On Monday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day not solely gives time to honor the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., but in addition stands as a Nationwide Day of Service for folks throughout the U.S. to do work for his or her communities.
In Richmond, greater than 50 volunteers from The Home Depot Foundation, Richmond ToolBank and Richmond Parks & Recreation received a head begin on their service on Friday as they constructed picnic tables and benches to be donated to a few African American cemeteries within the metropolis.
Richie Freeman, Willa Moffatt and Shae Jackson construct a picnic desk at Richmond ToolBank on Friday. The undertaking is a part of The House Depot Basis’s week of service that celebrates the lifetime of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
“For my part, the best goal and worth in service is to take a position locally that you simply dwell in and to contribute your time, expertise and treasure when you’ve gotten it,” mentioned Toby Vernon, govt director of Richmond ToolBank.
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The undertaking is a part of The House Depot Basis’s nationwide week of service that celebrates King’s life. The muse companions with nonprofits throughout the nation on initiatives that enhance neighborhood and academic areas. It additionally gives hands-on studying for college kids pursuing expert commerce careers.
Mike Pounch measures the position of picnic desk helps at Richmond ToolBank on Friday.
The gear is being constructed to reinforce African American cemeteries on the East Finish and South Facet, together with Evergreen Cemetery, the burial website of distinguished Richmonders Maggie L. Walker and John Mitchell Jr.
In recent times, those cemeteries have been acquired by the city for preservation.
“We’re working to enhance the upkeep and administration of these cemeteries,” Giles Garrison, superintendent of the James River Park System, mentioned to the volunteers. “We’re actually grateful to work with you all to construct picnic tables, so that people can go to family members and go to these luminaries of Richmond historical past.”
Along with being positioned within the cemeteries, the out of doors furnishings can even exchange damaged picnic benches all through the James River Park System.
The muse lined the price of the supplies, whereas Richmond ToolBank supplied instruments, directions and a workspace.
Willa Moffatt screws collectively a picnic desk at Richmond ToolBank on Friday.
Richmond ToolBank gives low- to no-cost instrument borrowing to round 300 nonprofits and neighborhood teams annually, with the associated fee financial savings going again into these organizations for different functions.
Moreover, Richmond ToolBank has a Building Change program that works with about 2,000 company volunteers akin to House Depot to construct 1,000 items of out of doors furnishings and different options yearly.
The items get donated to roughly 75 places annually within the Richmond area and typically past.
“We are able to’t obtain all of that via work and thru our personal private lives alone,” Vernon mentioned. “It’s via service in neighborhood funding that we will obtain these ends.”
Hayes Madden makes use of a degree to examine the place of a picnic desk leg at Richmond ToolBank on Friday.
Team Depot, which is The House Depot’s affiliate volunteer power, included volunteers from 11 Virginia shops as distant as South Hill, Harrisonburg and Waynesboro.
“It’s a part of our values; it’s one thing that we take severely with giving again,” mentioned Hillary Hyatt, Workforce Depot captain and Mechanicsville retailer supervisor. “We’re there to assist out our communities, assist out our neighbors, assist out our brothers and sisters in any approach we will.”
Ma’Kyrah Rawls, a House Depot worker and Virginia Commonwealth College pupil, mentioned she volunteered after studying extra in regards to the historical past and landmarks of Richmond.
In Richmond on Friday, over 50 volunteers from The House Depot Basis, Richmond ToolBank and Richmond Parks & Recreation received a head begin on the MLK Jr. Day of Service, constructing picnic tables and benches to be donated to a few African American cemeteries within the metropolis. Right here, John Seventko, left, and Mike Pounch of Workforce Depot work to construct a desk.
The volunteers labored effectively in small, combined teams, permitting them to get to know each other whereas working towards a standard trigger.
“I don’t actually see (Parks & Rec) a complete lot except they’re strolling out and in of the shop, so working aspect by aspect is fairly cool,” mentioned Mike Pounch, a house technician for The House Depot. “Having the ability to do one thing for the neighborhood is superior.”
Acknowledge this? Nineteen Fifties images from The Occasions-Dispatch archives
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The 300 block South Lombardy Road after twister. Storm was June 14, 1951.
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Twister felled bushes in entrance of Commonwealth Membership on Franklin St., June 13, 1951.
Richmond within the 50s
In March 1956, jazz trumpeter Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong and his All-Stars performed a live performance on the Mosque, together with Woody Herman and his Third Herd. Ticket costs had been $1.50, $2 and $2.50. 4 days later, the Mosque was scheduled to host two exhibits by an rising star, the day earlier than his self-titled debut studio album was launched. His identify: Elvis Presley.
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In July 1950, heavyweight boxing legend Jack Dempsey got here to Richmond as a headline attraction for a unique occasion: He was referee of a wrestling match. He stayed on the Resort John Marshall, which was definitely extra peaceable than Metropolis Stadium — not having misplaced a punch over the a long time, the 55-year-old received concerned within the match there and knocked out the tag crew companions Dick Lever and Wally Dusek.
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Twister injury from June 14, 1951 storm. Picture taken June 23, 1951. Location is Monroe Park.
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South Richmonders had this view of a Dec. 24, 1951, hearth on North Facet on the F.L. Parsley storage plant on Rady Road. Three gasoline oil and kerosene tanks caught hearth, sending black smoke throughout a lot of the town. Greater than 100 firefighters had been wanted to cease the blaze, which threatened a close-by stream, coal yard and different properties. When the proprietor of neighboring gasoline tanks was advised that his had been saved, he referred to as it “the nicest Christmas current ever.”
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In January 1957, the College of Richmond’s Boatwright Memorial Library created a vivid reflection in Westhampton Lake. College students had been in the course of examination week on the time.
Richmond within the 50s
A number of tales beneath the clock itself, 4 small balconies jut out from the clock tower on Outdated Metropolis Corridor in downtown Richmond. In February 1957, constructing supervisors regarded out from the platforms, which as soon as had been public statement spots.
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NAACP officers Thurgood Marshall (left) and W. Lester Banks made their strategy to a Common Meeting assembly on Feb. 20, 1957. Within the years after the Supreme Courtroom’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Schooling ruling, Virginia engaged in Huge Resistance to oppose faculty desegregation.
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A view of East Broad Road in downtown Richmond on a cloudy day in October 1954. The distinctive Outdated Metropolis Corridor, with its Excessive Victorian Gothic model, is at left, bounded by tenth and eleventh streets. The constructing is a Nationwide Historic Landmark.
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On March 11, 1952, American poet Robert Frost chatted with college students Anne Holmes (left) and Beverly Gilbert at a reception that adopted his deal with and poetry studying at Westhampton School. Two months earlier, he addressed the Lady’s Membership in Richmond.
Richmond within the 50s
In October 1957, Queen Elizabeth II visited Jamestown to mark the 350th anniversary of the nation’s first everlasting English settlement. The journey, which featured a 21-gun salute upon her arrival at Patrick Henry Airport, included a go to to Williamsburg and the School of William and Mary. The queen returned to Virginia in 2007 for Jamestown’s four-hundredth anniversary.
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In April 1952, Betsy Marrin and Doris Bolton admired the springtime blooms within the Italian Backyard at Maymont Park. In Might of that yr, throughout Park and Recreation Week, Maymont opened a nature middle in what had been a stone and brick steady.
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In March 1957, actor Robert Mitchum stopped in Richmond — although not for causes associated to his function within the movie “Heaven Is aware of, Mr. Allison,” which was enjoying at native theaters. He had visited Virginia weeks earlier to scout for film places, and he was returning to the state to interview promising actors with the Barter Theatre in Abingdon.
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On April 8, 1952, the Brooklyn Dodgers performed an exhibition recreation in Richmond. Within the dugout at Mooers Discipline Jackie Robinson visits with teammate Don Newcombe – a star pitcher who was on navy responsibility at Camp Pickett.
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In April 1951, a pair strolled via the gardens at Shooters Hill in Goochland County. Within the Nineteen Fifties, the historic dwelling was typically the positioning of Tuckahoe Backyard Membership occasions; property proprietor Mrs. H.C.L. Miller was membership president.
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In Might 1957, patrons loved the curler coaster on the amusement park in Buckroe Seaside in Hampton. Buckroe Seaside was a preferred vacation spot for Richmonders within the first half of the century as railroads provided direct journeys to the world, the place guests might lease a cottage for $50 to $75 every week.
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In September 1954, the Canadian ship Notting Hill was docked at Richmond’s Deepwater Terminal on the James River. Tobacco, textiles, newsprint, equipment and metal had been amongst many merchandise that got here into or exited the terminal on cargo ships.
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In October 1981, Melvin “Shot” Walker labored the grill on the White Spot in Charlottesville. The favored diner, situated alongside the Nook within the coronary heart of the College of Virginia, was opened in 1953 by Paul Dunsmore. The constructing used to accommodate a magnificence salon, and a white spot on the ground the place a salon chair as soon as sat gave the eatery its identify.
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In January 1954, buyers waited for buses within the snow on Broad Road in downtown Richmond. An accompanying article mentioned the storm introduced out a “spirit of neighborliness” amongst passengers as they “gossiped with strangers in regards to the horrible climate.”
