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Yesterday: When golf great Gene Sarazen played at Salisbury club

This Salisbury Post file photo from March 29, 1938, shows Gene Sarazen lining up his tee shot on ...

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Yesterday: In 1938, local houndsmen dish out some rewards

This photograph from the Salisbury Post files is dated Oct. 9, 1938. A caption pasted on its back says the following: ...

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Yesterday: In 1969, Rowan County Receiving Home provided a safe harbor for children

In this photograph published in the Salisbury Post Nov. 9, 1969, Eloise Pethel, left, walks with two children ...

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Yesterday: The Endicott Johnson fire of 1980

This photo from the Salisbury Post files shows  firemen battling the smoke and flames coming from the Endicott Johnson ...

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Yesterday: A 1970 pyramid on High Rock Lake

John Morgan, who lives at High Rock Lake, sent in this photograph of water-skiiers on High Rock Lake ...

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Yesterday: A certificate and a mystery

This is an unusual ‘Yesterday’ offering, but there’s a little bit of intrigue associated with it. Mary Sechler ...

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Yesterday: Sons of American Legion gather on Christmas Eve

Dr. Norman Ray Sloop provided this photograph showing the Sons of the American Legion gathering for a 1937 Christmas ...

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Yesterday: Rector I. Mayo Little and St. Luke’s Episcopal

This Salisbury Post file photo, published as a ‘Church of the Week’ feature on Nov. 22, 1986, shows ...

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Yesterday: A soldier pays his respects to ‘Dr. Charlie’

In this September 1945 photograph from the Post files, Cpl. Marvin Westmoreland of Enochville stands with Dr. Charles ...

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Yesterday: NSSA winners in 1962

In this photograph from the Post files, Lindsey Nelson of NBC, left, and Red Smith of the  New ...

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Andrew Jackson VI will speak in Salisbury April 12 at Historic Salisbury Foundation annual meeting

Staff report Judge Andrew Jackson VI, the great-great-great-grandson of the seventh president of the United States, will be ...

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Yesterday: China Grove Cotton Mill’s 1940 softball team

Sara A. Hill provided this photograph of the softball team fielded by China Grove Cotton Mill in 1940. ...

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Yesterday: Ready for a road trip

Dorothy Kirk has provided several ‘Yesterday’ photographs to the Post. Two of the previous photos were connected to her grandfather, ...

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Yesterday: A new Cheerwine delivery truck ready for product

Here’s a photograph — the exact year is not know — of a new Cheerwine delivery truck, ready to be ...

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Yesterday: The days of A.T. Allen School

Margaret Thompson-Shumate of Salisbury provided these photographs related to A.T. Allen Elementary School, once located at the corner ...

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Yesterday: In 1914, a young man with a bowl haircut

Dorothy Kirk provided this photograph, which includes her late grandfather, A.B.C. “Chubby” Kirk Sr., who over his long ...

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Yesterday: The billowing black smoke of Mikado 4501

This photograph from the Salisbury Post files was taken in July 1985 and shows the billowing black smoke ...

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Yesterday: When Dr. Martin Luther King Sr. visited Salisbury

This photograph from the Salisbury Post files shows Dr. Martin Luther King Sr., father of famed civil rights ...

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Yesterday: In 1939, a new Salisbury radio station hits the airwaves

Emil Sparger of Spencer wanted us to see the front page of the Jan. 2, 1939, edition of the ...

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Yesterday: When brothers were sailors

Jack Swicegood provided these two photographs to the Post. On the left, in a picture made in the ...

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Yesterday: Cannon Mills’ No. 7 Spinning Room employees in 1928

Back on Nov. 21, the Post ran a photograph of people who worked in the No. 7 Weave ...

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Yesterday: An aerial view of N.C. Finishing Co.

This photograph has run as a ‘Yesterday” contribution in the past, but it’s good to remember. The Rev. ...

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Yesterday: Pearl Harbor, the day after

David Harrison of Salisbury has a collection of old newspapers, including a Dec. 8, 1941, edition of the ...

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Yesterday: A look back at Spencer’s downtown park

Talk has surfaced recently about creating a ‘Central Park’ in downtown Salisbury, but the town of Spencer had ...

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Yesterday: a Cannon Mills Weave Room in 1928

Mary Sechler provided this photograph of people who worked in a weave room at Cannon Mills Co. on ...

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Yesterday: ’49 team christens new stadium at Boyden High

This photograph, provided by Rodney Calloway, might be familiar to many Boyden High School (now Salisbury High) alumni. ...

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Yesterday: College roomies shop in downtown Salisbury

Nancy Graham Corriher submitted this photograph of her mother, the late Pauline E. Graham, and her mother’s college ...

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Yesterday: Ketner’s Supermarkets team in the early 1950s

Tommy Eller and Ronnie Smith provided this photograph and helped in identifying the management team from Ketner’s Supermarkets ...

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