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Triad Diary

Snapshot: Danger, bears

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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Apparently, bears are nothing new to Greensboro, as this sign in the 1100 block of West Lee St. points out. The photo is undated, though I believe it was taken about a week after a June 1984 chase involving a bear near the Greensboro Coliseum. According to reports at the time, a 6-foot, 200-pound wild black bear eluded a police search party by scaling a fence, climbing a building and jumping off the roof. Police caught up with him the next day and brought him down with a tranquilizer gun.

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