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In November 1950, Richmond firefighters battled an early morning blaze at Monument Methodist Church, situated at Allen and Park avenues. Greater than 150 firefighters and two-thirds of the town’s firefighting gear responded to the blaze, which prompted in depth injury. 4 firemen had been injured, primarily from ice that fashioned on ladders and sidewalks within the freezing chilly.
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In September 1951, the world of Hull Road between twelfth and 13 streets in South Richmond was dug up for utility work and avenue rebuilding.
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The Dec. 6, 1953, version of The Occasions-Dispatch included a photograph unfold on the Southern Biscuit Co., whose merchandise – underneath the Well-known Meals of Virginia model – established the corporate as considered one of America’s largest producers of cookies and crackers. Right here, baked cookies moved alongside a conveyor. The Richmond manufacturing facility close to Scott’s Addition now homes the Cookie Manufacturing facility Lofts residence complicated.
1954 Department Home
In Might 1954, James River Backyard Membership members visited the Department Home on Monument Avenue in Richmond to make last-minute preparations earlier than the weekend’s flower present. As a part of occasion, the Antiquarian Society of Richmond additionally ready an exhibit of 18th-century furnishings within the library of the home. Proceeds helped restore native gardens
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In April 1956, members of the Richmond Virginians engaged in a pre-practice bull session of their locker room. The Worldwide League baseball crew held spring coaching in Haines Metropolis, Fla., earlier than returning to their native base of Parker Discipline.
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In August 1951, June Maile confirmed children from the Belle Bryan Day Nursery the best way to play “London Bridge is Falling Down” throughout the nursery’s annual outing at Byrd Park.
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In spring 1950, work was scheduled to start to widen this south finish of the North Boulevard railroad overpass. The work was anticipated to price about $165,000 and take roughly seven months.
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In June 1950, these younger girls cooled off throughout a heatwave and loved a ship journey on Fountain Lake at Byrd Park in Richmond. From left are Margaret Jones, Betty Evans and Anita Hagopian.
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This September 1951 picture exhibits the Bridge at Falling Creek. The granite arch span, most of which may nonetheless be seen in the present day, was constructed within the 1820s – at a value of simply over $2,000. The bridge was retired from service within the early Thirties after a brand new span started carrying southbound U.S. 1/301 site visitors over Falling Creek in Chesterfield County. The bridge was added to the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations within the Nineteen Nineties.
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This October 1951 picture exhibits Forest Hill Presbyterian Church, with its new connected constructing at proper. The church was organized in 1924 and several other years later constructed its first constructing on West forty first Road in Richmond. In 1942, it began utilizing an previous home at 4401 Forest Hill Ave. for all conferences exterior common providers. By 1946, the church acquired a allow to assemble a brand new constructing on the positioning of the Church Home.
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This July 1950 picture exhibits a crumbling Richmond-Ashland Electrical Line viaduct, lined in vines, close to Moore Road in Richmond. The constructions, which remained after the electrical trolley system folded within the late Thirties, had change into a nuisance, with chunks of concrete falling off of them at instances. It took greater than 15 years after this picture was taken till the final of the constructions was eliminated.
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In September 1954, floats within the Nationwide Tobacco Pageant parade accomplished their promenade round Metropolis Stadium earlier than the soccer recreation between the College of Richmond and Hampden-Sydney School. The pageant ran in Richmond from 1949 to 1984 and was a prime occasion within the metropolis throughout its run. A predecessor pageant was held in South Boston earlier than World Warfare II.
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This June 1950 picture exhibits the previous Westwood Circle in Richmond, a site visitors circle on the intersection of North Boulevard, Hermitage Highway and Westwood Avenue. In November 1961, a $150,000 undertaking eliminated the circle, added islands and site visitors alerts, and diverted some site visitors across the busy intersection. Metropolis security official John Hanna referred to as the intersection the “most complex we have now needed to redesign and signalize prior to now 14 years.”
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This April 1955 picture exhibits males dipping for herring in Falling Creek in Chesterfield County. Herring would arrive in rivers within the spring to spawn, and dipping was a preferred exercise that allowed males to socialize whereas stocking up on fish that could possibly be salted and eaten via the yr.
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In December 1953, the brand new whirlaway, a merry-go-round kind of gadget turned by the foot energy of dozens of scholars, was in style at Dumbarton Elementary Faculty in Henrico County. The attraction was a part of a brand new set of playground gear bought with $750 donated by the Lakeside Lions Membership. Watching the kids (from left) had been H.F. Taylor, Lions Membership president; Joseph Rotella, faculty principal; and F.M. Armbrecht, chairman of the PTA recreation committee.
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This June 1952 picture exhibits considered one of “Dr. Duval’s drugs,” a part of a trio of 30-inch granite Turkish cannonballs, in its new location at John Marshall Excessive Faculty at Eighth and Marshall streets in Richmond. After standing for a few years on a pedestal in entrance of Grays’ Armory at Seventh and Marshall, this one was destined to affix its two mates on the metropolis Works Division trash heap on the previous fairgrounds, the place these two had lain lacking since World Warfare II till being rediscovered in January 1952. This one was as a substitute saved with a transfer out of the best way of downtown site visitors.
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This March 1952 picture exhibits a wagon, believed to have been Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s throughout the Civil Warfare, because it was retired to the Military’s Richmond Quartermaster Depot at Bellwood. The wagon was amongst quite a few gadgets being transferred from Cameron Station in Alexandria; it could actually nonetheless be seen on the Military Quartermaster Museum at Fort Lee.
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In November 1952, Armistice Day ceremonies had been held on the previous John Marshall Excessive Faculty in Richmond. At the moment generally known as Veterans Day, the 1952 occasions marked the thirty fourth anniversary of the tip of World Warfare I. At John Marshall, the college’s band and shade guard took half within the service, and wreaths had been positioned on two plaques bearing names of former college students who gave their lives within the two world wars.
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In June 1950, gleeful youngsters left Ginter Park Faculty in Richmond as they had been dismissed for the summer time months – although they did must return a number of days later for his or her report playing cards.
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In September 1950, there have been nonetheless working cart and wagon horses in Richmond, along with police horses that patrolled the streets. That month, metropolis officers contemplated whether or not furnishing water to this previous horse trough – on North Second Road close to Bates Road – and two others was nonetheless justified. The price of supplying water to all three was about $500 per yr.
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In March 1951, reigning horse of the yr Hill Prince got here dwelling to The Meadow, close to Doswell in Caroline County, after struggling a leg fracture throughout coaching in California. Coach J.H. “Casey” Hayes delivered a pat to the Thoroughbred’s nostril. Owned by Mr. and Mrs. Christopher T. Chenery, Hill Prince didn’t return to racing till fall 1951 and solely raced another yr after earlier than being retired.
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This June 1964 picture exhibits the newly renovated Park Avenue Methodist Church. The constructing at Park and Allen avenues in Richmond housed Monument Methodist Church earlier than a fireplace in 1950 prompted in depth injury. The next yr, that congregation was a part of a merger that fashioned Reveille United Methodist. The Byrd Park Methodist congregation, later renamed to Park Avenue, moved into the construction in 1952. The constructing is now occupied by Neighborhood Church of God in Christ.
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In December 1954, actor Paul Douglas was in Richmond to star in a stage manufacturing of “The Caine Mutiny Courtroom-Martial,” and he renewed acquaintances – and shared household pictures – with native actress and singer Patsy Garrett, a buddy from their days in radio. Douglas could also be most recognized for the movie “Angels within the Outfield”; Garrett was recognized for her roles within the “Benji” movies and because the “Purina Cat Chow Girl” in TV commercials.
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In January 1952, Virginia Union College basketball teammates (from left) Andrew Rodez, Herman Howard and Ricky Johnson rested throughout a follow earlier than an upcoming recreation in opposition to North Carolina School. The Panthers had been on an eight-game successful streak, however they misplaced 76-73 in additional time to NCC.
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In July 1952, the nation’s first 24-hour peacetime air raid alert system, referred to as Operation Skywatch, started operation. Air Power members and volunteers staffing the Richmond filter station started plotting sightings of planes as they had been referred to as in.
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In November 1953, College of Richmond basketball coach Les Hooker was surrounded by 4 returning members from the earlier season’s crew, which received the Huge Six title in Hooker’s first season and earned him coach of the yr honors. Pictured (left to proper) are Ken Daniels, Warren Mills, Hooker, Ed Harrison and Walt Lysaght.
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In October 1956, members of the Richmond Sq. Dance Federation danced in Bon Air. Based on an accompanying article, sq. dancing was having fun with a revival on the time. The native federation, assisted by the town parks division and state Chamber of Commerce, deliberate to host a sq. dancing pageant the subsequent month with teams from throughout Virginia.
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In April 1950, firemen W.M. Alley and J.B. Winston mounted Richmond’s oldest hearth engine, Outdated 798. Although lengthy out of use, the engine was introduced out for particular events and parades. When Outdated 798 was nonetheless lively, it was pulled by two horses that responded to the fireplace bell with pleasure, a veteran hearth chief mentioned.
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In October 1952, College of Richmond cross nation coach Fred Hardy educated his runners – crew captain Invoice Jordan set the tempo – forward of a meet in opposition to Virginia Navy Institute in Lexington.
