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Yesterday: In 1961, Distributive Education luau celebrates high school student employers with luau

Margaret Thompson-Shumate of Salisbury provided this photograph taken in 1961 at the Salisbury Elks Club on South Main ...

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Yesterday: Who is this intriguing woman?

Barbara Wagoner of Salisbury would like to know who the intriguing woman in this photograph might be. It ...

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Yesterday: 1947 Landis High baseball team won county, regional, state crowns

Loyd Hill of Salisbury provided this photograph of the 1947 baseball team of Landis High School, which won ...

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Week in review: Test Your nose for local news

1. While he first expressed on Twitter that it would be a shame for the Kannapolis minor league ...

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Yesterday: In 1973, some weekly specials from Mr. Max

Don’t be fooled: These are not modern-day prices. Rather, they were some weekly specials offered in 1973 at ...

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Yesterday: Hanging out with some kids next to Berlin Wall

Retired military officer and chaplain Fleming Otey of Salisbury submitted this photograph to the Salisbury Post. He thinks ...

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Yesterday: In 1978, Rockwell Christian Church’s singing Christmas tree at Catawba College

Margaret Thompson-Shumate uncovered this photograph in a box of hundreds of recipes and newspaper clippings that were collected ...

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Yesterday: East Spencer High’s baseball team in 1953

Jack ‘Joe’ Poole provided this photograph of East Spencer High School’s baseball team in 1953. Poole was a ...

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Yesterday: World War I inductees prepare to leave Salisbury

Today is Veterans Day, and it also happens to be the 100th anniversary of the end of World ...

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Yesterday: An aerial view of Roses, Rowan Mall in 1974

This Salisbury Post file photograph shows a 1974 aerial view of the Rose’s store at the Rowan Mall ...

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Forum looks at issues confronting children in Rowan County

By Mark Wineka mark.wineka@salisburypost.com SALISBURY — Here are some of the sobering statistics: • About one in four ...

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Yesterday: Woodleaf School, Class of 1945

This photograph, tucked away in the Salisbury Post files. shows graduating seniors of the Class of 1945 at ...

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Yesterday: the Rice and Ratledge Flour Mill in 1974

This is a circa 1974 Salisbury Post file photograph of the Rice and Ratledge Flour Mill in Woodleaf. ...

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Yesterday: Woodleaf’s ‘picturesque’ post office in 1968

This photograph in the Salisbury Post files is dated Nov. 28, 1968, and it shows children entering the ...

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Yesterday: Earl Ruth visits with President Nixon in 1969

This photograph was tucked away in the Salisbury Post files related to the late Congressman Earl Ruth. It’s ...

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Yesterday: Finishing plant, Yadkin Mill Village circa 1968

Marlene Kepley provided this aerial photograph of the N.C. Finishing Co. plant and a portion of the Yadkin ...

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Yesterday: Old Stone House and the difference 100 years can make

  Rowan Museum Inc., owners of the Old Stone House in Granite Quarry, provided these contrasting photos of ...

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Yesterday: Local Republicans visit with Sen. John McCain in 2002

With the recent passing of U.S. Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz, Terry Osborne, general manager of of the Rowan-Kannapolis ...

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Yesterday: A scene from ‘Foxfire’ in 1991

This photograph from the Salisbury Post archives shows a Piedmont Players scene between Francis Cook, left, and Lou ...

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Yesterday: In 1991, Davie County pays tribute to Tom Ferebee

In this Memorial Day (May 27) 1991 photograph from the Salisbury Post files, retired Col. Tom Ferebee stands ...

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Yesterday: a little girl’s birthday party in the 1950s

Edith Folger Julian sent in this photo, which she thinks was taken in 1952. It shows children gathered ...

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Yesterday: Members of the 1955 Boyden High basketball team

Charles Sowers of Salisbury provided these photos of Boyden High School’s ‘Durable Five’ from the 1955 basketball team. ...

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Yesterday: The opening of Salisbury’s first Walmart in 1990

The South Rowan High ROTC presented the colors Dec. 3, 1990, at the grand opening of Salisbury’s first ...

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Yesterday: A student trains at the VA hospital in 1978

This Oct. 9, 1978, photograph appeared in the Post’s Salisbury VA Medical Center Edition, marking the hospital’s 25th ...

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Yesterday: Dunbar High’s women’s basketball team in 1947-48

After seeing a photograph of the men’s 1947-48 basketball team from Dunbar High School, Jewell Witherspoon Holland wanted ...

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Yesterday: R.A. Clement High School Class of 1968

The R.A. Clement High School Alumni Association held it biennial reunion this past weekend, which also coincided with ...

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Yesterday: Dunbar High’s 1947-48 basketball team

Wayne Woodruff, a collector of old photographs, furnished this picture of East Spencer’s Dunbar High School basketball team ...

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Yesterday: Livingstone’s record-setting relay team in 1978

Henry ‘Ricardo’ Smith, who just recently moved back to Salisbury from Virginia, brought this old newspaper clipping by ...

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