Downtown Piggly Wiggly grocery store, 1941 TAGS: Broadway | Downtown | Downtown Lexington | Kroger | Lexington Center Corporation | Lexington Opera House | Shopping | Short Street
January 17, 2025
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View from Courthouse bell tower, 1974 TAGS: Fayette County Courthouse | Herald-Leader | Ky | Lexington | Short Street | view
Closing up old Fayette County jail, 1976 TAGS: E. Lawson King | Fayette County Jail | Harold Buchignani | jailer | Ky | Lexington
John Glenn visits W.T. Young, 1967 TAGS: astronaut | John H. Glenn | Jr. | Ky | Lexington | Lucy Young | Rex Potter | W. T. Young
Larry Bird, 1984 TAGS: Children's Charity Golf Classic | golf | Greenbrier Golf and Country Club | Larry Bird | Rick Roby
Herald extra: Pearl Harbor attack, 1941 TAGS: extra | Japan | lexington herald | Pearl Harbor | war | world war II
Man o’ War Boulevard construction, 1982 TAGS: construction | Lexington construction | Man O'War Boulevard | Richmond Rd | road construction
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