Police examine murder in Chesterfield | Crime Information
Police mentioned a Chesterfield County man was discovered fatally shot early Monday inside his dwelling.
Police mentioned a Chesterfield County man was discovered fatally shot early Monday inside his dwelling.
Officers responded to reviews of a capturing at round 5:11 a.m. at a residence within the 4000 block of Chippendale Court docket.
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Police on the scene found a sufferer later recognized as Matthew J. Tommaso, 33.
Tommaso was discovered shot inside his dwelling close to the place the capturing was reported, in keeping with a spokesperson with the Chesterfield Police Division.
Officers tried to manage life-saving measures, however Tommaso was pronounced lifeless on the scene, police mentioned.
Anybody with details about the incident is requested to name police at (804) 748-1251 or Crime Solvers at (804) 748-0660.
From the archives: Greater than 240 photographs of Richmond and Virginia within the Nineteen Seventies
In January 1978, the Virginia Museum of Advantageous Arts hosted pop artist Andy Warhol (second from left), who was exhibiting his “Athletes by Warhol” assortment on the museum. The general public opening featured a efficiency by rock band Single Bullet Idea and refreshments that might be discovered at sporting occasions, resembling popcorn and cotton sweet. The portraits on exhibit included tennis star Chris Evert and basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
In August 1976, at Glendale Drive and Henrico Avenue in western Henrico County, neighborhood boys confirmed off their headstand and skateboarding expertise. From left have been Robert Rice, Invoice Robertson, Rusty Hamilton and Kenny Rice. The boys spent the summer season practising headstands, wheelies and different stunts.
In June 1976, E.M. Andrews, a taxidermist by pastime, displayed a “swamp deer” he created – truly, a rabbit with antlers hooked up. Andrews had two small yard buildings in South Richmond the place he practiced freeze-drying, a more moderen and simpler methodology of animal preservation than conventional taxidermy. For the earlier 5 years, he had used freeze-drying to protect animals for the State Fee of Recreation and Inland Fisheries.
Feb. 3, 1976: Arthur Ashe visits with father, Arthur Sr., and brother, Johnnie, at Westwood Racquet Membership.
In October 1976, TV chef and cookbook creator Julia Little one got here to Richmond, the place her itinerary included a guide signing, a neighborhood TV look and a cooking demonstration on the Thalhimers division retailer downtown. Little one traveled with array of kitchen implements and substances – she discovered that her tour stops didn’t at all times have the utensils she wanted. Right here, in her lodge room, she carved a Georgia ham whereas joined by her husband, Paul.
In January 1978, Pearl Bailey, the Tony Award-winning actress and singer from Newport Information, was getting ready to deal with the Richmond Public Discussion board from the stage on the Mosque (now Altria Theater). She coated a spread of subjects – from training to welfare to the United Nations – and mentioned that regardless of coronary heart hassle, “God blew breath in my face once more to I may exit and unfold love.” Bailey obtained the Display Actors Guild Life Achievement Award in 1976 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988. She died in 1990.
This April 1978 picture reveals packages of Pop Rocks, a carbonated sweet that had soared in recognition, even when availability was restricted. The gravel-like deal with provided the feeling of bursting contained in the mouth – a response created from carbon dioxide trapped contained in the sugar. Check-marketing in California proved profitable, and the sweet from Common Meals quickly grew to become a nationwide rage.
In March 1957, College of Virginia alumni soccer gamers misplaced 20-0 within the fifth alumni vs. varsity sport. The annual sport, which the alumni beforehand gained thrice, continued by 1979. Right here, former captains take part a handshake. From left are Joe Mehalick, Invoice Dudley, varsity captain Jim Bakhtiar, Joe Palumbo, Bob Weir and Invoice Chisholm.
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe spouse of Arthur Ashe, receives a heat welcome to Virginia’s Common Meeting chambers Feb. 2, 1979 from Lt. Gov. Charles S. Robb.
In August 1979, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway was getting ready to shut the Sabot Depot station in Goochland County. The station hosted its first passenger prepare in 1881 and its final in 1957; it limped alongside till 1979 dealing with odd jobs. CSX dismantled the constructing in 1993.
In Might 1979, the Misplaced World mountain opened on the Kings Dominion theme park in Doswell. The $7 million, 17-story attraction contained three elements: the Journey to Atlantis flume trip (quickly renamed the Haunted River), the Land of the Dooz kids’s mine prepare and the Time Shaft rotor. In 1998, the mountain was repurposed to accommodate Volcano, the Blast Coaster, which nonetheless operates right this moment.
In April 1979, a crowd of 10,000 gathered alongside Monument Avenue in Richmond for the annual Easter Competition, which included music from the Richmond Pops Band. The competition, sponsored by the Monument Avenue Preservation Society, included dancers, nearly 30 artwork reveals, kids’s leisure and meals.
In July 1979, two boys walked alongside the rocks within the James River close to the Lee Bridge in Richmond.
In June 1979, Terry Woo set bricks for a walkway as building of Kanawha Plaza in downtown Richmond continued. The $4 million greenback city-financed plaza linked the Federal Reserve Financial institution of Richmond constructing and the Virginia Electrical and Energy Co. constructing.
In October 1979, a pair dressed as apes made their means by Shockoe Slip in Richmond in the course of the Nice Pumpkin Celebration. The occasion included reside music, costume contents, an artwork present and a pumpkin pie bake-off.
In November 1979, the Richmond Jaycees distributed lapel pins to voters after they solid ballots in metropolis precincts.
In June 1979, astrologer Roberta Massie gave a chart studying on the Competition of the Stars, held at Unity of Richmond Church at Laburnum and Seminary avenues. For $3 or $4, attendees may get tarot card and palm readings in addition to customized astrological charts. The competition was sponsored by the Richmond Metropolitan Astrological Analysis Society.
In Might 1979, Vann Barden from North Carolina got here to Richmond together with his cellular smoke pit to placed on a pig selecting with associates. Relying on the temperature and wind, Barden may use 60 to 120 kilos of charcoal scattered with hickory chips for his barbecuing. An 80-pound pig, which he marinated in do-it-yourself sauce, may take eight hours or extra to prepare dinner.
In March 1979, a tractor-trailer jackknifed after two wheels got here off on the James River Bridge in Richmond. The motive force, 25-year-old Samuel Smith, was thrown from the truck and fell 100 toes. A firefighter mentioned Smith survived as a result of he landed about 40 toes from the water on muddy floor, which softened the influence.
In November 1979, an Military helicopter made a apply touchdown on the brand new helipad at Chippenham Hospital in Richmond. It was the primary such helipad constructed for a central Virginia hospital. The $5,000 pad was constructed by E.G. Bowles Co. in a undertaking assisted by the state police and the Federal Aviation Administration.
In January 1979, Miss America Kylene Barker signed autographs throughout a go to to Richmond. Barker, who was from Galax, gained the Miss Virginia title in 1978 after which the nationwide pageant in September of that yr, changing into Miss America 1979.
In January 1979, former Washington Redskins extensive receiver Roy Jefferson congratulated members within the Winter Particular Olympics at Wintergreen in Nelson County.
In January 1979, workers of the Girls’s Useful resource Middle conferred of their workplace on the College of Richmond. The middle, which opened in 1976, assisted ladies with profession preparation, training alternatives and life planning. The middle’s founder and director was Jane Hopkins (holding guide). Together with her (from left) are Carol Goff, Nancy Moore, Tina Forkin, assistant director Joanne Augspurger, Barbara Outland and Kathy Freeney.
In July 1979, enrollees of the native 70001 Ltd. program met in Richmond. Funded by the federal Division of Labor, the native program had began in February and aimed to offer 16- to 21-year-old highschool dropouts pre-employment coaching and GED assist. This system’s roots have been in Delaware, and the identify stemmed from an account quantity related to its institution.
Security City Opens – This summer season’s installment of Security City opened at Azalea Mall yesterday, and amongst these readily available have been Marcia Carr as Clyde the Clown (in automobile), Leigh Burke as Cupid the Clown, and Mike Martin because the owl. Kids agest 4 by 8 might take one in all three lessons which might be taught for an hour every day for one week. New lessons begin every Monday by August. Purposes for registration must be made with the Henrico County Police. 6-17-1978
The place’s the engine? The caboose touring on the mattress of a truck alongside West Broad Avenue yesterday wasn’t a part of a brand new rail line in Richmond, however a part of a transforming undertaking on the previous Clover Room restaurant. Proprietor John Dankos plans to open the brand new restaurant, Stanley Stegmeyer’s Hodgepodge, on July 1. A part of the decor will embrace two cabooses, every of which is able to seat 16 individuals. Might 3, 1978
In Might 1978, this prepare caboose traveled by truck alongside West Broad Avenue in Richmond was headed for the previous Clover Room restaurant, which new proprietor John Dankos was transforming into Stanley Stegmeyer’s Hodgepodge Restaurant. Its eclectic decor was to incorporate two cabooses that will seat 16 diners every.
