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Yesterday: A ‘Gem’ of a movie theater

In this Salisbury Post file photo from May 1991, taken by Wayne Hinshaw, longtime manager Clyde Scarboro stands ...

Local

Yesterday: Salisbury’s All-America City bid in 1962

Joan Palmer provided this photograph to the Post. It shows her father, Hank Palmer, speaking at the microphone ...

Local

Yesterday: N.C. Finishing Co. execs in 1954

Executives of the N.C. Finishing Co. are shown in this Salisbury Post file photograph from 1954. From left, they ...

Local

Yesterday: In 1987, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the U.S. Constitution

In this photograph from 1987, from left, Dick Messinger, Dr. John Wear and Edward H. Clement stand in front ...

Local

Yesterday: In 1989, a monumental fire at Salisbury Marble and Granite Co.

This photo from the Post files shows the Jan. 18, 1989, fire that destroyed the manufacturing facility, costly ...

Local

Yesterday: Ordination service at Bishop Jones’ home

This photograph, provided by local historian Reginald Brown, appeared in the July 1973 third edition of “The Strength ...

Local

Yesterday: In 1988, Bob Dole’s first run for president

A good-sized crowd mobbed Republican presidential candidate Bob Dole and his wife, Salisbury native Elizabeth Dole (right), when ...

Local

Black History Month: a mix of photographs from the past

Reginald Brown, a local historian, supplied these three noteworthy photographs to the Post. He identified one of the ...

Local

Yesterday: A family moves into the new Lincoln Apartments

In this Salisbury Post photograph published Jan. 5, 1969, Dora King and her 3-year-old son, one of her ...

Local

Yesterday: AME Zion Board of Bishops

Reginald Brown, an archivist for Livingstone College, provided this photograph of the 1904 Board of Bishops for the ...

Local

Yesterday: Going through the drills at Livingstone College

Reginald Brown, an archivist for Livingstone College, provided this photograph, which appeared in a 1911-1912 college catalog. It ...

Local

Yesterday: a bicycle built for four

Mike Cline sent in this newspaper clipping from the Oct. 16, 1965, edition of the Salisbury Evening Post. ...

Business

Wineka column: Hank and Petie Palmer anchored chamber office in crucial time for Salisbury-Rowan

SALISBURY —  When Hank Palmer headed the Salisbury-Rowan Chamber of Commerce and his wife, Petie, served as secretary, it ...

News

Yesterday: In 1982, a visit with retired Senator Sam in Morganton

A Post reporter and photographer made a visit in March 1982 to the Morganton law office of retired ...

News

Yesterday: In 1979, East Fisher Street bridge’s ‘Unofficial Unopening’

In this Salisbury Post file photograph from July 11, 1979, Naomi Cowan is shown walking across the East ...

News

Yesterday: Gas lines in the 1970s

Motorists are currently enjoying low gas prices, but back in the 1970s, cars lined up waiting to purchase ...

News

Yesterday: 1990 Holiday Caravan

Brent Hunter, 5, stands to watch East Rowan’s marching band, along with Michelle and Robert Hunter of China ...

Local

Yesterday: Cleveland High Basketball team in the 1930s

Kathy Graham Pulliam provided this photograph of the Cleveland High School basketball team from some period in the ...

Local

Yesterday: Construction progress on the ‘high-rise’ prison in 1978

This Salisbury Post file photograph from May 1978 shows the construction progress on the $13.9 million, 10-story Piedmont ...

Local

Yesterday: In 1991, bookmobile gets back on the road

In this Salisbury Post file photo, Chip Short, chairman of the Rowan Public Library Board of Trustees, addresses a ...

Local

Yesterday: In 1944, when Harry Welch Sr. slugged it out with Joe Louis

This is a photograph the Post has published before, but it’s worth repeating. Wayne Kennerly saw it recently ...

Local

Yesterday: Gemayel’s Barber Shop in Spencer

Dean Shore submitted this photograph of  Gemayel’s Barber Shop in Spencer, and he thinks it was taken sometime in the ...

Wineka

Yesterday: some 1930s work on West Innes Street

This photograph, on loan from the Rowan Museum, documents some work happening in the 100 block of West ...

News

Yesterday: a West Innes Street parade in the 1930s

This photograph, on loan from the Rowan Museum, give’s a bird’s-eye view of some kind of parade going ...

Local

Military vehicle convoy is retracing the 1920 Bankhead Highway route

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SPENCER — For the past seven weeks, Dan and Sabra Seaborg have been living ...

Local

Yesterday: Sacred Heart School’s first grade in 1947

Joe Williams of eastern Rowan County provided this photograph of the first grade at Sacred Heart Catholic School ...

Local

Yesterday: a Rowan County connection to Utah

Joe Williams, who lives between Granite Quarry and Faith,brought in this photograph from a family album that once ...

Wineka

Yesterday: Construction of a ‘second Renaissance revival skyscraper’

Construction on The Plaza, the tall, city-owned building on the Square in Salisbury, started in 1909 and was ...

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