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In January 1957, Dot Perkins led a dance class in “the hut” on the Powhatan Hill playground in Richmond. The playground acquired the Quonset hut, a semicircular construction made out of corrugated steel, in 1947 after metropolis officers approved utilizing $15,000 to erect it. It shortly turned a middle of extracurricular actions for space youngsters.
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In September 1951, a boy fished on the dam of Lakeside Lake in Henrico County. Lewis Ginter constructed the dam within the Eighteen Nineties to attach Lakeside Park to the Lakeside Wheel Membership. At the moment, the lake is in on the grounds of Jefferson Lakeside Nation Membership.
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In July 1950, a curb boy at Arnette’s Ice Cream Co., served Beverly Web page French a banana break up. The ice cream store, situated on Willard Highway in Henrico County, was a preferred hangout for native teenagers.
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In October 1954, a gaggle of costumed youngsters celebrated Halloween on the William Fox playground in Richmond.
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In June 1953, James R. Osterbind posed for a photograph throughout his workday at Tredegar Iron Works in Richmond. Osterbind was considered one of a number of members of his household who labored at Tredegar over the course of 4 generations. Tredegar opened in 1837, was a significant manufacturing middle for the Confederacy throughout the Civil Warfare and continued as a manufacturing facility via many of the Nineteen Fifties.
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In January 1953, Richmond metropolis staff painted lane strains on Cowardin Avenue utilizing a brand new power-driven machine. Beforehand, it took two males to do the method – one to carry a bit of rope alongside the road and one other to use paint.
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In Might 1955, Richmond fireman W.L. Clary of Engine Co. 1 welcomed some pals on the firetruck: Smokie Jr. and Again Faucet, a pair of Dalmatians.
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In October 1954, site visitors stacked up at Fifth and Franklin streets in downtown Richmond on a busy purchasing day.
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In December 1951, Mrs. Herbert Flax confirmed her daughter, Susan April, how the sunshine candles on the menorah in celebration of Hanukkah at Temple Beth Israel in Richmond. Flax was chairwoman of Girls’s Membership present store.
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In March 1957, a boy and woman walked via Chesterfield County farmland with their instruments, prepared to assist with planting. Blossoms on the close by plum tree had been indicators of spring.
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In July 1954, Kitty Liles carried out along with her band. Liles had performed the drums for years, beginning when she was a pupil at Varina Excessive Faculty within the Nineteen Forties. In 1954, Liles was utilizing cash from her gigs round Richmond to pay for her pursuit of a social work diploma at Richmond Skilled Institute.
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This September 1953 picture exhibits the canal locks in downtown Richmond between 14th and Pear streets. After their set up and later refurbishment within the mid-Nineteenth century, the locks elevated boat site visitors and allowed for simpler transport of products to and from the town.
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In June 1951, sq. dance caller Richard Chase taught playground administrators some steps forward o f a dance scheduled for the Byrd Park tennis courts in Richmond as a part of Park and Recreation Week. This system was organized by the town and sponsored by Thalhimers.
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In August 1954, members of the Richmond Civic Ballet rehearsed for an upcoming efficiency. The open-membership volunteer group, which held roughly a dozen performances yearly at native occasions, was organized nearly 4 years earlier by native former skilled dancers Betty Carper Grigg and John Hurdle.
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In October 1954, college students crowd into the brand new Douglas S. Freeman Excessive Faculty in Henrico County. Freeman is now one of the crucial numerous within the area, with racial demographics that carefully mirror the nation’s.
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In August 1953, members of the Monacan Junior Lady’s Membership sought volunteers for the upcoming blood drive at Tuckahoe Elementary Faculty in Henrico County. Whereas Mrs. Allan J. Carter referred to as prospects, Mrs. William F. Thornton labored on the typewriter.
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In January 1950, Bobby Seal (left), 15, and Marvin “Kayo” Williams, 14, performed billiards on the brand new desk on the Salvation Military’s Pink Defend Boys Membership, which was on Church Hill in Richmond.
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In October 1957, about 100 firefighters wanted 4 hours to manage a blaze within the 700 block of East Predominant Road in downtown Richmond. The hearth prompted $100,000 in injury and displaced Nathan’s tailor store and the DeJarnette & Paul insurance coverage company.
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In March 1952, Mrs. V.C. Wiltshire, 85, ready for spring planting at her dwelling on Patterson Avenue in Richmond.
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In October 1951, Mrs. R.L. Mattox confirmed off her distinctive mailbox at her dwelling on state Route 35 in Prince George County. The mailbox put up was made utilizing an previous log cabin chain and required an hour’s value of welding. Mattox and her husband had been impressed by a design they noticed in {a magazine}.
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In September 1950, floor was damaged for the South Richmond Well being Heart at 14th and Bainbridge streets. Members of the Richmond public well being neighborhood and South Richmond Neighborhood Nursing Service participated within the ceremony. The clinic, which opened in January 1952, was staffed by volunteer nurses.
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In July 1953, tennis gamers (from left) Cliff Miller, Al Dickinson and Bob Figg Sr. mentioned the Nation Membership of Virginia’s annual tennis competitors, which started the day earlier than. Solely Dickinson survived the primary day of the occasion.
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In Might 1953, buyers crowded the streets of downtown for Richmond Day, a promotion that started the yr earlier than. Like Black Friday, buyers had been lured to shops with offers akin to $1 televisions, 2-for-1 automotive offers and $1 attire. Retailers reported robust gross sales.
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In August 1954, Melvin Doggett (left) and Jeff Martin sought reduction from the summer time warmth … by getting even hotter. The boys used the “sizzling containers” on the Richmond YMCA, which could possibly be set to 115 levels and will go away the physique cleansed and refreshed.
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This December 1952 picture exhibits East Broad Road in downtown Richmond at evening.
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In September 1950, Sherry Gilman positioned a letter in a barrel-turned-mailbox on Honaker Avenue in Richmond. The barrel was serving as a short lived mailbox for the newly developed residential space within the West Finish.
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In June 1952, motorcyclists raced within the 10-Mile Nationwide Motorbike Championship on the Atlantic Rural Exposition grounds in Henrico County. Greater than 4,000 spectators noticed Bobby Hill of Columbus, Ohio, the nation’s prime racer, journey bike No. 1 to victory within the 20-lap championship race.
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In December 1957, firefighters battled at blaze at L.R. Brown & Co., a furnishings retailer on Hull Road in South Richmond. The warehouse blaze destroyed numerous items meant for Christmas items.
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In October 1951, staff constructed a bit of Forest Hill Avenue in South Richmond. The section sits between Westover Hills Boulevard and Prince Arthur Highway.
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In July 1951, two girls loved the white sand seaside of Cape Charles on Virginia’s Jap Shore.
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In July 1951, Alonzo Moore, 74, walked down a avenue in Cape Charles on Virginia’s Jap Shore and blew his horn, alerting locals to his sale of the recent catch of the day.
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In February 1953, Richmond Division of Utilities staff used a 65-foot hook-and-ladder hearth truck to put in new lights on Broad Road after makes an attempt to safe different ladder amenities from non-public firms had failed.
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In June 1951, the summer time warmth despatched crowds to Pocahontas State Park in Chesterfield County for a swim. Earlier that month, the state’s 9 parks welcomed greater than 77,000 guests throughout their unofficial opening week for the season.
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In July 1956, Warren Collazzo and Pat Benedict of the Jap Parkway Skating Membership in Brooklyn, N.Y., practiced a routine they’d use in a global skating competitors that was underway on the Area in Richmond. The multipurpose venue at Boulevard and Hermitage Highway hosted sporting occasions, concert events, exhibits and exhibitions for greater than 40 years earlier than being torn down within the late Nineteen Nineties to make approach for Sports activities Backers Stadium.
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In Might 1950, Clifford Burgess (from left), Harlean Bibb, Charles King and Shirley Kingsley, who attended Summer time Hill Faculty in South Richmond, practiced a sq. dance referred to as “Duck for the Oyster.”
Richmond within the 50s
In June 1950, Barbara Kilday (from left), Becky Department and Jill Arnold arrange a internet for tennis. The 14-year-olds had been attending summer time faculty within the Richmond space.
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In February 1951, Roman West pulled the wire of a steam whistle at T&E Laundry on Marshall Road in Richmond. The whistle was considered one of 9 that was being utilized in a citywide check of the audibility of air raid alerts.
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In November 1950, farmer Ray Welch of Northumberland County used his selfmade moveable corn elevator. The system scooped grain from floor degree and transferred it up for storage, and the wheels allowed it to be moved from place to put. “Everyone who farms has to make each sort of gadget he can for himself,” Welch mentioned.
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In June 1950, a college group adopted a nature path at Forest Hill Park in Richmond and explored a wildflower protect and fowl sanctuary.
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In Might 1955, a tugboat from New York Metropolis left Richmond’s Higher Terminal with three metal barges in tow. The barges had been made at Richmond Metal Co. for companies in New York.
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In April 1955, college students at Ridge Faculty in Henrico County loved their new merry-go-round. It was introduced to the college by the PTA, which had collected donations for playground gear.