March 22, 1978: Hal Burrows serves whereas companion Courtney Drake appears on at CCV’s platform tennis facility.
8/3/2015: This February 1978 picture reveals a block of West thirty first Avenue in Woodland Heights. The South Richmond neighborhood, which was constructed from 1908 to 1920, noticed a surge of latest residents within the Nineteen Seventies, primarily younger households drawn to the charming structure and enormous yards.
In February 1978, some members of the Philadelphia Phillies and Philadelphia Eagles biked by Richmond throughout a 1,200-mile trip to Florida to highlight the Muscular Dystrophy Affiliation. Whereas there have been fundraising occasions alongside the way in which, the trip was organized to focus consideration on the continued want for analysis.
In September 1978, Arthur Hargrove Jr., a Occasions-Dispatch service within the Glen Allen space, delivered one in all his ultimate papers. Hargrove, who was retiring after 35 years, rode his bike on his 12-mile route – a sort of route usually coated by automobile.
In October 1978, a gaggle of mad hatters danced in Shockoe Slip in the course of the Nice Pumpkin Celebration. The Halloween-themed competition drew about 10,000 individuals, a lot of them in costume to take part in contests for money prizes.
In January 1978, a longtime Oregon Hill resident walked by his neighborhood. Within the late Nineteen Seventies, the historic Richmond enclave was present process noticeable change as urbanization introduced new, youthful residents into the tight-knit neighborhood.
In November 1978, Mattaponi and Pamunkey Indians carried out for Gov. John N. Dalton, persevering with their centuries-old Thanksgiving custom of delivering sport, resembling deer and turkey, to the governor in lieu of a tax cost. The providing commemorates the Seventeenth-century peace treaty between the Pamunkey and Mattaponi tribes and the English.
In November 1978, African-American ladies gathered for a magnificence clinic on the Thalhimers at Eastgate Mall in Richmond. The clinic, sponsored by Trend Truthful, introduced in magnificence professionals together with Pearl Hester (standing at proper) to reveal make-up strategies.
In April 1978, John Stone plowed a area on a tobacco farm in Union Stage in Mecklenburg County. Proprietor Joe Warren of South Hill used seven mule groups to plow 60 tobacco acres amongst a number of of his farms.
In April 1978, college students from Huguenot Excessive Faculty in Richmond labored with director Dave Anderson on a public tv collection known as “As We See It.” Financed by a federal grant, the collection make clear college desegregation throughout America, with college students contributing scripts for scenes. The Huguenot section was titled “The Riot that By no means Was” and included a re-enactment of a tense second within the cafeteria in the course of the earlier college yr, which in the end was resolved.
In January 1978, Invoice Heindl, a co-founder of the Heindl-Evans Inc. building agency, oversaw progress on constructing a footbridge in James River Park at Texas Avenue in Richmond.
In Might 1978, pilot Merton A. Meade Jr. landed a Twenties-era Pitcairn Mailwing at Byrd Worldwide Airport in Henrico County. Such biplanes carried mail by the world within the Twenties and Thirties for Pitcairn Aviation Inc., a predecessor of Japanese Air Traces. Meade was flying from New York to Miami on a visit sponsored by Japanese to advertise its fiftieth anniversary.
In Might 1978, Danny Shapiro of wholesaler Stanley Toys exhibited new digital video games in Richmond. On the time, merchandise resembling Simon and Digital Battleship have been so new that not all Richmond-area shops carried them but. Thalhimers didn’t inventory digital video games, and Miller & Rhoads had simply obtained Blip and Comp IV, which have been battery-operated video games.
In Might 1978, the Bannerman Household Cloggers and Pals carried out at Heritage Day, a celebration of nationwide and cultural traditions discovered amongst Richmond-area residents. Town competition, held on the Carillon in Byrd Park, featured greater than 30 performers in addition to demonstrations of people crafts resembling banjo making, fly-tying and rug-braiding.
In August 1978, about 100 Elvis Presley followers gathered on the Regency Inn South on Midlothian Turnpike for a memorial service to “the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” who had died a yr earlier. The service – sponsored by the native Taking Care of Enterprise Fan Membership – included a meditation interval that featured a few of Presley’s gospel recordings, which introduced an emotional response from followers.
In January 1978, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Miller assessed the harm completed to their automobile by a tree that fell after an evening of sturdy winds. The Chesterfield County couple had simply bought the automobile.
In April 1978, Capitol Sq. in Richmond was stuffed with individuals having fun with a pleasing spring day. The excessive temperature was 81 levels, which was splendid for enjoyable on the grass and benches or taking a stroll across the grounds.
In September 1978, plastic drain pipe was formed right into a 60-foot “serpent” within the Yeocomico River close to Kinsale on Virginia’s Northern Neck. Richmonder John Tighe created it to shock fellow members of a Richmond boating group that was gathering for its annual barbeque. The sculpture mimicked a large serpentlike creature – later nicknamed “Chessie” – that some individuals declare to have noticed close by that summer season.
In June 1978, crowds gathered on the Busch Gardens amusement park close to Williamsburg for the grand opening of the Loch Ness Monster curler coaster, which featured fast acceleration, a 13-story drop and a pair of interlocking loops. Available for the debut have been Anheuser-Busch govt August A. Busch III (heart) and Gov. John N. Dalton (additionally carrying tie), plus a lot of athletes.
In December 1978, J.C. Penney worker Janet McCabe modeled a well timed pattern – plastic denims – at Regency Sq. mall in Henrico County. McCabe mentioned the denims have been a bit stiff, however with a leotard or tights beneath, they may flip heads on the disco. Penney shops in Richmond carried the pants, which have been originated by La Parisienne.
In February 1976, Dave Twardzik of the Squires shot over Artis Gilmore of the Kentucky Colonels en path to a Squires victory earlier than a crowd of only one,017 on the Coliseum. This was the final season for the ABA and the Squires.
In September 1976, a digital camera crew arrange by the log flume at Kings Dominion in Doswell as filming continued on “Rollercoaster.” The film, starring George Segal (in boat) as a trip inspector, was filmed at a number of amusement parks and is about an extortionist who calls for $1 million to finish his bombing marketing campaign at parks. Extras and crew assembled at 7 a.m., but it surely was 2:15 p.m. at first was prepared so this scene might be shot.
In October 1976, guests loved a day aboard the American Freedom Prepare, a touring bicentennial attraction that stopped in Richmond and highlighted 200 years of American achievement. The eating automobile, which allowed company to expertise the Eighteen Nineties, featured a working participant piano, a 6-foot bar, plush chairs, ornate lighting fixtures and tasseled curtains.
In December 1976, Jim McCrimmon (proper) of the Richmond Wildcats tried to dislodge the puck from Dave Elliott of the Baltimore Clippers throughout a sport on the Richmond Coliseum. The Wildcats have been a part of the Southern Hockey League, which folded the next month. The Richmond Rifles of the Japanese Hockey League introduced the game again to city in 1979.
In July 1976, Richmond youths did yard work as a part of a summer season employment project administered by the Richmond Space Manpower Planning Programs. The group hoped to beautify the town with landscaping initiatives in parks in addition to provide garden care help to senior residents and the disabled.
In September 1976, greater than 1,000 rafts, kayaks and canoes crowded into the Jordan Level Yacht Haven and Marina in Hopewell for the second annual Nice James River Raft Race to learn a number of sclerosis analysis and native MS initiatives. The race concluded throughout the river at Berkeley Plantation in Charles Metropolis County. Rafters have been awarded prizes for pace, design originality and amount of cash raised by pledges.
In April 1976, males tended to the roasting planks on the twenty eighth annual shad planking in Wakefield, an occasion in Sussex County that lured politicians, reporters, marketing campaign staff and others to kick off the electoral season. Sponsored by the Wakefield Ruritan Membership, the occasion traditionally was a operate of the state’s Democrats, but it surely advanced right into a bipartisan custom.
In June 1976, automobiles and different scrap steel awaited shredding at Peck Iron and Steel Co. Inc., positioned off Commerce Highway n South Richmond. A big machine known as a fragmentizer may chew up a automobile and spit it out as tiny chunks of steel in about 40 seconds.
In October 1976, Hampden-Sydney School college students stayed in motel-style models that have been constructed to accommodate them whereas older dorms have been renovated. Every of the 4 buildings had eight rooms, with two college students to a room
In Might 1976, Owen Smith of the Richmond chapter of the Nationwide Affiliation of Miniaturists peered by the doorway of a dollhouse reproduction of the Wilton Home, as soon as an 18th-century plantation and later a home museum in Richmond. The reproduction stood 50 inches excessive, and the within included objects, in miniature kind, that will have been property of the rich Randolph household. The mini-Wilton was displayed on the museum for a particular exhibit.
