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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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Opening day of a tobacco market in Greensboro in September 1969.

 
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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 good news for us News & Record employees: Inmates do love to read the local newspaper. Here's an October 1970 photo from inside the Guilford County jail. (Photo by Larry Tucker)

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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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 Soap box derby racing in Greensboro in July 1980.

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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 city of Greensboro uses a billboard to advertise community meetings in June 1976.

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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 King Cotton Hotel, which opened in 1927 at Market and Davie streets in downtown Greensboro, had 225 rooms and was considered one of the finest in the South. It was imploded in 1971, and the News & Record now occupies the land. The truck parked in the foreground of the photo looks a little too close for comfort. (Photo by Larry Tucker)

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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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During a game against the Greensboro Hornets in August 1984, the Gastonia team is forced from the dugout in knee-deep water. Love those old Montreal Expos uniforms. (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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Workmen bring down the first of old signs from the top of the Jefferson building in downtown Greensboro in September 1987. (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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People across the country took to the streets on Oct. 15, 1969, for Vietnam Moratorium Day to protest U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Events were held across Greensboro, including this one at the intersection of North Elm Street and South Park Drive in the Fisher Park area.

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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 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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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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"Nature Boy" Ric Flair was a regular at wrestling matches in the Greensboro Coliseum. One report on a 1976 fight between him and Dusty Rhodes referred to them as "two dancing bears." Not sure what I like more, Flair's vintage hair or the butterfly sewn onto his shorts. (Photo by Joseph Rodriguez)

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And here's one of Rhodes from March 1976 after he "stole" Flair's championship belt. (Photo by Thomas Conway)

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