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Well, August ended and I still have a manilla folder filled with photos from the News & Record archives that I didn't get to use in the Snapshot column. So I'm going to press on, posting them periodically here at Triad Diary. As I said last month, there’s no rhyme or reason to the selections — they’re just photos that we have on file and caught my eye.

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A plane makes a safe emergency landing with one of its wheels stuck at Piedmont Triad International Airport. The year of the photo is not known. (Photo by Rob Brown)

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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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This black bear was spotted around the North Elm Street area near Moses Cone Hospital for several weeks in 1992 before it was finally tranquilized by animal control officers and captured. (Photo by H. Scott Hoffmann)

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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 pair of streakers on the UNCG campus in March 1974. The rally was said to have included 258 streakers — students and nonstudents — and about 2,000 people watching. (Photo by William Hunt)

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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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Looking north up Davie Street, firefighters pour water from a ladder truck onto a building near Washington Street following a fire in downtown Greensboro in April 1985. The fire engulfed a two-block area of Davie Street. (Photo by John Page)

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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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Greensboro and High Point, which once had more than 20 trains a day passing through, went down to one passenger train a day when Southern Railway discontinued The Piedmont after Thanksgiving 1976. The only passenger service left then was The Crescent, which came through the two cities at night. Here, people gather in Greensboro for The Piedmont's final arrival. (Photo by Joseph Rodriguez)

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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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 The downtown Greensboro skyline in March 1984. (Photo by Jimmie Jeffries)

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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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 Christmas decorations are put up in downtown Greensboro in November 1970. (Photo by Jimmie Jeffries)

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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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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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 Woodmere Park in January 1968.

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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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 This image caught my eye — it's not every day you see a house rolling through downtown Greensboro with a bunch of guys on the roof. There was no date on the back of the image. (Photo by John Page)

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