In April 1976, famed pop artist Andy Warhol – subsequent to one in all his Golda Meir portraits – was joined by New York gallery proprietor Ivan Karp and artwork collector Frances Lewis, one of many founders of the Finest Merchandise Co., at a non-public occasion in Richmond. The occasion celebrated Warhol’s donation of recent artwork to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
In Might 1976, a line wrapped round and past the Richmond Coliseum as tickets went on sale for an Elvis Presley live performance – about 3,000 individuals have been ready when ticket home windows opened at 10 a.m. His sold-out present in June was his ultimate look in Richmond; he died in August 1977.
In December 1976, Freeman and Theresa Spencer sat of their Richmond dwelling with Tillie, their prized 6-year-old German shepherd. The lounge featured Tillie’s quite a few trophies and memorabilia – on the time, she held titles as an American conformation champion and Canadian conformation champion, amongst different honors.
In October 1975, the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville was within the ultimate part of preliminary building, with among the sq. holes within the former Fundamental Avenue slated to be stuffed with landscaping. The $2 million pedestrian mall opened in 1976 and, because it marks 40 years in 2016, is dwelling to greater than 150 retailers and eating places.
In October 1976, Ronald J. Curler of Petersburg posed together with his beer can assortment, which totaled nearly 1,300 after 18 years of amassing. He conservatively valued the trove at $5,000. Curler held two of his prized items: a 1934 Previous Milwaukee can and a gallon can/dispenser of Gettelman.
In June 1976, Mrs. Kenneth R. Higgins stood on the John Marshall Home at Ninth and Marshall streets in downtown Richmond as a 12-year restoration neared its finish. Higgins, previous president of the Affiliation for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, which maintained the city-owned historic home, would reduce the ribbon a number of days later because the 1790 dwelling reopened.
This Might 1976 picture reveals Carter’s Dry Items and Notions retailer in Richmond’s Oregon Hill neighborhood. On the time, the shop, which dated to 1926, was feeling the pressure of competitors from bigger shops downtown and since longtime residents have been shifting away. The shop closed in 1993.
In June 1976, butcher Homer Willis (from left) and assistants Clarence Gilliam and Joseph Scruggs ready sausage at Willis’ Powhatan Locker Co., a small slaughterhouse and customized butcher store off state Route 13 in Powhatan County. Willis may deal with 1000’s of kilos of meat for patrons each week, and his service was so in style on the time, it’d take six months for him to squeeze a brand new buyer into his schedule.
In June 1976, 4-year-old Beth Vetrovec had a tough time deciding on a kitten for adoption on the Richmond SPCA. (An adoption advocacy poster on the wall behind her featured Morris the Cat, the favored promoting mascot for the 9Lives model of cat meals.)
In August 1976, what’s now referred to as the Weisiger-Carroll Home was nonetheless in tough form at 2408 Bainbridge St. within the Manchester space of South Richmond. That yr, a brand new claimant on the title led to the invention of the home’s historic significance. The 1½-story body and brick dwelling was estimated to have been constructed within the 1760s and served as a non-public dwelling in addition to a hospital in the course of the Civil Struggle. The house is now listed on the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations.
In August 1976, former youngster film star Shirley Temple Black visited Colonial Williamsburg as a part of her duties as the primary feminine chief of protocol of america. The president of Finland was visiting the world, although onlookers have been extra focused on recognizing Temple. She beforehand served as U.S. ambassador to Ghana, and he or she later was ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
In June 1976, an vehicle (minus its tires and gasoline tank) was fed right into a fragmentizer, which may crush the car in lower than a minute utilizing an array of hammers weighing practically 400 kilos every. The fragmentizer was in Richmond’s Deepwater Terminal space and was utilized by Peck Iron and Steel Co. Inc. to crush automobiles into high quality chunks of steel. Peck Iron estimated that the fragmentizer “ate” about 100,000 autos in the course of the earlier yr.
In September 1976, seven former Prince Edward County residents reunited on the garden of the previous R.R. Moton Excessive Faculty (later Prince Edward County Excessive Faculty), from which they have been bared within the Nineteen Sixties in the course of the state’s Huge Resistance to integration. From left are Frank Early, Betty Ward, G.A. Hamilton, Hilda Thompson, LaNae Johnson, Bessie Shade and Douglas Vaughan. A whole lot of former county college students from the period attended the reunion.
On Halloween 1976, younger reveler Christopher Gibbs held a balloon whereas 1000’s wandered Shockoe Slip in Richmond on the Nice Pumpkin Celebration. The celebration, sponsored by the Shockoe Slip Neighborhood Affiliation, included an public sale and a fancy dress contest. About 10,000 individuals attended the occasion.
In August 1976, Hugh Jones (proper) and David Whitlock volunteered in the course of the summer season on the Richmond Boys Membership. Jones helped youths within the membership’s studying program, and Whitlock ran a summer season basketball league.
In January 1976, self-proclaimed psychic and astrologer Jeane Dixon was on the Miller & Rhoads division retailer in downtown Richmond to signal copies of her newest guide. Dixon discovered fame although her syndicated astrology column and a few well-publicized predictions, together with concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. She died in 1997.
In June 1976, miniature golf was a diversion on the Virginia Correctional Middle for Girls in Goochland County. The nine-hole course was constructed by jail upkeep staff to encourage exercise by inmates. The middle was based in 1931 when feminine inmate populations have been getting too giant for native jails. It was recognized for its groundbreaking applications, together with its self-sufficient farming program within the Forties.
This February 1976 picture reveals one of many three World Large Well being Spa places within the Richmond space. The nationwide chain provided train areas for women and men, massages, facials, steam baths, weight reduction applications, whirlpools and solariums.
In March 1976, Rose Hill (left) conferred with Kay Pope Lea, who discovered work as a welder on a downtown Richmond building website. Hill was a neighborhood recruiter-counselor for the Girls in Apprenticeship program, a federal initiative tied to the Complete Employment and Coaching Act that supported ladies’s employment in nontraditional and male-dominated fields.
In April 1976, Jack McKeon, the brand new supervisor of the Richmond Braves, surveyed the baseball workforce’s dwelling at Parker Area on the eve of the Worldwide League opener. McKeon managed the workforce for one yr, leaving in 1977 to turn into manger of Oakland Athletics. In 2003, at age 72, he gained a World Collection as supervisor of the Florida Marlins.
In December 1975, James River Park guests loved the hand-operated ferry that ran to a small island. As soon as there, extra guests ready again on the shore would use the pulley to return the flat-bottom barge so they may then board it and pull themselves over to the island as effectively.
In January 1975, customers handed by “the clock” at Miller & Rhoads in downtown Richmond. The distinct timepiece with 4 faces was put in within the division retailer within the mid-Twenties; it may be seen right this moment on the Valentine Richmond Historical past Middle.
This Might 1975 picture reveals The Jefferson Lodge. At the moment, a brand new investor group was finding out the feasibility of renovating the property, which was constructed by Lewis Ginter and opened in 1895. At this time it’s in choose firm as a five-star lodge.
In June 1975, Richmond chapter American Purple Cross volunteers (from left) Lydia Sarvay, Mrs. C.W. Fellows, Mrs. Percy Harton and Mrs. D.U. Galbraith have been honored for 35 years of canteen service. The popularity was a part of the chapter’s 58th annual luncheon assembly.
This September 1975 picture reveals a part of the five hundred block of North Second Avenue in Richmond’s Jackson Ward neighborhood. The Nationwide Historic Landmark District, which grew to become the middle of the town’s African-American neighborhood after the Civil Struggle, has skilled vital revitalization lately.
This June 1975 picture reveals a efficiency of a splashy Cole Porter “Something Goes” quantity, one in all 25 track excerpts within the 30-minute “Give My Regards to Broadway” present on the just-opened Kings Dominion theme park in Doswell. The park’s high present featured 16 school and highschool college students; it was offered within the $1.6 million Mason Dixon Music Corridor.
In Might 1975, Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. greeted a porpoise on the opening day of the Kings Dominion in Doswell. The theme park opened with 15 points of interest; its Lion Nation Safari space had opened a yr earlier than. At this time, the park provides greater than 60 rides, reveals and points of interest in addition to a water park.
In August 1975, Richmond police Capt. Joseph H. Parker sat on a motorized bike and defined new rules. On the time, police have been aiming to clear up a public misunderstanding a couple of new Virginia regulation on motorized bikes, which mentioned any bicycle with an aiding motor couldn’t exceed 20 mph.
In June 1975, the band Ice Water carried out within the Flintstone Follies Theater at Kings Dominion in Doswell. The theme park absolutely opened the earlier month with 15 points of interest; its Lion Nation Safari space had opened in 1974. At this time, the park provides greater than 60 rides, reveals and points of interest in addition to a water park.
