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Time Travel: Rare Sneak Peek at Sonny's Restaurant and Advertising for Milk with Cows in Sun Valley

Posted on May 27, 2018

A rare find, although the photo is not as old as the car shown indicates, but in the background is Sonny's Restaurant...

Time Travel: Compton Park Aerial during Construction and Rewinding to Valley Falls Swimming Days

Posted on May 20, 2018

This aerial photo, likely from the 1980s, shows work being done on the expansion of Compton Park, which has been an a...

Time Travel: Stocking the Bridgeport Lakes in 1966 and Rewinding Decades Back to the Cass Railroad

Posted on May 13, 2018

The stocking of Hinkle and Deegan Lakes is not a new trend. This photo from 1966 shows volunteer firemen gettin...

Time Travel: A Look at Still Relatively New School in City from 1912 and Minard's Spaghetti Inn in 1962

Posted on May 06, 2018

Look familiar? It should as it's what today is Simpson Elementary School, which was orginially built in 1909. This ph...

Time Travel: BHS 1977 KI-CU-WA Staff Take a Break and Advertising for Now Defunct Parsons Souders

Posted on April 29, 2018

This photo is from the June 1977 edition of the Shawnee Powwow and shows members of the KI-CU-WA yearbook staff...

Time Travel: Bridgeport's Two State Champion Hoops Coaches and Going Back to the Skyline Drive In

Posted on April 22, 2018

There have only been two boys basketball state championships in Bridgeport High School history. Both coaches ar...

Time Travel: Two Bridgeport Lumber Companies Side by Side in 1988 and Look at Old Westover Bridge

Posted on April 15, 2018

Individuals can Johnson Avenue back in 1988 when there was no Johnson Plaza and Bauer Lumber sat on the spot before th...

Time Travel: Back at Origins of Twin Oaks in the City and Elephants at Parkersburg's Smoot Theatre

Posted on April 08, 2018

It is one of Bridgeport's - as well as the region's - iconic restaurants. Here's is a photo from when the Ielap...

Time Travel: Bridgeport High's All-State Choir from 1980 and the A&P Grocery Store in Grafton in 1963

Posted on April 01, 2018

This photo is from the April, 1980 editionof the Shawnee Powwow student newspaper at Bridgeport High School showing, as th...

Time Travel: City Pool Staff from 21 Years Ago and an Aerial View from 1970 of Clarksburg's Hite Field

Posted on March 25, 2018

This photo from 1997, courtesy of Don Burton, shows the Bridgeport City  Pool lifeguard and concession sta...

Time Travel: Looking Back at Pure Food's Final Stop in the City and a Train Travel in Middle of St. Marys

Posted on March 18, 2018

this was the final stop for Bridgeport's iconic "Pure Food" store that did business in several location...

Time Travel: Inside Furbee's Drug Store at Christmas in 1952 and Route 50 by Grafton's Four Corners

Posted on March 11, 2018

This is a view Inside Furbee’s Drug Store back in 1952. Carl Furbee, Sr. used give out gifts by Santa  bef...

Time Travel: In Honor of Coach Wayne Jamison, Trio of Photos from 1979 State Championship Run

Posted on March 04, 2018

Robert "Bobby" Marra is seconds away from hauling in an interception in the Class AAA state title game...

Time Travel: Downtown 1954 Bridgeport Parade for a Unique Reason and Severe Flooding from Salem

Posted on February 25, 2018

This a night parade that took place in October of 1954. The reason? Celebrating the new mercury vapor stre...

Time Travel: BHS Wrestling 1980 State Qualifiers and a Country Music Legend Visits Wheeling Landmark

Posted on February 18, 2018

This trio qualified for the West Virginia State Wrestling Tournament back in 1980. Pictured, from left, are Jef...
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