There’s a persuasive myth that everything done in our grandparents childhood was done well. Standards were higher. Streets were safer – and the News Review made fewer mistakes.
Just to prove it ain’t necessarily so, take a look at this jewel culled from pressing this week’s 50-years ago button (see right navigation bar). This issue is priceless in many ways – for example, it includes a Pepco ad offering $2.02 an hour while you train to be a lineman. Or you may note that Toastmasters wants ‘Men’. More sobering, it carries a paid advertisement exhorting Greenbelters to take a stand against the War in Asia.
The 50 years ago button is a great hit (pun intended) but the archives collectively are even more fun – and there’s a link on the top navigation bar. Check out your birthday to see what was happening on that uniquely important day. Print out the front page as a birthday card for a friend. All the online issues are available in the Archives link, arranged by decade (about 18 months are missing altogether). The quality varies as we believe many of these files were made from the county library’s microfiche of the paper – some are good enough to be searchable and others are not. We’re hoping to make it a priority to improve the scan quality and fill in gaps as the original papers are getting fragile and may not be long for this life.