In December 1975, Mike Jackson of the Virginia Squires challenged Denver’s Ralph Simpson throughout an American Basketball Affiliation sport on the Richmond Coliseum. The Squires moved to Richmond in 1970 after spending a yr in Washington because the Washington Caps.
This January 1975 picture of the Mosque auditorium in Richmond was taken by a small window from above. Whereas the constructing was finest recognized for its theater, over time it housed an array of different options, together with a rooftop penthouse, swimming pool, gymnasium, ballroom and bowling alley.
In September 1975, handler Bobby Barlow confirmed off his basset hound, Ch. Slippery Hill Hudson, who was named finest in present on the Virginia Kennel Membership canine present on the Enviornment in Richmond. At left is choose George C. Ehmig, and at proper is present govt Lawrence W. Bracken Jr.
In late April 1975, panorama staff ready gardens in entrance of the Eiffel Tower reproduction at Kings Dominion in Doswell. The theme park opened days in a while Might 3.
In January 1975, Henrico County police officer Jim Phillips stepped out of a airplane used for the county’s sky patrol. The particular power performed a key function within the current seize of three armed financial institution robbers.
In September 1975, College of Richmond scholar Marshall Financial institution posed outdoors Boatwright Memorial Library. A yr earlier, he checked out – and refused to return – some volumes that have been signed by their authors, saying the works (together with by Robert Frost) deserved higher safety than the open cabinets. However he did return them and, with funding from an nameless donor, participated in a undertaking to get modern poets to signal copies of their work for inclusion within the library’s assortment.
In October 1975, Wayne Latimer kicked a 61-yard area objective that lifted Virginia Tech to a 13-10 victory over Florida State at Lane Stadium in Blacksburg.
In Might 1975, Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. and Mrs. August Busch III rode the lead automobile across the Le Mans observe within the French village of the brand new Busch Gardens: The Previous Nation theme park close to Williamsburg. The governor and Anheuser-Busch executives took half in dedication of park, which had opened to the general public the earlier weekend and drew greater than 30,000 guests.
In October 1975, the Downtown Mall in Charlottesville was within the ultimate part of preliminary building, with among the sq. holes within the former Fundamental Avenue slated to be stuffed with landscaping. The $2 million pedestrian mall opened in 1976 and, because it marks 40 years in 2016, is dwelling to greater than 150 retailers and eating places.
In July 1976, a crowd crammed The Cross, a restaurant and music venue at 803 W. Broad St. in Richmond. The Cross opened in 1975 and was in enterprise for about 4 years. In its brief time, notable artists carried out there, together with John Mayall, Stanley Turrentine, Lydia Pense, the Atlanta Rhythm Part, Earl Scruggs, Nicolette Larsen and Robert Palmer.
In Might 1975, Pat Benatar – earlier than she grew to become a world-famous rock vocalist – delivered her ultimate efficiency with the band Coxon’s Military at Thomas Jefferson Excessive Faculty in Richmond. Benatar moved to Richmond two years earlier at age 20; she met pianist Phil Coxon throughout a gig on the Roaring Twenties, and what began as a duo advanced into a bigger band. In leaving Richmond, Benatar deliberate to attempt her vocal luck in New York.
In September 1975, greater than 50 ladies attended the opening of A Lady’s Place, Richmond’s first coffeehouse for girls. Situated within the basement of St. James’ Episcopal Church parish home at 1205 W. Franklin St., the cafe was open on Thursday evenings. YWCA members began it as a spot the place ladies may calm down and the place feminine entertainers may air their abilities.
In August 1975, metropolis staff put in a granite channel for Reedy Creek close to Forest Hill Park in Richmond. About 1,700 sq. yards of the creek mattress was being coated with stone cemented into place. The $107,000 undertaking, which aimed to channel the creek water to scale back flooding and erosion, was half of a bigger $1.5 million creek enchancment undertaking. The following part was to construct bridges over the creek at Forest Hill Avenue and at Roanoke Avenue.
In November 1975, a lunar eclipse embellished the skies of Richmond – for the second time that yr (the primary was in Might). In line with the Science Museum of Virginia, it was not unusual to have two eclipses inside six months. This composite picture merged photographs of the eclipse with a skyline shot from South Richmond.
In August 1975, a cleanup crew from Norfolk labored on an oil spill in South Richmond. Gasoline oil had escaped from an open valve at Little Oil Co. on Commerce Highway.
In July 1975, an archaeological workforce dug close to the positioning of a Native American village in New Kent County. The spot alongside the Chickahominy River was the place Captain John Smith, the English explorer, as soon as recorded a thriving Native American neighborhood, Moysonec, in 1607. The dig was funded by a state grant and a donation from the landowner.
In October 1975, girls and boys lined up at City and Nation Cotillion in Richmond’s West Finish to study dance steps from teacher James Lowell. This system, which taught in style and conventional dances such because the waltz, tango, jitterbug and twist, was open to center and highschool college students. City and Nation, which had 500 youths throughout 4 teams, was amongst a handful of cotillions within the Richmond space on the time.
This July 1975 picture reveals the view alongside Fundamental Avenue in downtown Richmond from the intersection with Fifth Avenue.
In September 1975, chef Toro Chou (proper) was joined by husband Hsin Chou in getting ready a meal at Hugo’s Rotisserie on the Hyatt Home in Richmond. Toro, nicknamed “Mama Chou,” was a standout within the kitchen, in keeping with govt chef Tony Dawson. “Mama Chou” and Hsin primarily labored on banquet preparations, however on Wednesdays, they ready Asian dishes for the restaurant’s worldwide menu.
In August 1975, Larry Rast directed a gaggle piano class on the College of Richmond. Rast, who was director of the music training division at Northern Illinois College, was in Richmond to share group educational strategies with lecturers from elementary to varsity ranges. The session drew lecturers from as far-off as Colorado and Michigan and was sponsored by UR’s music division and the Wurlitzer Co.
In July 1975, kids sat across the small Statue of Liberty in Chimborazo Park in Richmond. Within the early Nineteen Fifties, the Boy Scouts of America erected about 200 mini-versions of the Statue of Liberty across the nation as a part of the group’s fortieth anniversary. The 8½-foot tall, 290-pound copper statues have been made in Chicago by Friedley-Voshardt Co. The Richmond statue was erected on Feb. 11, 1951, and rose practically 17 toes, together with the bottom. The undertaking’s complete value was about $1,000.
In March 1975, Regency Sq. mall was below building in western Henrico County. At left, the constructing closest to completion was the Thalhimers division retailer; different preliminary anchors included Miller & Rhoads, JC Penney and Sears. The 800,000-square-foot complicated was to be the most important procuring heart within the space; it opened in October of that yr.
In June 1975, southbound site visitors on Interstate 95 backed up previous Fundamental Avenue Station as smoke billowed from a hearth at Little Oil Co. in South Richmond. Two tanks holding a mixed 850,000 gallons of gas exploded on the enterprise on Commerce Highway. Hearth officers believed that the ignition of an worker’s automobile sparked the blaze, although the oil firm speculated {that a} lightning strike was accountable. The hearth took 19 hours to extinguish.
In September 1975, Lola Conklin, who known as herself the “authentic bearded woman,” celebrated her 67th birthday whereas showing at State Truthful of Virginia in Richmond. Conklin, who lived in Fort Myers, Fla., was a part of Deggeler Amusement Co.’s halfway points of interest. She had been in present enterprise for 56 years, together with eight with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
In April 1974, the Lion Nation Safari opened as the primary a part of the Kings Dominion amusement complicated close to Doswell. The following yr, the park put in a monorail that company used as an alternative of driving their automobiles among the many a number of hundred animals, which included lions, elephants, zebras, giraffes and different jungle dwellers. Right here, the primary guests paid their admission price. From left are driver Ken Lion, Lora Becraft and Larry and Mary Tropea.
In April 1974, the Lion Nation Safari drive-thru animal park at Kings Dominion in Doswell was able to open, that includes a number of hundred animals – antelope, elephants, lions, rhinos, giraffes and extra. The Eiffel Tower on the amusement park, which might open the next yr, is within the background.
This December 1974 picture reveals stationary bicycles, as soon as a part of the unique tools on the Mosque (now the Altria Theater) and nonetheless within the gymnasium that was then being utilized by Richmond police. The Shriners fraternal group constructed the Moorish Revival theater, with its distinctive minarets, within the Twenties.
8/17/2015: In September 1974, the 392nd Military Band of Fort Lee carried out on the dedication of two new parks within the Fan District in Richmond. Paradise Park (pictured, between the 1700 blocks of Floyd and Grove avenues) and Scuffletown Park (between the 2300 blocks of Park and Stuart avenues) have been constructed with cash from the U.S. Inside Division.
In March 1974 on the state Capitol, Virginia first woman Katherine Godwin (second entrance proper) unveiled a portray of the Virginia Declaration of Rights. The work, by Jack Clifton of Hampton (entrance), was offered by the Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution; it commissioned the portray in cooperation with the Virginia Independence Bicentennial Fee. Helping Godwin with the disclosing have been state Sen. Edward E. Willey Sr. of Richmond and DAR official Mrs. John S. Biscoe.
