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Time Travel: Main Street 1953 City Grocery Store and Looking at City of Fairmont's Downtown in the 1940s

Bridgeport has had plenty of grocery stores in the past, but some may not remember there was an A&P right in the...

By Dick Duez June 13, 2021 10:30 AM EST in History Blog

Time Travel: Locals in Music Business from 2005 and a Downtown Clarksburg 1933 Hotspot for Movies

Posted on June 06, 2021

Some of these young men look familiar? You may know them today, but this is a look back to them in 2005 as part of Ac...

Time Travel: Charter Members of City Church Group Honored and Beckley Fire Department from the 1980s

Posted on May 30, 2021

The date of this photo is unknown, but it involved a program held to honor the charter members of the Women's Society...

Time Travel: Bridgeport's 2001 State Champion Cheer Squad and Unknown Train Site in Harrison County

Posted on May 23, 2021

Bridgeport's cheerleading program has seen its share of success through the years. This is a photo of the celebration on t...

Time Travel: West Philadelphia Business Hot Spot and Police Patrol in Glen Elk Decades ago in Clarksburg

Posted on May 16, 2021

Anyone remember when this West Philadelphia Avenue buiding housed Dairy Mart as is shown in what is believed to be an...

Time Travel: Identifying Two Young Ladies in 1965 at All Saints and State Police Doing Job on Horseback

Posted on May 09, 2021

Here is a photo that is from 1965 and is at All Saints Catholic Church. After that, the information is unknown. These...

Time Travel: BMS Volleyball Team from the 1980s and Amtrak Routes in Clarksburg's Glen Elk Section

Posted on May 02, 2021

This is a photo of the 1982-83 volleyball team at Bridgeport Middle School. The team was coached by James Broslawsky,...

Time Travel: Youthful Days of City Business Owner and St. James Catholic Church 8th Grade Graduation

Posted on April 25, 2021

This is Bridgeport business owner Bob Riggs during his youth. The photo, courtesy of Mike Riggs, shows Bob standing b...

Time Travel: Pee Wee White Cheerleaders from 2000 and National Retail Giant in Clarksburg from 1962

Posted on April 18, 2021

Although this submitted image is grainy, it is of the Bridgeport Pee Wee White Exhibition Squad back in 2000 and was...

Time Travel: A Once Vibrant Main Street Motel and a Clarksburg Police Swearing in Ceremony from 1984

Posted on April 11, 2021

If this looks familiar, it should. You can still see this structure on Main Street that for many years was home to Th...

Time Travel: BHS Valedictorians, Salutatorians in 2002 and Parachuting into Milan Puskar Stadium in 1981

Posted on April 04, 2021

Shown are valedictorians Lauren Dieringer, Stephanie Sellas, Sarah Kovalan, Theresa Melko, Devon Crawford, Ashley Bel...

Time Travel: The City's Unofficial Historian's Wedding Day and JFK Dining in Huntington Back in 1960

Posted on March 28, 2021

Anyone recognized this prominent Bridgeport couple? It shows a young Richard "Dick" Duez and his late wife Norma Dale...

Time Travel: Former City Police Chief on Wedding Day and the Philippi Covered Bridge after 1989 Fire

Posted on March 21, 2021

This photo, provided by Tom Kinney, shows former Bridgeport Police Chief John Diamond, who has since passed, on his w...

Time Travel: First-Ever Jump Ball at Current BHS Gym and an Old Clarksburg Catholic Church Now Gone

Posted on March 14, 2021

The first-ever jump ball the current Bridgeport High School gymnasium from the 1963-64 season. The guy in the white i...

Time Travel: A Few Decades Rewind with BHS Cheer Squad and an Extinct County Route 50 Intersection

Posted on March 07, 2021

See anyone you know? Although the exact date of this cheerleading photo is unknown, it is belieed to be from the late...

Time Travel: Two Life-Long City Residents in 1960s on Center Street and a Old-Time Glen Elk Restaurant

Posted on February 28, 2021

Anyone recognize the two on the right? That would be Shirley Hadorn and her daughter Janet (Hathaway) as they head do...

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