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In Might 1956, Ann Huxley adjusted the blade top on her lawnmower earlier than slicing the grass at her dwelling on Three Chopt Highway in Henrico County.
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In November 1951, a dachshund float towered above spectators lining the curb throughout the Thalhimers Toy Parade in downtown Richmond. The parade was first held in 1929 and, after a pause throughout World Warfare II, resumed in 1946. Thalhimers division retailer staff labored for months to construct floats, design routes and put together costumes. The parade was cancelled in 1973 as in-store actions took higher prominence.
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In July 1950, an worker of Richmond optician J.S. Galeski helped make a plastic eye. Galeski wished to enhance the looks and standardize the manufacturing of substitute eyes, which had been manufactured from glass by expert artisans. His plastic fashions got here in lots of sizes and colours.
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In August 1955, Mrs. Burlee stood on her entrance garden at Tree Hill Farm in Henrico County’s Varina space and admired the view of Richmond. The farm dated to the 1700s, and a big oak on the property, which was felled by a storm in 2012, was generally known as the “Give up Tree” – legend says it’s the place Richmond Mayor Joseph Mayo surrendered the town to Union forces in April 1865 close to the tip of the Civil Warfare. Extra just lately, the farm served as a set for the 2015 movie “Ithaca,” starring and directed by Meg Ryan.
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In April 1953, 15-year-old Doris Ann Williams operated her ham radio; she was the youngest feminine novice shortwave operator in Richmond. The John Marshal Excessive Faculty freshman started studying quick wave code the yr earlier than. Her father, Roland, was a former radio operator for the town Police Division, which sparked his daughter’s curiosity within the passion.
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In Might 1953, Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad conductor H.C. Rollins (proper) and flagman C.H. Smith did pre-trip paperwork in a prepare caboose earlier than a journey to Washington.
Richmond within the 50s
In March 1953, L. Howard Jenkins, head of a Richmond e-book producer that bore his identify, supervised staff at his plant on West Broad Road. The corporate dated to the Eighties.
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In February 1951, Mrs. J.H. Boxley diverted her husband’s consideration from his bookkeeping to indicate off new stock on the L’Pell’s clothes retailer they owned on East Grace Road in Richmond.
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This October 1951 exhibits one aspect of Bloemendaal Home, the previous dwelling of Richmond businessman Lewis Ginter and now a part of Lewis Ginter Botanical Backyard.
1953 Monument and Horsepen
In November 1953, a 10-block part of Monument Avenue between Horsepen Highway and Keystone Drive in Henrico County started carrying eastbound and westbound site visitors on separate sides of the median. About 20 indicators had been erected to let motorists know that they now not shared a single aspect. The change was in anticipation of increasing the configuration to start on the metropolis limits.
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In April 1952, Eleanor Brown, a pupil at Brook Hill Faculty, donned a bunny go well with for the Richmond Easter Parade. Native public schoolchildren celebrated with egg hunts and early dismissal for the Easter festivities.
Richmond within the 50s
In September 1953, lightning flashed over South Richmond throughout a storm that introduced heavy rain and stiff wind to the town.
Richmond within the 50s
In Might 1950, motorcyclists raced within the 10-Mile Nationwide Motorbike Championship on the Atlantic Rural Exposition grounds in Henrico County. The winner was “Little Joe” Weatherly of Norfolk, who later turned to inventory automotive racing and received NASCAR titles within the Sixties earlier than being killed in a race accident in Riverside, Calif., in 1964.
Richmond within the 50s
In November 1951, staff constructed a brand new lane on Monument Avenue in Henrico County. The truck was occupying what was the entrance yard of a home within the 6500 block. The highway was being widened for divided lane site visitors within the block between Bevridge Highway and Roxbury Highway.
Richmond within the 50s
In Might 1956, space residents loved a refreshing swim within the James River — a reprieve from report excessive temperatures throughout the spring month.
Richmond within the 50s
In March 1950, 4 ladies performed jump-rope in a Richmond metropolis park.
Richmond within the 50s
In July 1950, girls lounged on a floating platform at a swimming gap that was as soon as a quarry. Beginning within the 1800s, the world close to what’s now Willow Oaks was occupied by a lot of granite quarries. As they closed and had been allowed to fill with water, they turned in style recreation spots.
Richmond within the 50s
In March 1956, a full home on the Area in Richmond watched the State Group 1 highschool basketball match. Admission was $1 per recreation for adults and 50 cents for college kids. Newport Information Excessive Faculty received the match.
Richmond within the 50s
In January 1957, Mrs. Hunter Jones hitched a journey behind a ski airplane that was visiting Chesterfield County’s Parnell Discipline, which opened in March 1946 as the primary postwar airport within the Richmond space. Situated on Bells Highway, Parnell Discipline had two grime runways, and at its peak, it was dwelling to as many as 30 mild plane. It closed in 1972.
Richmond within the 50s
In June 1955, Central Nationwide Financial institution opened an “auto department” at Third and Marshall streets in downtown Richmond, a block from the primary workplace. The department featured drive-in home windows, walk-up service and an evening depository. The financial institution had opened a West Finish auto department at West Broad Road close to the Boulevard in 1948.
Richmond within the 50s
In August 1956, Criglersville common retailer proprietor Robert H. Gibbs served buyer Lindsay Utz whereas they mentioned matters of the day. The shop, inbuilt 1917 in Madison County, additionally served because the neighborhood’s put up workplace and phone assortment agent. On this rural space, the shop was a neighborhood gathering place, with an previous 1917 Simmons Large coal-burning range to maintain folks heat.
Richmond within the 50s
In April 1950, this coal bin within the Highland Springs Excessive Faculty store constructing was cleaned out and transformed right into a follow room for the college band. The Henrico County faculty’s band beforehand practiced within the faculty basement, which prompted a noise downside in school rooms. The store constructing was situated offsite close by.
Richmond within the 50s
This November 1950 picture exhibits the Sixth Road Market, the place the town of Richmond was set to lift rents to be extra consistent with prevailing charges. Rents on the seventeenth Road Market additionally had been going up, and the town deliberate to lift the sanitation tax on autos utilizing avenue area available in the market areas from 10 cents to 50.
Richmond within the 50s
In September 1956, college students on the Grace Arents Faculty, situated on Oregon Hill, had been amongst these throughout Richmond who participated in a fireplace drill. The scholars filed out in an orderly column whereas a instructor remained on the door to verify all youths exited safely.
Richmond within the 50s
In Might 1955, buyers on Broad Road in downtown Richmond rushed to search out bargains on the fourth annual Richmond Day. Offers included winter coats for $1 for early prospects, tv units between $1.98 and $19, and a seven-diamond ring for $39. Many shops participated within the gross sales occasion, and prospects lined up as early as 8:30 p.m. the evening earlier than in hopes of getting the most effective offers.
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In Might 1958, Homer E. Pate, whose legs and arms had been paralyzed, labored in leather-based craft as a part of his rehabilitation. With him was Margaret Williams, an occupational therapist at McGuire Veterans Administration Hospital in Richmond.
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In November 1959, Mrs. Frank L. Jobson (seated) and Adele Clark admired a banner for the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia, which they helped kind 50 years earlier in Richmond. Girls received the constitutional proper to vote in 1920 – “and neither of us has missed an election since 1920,” Clark mentioned.
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In October 1958, chemists Owen R. Blackburne (left) and Invoice Simmons distilled unstable acids on the Richmond Sewage Disposal headquarters close to Rocketts Touchdown.
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In March 1959, staff of the Virginia Division of Motor Automobiles on West Broad Road in Richmond ready for an onslaught of consumers earlier than doorways opened for enterprise.
1955 Parker Discipline
On April 9, 1955, the Boston Pink Sox topped the New York Giants, 5-2, in an exhibition recreation seen by greater than 12,600 spectators at Parker Discipline in Richmond. Pictured are middle fielders Jimmy Piersall from Boston and Willie Mays of New York. (To that time, solely a 1954 exhibition between the New York Yankees and Richmond Virginians drew a bigger crowd.) Willie Mays (proper) and Jim Piersall April 9, 1955
Richmond within the 50s
In January 1955, a snowy slope at Forest Hill Park in Richmond got here to life on a chilly afternoon. Sledders turned out after faculty and stayed late on hard-packed snow. Two days earlier than, a snowfall that formally measured 7.6 inches had fallen – it was probably the most since 1948.
Richmond within the 50s
In February 1952, Gene Autry carried out exhibits on the Mosque that included singing, Native American dances, trick-roping and Autry’s well-known horse, Champion. Right here, Autry met 7-year-old J. Harvie Wilkinson III, now a choose on the 4th U.S. Circuit Courtroom of Appeals, who wore his finest Western outfit for the event.
Richmond within the 50s
In September 1952, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was on a whistle-stop tour of Virginia and North Carolina in his marketing campaign for the presidency. Right here, he greeted a crowd of 25,000 from his prepare in Petersburg, the final cease earlier than heading to Richmond for his sixth speech of the day.
Richmond within the 50s
In July 1950, heavyweight boxing legend Jack Dempsey got here to Richmond as a headline attraction for a unique occasion: He was referee of a wrestling match. Dempsey handed via city the day earlier than the occasion, and for a little bit of leisure, he received a scalp therapeutic massage from George Dunn within the Resort John Marshall barbershop.