In December 1974, younger members of Temple B’nai Shalom lighted candles on the menorah in celebration of Hanukkah. The synagogue, which was on Three Chopt Highway in Henrico County, later merged with Temple Beth-El in Richmond.
In October 1974, J.G. Adams, the Southern regional distributor supervisor for Litton Microwave Ranges, demonstrated microwave cooking and touted its advantages throughout a program on the Miller & Rhoads division retailer in downtown Richmond. He ready a number of dishes – and guaranteed individuals with shielded coronary heart pacemakers that microwaves posed no hazard.
In April 1974, pharmacy soda fountains have been persevering with to vanish. Regionally, the Lafayette Westwood Pharmacy on Patterson Avenue and the Sundown Hills Pharmacy on Three Chopt Highway had just lately eliminated their fountains, which was occurring with higher frequency nationwide, too. Pharmacists mentioned the fountains have been costly to function and tough to workers, and that they have been not as essential for bringing in site visitors.
This February 1974 picture reveals Thieves Market, an antiques retailer in Alexandria whose evocative exterior – that includes ironwork, statuary and extra – hinted at its wide-ranging choices inside. On the time, the proprietors estimated that $5 million to $10 million price of merchandise handed by the market yearly. The enterprise later moved to Northern Virginia’s McLean space.
In April 1974, a number of hundred College of Richmond college students protested the college’s dorm visitation coverage, which forbade guests of the other intercourse in scholar rooms on weeknights. The protestors, who needed unrestricted visitation, marched to the ladies’s dorms at Westhampton School in the course of the night, after which feminine members visited the male dorms.
In August 1974, Foreman Area at Previous Dominion College in Norfolk was filled with about 33,000 music followers for a Crosby, Stills, Nash & Younger live performance. The favored band had break up in 1970 however reunited for a summer season tour in 1974 that hit giant arenas and out of doors stadiums. The “Virginia is for Lovers” slogan adorns the entrance of the stage, and the live performance opened with the Stephen Stills-penned hit “Love the One You’re With.”
In July 1974, a boy fished at an previous dam on the property of the Lakeside Nation Membership in Henrico County. The deteriorating dam involved county officers; membership members mentioned the restore estimate of about $109,000 exceeded their finances.
In April 1974, an impromptu jam session broke out at Byrd Park in Richmond — which grew to become a gathering spot for music followers after Cherry Blossom Music Competition at Metropolis Stadium ended early. The day earlier than, a drug arrest within the stands touched off violence between police and festival-goers, which scuttled the competition’s second day.
In April 1974, burning automobiles and particles marked a riot that broke out in the course of the Cherry Blossom Music Competition at Metropolis Stadium in Richmond. The 2-day occasion ended a day early after a drug arrest within the stands led to violence between police and festival-goers. An estimated 14,000 confirmed up for the primary day of the competition.
In August 1974, Richmond-area college students discovered laptop expertise on the Arithmetic and Science Middle in Henrico County. Teletype terminals have been going to be in place in 22 space center and excessive faculties at the start of the upcoming college yr, and college students may dial in to a Hewlett-Packard 2000F laptop to work on math actions and different topics.
In September 1974, patrons on the Virginia State Truthful took within the view from the sky glider trip on the halfway. Attendance on the 10-day occasion on the fairgrounds in Henrico County approached 475,000 that yr.
In September 1973, fireworks illuminated the sky on the Southside Virginia Truthful in Petersburg, which was the state’s second-largest truthful. The sixty fifth annual truthful attracted greater than 162,000 guests. However in 1977, officers introduced that the truthful would stop operations after experiencing drops in attendance, livestock exhibitors and income.
In December 1973, a person and his canine walked in snow-covered Jefferson Park within the Union Hill neighborhood of Richmond close to Church Hill.
In January 1973, Regina Randal (left) and Marsha English processed wire service copy that had been marked up by editors in The Occasions-Dispatch newsroom.
In January 1973, a younger buyer explored the choices on the Carter’s Dry Items and Notions retailer on Oregon Hill in Richmond. An accompanying article mentioned the shop’s greatest attraction was the penny sweet counter – and among the busiest instances have been after college, when kids streamed within the after getting off the bus.
On Christmas Eve 1973, 4-year-old Greg Murphey (entrance) and 6-year-old brother Scott slept by the hearth at their Richmond dwelling – hoping that Santa Claus would make some noise throughout his go to in order that they may catch him at work, filling their stockings and leaving presents below the tree.
In April 1973, the annual dredging of the James River channel in Richmond was below means. The earlier yr’s flooding had deposited a large amount of silt, so Atkerson Dredging Co. can be busy. The undertaking, which normally took every week, was anticipated to require greater than a month.
This December 1973 picture reveals the entrance counter in Roaring Twenties, a brand new restaurant and nightclub on state Route 10 within the Hopewell space. It was designed to resemble a Twenties speakeasy, with options together with an vintage money register, a diving woman and even a eating desk from Al Capone’s Florida dwelling.
This February 1973 picture reveals the house of the Irving household close to Farmville. Throughout a roof repainting undertaking a number of years earlier, the household bought inventive, including floral designs that in as soon as case reached 10 toes in diameter. One offshoot: Yearly, some new Hampden-Sydney School college students would come by pondering the house was a counterculture haven.
In October 1974, workers on the Philip Morris USA manufacturing heart in South Richmond took a break within the new worker lounge that ignored the manufacturing ground. The manufacturing unit opened in 1973 and will produce as much as 200 million cigarettes per day on the time.
In November 1951, a dachshund float towered above spectators lining the curb in the course of the Thalhimers Toy Parade in downtown Richmond. The parade was first held in 1929 and, after a pause throughout World Struggle II, resumed in 1946. Thalhimers division retailer workers labored for months to construct floats, design routes and put together costumes. The parade was cancelled in 1973 as in-store actions took higher prominence.
In April 1977, the Ezibu Muntu dancers carried out at Shafer Court docket at Virginia Commonwealth College in Richmond as a part of the annual Spring Fling celebration weekend. The dance group, which began in 1973 with a donation from VCU, goals to protect African tradition and historical past in Richmond.
In March 1973, a rider and her horse practiced for the Loretta Lynn Longhorn World Championship Rodeo. The competitors, which introduced 100 riders and 175 animals to Richmond from all around the nation, was held on the Coliseum. Riders competed for about $12,000 in prize cash and championship factors within the Worldwide Rodeo Affiliation.
In September 1973, two Richmond ladies modeled fashions that they had created from their very own recycled blue denims.
In December 1973, Richmond police bicycle patrolman William W. Fuller Jr. stopped for a downtown chat with policeman Glen A. Brinson of the mounted unit.
In November 1973, a brand new park in Richmond’s Fan District featured sculpted concrete varieties, a big shuffleboard space and several other open play areas. A mix of metropolis and federal {dollars} funded the practically $150,000 park, in addition to a second one being developed within the space. Carlton Abbott, an architect from Williamsburg, designed the parks.
In March 1973, Panda and her two pups posed along with her murals: a gnawed bone formed like a dinosaur. A day after the Pekingese had given beginning to 5 puppies, she introduced the bone to her Henrico County homeowners, who have been astounded by the “sculpture.” The homeowners deliberate to mount the work on a plaque and grasp it on their wall as “Panda’s Masterpiece.”
In June 1973, Richmond Braves baseball participant Rod Gilbreath signed an autograph for Patricia Bowen, with fellow affected person Cynthia McKay close by, on the Crippled Kids’s Hospital on Brook Highway in Richmond. The hospital, with roots relationship to 1917, is a predecessor of right this moment’s Kids’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU. Gilbreath performed for the Atlanta Braves for a number of seasons within the Nineteen Seventies and had a protracted profession in different roles with the group.
In December 1973, Al J. Schalow Jr. confirmed 3-year-old son John an in-progress creation. Schalow had been saving wooden from his Christmas bushes for a number of years and carving initiatives that would take as much as a yr.
In July 1973, exterminator Linda Summerlin sprayed pest management in a buyer’s basement. Summerlin, 24, mentioned she selected her job with the Orkin Co. as a substitute for workplace work. Considered one of few ladies within the area, she made a couple of dozen service calls each day, crawling into basements and attics to fight rats and roaches.
On Oct. 23, 1971, Sidney Poitier (left) and Invoice Cosby entered the Loew’s Theater for a profit to boost cash to rebuild Virginia Union College’s Coburn Chapel, which burned in 1970. Greater than 1,700 individuals paid $20 apiece to see a Poitier film and luxuriate in a Cosby comedy routine. The occasion coincided with VUU’s homecoming, which Poitier additionally attended.
