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Time Travel: Senior Princesses for Bridgeport High's 1983 Homecoming and a Clarksburg Retail Giant

Posted on February 14, 2016

Anyone remember these young ladies? They were senior princesses for the 1983 Bridgeport High School homecoming....

Time Travel: Rewinding 46 Years to Visit the BHS Cheer Squad and Nutter Fort's Melvin's Key Market

Posted on February 07, 2016

This weekend's photos are both courtesy of our friend Mrs. Alice Rowe and they come from the 1970 edition of the Ki-Cu...

Time Travel: Going Back to the '50s in Grade School and Visiting a White Sulphur Springs Restaurant

Posted on January 31, 2016

This photo, courtesy of Judy Douglas, is as the picture indicates from the "Old Bridgeport Grade School" in...

Time Travel: Triple Header BHS Baseball Win from the 1990s and Bus Service in Downtown Clarksburg

Posted on January 24, 2016

On the heels of last week's announcement of Robert Shields being named as an upcoming honoree for the West Virgin...

Time Travel: Rewinding 20 Years to Visit the BHS Cheer Squad and the 1968 Farmington Mine Disaster

Posted on January 17, 2016

See who you might  know in this photo, courtesy of former Bridgeport resident and Bridgeport High School alum Ti...

Time Travel: Going Back a Few Decades for BHS Hoops and Another View of Pike Street in Shinnston

Posted on January 10, 2016

Although not 100 percent certain of this year, it's believed to be either the 1969-1970 or 1970-71 Bridgeport High Sc...

Time Travel: Small Step Back into Past with United Methodist Men and Revisiting Point Pleasant Disaster

Posted on January 03, 2016

Although not even a decade old, with the Bridgeport High School Quiz Bowl going full steam this photo seemed appr...

Time Travel: Hanging with the Guys on Main Street in the 1950s and Dipping into 1940s Lake Floyd

Posted on December 27, 2015

This photo, believed to be from around 1950, is in front of the old Benedum House in its last days as Weber's Hom...

Time Travel: Benedum Civic Center 1951 Christmas Party and a 1912 Anmoore Plant Still in Business

Posted on December 20, 2015

Christmas parties at the Benedum Civic Center have been taking place for decades, including this one from 1951....

Time Travel: Bridgeport Girls Basketball from 1978 and Downtown Buckhannon in the Early 1960s

Posted on December 13, 2015

With girls basketball season under way, a look back at a Harrison County battle that's gone on for deca...

Time Travel: Revisiting Johnson Elementary First Grade Students from Decades Ago and 1930s Grafton

Posted on December 06, 2015

Anyone recognize any of these face in this Johnson Elementary first grade photo likely from the 1970s?  The teac...

Time Travel: Bridgeport Patrols Heading to the Nation's Capital as Belington is Blanketed in 1950s Snow

Posted on November 29, 2015

This photo, taken by Tom Kinney in front near the Bridgeport Fire Department location near the Simpson Creek Bridge i...

Time Travel: 1985 Flood Devastates BHS Athletic Complex and Early 1900s Clarksburg Glass Company

Posted on November 22, 2015

It was nearly 30 years ago to the day when the storm of the century hit the area. This photo, taken on Nov. 5, 1985,...

Time Travel: Bridgeport Fireman's Fair Parade from 1951 and Booming Days from Logan in the 1940s

Posted on November 15, 2015

  This 1951 photo by Tom Kinney is from the Bridgeport Fireman's Fair Parade and is along Main Street in...

Time Travel: BHS Majorette Performance from 1960s on Main Street and 1919 World Series in Clarksburg

Posted on November 08, 2015

This photo, believed to have been taken in 1967 or 1968, shows a trio of Bridgeport High School majorettes performing...
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