Friday, August 21, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 8/23/1965 to 8/29/1965

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The West Rome Marching Band was having to deal with extreme heat and high humidity during its band practices, leading the Rome News-Tribune ...
Saturday, August 15, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 8/16/1965 to 8/22/1965

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Rome City Schools publicized their final desegregation plans this week in 1965. Under the revised plans (which had been approved by the Depa...
Saturday, August 08, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 8/9/1965 to 8/15/1965

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Mid-August is usually a lazy time (or at least it was in the bygone days when school didn't actually start until the last week of the mo...
Saturday, August 01, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 8/2/1965 to 8/8/1965

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On August 4th, GL Sutton announced that West Rome was getting a major shopping center—and it was going in directly across the street from W...
Saturday, July 25, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 7/26/1965 to 8/1/1965

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This was news that no high school senior wanted to hear: President Lyndon Johnson announced that he would be doubling the military draft beg...
Saturday, July 18, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome – 7/19/1965 to 7/25/1965

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West Rome’s million-gallon-capacity Watson Street water tank was officially dedicated on July 21st. The tank was officially named the S.L. H...
Friday, July 10, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 7/12/1965 to 7/18/1965

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West Rome's varsity basketball cheerleaders headed to Mercer University for a cheerleading camp this week in 1965. Attendees included Br...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 7/6/1965 to 7/11/1965

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Every week in 1965 brought news of another indicator reinforcing Rome's economic growth. This week, it was a $1 million increase in the ...
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 6/28/1965 to 7/4/1965

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Rome's economy was doing so well this week in 1965 that the Rome City Commission voted to give all city employees a 5% raise effective J...
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Fifty Years Ago This Week in West Rome - 6/21/1965 to 6/27/1965

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Coosa Valley Tech was only a couple of years old, but the school was meeting with such overwhelming success that the Floyd County Board of E...