This December 1971 picture reveals the previous Memorial Steerage Clinic in Highland Park in Richmond. The youth psychiatric facility, one in all 10 authentic youngster steering clinics in america, was shaped in 1924 to assist households who couldn’t afford care. In 1971 it suspended operations due to staffing issues, then reopened in 1972 on Church Hill with a brand new concentrate on outreach. The group is thought right this moment as ChildSavers.
In Might 1971, Duke Ellington appeared at Metropolis Stadium as a part of an occasion headlined by Bob Hope and sponsored by Nolde’s Bread. Ellington wore the cowboy hat to shade him from the solar. The occasion attracted a crowd of about 10,000. (Tickets value $2 plus 4 blue Nolde luggage, or $4 and patrons obtained coupons redeemable for 4 luggage of Nolde bread.)
In February 1971, a Occasions-Dispatch article highlighted the evolving vogue requirements in native faculties. Conrad Dandridge, steel store trainer at Armstrong Excessive Faculty, confirmed off a sporty look, although lecturers more and more have been starting to decorate much less formally, with ladies in pantsuits and males in sweaters and slacks – apparel that college students themselves have been carrying.
This June 1971 picture reveals the Highland Park Public Faculty constructing in Richmond. On the time, there was debate as a result of a lot of Richmond’s college buildings have been previous, and their designs have been hampering new strategies of educating. Highland Park, inbuilt 1909, accommodated college students by the top of 1977. The Mediterranean Revival constructing, designed by Charles Robinson, was added to the Nationwide Register of Historic Locations in 1991, simply because it was being transformed right into a senior residence complicated. It stands empty right this moment.
In January 1971, Richmond native and tennis star Arthur Ashe carried out a clinic on the Valentine Museum in Richmond. The occasion was sponsored by the museum’s Junior Middle and drew 675 children and adults. Ashe, who had simply returned from a visit to Africa, answered questions and demonstrated ideas of the sport.
In August 1971, Allison Bell (left) and Pat Umlauf participated in ceremonies in Richmond unveiling the Seaboard Coast Line’s new locomotive. The Spirit of ’76 was set to journey all through the nation to remind individuals of America’s upcoming bicentennial celebration.
In August 1971, a younger Richmonder appeared over the town’s bicycle legal guidelines. That summer season, the juvenile division of the Richmond Bureau of Police held a drive at 35 metropolis faculties to advertise bicycle registration, which aimed to guard homeowners from theft, accidents or loss.
In April 1971, Ernest Edmund of Bremo Bluff in Fluvanna County headed dwelling after a protracted day of plowing. His canine accompanied him on the journey dwelling down state Route 15.
In October 1971, Brenda Faye Childress, the reigning Queen of Tobaccoland, waved from her float in the course of the Nationwide Tobacco Competition parade in Richmond. The competition, which ran in Richmond from 1949 to 1984, was a high occasion within the metropolis throughout its run and included an array of actions, together with dinners, balls, magnificence contests, soccer video games and a parade. The queen was chosen from a gaggle of topped tobacco princesses who arrived in Richmond from all around the East Coast.
In September 1971, the Nation Ramblers from Nelson County warmed up for his or her efficiency on the first Bluegrass Grove Competition. The three-day occasion was held at Roy McCraw’s Bluegrass Grove farm in Amelia County and featured bluegrass and folks bands from across the Mid-Atlantic. Different Virginia acts included the Blue Mountain Boys, the Roanoke Valley Boys and the Dixie Hillbillies.
In January 1973, John and Debbie Nelson have been of their junior yr on the Petersburg Common Hospital Faculty of Nursing. The 2 determined independently to turn into nurses, and their paths crossed in 1971 once they have been college students at Norfolk Common Hospital. By October 1972, they have been married and transferred to Petersburg Common.
In August 1971, members of Camp Willow Run gathered outdoors their dormitories, which have been former prepare boxcars. The railroad-themed camp, on a peninsula on Lake Gaston in Littleton, N.C., continues to be run by Youth Camps for Christ Inc. The “depot,” or eating corridor, which was modeled after an 1890 prepare depot and was constructed from plans furnished by the Southern Railway Co., was the focus of actions.
This November 1971 picture reveals a monument in japanese Henrico County that commemorated the “calamitous yr 1771” flood in Richmond. On one other aspect, the monument included an inscription from Ryland Randolph citing 1772 and memorializing his mother and father.
This March 1971 picture reveals the Richmond Dairy Co. constructing on Marshall Avenue in Jackson Ward in Richmond. Gear was being auctioned within the four-story constructing after the corporate stopped working in 1970. Dairymen J.O. Scott, A.L. Scott and T.L. Blanton began the corporate in 1890, and the 1914 constructing was designed by the structure agency Carneal & Johnston. At this time the constructing incorporates rental flats.
In July 1971, Brown & Williamson Tobacco employee Clarence Dennis picketed outdoors the corporate’s warehouse in Petersburg. About 400 machinists have been of their fourth week of picketing whereas wage and profit negotiations continued on the agency’s headquarters in Louisville, KY.
In Might 1971, Myrtle Palmer (proper) taught an train class on the Richmond YWCA. Organized within the Eighteen Eighties, the native chapter of the Y is the oldest within the South.
In April 1971, Newton Ancarrow paused throughout a trek by Richmond’s new James River Park to look at a blossoming wildflower. Ancarrow, a crusader for cleansing the river, had began finding out and photographing wildflowers 5 years earlier, seeing them as a device to inform the story of air pollution’s menace to the James. Ardour and pastime intersected, and he had made greater than 35,000 colour slides of native wildflowers.
In March 1971, a crowd estimated at a number of hundred waited outdoors Metropolis Council chambers at Metropolis Corridor in downtown Richmond. Residents of the just lately annexed Broad Rock space have been protesting the Richmond Redevelopment and Housing Authority’s proposal for low-rent public housing within the space.
In Might 1971, Mrs. Henry Heatwole (left) and Agnes Crandall served the Nationwide Park Service at Massive Meadows, a part of Shenandoah Nationwide Park. The earlier yr, the service instituted a program permitting use of volunteers for interpretive and different providers. Heatwole had established a library on the park; Crandall, additionally an skilled volunteer, had just lately turn into a paid worker.
In November 1971, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Peterson of Dinwiddie County welcomed quadruplets at Petersburg Common Hospital. The infants, two women and two boys, have been reportedly the primary quadruplets born within the state since 1966. At center are Dr. Charles Moseley and nurse Edna Palmer.
In Might 1971, Henrico County obtained 130 voting machines for use within the subsequent election. The machines have been the primary ever in Henrico, and county authorities deliberate an intensive program to teach voters on utilizing them. Pulling a deal with would shut the sales space’s curtains, and voters set levers for his or her most well-liked candidates earlier than utilizing the deal with once more to file the votes and open the curtains.
In November 1971, Richmond precinct employee Walter E. Lewis (left) defined how you can use a voting machine to Raymond L. Redd.
In Might 1971, Frances Peyton, a clerk on the postal station at tenth and Fundamental streets in Richmond, demonstrated the brand new self-service unit for postal official Frank Saller. The machine bought stamps and envelopes, in addition to made change. It was the fifth self-service unit within the metro space – smaller machines have been in place on the Willow Garden and Southside Plaza procuring facilities, in addition to the principle submit workplace and Saunders postal station.
In December 1971, “Mom” Maybelle Carter (from left) carried out on the Richmond Coliseum with daughters Anita and Helen as a part of a Johnny Money live performance (he was married to Carter sister June). Maybelle performed autoharp, banjo and guitar, and her two-finger selecting grew to become a signature model. The well-known musical household was from Southwest Virginia however lived in Richmond for a number of years within the Forties.
In November 1971, Barbara Smith warmed up with a cup of scorching espresso on her approach to work on a chilly day in downtown Richmond.
In October 1971, Marvin Cephas delivered payments to Virginia Electrical and Energy Co. clients in Richmond’s West Finish. As postal charges rose, Vepco launched its personal invoice supply service for about 90,000 native clients in densely populated areas – it mentioned the fee was lower than a nickel per invoice, in contrast with a postal value of 8 cents.
In February 1971, James Herbert Bryant (left) and Paul Jackson assessed building on their new McDonald’s restaurant on Mechanicsville Turnpike in East Richmond. Town natives began Bryant-Jackson Corp. and invested about $300,000 to construct the restaurant.
In Might 1971, as Amtrak consolidated passenger rail service in America, E.M.C. Quincy (left) of the Larger Richmond Chamber of Commerce offered a present of Richmond tobacco merchandise and a file about Virginia to Amtrak’s Teresa Cunningham at Fundamental Avenue Station in downtown Richmond. Numerous Virginia mayors, together with Richard Farrier of Staunton (heart), attended the ceremony, which welcomed Amtrak service on the previous Chesapeake and Ohio Railway line from Newport Information to Cincinnati.
