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Time Travel: BHS Journalism Staff's Final Days of 1995 and Decades Past into Downtown Clarksburg

Posted on May 29, 2016

With graduation in the rearview mirror for the Bridgeport High School Class of 2016, here's a look into the rearv...

Time Travel: Compton Park Basketball from the 1980s and Trolley Service for Residents of Clarksburg

Posted on May 22, 2016

This photo is back from 1987 and shows a bunch of Bridgeport youngsters getting ready for a day of basketball. The individ...

Time Travel: Councilman Charles Loar Enjoys a 1966 Parade and a Century Ago on Main Street Salem

Posted on May 15, 2016

Although the event is uncertain, this parade photo believed to be from 1966 shows then Bridgeport City Council member...

Time Travel: BHS 1981-82 State Tourney Boys Hoops Team and Pre-Bridgeport Edition of Hot Rod Shop

Posted on May 08, 2016

This team look familiar? It's the 1981-82 Bridgeport High School boys basketball team shown in a photo provided b...

Time Travel: At Least One Bridgeport Icon on this Hoops Team and Long-Standing Clarksburg Structure

Posted on May 01, 2016

Who do you recognize in this photo submitted for Time Travel use by Ann Nicewarner? Her father-in-law, the late Phil...

Time Travel: Unbeaten Bridgeport Junior High Football Team and a 1938 Osage Convenience Store

Posted on April 24, 2016

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

Time Travel: Two of City's Past Top Educators Having Some Fun and a Dip into a Lewis County Lake

Posted on April 17, 2016

Recognize these two men? On the left is the late Larry Burner, while Tom Brown is shown on the right. Both were stand...

Time Travel: Visiting a 1987 BHS State Tourney Boys Hoops Team and a Look at the Robinson Grand

Posted on April 10, 2016

This is the program entry for the Class AA, Region III, Section 1 championship in 1987 for the BHS boys basketbal...

Time Travel: Heading Back a Few Years to Rotary Club Meeting in City and Going Back to Elkins High

Posted on April 03, 2016

Recognize anyone here? This is a picture several years ago from a Bridgeport Rotary meeting. The year is uncert...

Time Travel: Rewinding to Initial Installation of Field Turf at Jamison Field and Visiting St. Mary's Hospital

Posted on March 27, 2016

A little more than a decade ago, this group of individuals, led by Walter Barth in the foreground left, all assisted t...

Time Travel: The 1950s Crowning of Bridgeport High's Football Queen and Visiting a Shinnston Bridge

Posted on March 20, 2016

Although no longer done, this photo from the 1950s shows Janet Harris being crowned as Miss Football, while her...

Time Travel: City's All-American 1980s Division I Athlete and Roosevelt-Garner Fairmont Campaigning

Posted on March 13, 2016

If you're not sure who this person is, know that she was a NCA Cheerleading All-American while cheering for West Virg...

Time Travel: Bridgeport High School Boys Track Team from 1970 and Another Iconic Clarksburg Eatery

Posted on March 06, 2016

See anyone you know? This is the 1970s Bridgeport High School boys track team, which probably got their practices sta...

Time Travel: Future BHS Students from the 1950s and a 1970s Clarksburg Fast Food Iconic Eatery

Posted on February 28, 2016

These individuals all are members of Anmoore Grade School, but would all become students at Bridgeport High Schoo...

Time Travel: Indians Junior Varsity Basketball Team from 1984-85 and the B&O along U.S. Route 50

Posted on February 21, 2016

  This is Bridgeport's 1984-85 junior varsity boys basketball team, many of whom would be key to a futur...
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