Richmond within the 50s
This April 1951 picture exhibits the Richmond skyline as seen from the south finish of the Lee Bridge. The span within the foreground was a small vehicle bridge to Belle Isle, primarily utilized by staff engaged on the island. The bridge was largely washed away in rains from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes in 1972, and now solely the helps and a small portion on the island stay.
Richmond within the 50s
On Nov. 3, 1950, Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Pearl S. Buck addressed the Virginia Lecturers Affiliation and Virginia Schooling Affiliation in separate periods; the VTA was a black group. Concerning segregation, she recommended that “in later years we are going to discover lecturers of all races assembly right here collectively.”
Richmond within the 50s
On Oct. 27, 1953, retired middleweight boxing champion “Sugar Ray” Robinson headlined two exhibits on the Mosque. Robinson turned to dancing and singing when he stopped boxing in 1952 however resumed combating in 1955 when his leisure profession waned. Throughout his present in Richmond, he was backed up by Rely Basie’s orchestra and accomplished no fewer than 5 costume modifications.
Richmond within the 50s
In Might 1954, swimmers cooled off on a sizzling day at Granite Quarry in Chesterfield County. Beginning within the 1800s, the world close to what’s now Willow Oaks was occupied by a lot of granite quarries. As they closed and had been allowed to fill with water, they turned in style recreation spots.
Richmond within the 50s
On July 11, 1950, a part of the ceiling of the Park Theater at 810 E. Broad St. collapsed throughout a exhibiting, injuring 17. The theater, which reopened a month later after repairs, had a protracted historical past. It opened because the Lubin in 1909, turned the Regent briefly in 1916 earlier than altering identify to the Isis in the identical yr. After closing in 1929, it reopened because the Park in 1938, then closed once more in 1953.
Richmond within the 50s
On June 13, 1951, a twister struck Richmond, inflicting large injury in its 4-mile path of destruction –including a truck crushed by a fallen tree at Belvidere and Franklin streets downtown.
Richmond within the 50s
In November 1954, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mom visited Richmond on a U.S. tour. Earlier than a crowd of about 6,000 folks at Capitol Sq., Gov. Thomas B. Stanley escorted her into the Capitol for a tour.
Richmond within the 50s
In September 1953, two boys surveyed the William F. Fox Faculty, which they had been able to attend inside days. The Richmond faculty, on Hanover Avenue within the Fan District, was devoted in September 1911.
Richmond within the 50s
This Might 1950 picture exhibits Swift Creek Mill in Chesterfield County. Now dwelling to the native theater, the positioning was inbuilt 1663 as a gristmill and adjusted arms and capabilities many instances over the centuries, in keeping with the theater’s historical past. In 1929, working once more as a gristmill, the property turned recognized formally because the Swift Creek Mill and remained in operation till 1956. It’s listed on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations.
Richmond within the 50s
In October 1957, U.Va. confronted Virginia Tech within the Tobacco Pageant soccer recreation at Metropolis Stadium in Richmond. Right here, Virginia’s Jim Bakhtiar (ft in air) rolled into the tip zone within the first quarter for the primary of his 4 touchdowns. The Cavaliers trounced the Gobblers 38-7.
Richmond within the 50s
In March 1950, a shock 5-inch snowfall lined Richmond and saved site visitors on the slushy Lee Bridge shifting slowly.
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1959 view of a staircase at Outdated Metropolis Corridor.
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Richmond’s triple railroad crossing 4th time in historical past 3 trains lined up TD Oct 13, 1958
Richmond within the 50s
This July 1955 photograph exhibits the view from Richmond’s Chimborazo Hill at twilight, trying throughout Fulton and the James River. The photograph accompanied a “Capital Sidelights” column by Charles McDowell Jr. that promoted the sundown views from the hill.
Richmond within the 50s
In Might 1952, new policewoman Martha S. Jackson positioned considered one of her first tickets on an illegally parked automotive. Jackson, considered one of Richmond’s first full-fledged feminine site visitors officers with full police authority, was tasked with pedestrian schooling and enforcement when the “stroll/do not stroll” lights started operation on Broad Road, in addition to automotive tagging and intersection assignments.
Richmond within the 50s
In April 1952, Know-Your-Financial institution Week actions in Richmond included behind-the-scenes excursions for financial institution prospects and faculty college students. Right here, college students from Thomas Jefferson Excessive Faculty got a glance contained in the State-Planters Financial institution and Belief Co. vault by assistant cashier Ramon G. Smith. Gov. John S. Battle first designated such every week in 1950.
Richmond within the 50s
In August 1950, Richmond Metropolis Clerk William T. Wells (left) swore in lawyer Lewis F. Powell Jr. as member of the Richmond Faculty Board. In 1971, Powell was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Courtroom by President Richard M. Nixon, and he served from 1972 till resigning in mid-1987. Powell died in 1998 and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery.
Richmond within the 50s
On April 14, 1951, the Deep Run races had been held on the Atlantic Rural Exposition fairgrounds, now generally known as the Richmond Raceway Complicated. The co-feature was the Richmond Plate race, a 2-mile course that Crown Royal led over the primary bounce earlier than ending third, eight lengths behind winner Flying Wing.
Richmond within the 50s
In April 1951, W.H. Childress’ coonhound received better of breed on the Virginia Kennel Membership’s seventeenth annual canine present on the Atlantic Rural Exposition fairgrounds. The membership was first organized in October 1902, and whereas it placed on some exhibits earlier than 1935, it didn’t start a constant schedule till then.
Richmond within the 50s
In September 1950, the Cary Road resurfacing undertaking was approaching completion. As half of a bigger resurfacing and restore undertaking throughout the town, Cary was repaved with blacktop between Belmont and Nansemond streets by Richmond’s Division of Public Works.
Richmond within the 50s
This December 1951 picture exhibits the “Tummyache” persimmon tree behind Retreat for the Sick Hospital at Grove Avenue and Mulberry Road in Richmond. Based on the story, in about 1922, the 6-year-old son of a preacher-farmer in Powhatan County saved consuming persimmons someday till he developed a stomachache and was dropped at the hospital. A health care provider eliminated a couple of pint of seeds from the kid’s abdomen – after which planted one, which turned this tree.
Richmond within the 50s
This April 1951 picture exhibits St. Andrew’s Faculty in Richmond’s Oregon Hill space. Famous philanthropist Grace Arents based the college in 1894 and was a key supporter of St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church. The varsity provided a variety of applications, together with stitching, music and bodily schooling. It nonetheless stands in the present day, serving low-income youngsters.
Richmond within the 50s
In October 1950, Virginia Randolph attended the cornerstone-laying ceremony for a $262,000 addition to the previous one-room schoolhouse in Glen Allen that she began in 1892 and that was named for her. In 1949, Randolph retired at age 79 from a protracted profession that encompassed instructing and supervising instructor coaching and curriculums for black colleges within the Richmond space. Randolph, whose efforts targeted closely on vocational schooling, died in 1958.
Richmond within the 50s
In July 1954, the boys choir sang in All Saints Episcopal Church, which was then on West Franklin Road. The next yr, the church determined to maneuver to River Highway; the previous constructing has since been torn down.
Richmond within the 50s
In late summer time 1951, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway ran its first diesel-powered locomotives via Richmond on two of its passenger trains. Right here, prepare engineer Mr. Denton received orders from stationmaster Mr. Boykin. By the tip of the yr, the corporate hoped to have many of the steam locomotives in its line changed with diesel-electric ones.
Richmond within the 50s
This October 1956 picture exhibits Tobacco Row at Dock Road, the place many cigarette producers had been situated. Tobacco planters and shippers began constructing amenities in Richmond within the 1600s. The brick buildings that stand there in the present day had been constructed within the late 1800s to early 1900s. The tobacco firms had moved out by the late Nineteen Eighties, and in the present day the previous buildings have been transformed primarily to retail and residential area.
Richmond within the 50s
This November 1956 picture exhibits Richmond disc jockey Alden Aaroe, who began in radio in 1938 and landed his signature morning present on WRVA in 1956. He stayed with WRVA till 1993, simply a number of weeks earlier than his dying.
Richmond within the 50s
In October 1953, Mary Workman (holding music stand), higher generally known as Sunshine Sue, sang along with her band. From 1946 to 1957, Workman was host of the favored “Outdated Dominion Barn Dance” music radio present, broadcast nationally on Saturday nights on WRVA from the Lyric Theater in downtown Richmond. This system helped launch the careers of a number of nation music stars.
Richmond within the 50s
In April 1950, some youngsters took a relaxation and received a drink from a fountain in North Richmond situated alongside the Richmond Henrico Turnpike. This fountain, between Dove and Vale streets simply off the turnpike, remains to be standing, although the lion heads have since been eliminated and the fountain has been painted.
Richmond within the 50s
This December 1950 picture of East Broad Road at Fifth Road in downtown Richmond exhibits crowds of vacation buyers visiting such shops as Baker’s, Peoples Drug, Swatty’s Pants, Haverty’s Furnishings and Raylass Division Retailer.
