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Time Travel: Bridgeport's Famous Stock Yard and A. James Manchin in a Webster County Parade

Posted on September 11, 2016

  If you're over 40 you probably can recall the Bridgeport Stock Yard located where Rite Aid and Bridgeport Physi...

Time Travel: Junior BHS Football Players from 1956 and the Recently Closed Clarksburg Stealey Pool

Posted on September 04, 2016

Football's long rich history in Bridgeport goes back decades and features many familiar names. Do you recall thes...

Time Travel: Center and Main Street Intersection in 1953 and Clarksburg's School Patrol Hoops Team

Posted on August 28, 2016

The businesses may not look familiar, but the intersection should. It's Main Street and Center Street from 1953. Chec...

Time Travel: Looking Back at Well-Known Local Barber and a Stop at Taylor County's Covered Bridge

Posted on August 21, 2016

Although not sure of the event here, the man pictured is long-time local barber Bill Mick. Mick had a barber shop jus...

Time Travel: Former Bridgeport Police Chief and City of Clarksburg's First-Ever Fire Ladder Truck

Posted on August 14, 2016

This is former City of Bridgeport Police Chief John Diamond shown in front of the old municipal building - now the Main...

Time Travel: A. James Manchin Presents State Flag to BJHS and Going to Back to Watt Powell Park

Posted on August 07, 2016

This photo, which is part of a collection by Bridgeport's Ann Nicewarner's late father-in-law Sonny Nicewarne...

Two Current College Athletes Nearly a Decade Earlier in Bridgeport and Intra-County Bus Transportation

Posted on July 31, 2016

These two youngsters are shown back in 2006-2007 competing for S&A Homes in the Bridgeport Jerry West League at the Br...

Time Travel: BHS Educational Icons Ace Hardware Shopping in 1978 and JC Penney in Clarksburg

Posted on July 24, 2016

Long-time friends former educators Hugh Gainer, left, and Bill Montgomery do a little shopping at the now closed Ace...

Time Travel: 1960s Bridgeport Junior High Football Captains and BHS Students at Anmoore VFD in 1983

Posted on July 17, 2016

Although the exact year this photo was taken is not known, but believed to be from the mid-1960s, the individuals shown he...

Time Travel: Going Back to Visit Bridgeport Junior High Cheerleaders and a White Sulphur Springs Stop

Posted on July 10, 2016

This is part of a collection of old sports photographs submitted to Connect-Bridgeport and for this blog by Ann Nicewarner...

Time Travel: Freshman Hoops from the Mid-1990s and a Look Back at the Olympic Torch in Clarksburg

Posted on July 03, 2016

Anyone remember these guys? This is the 1995-96 Bridgeport High School freshman basketball team that was coached by the la...

Time Travel: A Warm Weather City Parade and Jesse Jackson's Presidential Campaign in Clarksburg

Posted on June 26, 2016

See anyone you remember? Although the year of this event is uncertain, it's during the warmer weather months based on...

Time Travel: One of City's Most Beloved Figures from 1996 and the Immaculate Conception Church

Posted on June 19, 2016

One of the City of Bridgeport's most recognizable faces, Mike Salvio on the right, was a long-time member of the Bridg...

Time Travel: Bridgeport Baseball Team from 1944 and a Look at an Iconic Restaurant in Nutter Fort

Posted on June 12, 2016

This photo is of what appears to be the Bridgeport High School baseball team from 1944 as Principal Tolley is shown in the...

Time Travel: Bridgeport Basketball Team in Hoops Hall of Fame and Youth Boxing Matches in Glen Elk

Posted on June 05, 2016

This photo of the Bridgeport Union Basketball team from 1923 is unique for more than just being nearly a century old....
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