer James Denmark’s photos taken here long ago are sensational and have not been seen before. If only he hadn’t been so darn skimpy with information about them.
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November 30, 2009
It would be ideal if Ron and Lisa Estes could coax former WFMY newsman Dave Wright from retirement.
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