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Zion Baptist Church, 1984
The Zion Baptist Church choir in Paris sang at the Sunday morning worship service on Feb. 12, 1984. Photo by John C. Wyatt | Staff
Kentucky-Georgia football ticket stub, 1998
A ticket stub on the ground at Commonwealth Stadium after the Kentucky-Georgia football game on Oct. 24, 1998. Georgia escaped with a 28-26 win. That was the year the 7-5 Cats, led by quarterback Tim Couch, went to the Outback Bowl, where they lost to Penn State. Note the price on the ticket: $20. The price on a ticket for Saturday’s UK-Georgia game? $50. Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff
South Park shopping center, 1979
South Park shopping center in July 1979. The shopping center is at Nicholasville and New Circle roads. The Hills department store has been succeeded by Office Depot and Bed Bath and Beyond. Allied Sporting Goods, C&H Rauch Jewelers and a Kroger grocery store also were in the shopping center in 1979. Click on the image for a closer look and click here to see an image from our archives of the South Park Cinema 6 located behind this shopping center. Photo by David Perry | Staff
Downtown Lexington traffic, 1951
An afternoon traffic jam on North Limestone between Short and Second streets in downtown Lexington. Published in the Lexington Herald on Aug. 16, 1951. Note the Kroger store sign in the lower left corner.
Lundergan Grimes, McConnell in the 1980s
Nine-year-old Alison Lundergan joined her father, Kentucky state Rep. Jerry Lundergan, as he prepared to sign in to vote at the Eastland precinct on Nov. 8, 1988. Jerry Lundergan represented the 76th District. Alison Lundergan Grimes, now Kentucky’s secretary of state, is challenging U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell. Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff
Jefferson County Judge-Executive Mitch McConnell greeted Biff Lowery, a member of the Lexington Rotary Club, on Oct. 18,1984. McConnell was running for his first term in the U.S. Senate. Now the Senate minority leader, he is seeking his sixth term. Photo by Frank Anderson | Staff
‘Stripes’ filming at Fort Knox, 1980
Bill Murray, left, and Harold Ramis, right, during the filming of Stripes at Fort Knox on Nov. 26, 1980. Murray played Pvt. John Winger and Ramis played Pvt. Russell Ziskey in the movie, which was released in 1981. Kentucky first lady Phyllis George Brown and the Kentucky Film Commission helped lure the film to be shot here, and it had a big economic impact on the area. For instance, the film crew hired 1,700 Kentuckians just as extras. Columbia Pictures paid each extra $35 a day, and an extra usually worked about five days. The Kentucky Film Commission coordinated with the state employment office to give unemployed Kentuckians first preference for extra work on the film. The result: Kentucky saved $150,000 in unemployment insurance that it would have paid the out-of-work people who got a job in the movie. Murray was recently back in Kentucky attending the Kentucky Bourbon Festival. Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood, 1998
Country music stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood spoke at a news conference on May 15, 1998, before their sold-out show at Rupp Arena in Lexington. Sixteen years later, Brooks and Yearwood played four shows at Rupp Arena in two nights. Concert Review. Photo by Mark Cornelison | Staff
Wah Wah Jones, 1946
Wallace “Wah Wah” Jones caught Bill Boller’s 11-yard pass for a touchdown during the University of Kentucky’s 70-0 win over Xavier on Oct. 5, 1946, at Stoll Field. Jones, widely considered the greatest all-around athlete in UK history, played both football and basketball for the Cats. He held the distinction of playing for two lionized coaches: Adolph Rupp in basketball and Paul “Bear” Bryant in football. On the gridiron, Jones was an all-Southeastern Conference player, and on the hardwood he was a member of the Fabulous Five, the basketball team that in 1948 won the first of UK’s eight national championships.
Halloween, 1980
David McCall, left, and Sean Maness were frightened by University of Kentucky student Kathryn Poe, who was dressed as a witch at a Lexington haunted house on Oct. 31, 1980. Photo by David Perry | Staff
Dudley’s former home, 2001
The bar area of iconic Lexington restaurant Dudley’s on May 14, 2001. Dudley’s was on Maxwell Street for 28 years until it moved to its current home on West Short Street, between Mill and Market streets, in fall 2009. Photo by Mark Cornelison | Staff
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