Richmond within the 50s
This December 1950 picture of East Broad Road at Fifth Road in downtown Richmond exhibits crowds of vacation buyers visiting such shops as Baker’s, Peoples Drug, Swatty’s Pants, Haverty’s Furnishings and Raylass Division Retailer.
Richmond within the 50s
This November 1951 photograph from the 3100 block of West Cary Road exhibits Lord’s Furnishings and Hofheimer’s shoe retailer. That fall, Hofheimer’s provided Stride Ceremony youngsters’s sneakers – “gas-filled balloons with each pair!” – for $4.50 to $7.95. (The placement, in what’s now referred to as Carytown, is occupied by Can Can Brasserie.)
Richmond within the 50s
In April 1950, Roscoe Turner (proper), famed velocity flier who helped develop Richmond’s authentic Byrd Discipline, shook arms with Adm. Richard E. Byrd, for whom the sphere is known as, on the dedication of Byrd Airport’s new terminal constructing. Richmond Mayor Stirling King joined them.
Richmond within the 50s
In Might 1950, Richmond celebrated Park and Recreation Week with a sequence of occasions, together with an artwork carnival, puppet exhibits and concert events. Sq. dancing for all ages on the Byrd Park tennis courts was a spotlight of the week.
Richmond within the 50s
In October 1950, the Benedictine Cadet Corps adopted new uniforms. Father Andrew (from left), Benedictine’s principal, inspected Maj. Wesley Rhodes within the previous West Level model prime and Col. Alfred Moss within the new, shorter Eisenhower jacket. On the similar time, cadets modified to Navy pea jackets as a prime coat – the earlier model, an Military-type mackinaw that was made on the state penitentiary, was now not out there.
Richmond within the 50s
In April 1951, a little bit woman met a Nice Dane because the Virginia Kennel Membership held its seventeenth annual canine present on the Atlantic Rural Exposition fairgrounds. The membership had an extended historical past, having been first organized in October 1902. Whereas it placed on some exhibits earlier than 1935, it didn’t start a constant schedule till then.
Richmond within the 50s
In July 1951, Workplace of Value Stabilization rules had been posted on the Thalhimers division retailer. The rules had been enacted as a result of a surge in demand for items after the beginning of the Korean Warfare prompted a speedy rise in costs. The workplace was closed in April 1953.
Richmond within the 50s
On Aug. 28, 1950, Richmond’s first black firefighting unit took cost of Engine Co. 9 at Fifth and Duval streets. Capt. J.G. Forristal, seated beside the driving force, remained head of the station, and white members who waved to their colleagues had been transferred.
Richmond within the 50s
A June 1950 picture of the Grand Theatre at 620 E. Broad St. The theater opened in 1917 because the Bluebird, and in 1933, it reopened because the Grand, specializing in grindhouse and B films. From 1940 till it closed in 1963, it was the house for western films in Richmond.
Richmond within the 50s
In November 1950, Metropolis Council was set to think about a request to desert the stretch of twenty third Road between Cary and Dock streets, partially occupied by the railroad tracks seen within the distance. A meals dealer that owned adjoining property wished to purchase the land to increase its warehouse. This land in the present day homes a part of the parking deck for The River Lofts flats.
Richmond within the 50s
In April 1952, no gamers had been in sight on the Byrd Park tennis courts. Richmond endured 5 days of rain, with an official complete of three.82 inches falling. The James River reached flood stage, and whereas that was sufficient to cowl docks, the rains lastly relented.
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A 1950 picture of Adams Road at West Leigh Road.
Richmond within the 50s
In November 1950, a multifaith Thanksgiving service was held at Monument Methodist Church, situated at Allen and Park avenues in Richmond. Simply days after the service, the church suffered a devastating five-alarm hearth – the next yr, the congregation was a part of a merger that fashioned Reveille United Methodist. The broken constructing was restored and is now occupied by Neighborhood Church of God in Christ.
Richmond within the 50s
This February 1952 picture exhibits the Excessive’s Ice Cream retailer at 2410 E. Broad St. Excessive’s operated a variety of shops in Richmond and had a plant on West Broad Road – its opening-day particular in 1932 was purchase one Huge Cone for five cents, get the second free.
Richmond within the 50s
In October 1950, Virginia Randolph helped S.O. Spriggs, worshipful grasp of East Finish Lodge 233, A.F. & A.M., lay the cornerstone at a ceremony for a $262,000 addition to the previous one-room schoolhouse in Glen Allen that Randolph began in 1892 and that was named for her. In 1949, Randolph retired from a protracted profession that encompassed instructing and supervising instructor coaching and curriculums for black colleges within the Richmond space. Randolph, whose efforts targeted closely on vocational schooling, died in 1958.
Richmond within the 50s
In June 1951, amid excessive temperatures and humidity, Shields Lake in Byrd Park and different swimming pools in Richmond had been setting attendance data. Shields Lake was a whites-only public swimming facility that was closed in 1955. Metropolis officers cited the excessive price of vital repairs, not courtroom rulings in opposition to segregation, and mentioned a number of new neighborhood swimming pools could possibly be constructed for lower than renovating the lake facility.
Richmond within the 50s
This March 1954 picture exhibits Newt, the fireplace canine on the Henrico County Fireplace Division’s Station No. 7. The station was fashioned in 1948 because the Glenwood Farms Fireplace Division, serving the Mechanicsville Turnpike space. The subsequent yr, it was turned over from the Glenwood Farms Civic Affiliation to Henrico County. This March 1954 picture exhibits Newt, the fireplace canine on the Henrico County Fireplace Division’s Station No. 7. The station was fashioned in 1948 because the Glenwood Farms Fireplace Division, serving the Mechanicsville Turnpike space. The subsequent yr, it was turned over from the Glenwood Farms Civic Affiliation to Henrico County.
Richmond within the 50s
In December 1952, whereas baseball Corridor of Famer Ty Cobb was in Richmond for sightseeing and duck looking, he took time to talk to reporters about his current articles in Life journal disparaging “fashionable” baseball as missing the person talent his period demanded.
Richmond within the 50s
This December 1951 picture exhibits the state Capitol’s west wing, which was added within the early twentieth century. A 1951 proposal to increase the east and west wings at a value of $875,000 was finally rejected.
Richmond within the 50s
A June 1950 picture of Peoples Furnishings Retailer at 514 E. Broad St., the place the summer time furnishings sale included a chaise lounge with mattress for $18.95. From 1896 to 1915, this deal with housed the Robert E. Lee Camp No. 1 Accomplice Veterans Corridor. The camp held conferences and events at this location, whereas its dwelling for veterans was at Boulevard and Grove Avenue.
Richmond within the 50s
This July 1950 picture exhibits McGuire Corridor at twelfth and Clay streets in downtown Richmond. It opened in 1912 to accommodate the College School of Drugs, which merged with the Medical School of Virginia the next yr. It nonetheless homes places of work, laboratories and school rooms for Virginia Commonwealth College’s medical campus.
Richmond within the 50s
On Sept. 26, 1953, the Virginia Tech soccer crew celebrated its 20-6 win over the College of Virginia in Charlottesville. When Tech coach Frank Moseley benched star quarterback Johnny Dean due to a questionable knee, former punter Jack Williams made probably the most of his shot at QB, scoring the go-ahead landing within the fourth quarter.
Richmond within the 50s
This 1950 picture exhibits a part of the Bellona Arsenal property in Chesterfield County. Bellona was inbuilt 1816 by the U.S. authorities as an Military put up, and the close by foundry equipped the navy within the antebellum period. Within the Civil Warfare, the complicated served the Confederacy. The Luck household renovated the remaining buildings starting within the early Nineteen Forties.
Richmond within the 50s
This April 1950 picture exhibits a customer consuming the pure spring water from a fountain at South Richmond’s Fonticello Park, often known as Carter Jones Park. For a number of a long time within the late Nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Fonticello Lithia water firm marketed the medicinal properties of the spring water and offered it bottled beginning at 20 cents per gallon.
Richmond within the 50s
In September 1950, two ladies from the Belle Bryan Day Nursery visited Miller & Rhoads in downtown Richmond to see the Dunn Bros. miniature circus – “the largest little present on Earth,” because it proclaimed itself. The 475,000-piece circus took 5 males 48 hours to arrange on a 60-by-28 foot-table – and 7 hours to interrupt down.
Richmond within the 50s
In Might 1950, three members of the Thomas Jefferson Excessive Faculty cadet corps accomplished their day by day flag ritual.
Richmond within the 50s
On Feb. 29, 1956, the Virginia Warfare Memorial was devoted regardless of the statue “Reminiscence” nonetheless being unfinished. The statue’s head was lastly positioned on March 13, after which the smoothing course of was accomplished. With the ceiling of the memorial solely 2 ft above the highest of the pinnacle, it was an arduous six-hour course of to get the pinnacle put in.
Richmond within the 50s
This July 1950 picture exhibits the world on the intersection of Axtell and Jesse streets in downtown Richmond. At the moment, the ramp linking southbound Belvidere Road to southbound Interstate 95 occupies the world.
