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Snapshot: Piedmont Airlines

The News & Record has two main resources for old photos: A closet full of negatives and filing cabinets that hold mostly black-and-white prints. They are a gold mine for the historical, comical and just plain unusual moments in Greensboro’s history.

Each weekday in August, I’ll share a snap from the vault. There’s no rhyme or reason to the selections — they’re just photos that caught my eye. If you know more about what’s pictured, please share the details in the comments or e-mail me at michael.grossman@news-record.com.

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A Piedmont Airlines plane sits outside the Greensboro airport in 1969. During Piedmont's nearly 41 years airborne — until it disappeared into the USAir system (now US Airways) in 1989 — the airline's home base was Winston-Salem, where it grew from a tiny regional carrier with 22 daily flights to a large international airline serving the West Coast and England. More about the airline's history is online at www.jetpiedmont.com. (Photo by John Page)

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