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Yesterday: The last class to graduate from East Spencer High

Phoebe Taylor Nunn provided this photograph of the East Spencer High School Class of 1958, which was the ...

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Yesterday: The sales staff at Efird’s Department Store in Salisbury

Gene Graham provided this interior photograph of Efird’s Department Store, which once operated at 226 S. Main St. ...

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Yesterday: The service department at McCanless Motors

Dan and Denise Foutz supplied this photograph to the Post. Dan’s father, Worth Foutz, is kneeling on the ...

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Yesterday: A turn-of-the-century scene from Gold Hill

Sherry Welch of Indian Trail shared this photograph with the Post during a recent visit to Gold Hill ...

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Yesterday: The Grove Theatre in China Grove in 1949

Bobby Mault provided to the Post this copy of a photograph showing the Grove Theatre in China Grove ...

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Yesterday: Spencer friends gather for Christmas party in 1956

Cary Grant  provided this photograph, believed to be taken at a Christmas party in 1956, of members of the ...

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Yesterday: Rowan County Sheriff’s Department, 1970

Fred Trammell of Kannapolis provided this photograph of members of the Salisbury office of the Rowan County Sheriff’s Department ...

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Yesterday: Men of New Hope AME Zion Church in 1963

This photograph, labeled “Men of New Hope, June 10, 1963,” was discovered recently during a cleaning of offices at ...

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Yesterday: A Boyden High homecoming parade in 1945

This photograph from the 1946 Boyden High School yearbook, ‘The Echo,’ is not of the highest quality, but ...

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Yesterday: Boyden High’s 1946 senior class officers

Someone delivered to the Post a copy of the 1946 ‘Echo,’ the yearbook for Boyden High School in Salisbury. ...

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Yesterday: The day after Elvis died

Over the decades, David Harrison of Salisbury has kept the newspapers documenting significant events in U.S. history, and his collection ...

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Yesterday: First-graders at Henderson School in 1934

Sally Sedberry Helms provided this photograph to the Post. It shows her first-grade class at Henderson School in 1934. ...

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Yesterday: Class of 1956 at Spencer High School

The Salisbury Post took this photo, dated May 23, 1956, of the Class of 1956 at Spencer High ...

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Yesterday: When Enola Gay crew members gathered in Mocksville in 1991

David Harrison submitted this photograph he took in Mocksville on May 27, 1991, when several hundred Davie Countians ...

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Yesterday: In 1993, Red Cross’ Elizabeth Dole surveys Midwest flood damage

In this photograph from August 1993, Salisbury native Elizabeth Hanford Dole, who served as national president for the ...

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Yesterday: ‘They’re Keeping Red Cross by Daddy’s Side’

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the American Red Cross in Salisbury and Rowan County. The local office, ...

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Yesterday: Red Cross volunteers during World War I

Historian Betty Dan Spencer provided this photograph of Red Cross volunteers gathered in the yard of Mrs. E.R. ...

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Yesterday: Chubby Kirk’s bus and taxi service

This is a photograph of some early nine-passenger buses, maybe 1923 Studebakers, that were operated out of Salisbury ...

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Yesterday: J.C. Price High’s homecoming queen, court for 1947-48

Not every person is identified in this photograph, but that’s Dorothy Howard, in the middle whose classmates chose ...

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Yesterday: W.T. Grant Co. employees don their bicentennial garb

This is a photograph submitted to the Post by Joe Williams. His mother, Lorraine Williams, is wearing a vest ...

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Yesterday: Sacred Heart School students take to the stage in 1948

Joe Williams submitted this 1948 photograph of Sacred Heart Catholic School students, dressed in their costumes for several school ...

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Yesterday: the last days of the Bates Hotel

This Salisbury Post file photo from late January or early February 1980 shows a small crowd watching the ...

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Yesterday: A passenger train derailment in 1977

This photograph from the Salisbury Post files offers an aerial view of a passenger train derailment that injured ...

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Yesterday: Kindergarten actors from 1933

Ann Coggin provided this photograph from May 31, 1933, of the second-year kindergarten glass of Agnes Weant and ...

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Yesterday: ‘Sandwich girls’ from 1936

Steve Arey says he was going through old newspapers that his  parents had saved and he found a clipping ...

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Yesterday: Students from Frank B. John School in 52-53

Steve Arey provided these two photographs. The picture at top is the third-grade class at Frank B. John ...

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Correction

In Monday’s edition, the “Yesterday” photo incorrectly identified Fred Rufty, who was behind the counter at O.O Rufty’s General Store ...

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Yesterday: O.O. Rufty’s General Store in 1990

In this July 1990 photograph from the Salisbury Post files, Fred Rufty and Laura Reed work behind the counter ...

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