In March 1971, Phillip Patterson (left) and John Lane of Richmond operated the primary African-American-owned franchise of Stylish A Sea in Petersburg. The carry-out meals service, which specialised in fried rooster and seafood, was a subsidiary of Carmine Meals Inc. of Richmond. Stylish A Sea had about two dozen eating places in Virginia and North Carolina on the time.
In November 1971, Noah G. Teates Sr. (left) and son Grove operated a machine outdoors the household’s Hanover County dwelling. The daddy and son, with the assistance of a buddy, constructed the machine to course of leaves into compost. Grove hoped to persuade localities to make use of their machines on a bigger scale every autumn, and Montgomery County in Maryland grew to become a shopper.
The December 1971 picture reveals the Virginia Commonwealth College Enterprise constructing below building. The five-story constructing had 146, 344 sq. toes of house and price $3.8 million to assemble.
In December 1971, truck drivers Brenda D. Howell (from left), Sue Frye and Marion Brennan stood at a freeway building website the place they labored in Gloucester County. The three ladies had labored as waitresses, secretaries, manufacturing unit staff and division retailer clerks, however none of these jobs, they mentioned, was as satisfying as driving a truck. The undertaking they have been engaged on on the time was an enlargement of U.S. Route 17.
In August 1971, renovation of the Dooley mansion at Maymont in Richmond included these swan beds, which as soon as belonged to Sallie Might Dooley. After her dying in 1925, Maymont belonged to the town, and the property was well-maintained for a interval. However throughout and after World Struggle II, a decline started, and it wasn’t till the Nineteen Seventies that vital restoration occurred below the steering of the Maymont Basis.
In September 1971, Errett Callahan examined a bit of stone forward of an experimental archaeology class that he was educating within the Night School of Virginia Commonwealth College in Richmond. The course challenged college students to make use of crude implements or primitive instruments to discover ways to construct shelter and make rope, hearth, pottery and weaving like early people. Callahan was a graduate scholar in VCU’s artwork division.
With the superstructure for the roof of Richmond’s coliseum inb place, workmen are busy placing the roofing on the huge construction. August 4, 1970.
Oct. 15, 1970 (Workers Photograph) James River
This September 1970 picture reveals gamers who vied for roster spots on the Virginia Squires (from left): Larry Brown, Charlie Scott, Henry Logan, Roland “Fatty” Taylor and Mike Barrett. Brown later gained an NBA title as coach of the 2003-04 Detroit Pistons.
In June 1970, this Seaboard Coast Line Railroad station at Commerce Avenue in Petersburg was closed. Three years earlier, the Seaboard Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line railroads merged, and passenger site visitors from the Commerce Avenue location was being consolidated into what had been Atlantic Coast’s North Petersburg station in Ettrick. A dozen trains served the town each day on the time.
This February 1970 picture reveals a stone home in Petersburg, positioned between Excessive and Plum streets, that was believed to have been constructed earlier than 1755, when the encompassing property was bought by Edward Stabler. The resident in 1970 was Mary B. Scott, who was born in the home greater than 80 years earlier. Her father, Alexander Brown, purchased the property within the mid-1800s.
In September 1970, kids loved a trip on a curler coaster on the 62nd annual Southside Virginia Truthful. Attendance on the weeklong occasion was working forward of 1969’s file 160,000. However in 1977, officers introduced that the Petersburg-based truthful, Virginia’s second-largest, would stop operations after experiencing drops in attendance, livestock exhibitors and income.
In January 1970, 5 straight days of below-freezing temperatures froze the lake at Byrd Park in Richmond and introduced out the ice skaters.
A black scholar peered out of a Richmond Public Colleges bus on a wet morning in August 1970 as cross-town busing started within the metropolis. Amid controversy, about 13,000 RPS college students have been bused to totally different faculties below a federal courtroom order to assist obtain integration.
This June 1970 picture reveals Bob Powell at his keyboard, excessive within the grandstand at Parker Area in Richmond. Powell was the organist for the Richmond Braves baseball workforce from 1964 to 1971. He made particular efforts to get to know all of the gamers and give you a particular melody to go well with them.
This Might 1970 picture reveals the John F. Kennedy Excessive Faculty rifle workforce marching on East Grace Avenue in Richmond. Kennedy merged with Armstrong Excessive in 2004, holding the Armstrong identify.
This September 1970 picture reveals the halfway on the 62nd annual Southside Virginia Truthful. Attendance on the weeklong occasion was working forward of 1969’s file 160,000. However in 1977, officers introduced that the Petersburg-based truthful, Virginia’s second-largest, would stop operations after experiencing drops in attendance, livestock exhibitors and income.
In January 1970, two senior members of the state Senate – Dr. J.D. Hagood of Halifax County (left) and M.M. Lengthy of Smart County – greeted Richmond’s L. Douglas Wilder, the chamber’s latest member. Wilder, the primary African-American within the Senate, had gained a particular election the month earlier than to succeed J. Sargeant Reynolds, who was quickly to be sworn in as lieutenant governor. Wilder later grew to become the nation’s first African-American elected governor.
8/19/2015: In November 1970, the Thalhimers Toy Parade made its means by Richmond’s streets – this view is alongside Broad Avenue at Belvidere Avenue. The occasion featured floats, highschool marching bands and drill groups, clowns and different leisure.
In Might 1970, professional golfer Arnold Palmer got here to city to workforce with Richmonder Herb Hooper in an exhibition sponsored by the Kiwanis Membership of West Richmond. Palmer shot a 2-over 74 throughout his two journeys across the Nation Membership of Virginia’s new 9 holes on the James River course. Richmonder Lanny Wadkins and Steve Melnyk additionally performed.
In January 1970, Virginia Gov. Mills E. Godwin Jr. obtained his ultimate salute from state police as he and his spouse, Katherine, left the governor’s mansion in Richmond en path to the inauguration of A. Linwood Holton Jr. Godwin, then a Democrat, returned as governor 4 years later as a Republican.
In April 1970, a Richmond sanitation crew paused at one of many roughly 600 stops they made every day. Robert Hodges (left) and Leonard Shifflett (proper) drove in from Amelia County every weekday morning , and Fred Hubbard (heart) from japanese Henrico County would be a part of them.
In April 1970, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth J. Lee demonstrated the steps for classmates H.G. Shaw and W.W. Foster in a neighborhood folks dancing class.
In October 1970, the Richmond Scenic James Council led canoe and strolling excursions for about 200 individuals to spotlight the pure fantastic thing about the river. Right here, Tom Brooks (entrance) and son Tom Jr. (rear) dealt with the paddling whereas Mrs. John Demitri and kids Johnny and Lisa loved the view.
In November 1970, a Richmond officer rode his horse by the police bureau’s new stables, which have been below building. The ability close to Brook Highway and Chamberlayne Avenue included eight stalls, a scrub space, a horseshoeing space and a tack room. The bureau had been on the lookout for a longtime dwelling for its horses for the reason that mid-Nineteen Sixties, when the Virginia Nationwide Guard moved from the Richmond Howitzers downtown armory, the place the horses had been stabled for 20 years.
In April 1970, the Bronze Gateway, a brand new restaurant at Byrd Area in Henrico County, was about to open. The ability was on the airport terminal’s first ground, and its higher ranges had glass partitions overlooking the ramp space. A extra informal snack bar was on the primary degree.
In September 1970, Mrs. M.G. Ratcliff and her son, Steven, of Lakeland, Fla., tried – to no avail – to deal with a bull to some cotton sweet on the Chesterfield County Truthful. The household was visiting family within the county.
In September 1970, C.M. Stallings, supervisor of energy provide for the Virginia Electrical and Energy Co., demonstrated {that a} 5 % voltage drop made no discernible distinction in a lightweight bulb’s output. On the time, the East Coast was enduring scorching climate and energy tools failures, with utilities slicing voltage and asking clients to scale back energy use.
In March 1970, Dr. John F. Alksne of the Medical School of Virginia demonstrated a brand new mattress for neurosurgical and neurological sufferers. The “circolectric mattress” was developed for sufferers with spinal wire accidents – it saved them immobilized after procedures and allowed gradual place modifications to assist acclimate the physique with much less stress on the nervous system.
In November 1970, School of William & Mary college students (from left) Steve Crossland, Debbie Lewis and Cheryl Dale examined a beaver dam alongside state Route 604 in Sussex County, a highway that was slated for widening and resurfacing. The state Freeway Division deliberate to entice and relocate the beavers earlier than their dwelling was uprooted.
In August 1970, scholar volunteers Peter Bassett (left) and Paul Parker have been sealed in a room on the Medical School of Virginia in Richmond for one week. The NASA experiment was testing respiration environments as a part of the Skylab program, which later featured an orbiting house station that was visited by astronauts.
In June 1970, the Worsham household of Richmond loved their two-level tree home, constructed excessive in a deodar cedar tree of their yard.
