On this date in 1947, parking meters were first installed in Winston-Salem. The city installed the 644 parking meters to help free-up parking spaces for short-term parking, hoping to encourage the all-day parkers to...
Clyde Clifton Randolph Jr. was born in Illinois in 1928. He graduated from the Wake Forest School of Law in 1951, and was admitted to practice law in North Carolina the same year. He...
William Lamberti bought the Gilda Beauty Salon, and changed the name to Lamberti Beauty Salon. The Gilda Beauty Salon was located on the eighth floor of the Nissen Building. On this date in 1940,...
Janet Carter Berkeley was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1882. She graduated from the Carnegie Library of Atlanta Library School in 1914. She was elected to the executive board of the Graduates Association in...
The Winston-Salem Journal announced on this date that a Tanglewood Hunt Racing Committee has been formed for the Steeplechase races that will take place on April 27th, 1963, at Tanglewood Park. This date marked...
Dr. Louis de Schweinitz Shaffner was born in 1916, in Winston-Salem. He was the son of Henry Fries and Agnes Gertrude Siewers Shaffner. Dr. Shaffner graduated from R. J. Reynolds High School, Asheville School,...
Ground was broken for the Rondthaler Memorial Sunday School Building on South Church Street in 1912, and the first services were held there in 1913. The bottom floor of the building was a...
Herbert Noel Hardy Sr. was born in Pitt County in 1894. He began his working career at R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company as a buyer. He progressed to supervisor of leaf tobacco buyers, general...
Curious onlookers viewing from Interstate 40 the construction underway near Knollwood Street, could only speculate about what was being built in the far end parking lot at Thruway Shopping Center. Finally the building took...
Hiram Sedgwick Cody was born in Chicago in 1888. He attended school in Chicago, and graduated from Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. He received a law degree from Northwestern University. Hiram...
