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Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467145237
"A collection of little known historical stories in Roanoke, VA"--
Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439671917
The history of the Roanoke Valley during the 1940s has largely been unexplored until now. This significant decade bore witness to the birth of the local civil rights movement, the impact of World War II and the postwar boom in public projects and private development. The J-Class locomotives, Carver School, Woodrum Field, Victory Stadium, Carvins Cove, the Roanoke Star, the end of streetcars, and the advent of drive-in theaters all marked the decade. Crowds thronged to see the biggest names in radio, film and music at the American Legion Auditorium, the Academy of Music and the Roanoke Theatre, while Major League baseball and professional football brought exhibition games to Maher Field and Victory Stadium. Local historian Nelson Harris provides a detailed account of this dynamic decade along with 300 archival photographs.
Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : History Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1467155683
Drag racing at Starkey, the debut of television, mass polio vaccinations, college football games at Victory Stadium, Roanoke's Diamond Jubilee, Salem's Sesquicentennial, and Vinton's Dogwood Festival American Viscose closed, the N&W Railway switched to diesel and the General Electric plant opened. The Roanoke Valley welcomed the Children's Zoo on Mill Mountain and the Miss Virginia Pageant to Hotel Roanoke. From a new terminal at Woodrum Field to the erection of Cave Spring High School, municipal projects reflected the economic boom times. Sears Town, Miller & Rhoads, the viaduct, and a new main library altered downtown Roanoke. WDBJ and WSLS television stations went on the air, premiering local programs such as Saturday Session, Top O' the Mornin', and Uncle Looney. The nation's top entertainers performed at the American Theatre, Lakeside, and the American Legion Auditorium. The valley's arts scene produced the Roanoke Fine Arts Center, Roanoke Symphony Orchestra, and Showtimers. Minor league baseball teams played to large crowds in the stands at Maher Field, Municipal Field and Springwood Park. Black leaders campaigned for equal pay, desegregation, and neighborhood equity. By searching every edition of the Roanoke Times and the Roanoke Tribune from January 1950 through December 1959, local historian Nelson Harris documents the decade's local events in sports, business, crime, arts, entertainment, religion, civil rights, politics, individual achievements, and healthcare.
Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781625840639
How did a Roanoke neighbor's secret upend North Carolina politics and why did a weeding scandal in Big Lick make front-page headlines in New York? These questions and many more are answered in this exciting volume of hidden stories and forgotten tales from the Star City. Discover why a Roanoker was found frozen in the North Atlantic and what Mother's Day crime and trial shocked the city in 1949. Meet the Black Cardinals, a semipro African American baseball team that played in the 1930s and '40s, and find out how a fistfight at Shenandoah Life helped save the company. Author Nelson Harris delves into the annals of history to uncover these marvelous and mostly unknown stories of the Star City of the South.
Author : Reginald Shareef
Publisher : Donning Company Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004067732
Author : United States. National Park Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Bedford County (Va.)
ISBN : UOM:39015059064561
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030175798
Author : Justin Sarafin, Preservation Virginia
Publisher : Preservation Virginia
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The following compilation of Most Endangered Historic Sites listings is composed of the first two years of the program (2000 and 2002) when it was administered (bi-annually) by the Preservation Alliance of Virginia, and following the merger of that organization with Preservation Virginia in 2004, annual lists from 2005 to the present. The following updates and status reports for each listing are believed to be current as of the posting of this document in August 2014. Where available, pertinent links to news stories and reports are included to help contextualize listings but are in no way exhaustive. Each listing has also been “graded” into four categories as a quick way to reference its current status. While the particulars of each site or issue are unique and nuanced, the following four categorizations can be used to approximately characterize each listing: SAVED: The immediate threat to a resource has been overcome and is not likely to reappear in the foreseeable future LOST: The resource has been demolished or its integrity altered enough to jeopardize its register eligibility STILL ENDANGERED: The threat present at the time of listing is still active, unresolved, and/or could likely reappear in the foreseeable future WATCH LIST: The resource is not currently, actively endangered but may still face threats and should continue to be monitored
Author : Colin Bratkovich
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 938 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781483645193
I have completed this manuscript Just Remember This, or as American Pop Singers 1900-1950+, about music before the 1950s in America. It perhaps offers knowledge and insights not previously found in other musical reference books. I have moreover been working on this book very meticulously over the past twelve-plus years. It started as a bit of fun and gradually became serious as I began to listen along with the vocalists of popular music, of the era before 1950, essentially just before the dawn of rock and roll. If you can call it that! Indeed genre and labeling of American music started here, and then from everywhere. While the old adage of always starting from somewhere could be noted in every century, the 1900s had produced the technology. Understanding the necessity, more so, finds a curiosity on the part of a general public hungry for entertainment, despite 6 day work weeks, World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Court decisions and opinions
ISBN : IOWA:31858003395179
Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0738516279
Downtown Roanoke celebrates the vibrant history of a community that lies at the heart of the scenic Roanoke Valley. From the saloons and livery stables of the late 19th century to the flagship department stores that attracted hundreds of shoppers in the late 1950s, Roanoke has experienced dramatic change. Over 200 archival images have been compiled to produce a stunning collage of the downtown area over the past century. Included are the American Theater, the Rialto, the Jefferson, and the time-altered streetscapes of Jefferson, Campbell, Kirk, and Church. This collection highlights the storied past of Roanoke through hotels, hospitals, churches, merchants, and special events, including the American Legion parades, the Diamond Jubilee, and the march of the VMI and VPI cadets at Thanksgiving en route to Victory Stadium. Downtown Roanoke is a tribute to the heritage of Southwestern Virginia's leading urban center. Today it remains a metropolitan district alive with culture and commerce, having re-emerged from the challenges of shopping malls and suburbia. The photographs in this collection, many published for the first time, provide a nostalgic look at the progress of Roanoke's historic downtown corridor.
Author : Maryland. Insurance Division
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1096 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Insurance
ISBN : UIUC:30112108121168
Author : Nelson Harris
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625859709
"Since Europeans first settled along the banks of Back Creek in the 1740s, southwest Roanoke County's history has been as fluid as the creek itself. The once dense forest with log cabins gave way to the sprawling suburbs of the present. The colonial-era Trader's Path that directed Scots-Irish homesteaders, the growth of the apple industry in Bent Mountain after the Civil War, a state highway built by convicts during the Depression and Cave Spring becoming a modern commercial center have shaped the region. The changing picture of daily life in Back Creek spanning two centuries emerges in stories of one-room schoolhouses, doctors on horseback, country stores, local baseball and NASCAR races at Starkey. Local historian Nelson Harris details the eclectic history of the area." -- Page [4] of cover.
Author : Sharon Huxford,Collector Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-15
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1574323229
Packed with descriptions and current values for items readily available at flea markets or garage sales, this book contains listings for 25,000 collectables representing virtually every collectable category on today's market: old books, ornaments, toys, cookie jars, and movie memorabilia. 750 photos.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Judges
ISBN : 0837935032