In September 1970, David Erskine, reservations supervisor for the Lodge John Marshall in Richmond, reviewed a printout from a brand new laptop system that linked the lodge with 2,000 lodging websites nationwide. The system allowed Erskine to make reservations inside minutes at any facility related with the community.
In January 1970, Linwood Holton had the ultimate becoming for his apparel forward of his inauguration in Richmond as Virginia’s governor. Holton was the state’s first Republican governor of the twentieth century. His daughter, Anne, served as state secretary of training from 2014 to 2016, and his son-in-law is U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine.
In February 1970, a line of umbrella-toting ladies waited for the bus on East Broad Avenue in downtown Richmond on a wet day.
In July 1970, a gaggle of kids took a break from taking part in and sat on the bench at Chimborazo Park in Richmond.
This September 1970 picture reveals a geodesic dome seashore home within the Virginia Seashore coastal neighborhood of Sandbridge. The homeowners mentioned the four-bedroom dwelling, fabricated from plywood, was sensible for the seashore and will face up to ocean winds.
This September 1970 picture reveals a geodesic dome seashore home within the Virginia Seashore coastal neighborhood of Sandbridge. The homeowners mentioned the four-bedroom dwelling, fabricated from plywood, was sensible for the seashore and will face up to ocean winds.
In December 1970, Broad Avenue Station in Richmond was quiet amid a nationwide labor strike by rail staff. Metropolis officers had taken measures to accommodate stranded passengers and maintain perishable objects. The walkout, which centered on wages and work guidelines, was short-lived: Inside a day, staff have been returning after a federal choose threatened hefty fines once more a key union.
07-25-1970: Virginia Division of Motor Automobiles
In August 1970, Richmond college students waited for the buses on the nook of Westover Hills Boulevard and Forest Hill Avenue on South Aspect as the college yr bought below means.
In June 1970, Pizza Citadel was amongst a number of areas that tempted clients on the new Big Open Air Market alongside Maywill Avenue in Henrico County. The market, open 24 hours, included a collection of smaller specialised shops – along with Pizza Citadel, choices included The Patio for ready meals, The Market for worldwide meals and wines, and the Sweet Circus with candy treats. The Norfolk-based grocery store chain (no relation to the Big chain within the Washington space) merged with Farm Recent Inc. within the mid-Nineteen Eighties.
In December 1970, the Lodge Petersburg ready to shut. The lodge in its namesake metropolis suffered devastating harm in a hearth weeks earlier that gutted the fourth and fifth flooring. The lodge as soon as was thought of the best within the Southside area, however on the time of the hearth, it served primarily as momentary housing for Fort Lee personnel. A soldier from Alaska was convicted of arson the next February and sentenced to 30 years in jail.
In July 1970, overflow from Reedy Creek flooded German Faculty Highway in South Richmond. Rains from the remnants of Tropical Storm Becky had unfold throughout the state in the course of the day.
In December 1970, bottles on an meeting line waited to be stuffed with Virginia Gentleman bourbon on the A. Smith Bowman Distillery in Reston in Fairfax County. The distillery, based in 1934, later moved to Spotsylvania County.
In October 1973, James Jackson polished a mirror on one in all Engine Co. No. 23’s hearth vehicles on the new 4th Battalion headquarters, positioned at 400 LaBrook Concourse in South Richmond. The station was the second of 4 everlasting hearth amenities deliberate for the world that Richmond had annexed from Chesterfield County in 1970.
In December 1970, the French horn gamers of the Richmond Youth Symphony practiced forward of the primary live performance of the season, which was scheduled at John Marshall Excessive Faculty. The orchestra’s new director that season was L. Frederick “Fritz” Maraffie, who taught at Virginia Commonwealth College.
In Might 1970, residents of the Carillon space in Richmond hunted for bargains at a yard sale.
In October 1970, Richard S. Graves stood amid shaded worm pits at his worm farm within the Fork Union neighborhood in Fluvanna County. Graves, who had a level in animal husbandry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute, owned two of the most important worm ranches in america: Hill Grove Worm Ranch in Virginia and Alamance Worm Ranch in North Carolina. Graves bought into worm farming after seeing {a magazine} advert that touted $10,000 in annual revenue from elevating worms. Whereas smaller farms may produce round 1,000 worms per yr, one in all Graves’ amenities may produce round 2 million.
In June 1976, the James Department Cabell Library at Virginia Commonwealth College in Richmond was formally devoted (although the library had been in use since 1970). Gerard McCabe, VCU’s director of libraries, conferred with particular collections librarian Vesta Gordon within the Cabell Room, a Victorian-style examine that held the late creator’s roughly 3,500-volume assortment. The room stays a part of VCU’s renovated library right this moment.
In November 1970, representatives of Girls in Neighborhood Service met with Virginia Gov. Linwood Holton to debate Girls’s Job Corps points within the Richmond space. Funding for a WICS orientation program and job placement for trainees have been considerations. Within the previous 4 years, Virginia WICS had recruited greater than 400 ladies ages 16 to 21 for Job Corps coaching.
In April 1970, Gloucester County Sheriff Roland F. Smith and several other county residents noticed the dam at Burke’s Pond, which had collapsed for an unknown cause. The 35-acre pond drained, ensuing within the dying of a number of hundred fish. One idea was that muskrats weakened the dam by boring into it.
In February 1979, Constance Ramsey, a former Richmond resident and a School of William & Mary graduate, traveled round Williamsburg on skis after a snowstorm.
This December 1979 picture reveals “Bruce the Spruce,” a speaking and singing Christmas tree that entertained kids ready to see Legendary Santa at Miller & Rhoads downtown. When Legendary Santa moved after the division retailer closed, Bruce adopted alongside as effectively for a time – although he has but to look on the Kids’s Museum of Virginia, the place Legendary Santa could be discovered nowadays.
In February 1979, the Kids’s Theater of Richmond offered a manufacturing of “Winnie the Pooh” through which reside actors shared the stage with marionettes. Michelle Blankenship (left) and Foster Witt alternately performed Christopher Robin in this system. A kids’s theater has been working on and off in Richmond since 1925.
This Might 1979 picture reveals the inside of the brand new Time Shaft trip on the Kings Dominion theme park in Doswell. Centrifugal power, created because the trip spun, held passengers in opposition to the wall as the ground dropped out. The rotor attraction was one in all three contained in the just-opened Misplaced World mountain. In 1998, the mountain was repurposed to accommodate Volcano, the Blast Coaster, which nonetheless operates right this moment.
In March 1979, corrections officer Howard Alexander held the do-it-yourself rope utilized by convicted assassin Michael Irwin Cross to flee from the State Penitentiary, then positioned alongside Spring Avenue in downtown Richmond. Cross was captured two months later after trying to free a fellow convict who was being handled at Medical School of Virginia Hospital.
In August 1979, Peter Sargent of Breezy Hill Farm in Albemarle County bought his greens at a Charlottesville farmers market. Sargent known as his efforts a pastime somewhat than a enterprise: “That’s the great thing about it. … Choose it this morning and promote it right this moment.”
In late August 1979, 13-year-old Barbara Lancaster – accompanied by her canine, T.J. – operated a lemonade stand alongside state Route 226 in Dinwiddie County. Although the college yr was about to start, Barbara deliberate to maintain the stand going within the afternoons as soon as college let loose.
In September 1979, RTD reporter Gary Robertson was on project and obtained a facial from Brenda Carter, an teacher on the Staunton Faculty of Cosmetology. He was writing about Boyd Thompson Jr., whose string of cosmetology faculties and salons was rising throughout the state.
In July 1979, apiarist Norman Sandridge emptied among the 15,000 to twenty,000 bees he had vacuumed from a Mechanicsville dwelling. The bees have been organising a hive within the storage insulation, and Sandridge, who had labored with bees for a decade, was known as in to securely take away them.
In July 1979, Richmond financial institution buyer Haig Kambourian Jr. purchased $50 of Susan B. Anthony greenback cash on their first day in circulation. The accompany story requested: “Will the coin turn into a collector’s merchandise and by no means see widespread circulation? Will individuals confuse it with a quarters and different cash?”
In January 1977, actress Elizabeth Taylor and her husband, Virginia politician John Warner, ran by the snow with Daisy, their pet canine. Throughout Warner’s marketing campaign for Senate in 1978, the couple resided in Richmond on the Berkshire Flats on West Franklin Avenue. They have been married in 1976 and divorced in 1982.
In January 1978, Mrs. W. Thomas Cunningham Jr. put in a door decoration on the new headquarters for the Junior League of Richmond: the Mayo-Carter Home at 205 W. Franklin St. downtown.
In Might 1978, Wayne Corpening, a two-time regional wrestling champion from Highland Springs Excessive Faculty in Henrico County, introduced that he would be a part of the College of Virginia wrestling workforce. He had compiled an 80-18-1 file throughout his Springers profession.