Richmond within the 50s
In January 1951, three younger polio sufferers in iron lungs had been transported by truck and prepare from Roanoke to Richmond, the place they may endure long-range remedy on the Medical School of Virginia Hospital. Pictured are Eddie Shumate, 18, with Rowena Grisso, 16, on the far finish; 11-year-old Howard Taylor isn’t pictured. Whereas a number of precautions had been in place, together with having further iron lungs out there, the 10½-hour journey went easily.
Richmond within the 50s
In November 1951, work to enhance the 100 block of Broad Road, trying west from First Road, was accomplished. Along with resurfacing the highway after eradicating the streetcar tracks, a concrete middle strip was added together with up to date site visitors alerts, new avenue lights and walk-don’t stroll alerts. Your complete Broad Road renovation undertaking stretched from Laurel to twelfth streets.
Richmond within the 50s
In early October 1952, temperatures reached into the mid-80s, and folks across the space discovered methods to benefit from the unseasonably heat climate. These boys soaked up the solar whereas fishing at Shields Lake in Richmond. A day later, temperatures dropped into the 60s after a chilly entrance arrived.
Richmond within the 50s
In September 1953, members of the Virginia Navy Institute soccer crew ready for the season. From left are guard Frank Boxley, middle Fred Poss (in entrance), quarterback Dave Woolwine, finish Wendell Shay, again Charlie Lavery and backfield coach Clark King. The Keydets completed the season with a 5-5 report.
Richmond within the 50s
This March 1951 picture exhibits the inside of the Metropolis Storage on the previous fairgrounds property close to Parker Discipline. From its opening in 1908 till 1954, the power served as an administration constructing, Military induction middle and Military motor pool earlier than housing the town’s automobiles. In 1954, the constructing turned The Area and hosted sporting occasions, concert events, exhibits and exhibitions for greater than 40 years earlier than being torn down within the late Nineteen Nineties to make approach for Sports activities Backers Stadium.
Richmond within the 50s
In April 1950, the first Precinct police station at seventeenth and East Broad streets confronted an unsure future after the choice to consolidate it with the 2nd Precinct station on Marshall Road. The first Precinct station required main repairs and would have price about $4,000 per yr to keep up. The constructing later was renovated and have become a youngsters’s recreation middle.
Richmond within the 50s
A June 1950 picture of the Ann Lewis girls’s clothes retailer at 309 E. Broad St. in downtown Richmond. That yr, fall fits had been on sale for $11, and attire for under $5.44.
Richmond within the 50s
In December 1951, the Staples Mill Pond froze, giving folks the prospect to mud off their ice skates and have some enjoyable. The pond was a preferred ice-skating spot every time it froze.
Richmond within the 50s
In September 1951, the velocity restrict on Monument Avenue inside the town was 25 mph. Henrico County had just lately diminished the velocity restrict on its portion of Monument from 50 to 35, and a Richmond Information Chief editorial urged the town to lift its restrict to match that.
Richmond within the 50s
The Oct. 1, 1950, version of The Occasions-Dispatch included a photograph essay and story on prepare and automotive security. This picture of an Atlantic Coast Line diesel locomotive – with Broad Road Station barely seen within the background via fog – illustrated the necessity for heightened vigilance in dangerous climate to keep away from collisions between trains and automobiles. The story mentioned there have been 122 such accidents in Virginia in 1949, with 23 folks killed.
Richmond within the 50s
In August 1950, a 10-car accident on the Lee Bridge snarled site visitors each methods throughout rush hour. There was just one minor damage, and not one of the autos sustained critical injury.
Richmond within the 50s
This January 1953 picture exhibits homes on Belvidere Road in Richmond, as seen close to Rowe Road, which had been to be taken by the town for a proposed warfare memorial. The row fashioned the western boundary of a block that metropolis officers had been getting ready to amass. The Virginia Warfare Memorial was devoted in February 1956.
Richmond within the 50s
This July 1950 picture exhibits the Haverty’s furnishings retailer on the nook of East Broad and Fourth streets downtown. The placement opened on April 25, 1946, and specials included a three-piece mahogany bed room suite for $199.50 and card tables for $3.50 every. (At the moment, the constructing is occupied by Sunny Males’s Put on, and the unique Virginia greenstone flanking the entry remains to be seen.)
Richmond within the 50s
In June 1951, youngsters performed on the Westwood Terrace playground. Some new properties within the growth had been provided for lower than $10,000 that yr.
Richmond within the 50s
This April 1950 picture exhibits the horse fountain on Shockoe Lane, the small stretch at thirteenth and East Cary streets that’s now known as Shockoe Slip. The marble fountain, donated by an nameless Baltimore lady in 1909 in reminiscence of a Accomplice cavalry captain buried in Hollywood Cemetery, nonetheless sits in entrance of The Martin Company. The inscription: “In Reminiscence of One Who Beloved Animals.”
Richmond within the 50s
In August 1950, the 176th Infantry of the Virginia Nationwide Guard was coaching at Camp Pickett in preparation for attainable responsibility in Korea. The fight crew’s roots included the Confederacy’s 1st Virginia Infantry, which fought with the Military of Northern Virginia.
Richmond within the 50s
In November 1957, three shops opened for enterprise in Southside Plaza, then a part of Chesterfield County. They had been (from left) Large Meals, Peoples Drug Retailer and G.C. Murphy Co. The formal grand opening of the purchasing middle was held in March 1958.
Richmond within the 50s
In June 1952, vans loaded with wheat throughout the harvest season had a protracted wait – together with alongside the Mayo Bridge – to succeed in the Cargill Inc. grain elevator at First and Hull streets in South Richmond. About 250 vans delivered on at the present time alone, and as many as 85 had been lined up at one time. One driver reported ready eight hours to unload his truck.
Richmond within the 50s
In Might 1951, Richmond was getting ready to lift the day by day sanitation tax on avenue distributors on the Sixth and seventeenth Road markets from 10 cents per day to 25. The extra income would largely offset the $9,300 the town spent to wash the streets yearly. Some felt that flower distributors on the Sixth Road market, as pictured right here, shouldn’t must pay as a lot tax, however metropolis officers noticed no approach underneath the regulation to cost them much less.
Richmond within the 50s
This June 1950 picture exhibits the Harper’s Division Retailer at 201 E. Broad St. The shop opened in 1933 as The Linen Mart. After closing in 2006, the shop was offered to builders who discovered the contents to be a bit like a time capsule, with gadgets relationship again a long time – together with a males’s leather-based jacket priced at $10 and a boy’s three-piece wool go well with with costume shirt for $4.99. The contents had been purchased by two native collectors. The constructing nonetheless stands unoccupied.
Richmond within the 50s
In July 1952, Lovick Legislation, sergeant-at-arms for the Home of Delegates, had his badges and flowers adjusted by majorettes whereas attending the Virginia Democratic Conference in Roanoke. Legislation served the Common Meeting from 1944 till he died the evening earlier than the opening session in 1960.
Richmond within the 50s
In December 1951, frigid temperatures put the Chimborazo Park fountain in a frosty state. The fountain was put in within the East Richmond park’s central circle in 1909 and was illuminated with coloured lights at evening. It was faraway from the park within the late Nineteen Fifties in a extreme state of disrepair.
Richmond within the 50s
This Might 1953 picture exhibits the previous church tower on Jamestown Island. The construction is the one seventeenth century above-ground constructing that also stands there. The tower is believed to have been constructed after the fourth model of the church had been accomplished within the mid-1600s. Solely about 36 ft of the approximate 46-foot tower stay.
Richmond within the 50s
This Might 1957 picture exhibits the Woolworth’s at Fifth and Broad streets in downtown Richmond. The $1 million constructing opened in September 1954, and it housed a number of departments for the close by Miller & Rhoads, which had an earlier retailer on the positioning within the late 1800s. An advert for the Woolworth’s Easter sale provided purses for $1, data for 99 cents, and cowhide and plastic belts for between 39 and 98 cents.
Richmond within the 50s
This Might 1953 picture exhibits the First Market constructing, which was razed in 1961. This website now homes the seventeenth Road Farmers Market, however its historical past as a public gathering place and market dates to the 1700s. Over time, it hosted Accomplice troopers, Union troops, political speeches, a police station and non secular revival conferences along with farmers’ wares.
Richmond within the 50s
This February 1953 picture exhibits East Predominant Road close to tenth Road in downtown Richmond, with Rao’s Restaurant on the nook at left.
Richmond within the 50s
In Might 1950, Girl Surprise, Richmond’s psychic horse, spelled out a greeting when a reporter visited for her newest predictions. First gaining fame by accurately predicting that an underdog would take a boxing title in 1927, the horse was solely right about one prediction on this go to – that 1st District Congressman Edward J. Robeson Jr. would win his subsequent election.
Richmond within the 50s
In Might 1950, Willie Bradby (left) and Pamunkey Chief Tecumseh Deerfoot Cook dinner checked a shad internet on their reservation in King William County. The tribe had a worthwhile yr from fishing, so it made a donation to the Richmond Memorial Hospital constructing fund in reminiscence of tribe member Charles Bush, who had been killed in World Warfare II. The chief famous that sick tribe members had been handled at Richmond hospitals, so the Pamunkey wished to assist the development effort.
