Wayback Wednesday: Easter Greetings!
This Easter postcard was mailed on April 19th, 1908, from Baltimore to Winston-Salem. The message on the front of the postcard is “A Bright and Happy Easter.” The message on the back of the...
Monthly Archive: March 2021
Wayback Wednesday: The Taylor House
The William Barrett Taylor house sits on a point of land that faces West Fourth Street, and is flanked by Brookstown Avenue and Grace Court. William Barrett Taylor (1851-1933) came to Winston-Salem in the...
Wayback Wednesday: Happy St. Patrick’s Day
This embossed St. Patrick’s Day postcard was mailed from Farmington, Washington, to a woman in Winston-Salem, in 1907. The postcard is an undivided back postcard, which means that the entire back of the postcard...
Wayback Wednesday: Can You Identify These Photos?
The following are two photographs that were taken by Winston-Salem Journal photographer, Jim Keith. They are not necessarily connected, except that they were probably taken in 1961. If you can identify either the school...
Wayback Wednesday: Cloverdale Apartments
If you’ve lived in Winston-Salem for a while and traveled along Cloverdale Avenue in the Ardmore Neighborhood, you are probably familiar with the Cloverdale Apartments. The two-story, brick apartments contained 160 units and stretched...