A crowd gathered outside Union Station on Oct. 12, 1948, to greet New York Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican nominee for president. The downtown train station was at what is now the corner of East Main Street and Martin Luther King Boulevard. It was demolished to be replaced by a parking garage in 1960. Dewey would go on to lose to incumbent President Harry S. Truman in one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history.  Herald-Leader Archive Photo