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Time Travel: Main Street Bridgeport Back in 1984 and a Fairmont's Adams Street Visit from John F. Kennedy

Posted on August 24, 2025

This photo shows a slightly different version of Main Street in 1984. At this time, Dairy Queen was located where Eas...

Time Travel: Grainy, Elusive Photo of Iconic Bridgeport Restaurant and 1940s Full Service Tennerton Gas

Posted on August 17, 2025

Bridgeport's unofficial historian, and author of this blog, Richard "Dick" Duez has said he has spent 50 years lookin...

Time Travel: A Past Order from the Bavarian Inn and Revisiting Fire that Hammered Downtown Salem

Posted on August 10, 2025

The Bavarian Inn, shown here featuring its beef stew lunch special, occupied this familiar barn-shapped...

Time Travel: Looking Outside and Inside at The Coffee Shop and 1910 Flour Mill Work from Boothsville

Posted on August 03, 2025

Although not certain of the date of this photo, it is of the exterior of The Coffee Shop situated on the corner of Center...

Time Travel: Annual Fireman's Fair Parade on Main Street and a Clarksburg Glass Plant from 1906

Posted on July 27, 2025

Few things are talked about with as much fondness as the former Bridgeport Fireman's Fair. Although the exact d...

Time Travel: Mr. and Miss BHS from 1997 and a Bus Stop Decades ago on Main Street in Clarksburg

Posted on July 20, 2025

For decades, Bridgeport High School has had a Mr. and Miss BHS. The year 1997 was no exception to the rule. Durinig t...

Time Travel: Bridgeport High School Basketball Action from 1962 and Clarksburg's Oak Hall Building in 1911

Posted on July 13, 2025

This photo, courtesy of Frank Yerkey, is of him lining up a picture perfect jump shot from the baseline in 1962 again...

Time Travel: Early 1980s Bridgeport Youth Soccer and 1950s Strawberry Festival Queen Candidates

Posted on July 06, 2025

See anyone you remember from this youth soccer photo from the very early 1980s - likely 1981 or 1982? The team...

Time Travel: Johnson Avenue "Pre-Sheetz" from 1987 and Salem College Men's Basketball from 1977

Posted on June 29, 2025

Look familiar? If it doesn't, it's because today this area of Johnson Avenue is completely built up. Th...

Time Travel: Braves Cheerleaders from 1987-1988 and a Business from 1962 in Downtown Clarksburg

Posted on June 22, 2025

You know this young ladies? This is from the 1987-88 school year and back in the Bridgeport Junior High Days. She...

Time Travel: Car Trouble "in" Maple Lake from 1959 and Popular Drug Store from Downtown Clarksburg

Posted on June 15, 2025

The perpetrator of the car in Maple Lake is also the same person submitting the photo. Tim Flint, then 3, bumpe...

Time Travel: Decades Old Bridgeport High Golf Team and a 1963 Drive-In Restaurant in City of Charleston

Posted on June 08, 2025

Here is what we know about this photo. It shows a Bridgeort High School golf team from many decades ago. After that,...

Time Travel: Jerry West at Bridgeport Country Club and Morgan Grade School's 1975 First Grade Class

Posted on June 01, 2025

That's the "logo" and former WVU and Lakers standout Jerry West, second from left, at the Bridgeport Country Cl...

Time Travel: BHS Football 1987 Returning Lettermen and Decades Ago to a Preston County Service Station

Posted on May 25, 2025

This photo shows the returning letter winners for the 1987 Bridgeport High School football team and is courtesy of Ru...

Time Travel: Early 2000's BHS Cheerleading Champs and a Defunct Popular Clarksburg Restaurant

Posted on May 18, 2025

This photo, courtesy of Charles Simmons, shows the Bridgeport High School cheerleadings squad celebrating a 200...
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