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Time Travel: City Lions Club Members Helping Needy in 1950s and Salem High School's 1934 Hoops Team

Posted on December 25, 2022

The Bridgeport Lions Club has been doing good deeds in the city for decades, and this photo from the 1950s on the cor...

Time Travel: Businesses on Bridgeport Hill from 1987 and a Harman Store in Randolph County in 1910

Posted on December 18, 2022

This photo is from 1987 and, as you can see, plenty has changed on the business front in the last 35 years. Only McDo...

Time Travel: Bridgeport Junior High Football in 1987 and a Parade in Wheeling Dating Back to Late 1890s

Posted on December 11, 2022

See anyone you know in this photo? It is a picture of the 1987 Bridgeport Junior High School football team and one of...

Time Travel: Simpson Elementary Aerial 1964 Photo and Frank Loria, Pete Secret on College Football Field

Posted on December 04, 2022

This photo is believed to be from February of 1964 and is an aerial shot showing Simpson Elementary School in the for...

Time Travel: The "Old" Bridgeport Dairy Queen and a Visit to West Virginia from Jack Dempsey in 1932

Posted on November 27, 2022

Who remembers when the Dairy Queen was located on the opposite side of Main Street? This is before it became the Brid...

Time Travel: BHS 2008 Girls State Swim Champions and an Old Harrison County Auto Wrecking Business

Posted on November 20, 2022

Bridgeport has had a long history of successful swimming teams and 2008 was not the exception. The girls earned the s...

Time Travel: Bridgeport Nurse Taking Care of Family of Don Knotts and Jackson's Mill Right Around 1900

Posted on November 13, 2022

The person on the far left many may recognized as West Virginia's own Don Knotts. The Morgantown native was having hi...

Time Travel: Halloween Fun at All Saints School Back in 1963 and Years Ago at Old Ritchie County School

Posted on November 06, 2022

Halloween fun in Bridgeport has been going back decades, as is shown in this photo courtesy of Susie Graeber. This ph...

Time Travel: Advertisement Sign for Helmick's Market and a Route 19 Restaurant Doing 1940s' Business

Posted on October 30, 2022

Who remembers Helmick's Market located on Philadelphia Avenue just past the intersection with Johnson Avenue? It was...

Time Travel: Bridgeport Lions Club Good Deeds in the 1950s and an 1857 State Trip on B&O Railroad

Posted on October 23, 2022

This photo from Bill McCartney is believed to be from the late 1950s and it shows something that still takes place to this...

Time Travel: Cleaning up After Huge 1978 City Snow Storm and a Restaurant, Store No More in Adamsville

Posted on October 16, 2022

The possiblity of scenes like this will increase in the weeks and months ahead. In this particular photo, city worker...

Time Travel: Early 2010's Bridgeport High Swim Team and Visiting a Kitchen at the Maple Inn in the 1950s

Posted on October 09, 2022

This photo is believed to be of the Bridgeport High School 2012 swim teams. The boys would finish second that year, w...

Time Travel: Pure Food Store's Grand Opening Week and Empire Bank in Downtown Clarksburg in 1964

Posted on October 02, 2022

Few businesses were as popular as that of the Pure Food Store. This photo is from 1954 and it was during grand openin...

Time Travel: 2005 Fire Destroys One of City's Oldest Homes and a 1967 Flood Impacting Park Boulevard

Posted on September 25, 2022

This fire from January of 2005 was on Holt Street. As can be seen from the photo, the house was a total loss. The fir...

Time Travel: Going Back to The Spa Fitness Center in 1987 and Cameron's Rees Theater Back in 1939

Posted on September 18, 2022

Anyone remember The Spa Fitness Center? This photo shows the business situated on Tolley Drive, which is about 100 ya...
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