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Time Travel: Aerial View of Ellis Drive Inn, Businesses in 1972 and Clarksburg Main Street Home in 1950

Posted on May 29, 2022

This photo is believed to be from 1972 and how many things have changed and a few things are in place. This main area...

Time Travel: Revisiting the Bridgeport Stock Yard and Staying at an "O Tel" on Old Bridgeport Hill Road

Posted on May 22, 2022

For many, this business is much a part of Bridgeport's history as Michael Benedum. The old Stock Yard building is...

Time Travel: City Businessman Readies for a Unique 1954 Parade and Construction of UHC in the 1970s

Posted on May 15, 2022

Sayers Gas Station used to be located on West Main Street in Bridgeport across from the present day Dairy Queen. This...

Time Travel: Riggs Exxon, Holiday Inn from 1974 and Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library Construction

Posted on May 08, 2022

Many probably remember when Riggs Exxon sat on the site where Walgreens sits today. And plenty probably remember the...

Time Travel: Bridgeport Junior High 1982-82 Band and 1973 Home Show Dee Jays at Nathan Goff Armory

Posted on May 01, 2022

See anyone you know? These are the ninth grade band members from the former Bridgeport Junior High School in 1983. Al...

Time Travel: Aerial Downtown Photo from 1980s as Well One Near the Affluent Waldo Hotel in 1944

Posted on April 24, 2022

See anything you recognize in this photo believed to be from the early 1980s, or roughly 40 years ago. The street run...

Time Travel: A Decades Rewind to Bridgeport's Paper and Now Demolished Main Street Clarksburg Building

Posted on April 17, 2022

There have been many media groups that have served Bridgeport through the years. Does anyone remember Bridgeport News...

Time Travel: Inside One of City's Iconic Businesses as Well as 1950 Visit to a Clarksburg Ice Cream Parlor

Posted on April 10, 2022

How many remember getting their senior portraits taken inside this building? It is the old Bell Studio operated for d...

Time Travel: Main Street Residential Area Still There Today and West Milford Restaurant Back from 1962

Posted on April 03, 2022

This photo is from 1945 and shows the entrance to Taylor's Trailer Court located on Main Street. Although still largel...

Time Travel: Deegan & Hinkle Lakes 1964 Stocking as Well as 1950 Clarksburg Salvation Army Bell Ringing

Posted on March 27, 2022

The stocking of Deegan & Hinkle Lakes has alwasy been a big deal - even now when it is being handled by the West...

Time Travel: United Methodist Church Construction and Jerry West from East Bank High School Days

Posted on March 20, 2022

This might not look familiar, but the site today is one of the most familiar things people see when driving through t...

Time Travel: The End of Bridgeport's Ellis Restaurant and a Now Closed High School's Marching Band

Posted on March 13, 2022

This photo shows the end of the Ellis Restaurant on Route 50 West decades ago. Eventually, the location became home t...

Time Travel: City's Main Street's Ford Business and a Clarksburg Bar in First of Two Glen Elk Locations

Posted on March 06, 2022

Anybody remember when the Ford garage was in the John Utt building on Main Street across from the intersection with C...

Time Travel: Indians' 2001 Big 10 Title-Winning Frosh Squad and Downtown Clarksburg's Parsons-Souders

Posted on February 27, 2022

This is a photo of the 2001 Bridgeport High School freshman boys basketball team that won the Big 10 Conference title...

Time Travel: Decades Ago on Main Street's Corridor and RCB Students in 2000 with Sen. Robert C. Byrd

Posted on February 20, 2022

Here is alook at Main Street decades ago. While many of the buildings are still in place, most of the businesses that...
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