Thirty years ago, this week, Peter Pan Bus Lines announced a no-smoking policy on their out of state bus routes. Smoking would also be banned in the Springfield Bus Terminal on Main Street. Smoking was already banned on service within Massachusetts after the state adopted a no smoking law on all public transportation the previous year. From the June 25, 1988 edition of The Union-NewsStaff Later in the week, over eighty people were evacuated from the Hotel Charles, in Springfield, after a raging fire in a vacant part of the building. The fire broke out in the former Hotel Cooley, but smoke spread into the occupied section of the building. No injuries were reported. From the June 30, 1988 edition of The Union-NewsStaff Twenty years earlier, players in the National Football League voted to strike unless the club owners agreed to their demands. Players wanted to have exhibition game play increased to $500 per game and an annual minimum salary of $15,000. From the June 28, 1968 … [Read more...] about From The Republican archives: Images of Page 1 from the past 50 years, week June 24
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Volcanoes park museum artifacts, archives moved to safety
HILO >> National Park Service staff moved its collection of artifacts and exhibit features from Jaggar Museum at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park on Tuesday due to all of the dramatic changes taking place at the summit of Kilauea. U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY Above, as viewed Monday, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory and Jaggar Museum sit on the rim of Halemaumau crater’s caldera. Subsidence at the summit has led to the loss of about 260 million cubic meters of material as of last week. HILO >> National Park Service staff moved its collection of artifacts and exhibit features from Jaggar Museum at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park on Tuesday due to all of the dramatic changes taking place at the summit of Kilauea. Although the building is damaged, the artifacts are now in a safe place, NPS officials said. “The process of removing art, artifacts and informative displays from Jaggar Museum (Tuesday) really drives home how much has changed in the … [Read more...] about Volcanoes park museum artifacts, archives moved to safety
Oakland’s sanctuary: A century of Lake Merritt photos pulled from archive
It’s the jewel of Oakland, a National Historic Landmark and the home to Children’s Fairyland, but Lake Merritt has always been for the birds. A recent dig through The Chronicle’s archive turned up long-hidden photos, some nearly a century old, of Lake Merritt, which holds the distinction of being the United States’ first government-sanctioned wildlife refuge, designated in 1870 to protect migratory birds from Bay Area hunters. About 150 years ago, about the time The Chronicle was founded, Oakland Mayor Samuel Merritt proposed the building of a dam to fill a tidal lagoon and create a lake near his sprawling home. He financed the dam over San Antonio Creek, which is now known as the Oakland Estuary, and named it Lake Peralta. According to a Sept. 9, 1984, Chronicle column by Margot Patterson Doss, a local paper pushed to rename the body of water for its patron, calling it “a most Merrittorious project.” In a 1869 Oakland Matters column, The Chronicle … [Read more...] about Oakland’s sanctuary: A century of Lake Merritt photos pulled from archive
Clips and comics from The Republican archive, week of June 17
The Republican each week will put together a slideshow of select clips and comics from the archive from the past 100 years. From the June 21, 1948 edition of The Springfield UnionStaff This week's selection of clips, headlines and comics from the past 100 years. This week we feature clips from 1928, 1948 and 1968. Fifty years ago, this week, the war in Vietnam became the longest in U.S. history. The War of Independence previously held that title as measured from the skirmish in Lexington, Mass. In 1775, to the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Va. In 1781. At this point, 535,000 American troops were fighting in Vietnam. This week U.S. Command reported that American troops were being moved into areas surrounding Saigon in order to block Viet Cong infiltration routes and to reduce the ongoing shelling of the South Vietnamese capital. From the June 22, 1968 edition of The Springfield Daily NewsStaff Forty years earlier, President Calvin Coolidge congratulated Amelia … [Read more...] about Clips and comics from The Republican archive, week of June 17
From The Republican archives: Images of Page 1 from the past 50 years, week June 17
Thirty years ago, this week, twenty thousand Springfield residents had to evacuate their homes after a swimming pool supplies company of Allen Street caught fire releasing a cloud of poisonous gas across the city. While many stayed with friends or family outside of the danger zone, some moved into shelters set up by the city. Areas included in the evacuation were Six Corners, Hill-McKnight, Mason Square and East Springfield. About 150 people were injured. From the June 19, 1988 edition of the Union-NewsStaff Twenty years earlier, Pfc. Theodore Griffin, 18, of Springfield was killed in Vietnam by enemy mortar fire. He had joined the Marine Corps in May 1967 and was stationed in Vietnam in October of that year. From the June 20, 1968 edition of The Springfield UnionStaff Later in the week, the U.S. government awarded the Soviet airline Aeroflot a Moscow-New York route. Pan Am was awarded a similar route by the Soviet authorities. It had been a seven-year process to arrange … [Read more...] about From The Republican archives: Images of Page 1 from the past 50 years, week June 17