History Blog

Posted on September 14, 2025

Coach Randy Thornton is shown holding up a photo of what appears to be three muddy Indians football players while leg...

Posted on September 07, 2025

This is a photo from the 2004 Bridgeport High School yearbook showing the 2003 Indians volleyball team. Those p...

Posted on August 31, 2025

This is a photo from the 1970-71 Bridgeport High School Sports Banquet. Shown in the photo, from left, is Larry Burne...

Posted on August 24, 2025

This photo shows a slightly different version of Main Street in 1984. At this time, Dairy Queen was located where Eas...

Posted on August 17, 2025

Bridgeport's unofficial historian, and author of this blog, Richard "Dick" Duez has said he has spent 50 years lookin...

Posted on August 10, 2025

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

Posted on August 03, 2025

Although not certain of the date of this photo, it is of the exterior of The Coffee Shop situated on the corner of Center...

Posted on July 27, 2025

Few things are talked about with as much fondness as the former Bridgeport Fireman's Fair. Although the exact d...

Posted on July 20, 2025

For decades, Bridgeport High School has had a Mr. and Miss BHS. The year 1997 was no exception to the rule. Durinig t...

Posted on July 13, 2025

This photo, courtesy of Frank Yerkey, is of him lining up a picture perfect jump shot from the baseline in 1962 again...

Posted on July 06, 2025

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

Posted on June 29, 2025

Look familiar? If it doesn't, it's because today this area of Johnson Avenue is completely built up. Th...

Posted on June 22, 2025

You know this young ladies? This is from the 1987-88 school year and back in the Bridgeport Junior High Days. She...

Posted on June 15, 2025

The perpetrator of the car in Maple Lake is also the same person submitting the photo. Tim Flint, then 3, bumpe...

Posted on June 08, 2025

Here is what we know about this photo. It shows a Bridgeort High School golf team from many decades ago. After that,...

From the Bench: How Pancakes Allowed Tri...

The creation of a group called the “Pancake Club” helped create a situation where Bridgeport High School’s football st...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
Time Travel: Coaches Thornton, Retton at...

Coach Randy Thornton is shown holding up a photo of what appears to be three muddy Indians football players while leg...

Posted by Dick Duez
It's Happening: John Miller's Impact on ...

Over the past 45 years, I have worked a handful of different jobs, but I’ve never been as thrilled about a hire as when Jo...

Posted by Julie Perine
Off the Shelf: Introducing Library Servi...

A familiar face at the Bridgeport Public Library has been promoted to a new role, and she is bringing back an old serv...

Posted by Angela Spatafore
ToquiNotes: Recalling a Bridgeport Resta...

As I often do, particularly for you fans of nostalgia and food, I am focusing this week’s blog on a national restauran...

Posted by Jeff Toquinto
The Grapevine: Health Right Kitchen Comi...

Visitors to the Clarksburg Farmers Market on Saturday, Oct. 4 will be treated to a special visit by the West Virginia...

Posted by Rosalyn Queen
Frankie's Furry Friends: Humane Society ...

The Humane Society has three amazing events taking place in both September and October. We are sure at least one of th...

Posted by Frankie Michelle Dennison