Local

Yesterday: New officers of Salisbury Jaycees in 1974

This photograph was published in the May 6, 1974, edition of the Salisbury Evening Post, and it shows ...

News

Yesterday: In 1993, construction underway on new Justice Center

This photograph, taken from North Church Street, appeared in the Salisbury Post Feb. 20, 1993, and it shows ...

Local

Yesterday: A fifth-grade class at A.T. Allen School in 1957

Bob McCulley, who now lives in Jacksonville, Fla., sent this photo of Mrs. Hood’s fifth-grade class at Salisbury’s ...

Local

Yesterday: The original Hendrix Barbecue spot in the early 1950s

Tommy Kepley provided this early 1950s photograph, taken from the front seat of a car, showing the first ...

News

Yesterday: Southern Railway ‘Brothers of the Brush’ from 1953

Thomas McCora provided this photograph to the Post. It belonged to Pat McCora, his grandfather, who after his ...

Local

Yesterday: Salisbury’s Sons of Legion in 1938

Marlene Spencer found this photograph among items belonging to her late husband, Dr. Allen Spencer. It shows Salisbury’s Sons of ...

Local

Yesterday: Kids at Faith School present an operetta in 1938

Verne McCombs furnished this 1938 newspaper clipping from the Salisbury Evening Post showing the primary grade students from Faith School ...

Business

Yesterday: In 1978, first Cannon Mills plant is empty, ready to be torn down

In this photograph published in the Salisbury Post Sept. 12, 1978, Spinning Supervisor Leonard Kiser stands in an ...

Local

Yesterday: Men from Rowan County played for Naval Training Station in 1942

Carlos Euart, who lives in Faith, shared this photograph showing members of the aviation ordnance football team, which ...

Local

Yesterday: A new Holiday Inn in Salisbury opens June 20, 1988

Here is an aerial photograph taken of Salisbury’s Holiday Inn close to the day of its opening on June ...

Local

Yesterday: Production begins Jan. 3, 1983, at the Philip Morris cigarette plant in Concord

In this photograph from Jan. 3, 1983,  General Manager Newton Fowler holds newly made cigarettes and explains how ...

Local

Yesterday: Hugo hits Rowan County Sept. 22, 1989

This photograph shows a vehicle trying to maneuver past a broken tree and precarious power lines on the ...

Faith

Yesterday: The boys of summer in Faith during the early 1940s

Buddy Barger provided this photograph showing the guys who played for the town of Faith’s baseball team in ...

Local

Yesterday: First football team at Granite Quarry High School

Buddy Barger provided this 1951 photograph depicting the first football team at Granite Quarry High School. That’s Barger ...

Education

Yesterday: A student-teacher-parent conference in 1954

Since the start of school already is happening or is just around the corner, it seems a good time ...

Local

Yesterday: A birthday party for Mrs. Gheen in 1954

Gene Mitchell provided this photograph to the Post. It was taken at Mrs. W.B. Gheen’s 81st birthday party at ...

Local

Yesterday: a tour of the Woodleaf quarry in 1989

In early May 1989, personnel with Martin-Marietta offered close to 250 customers, neighbors and local officials a lunch and ...

Local

Yesterday: Gheen Bridge on Salisbury-Woodleaf Road

A Salisbury Post article published Dec. 31, 1949, called this the ‘Bridge of Contention.’ The Gheen Bridge, described ...

Local

Yesterday: When the downtown cruising law went into effect

Believe it or not, it has been 30 years since cruising was a major downtown issue, and this ...

News

Yesterday: A 1953 photo of Salisbury Hardware and Furniture Co.

Melissa Eller provided this photograph to the Salisbury Post because William Vance Eller is pictured with other employees ...

News

Yesterday: When W.W. Hahn’s plane was ‘shot down’ in 1950

Delores Hahn Heyd of Tega Cay, S.C., provided this copy of a Salisbury Post photograph from Feb. 20, 1950. ...

News

Yesterday: Around the roundtable with the Class of 1928

Clyde, of Salisbury, provided this nicely done presentation of the Spencer High Class of 1928. Though the print ...

News

Yesterday: The ‘Spencerian’ newspaper staff in 1926

The Spencer High School newspaper in 1926 was called the ‘Spencerian’ and above is a photograph of the ...

News

Yesterday: 1928 Spencer High School basketball team

With the 2017 National Basketball Association finals fresh in our minds, Clyde provided this photograph of the 1928 ...

News

Yesterday: The 1939 commencement invitation for J.C. Price High

Above are elements of the June 2, 1939, invitation to commencement exercises at J.C. Price High School in Salisbury. ...

Local

Yesterday: Headlines announce victory in Europe

This ‘Victory’ edition of the Salisbury Evening Post on May 7, 1945 (a Monday) announces the end of ...

Local

Yesterday: An aerial view of the Catawba College campus in 1974

This photograph from the Salisbury Post files gives an aerial view of the Catawba College campus in October ...

Local

Yesterday: a Catawba College archery team in 1937

This Salisbury Post file photo from April 18, 1937, shows women of the Catawba College archery team taking ...

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