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Time Travel: BHS Student Government Week from 1978 and Woolworth's 1930s' Halloween Storefront

Posted on November 01, 2015

This photo, from the 1978 Bridgeport High School Ki-Cu-Wa yearbook show former Bridgeport Mayor John H. Hodge, far...

Time Travel: Bridgeport's First-Ever State Title Football Team and Street Car Trips in Clarksburg

Posted on October 25, 2015

Does this group of young men look familiar? Many should recall some of the faces of the 1955 state championship fo...

Time Travel: Going Back to the BHS Journalism Staff from 2002 and a 1937 Key Keyser Intersection

Posted on October 18, 2015

Group look familiar? it is the senior journalism staff from 2002 and the photo is from the Shawnee Powwow's May 31, 2...

Time Travel: Trio of Legendary BHS Educators and State Youth Helping WWII New York Tomato Harvest

Posted on October 11, 2015

Do these three men look familiar? They should for many in Bridgeport and beyond. In this 1978 photo from the Bridgepo...

Time Travel: The End of a Century Old Main Street Building and Visiting Famous Charleston Ball Park

Posted on October 04, 2015

The end of an era came a little more than a decade ago when this old city building at the corner of Main and Ce...

Time Travel: Final Year for Indians Football Coaching Legend and McDowell County in the 1940s

Posted on September 27, 2015

This photo is from the 1996 Bridgeport High School football program and was provided by Tim Casten. As it would...

Time Travel: Looking Back at 1988 State Champs and Rail Service Between Clarksburg and Fairmont

Posted on September 20, 2015

This photo courtesy of Ryan and Jaime Chandler is from the 1988 Class AA state championship football season. Although...

Time Travel: Homecoming '88 at Bridgeport High School and Looking at an Iconic Clarksburg Business

Posted on September 13, 2015

Pictured are members of the 1988 Bridgeport High School homecoming court from the October, 1988 Shawnee Powwow. Pi...

Time Travel: A 1989 Runner-Up Finish for Indians Sports Team and Decades Back with Elkins EMS

Posted on September 06, 2015

The Bridgeport High School golf program has a long history of championships and state tournament appearances that continue...

Time Travel: Bridgeport High School Senior Class Play from 1982 and Downtown Osage Street Scene

Posted on August 30, 2015

Shown are members of the 1982 senior class taking part in the play the "Damn Yankees." The class play is a tradition...

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

Posted on August 23, 2015

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: Early 1980s Youth Soccer and Strawberry Festival Queen Candidates from the 1950s

Posted on August 16, 2015

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

Time Travel: Going Back Two Decades for BHS Volleyball and Special Delivery at a Fairmont Store

Posted on August 09, 2015

Volleyball season is just around the corner and here's a look back to the 1995-96 season courtesy of Tim Casten....

Time Travel: One "Exciting" Main Street Business and Going Back 40 Years to Ongoing Area Festival

Posted on August 02, 2015

For years, many from Bridgeport and beyond would unwind on Main Street's Exciting Irene's located on Main Str...

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

Posted on July 26, 2015

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