Richmond within the 50s
In December 1955, pedestrians scurried throughout a busy Broad Road at Fourth Road in downtown Richmond as Christmas purchasing was in full swing. There have been festivities deliberate throughout city, together with a celebration on the SPCA, a tv particular placed on by native labor unions and vacation actions at space hospitals.
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In February 1959, the parking zone was full on the new Meals Honest grocery retailer on West Broad Road in Richmond, close to downtown. The chain, based in Pennsylvania, was one of many largest within the nation on the time and was planning a half-dozen or extra shops within the Richmond space. (The grand opening right here was presupposed to characteristic retired Military Gen. Omar Bradley, who was on Meals Honest’s board of administrators, however he as a substitute needed to seem as a witness at a trial.)
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In Might 1959, Ronald Yaffe carried out a levitation magic trick. Yaffe, a 19-year-old freshman at Richmond Skilled Institute, deliberate to check optometry however loved performing magic as a passion.
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In April 1951, photographer Ewing Krainin was in Richmond to take a sequence of images for a nationwide journal. He enlisted assistance from the fireplace division and its tallest extension ladder to get recent angles on historic landmarks, together with the Robert E. Lee statue on Monument Avenue.
1952 Monument Avenue
An October 1952 picture of the Monument Avenue median adorned with autumn leaves.
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In March 1959, postman Sam H. Mellichampe delivered mail in a protracted line of containers at a trailer park close to Petersburg. He mentioned the row of mailboxes was the longest on his route. Mellichampe beforehand was a sergeant for 10 years on the Prince George County police power.
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In December 1959, the Seventh Road parking storage in downtown Richmond was the biggest of 54 properties, valued collectively at about $1.2 million, that had been slated for condemnation by the town as a part of plans to construct a civic middle.
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In July 1959, Phyllis Grove (from left), Alta Strickland and David Fridley analyzed cigarette smoke utilizing a fuel chromatograph at Philip Morris in Richmond. A narrative about space laboratories and scientists famous that medical issues about smoking had spurred the tobacco trade. It mentioned, partially: “The cancer-cigarette hyperlink could also be fairly poor science, as some say, however it’s not directly producing some excellent analysis.”
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In January 1958, site visitors moved via the intersection of Grace and Belvidere streets in Richmond. On the time, police referred to as it was probably the most accident-prone intersection within the metropolis.
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In Might 1958, Richmond Mayor F. Henry Garber topped Grace Jacqueline Allen as Miss Virginia throughout a ceremony on the Jefferson Resort downtown. Along with successful a visit to the Miss Virginia contest in Roanoke the subsequent month, Allen acquired a silver bowl, a $200 scholarship, jewellery and cosmetics. She was a pupil on the Richmond Skilled Institute.
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In January 1964, Jewell Mason, considered one of Richmond’s few feminine cab drivers, chatted along with her husband, Otha, who additionally drove cabs. Mason, who began working for the Yellow Cab Co. in 1958, mentioned she by no means had points due to her gender. However she did observe that girls drivers had been unjustly maligned: “Girls are as cautious as anybody else,” she mentioned.
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In October 1958, a street-widening undertaking continued alongside Patterson Avenue in Richmond’s West Finish. The 5600 and 5700 blocks had been closed since early August; the complete undertaking referred to as for widening Patterson between Maple and Commonwealth avenues.
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In September 1958, a Chesterfield County farmer welcomed the sight of rain clouds, although they didn’t yield any rain. The world was enduring a three-week dry spell on the time.
Richmond within the 50s
In January 1958, an explosion at Retailers Ice & Chilly Storage Co. at Sixth and Byrd streets in downtown Richmond killed seven folks and shattered home windows as much as seven blocks away. Firefighters had been fast to the scene however needed to retreat as a cloud of ammonia, leaking from refrigeration gear, hovered over the destruction (there was no hearth). In December, a jury determined that the town was at fault, as proof pointed to a leaking underground fuel primary.
Richmond within the 50s
In February 1956, “Teen Age Celebration,” a televised music and dancing present for the youthful crowd, was broadcast on Saturdays from the WRVA Theatre in downtown Richmond.
Richmond within the 50s
In January 1959, protesters marched via the rain to the state Capitol in Richmond to help faculty integration. Within the midst of the state’s Huge Resistance to the Brown v. Board of Schooling ruling, protests had been mounting throughout Virginia. Richmond colleges weren’t built-in till 1970.
Richmond within the 50s
In early December 1954, Richmond received an early dose of winter, with 2 inches of moist snow and report chilly temperatures. The chilly made clearing the streets tough, which led to three-hour delays for some commuters. Right here, a metropolis flusher washed snow and slush from Broad Road downtown. 4 such autos had been put to work to clear metropolis streets.
Richmond within the 50s
In November 1957, three shops opened for enterprise in Southside Plaza, then a part of Chesterfield County. They had been (from left) Large Meals, Peoples Drug Retailer and G.C. Murphy Co. The formal grand opening of the purchasing middle was held in March 1958.
Richmond within the 50s
This Might 1959 picture exhibits building alongside Patterson Avenue between Libbie and Maple avenues in Richmond. This block had simply reopened to site visitors, however ongoing work continued to dam passage to the east of the purchasing middle.
Richmond within the 50s
In September 1958, a yard stuffed with bicycles made clear that lessons had been again in session at Westhampton Faculty in Richmond. The varsity dates to 1917; in late 2013, Bon Secours Virginia Well being System introduced plans to renovate the complicated to be used as a nursing school and medical imaging faculty.
Richmond within the 50s
In Might 1958, Invoice Shockley of Greenville, S.C., spun out in an eight-lap midget auto warmth on the half-mile grime monitor on the State Fairgrounds. About 1,800 spectators turned out for the day’s racing, which featured a 25-lap ultimate race.
Richmond within the 50s
In September 1959, Jimmy Harrison gave some pals a journey to highschool in his vintage automotive. The scholar at Douglas Freeman Excessive Faculty in Henrico County spent his total summer time trip rebuilding the automotive.
Richmond within the 50s
In March 1959, Donnie and Bobby Alvis loved the primary days of spring in Richmond with applicable seasonal firm: a child lamb and new blossoms.
Richmond within the 50s
In June 1958, Reynolds Metals Co. staff Ethel Blue (left) and Bonnie Foy loved some solar on the firm’s new workplace area in Henrico County. The $10 million complicated sprawled over 40 acres on a 160-acre property. Reynolds spent greater than $150,000 on landscaping, together with greater than 10,000 bushes, shrubs and crops in addition to a inexperienced home that equipped recent flowers for the constructing.
Richmond within the 50s
This March 1959 picture exhibits the Richmond skyline from the south financial institution of the James River.
Richmond within the 50s
In July 1959, automobiles had been parked alongside seventeenth Road in Richmond trying towards Predominant Road.
Richmond within the 50s
In January 1958, Judy Moss, a Hermitage Excessive Faculty freshman took a spin on curler skates as she practiced her routine on the Area, a roller-skating rink at Boulevard and Hermitage Highway. On the time, Judy was one of the crucial promising skaters within the Richmond space and was working to grasp a few of the most tough duties of the rink.
Richmond within the 50s
In September 1958, a bridge that was a part of a Belvidere Road extension undertaking close to Chamberlayne Avenue in Richmond neared completion.
Richmond within the 50s
In April 1959, the City Motel had simply opened at Belvidere and Rowe streets close to the Virginia Warfare Memorial in Richmond. The motel had 26 items, and nightly charges started at $5.
Richmond within the 50s
In July 1958, George Richardson of Richmond glided alongside the Rappahannock River in his yacht, Hummingbird. The vessel, which he used for cruises on the Rappahannock and Chesapeake Bay and for fishing journeys, was a part of the Richmond-based Flotilla 51, a Coast Guard auxiliary unit.
Richmond within the 50s
In February 1958, a line of autos moved alongside Chamberlayne Avenue at Lombardy Road on Richmond’s North Facet. The passenger within the first automotive waved excitedly to the photographer within the median; the advert banner on the bus reads “Huge Shade TV is Right here.”
Richmond within the 50s
In June 1959, automobiles crammed the parking zone at Parker Discipline as about 6,500 folks watched the Richmond Virginians break up a double-header with the Buffalo Bisons and retain the lead of the Worldwide League. The native baseball crew drew greater than 18,500 followers in complete for single video games on Friday and Saturday and the Sunday double-header.
Richmond within the 50s
In January 1958, this horse and wagon raced via the streets of Church Hill in Richmond earlier than stopping after hitting a automotive. Horse proprietor Chester C. Sully mentioned he was making a coal supply when the horse received startled by a noise and took off on a five-minute gallop, which ended round Jefferson Avenue and twenty third Road, the place the wagon broke the automotive’s windshield and left rear window.
Richmond within the 50s
This June 1958 picture exhibits buildings at Fifth and Marshall streets in downtown Richmond that had been quickly to be razed to make approach for a parking zone. The buildings to be demolished had been to the correct of Diggs & Beadles Seed Co. Inc.
Richmond within the 50s
In August 1942, white guests loved a day at Wilcox Lake in Petersburg. The swimming facility was segregated, and the lake was closed by the town in 1958 to stop integration. It was by no means formally reopened for swimming (although within the Sixties, fishing was permitted on the lake).
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