April 24, 2025
Fayette Mall, 1992
Inside Fayette Mall, looking down towards one of it’s anchor stores, Sears, Sept. 17, 1992. The Hess’s department store at right is where the JCPenny is today. In May 1993, the mall expanded, adding nearly two dozen businesses in a new south wing that was accessed through the Sears. The expansion made it Kentucky’s largest mall. The Sears store closed in Jan. 2014 and it was renovated to it’s current form. Note the women in the orange shirt walking towards the camera is smoking. Click on the image for a closer look and click here to see more Fayette Mall images from our archives including bear-wrestling at the shopping center, the food court opening and an aerial picture of the farmland the mall was built on. Photo by Frank Anderson | staff
Interior of Fayette Mall, Sept. 17, 1992. At left, partially cut off is the arcade Aladdin’s Castle. At right is shoe store Stride Rite, Chestnut Street Gallery, The Bombay Company and a Chick-fil-A restaurant. Click on the image for a closer look. Photo by Frank Anderson | staff
Dustin Hoffman visits UK campus, 1968
Movie star Dustin Hoffman visited the University of Kentucky April 25, 1968 while campaigning for presidential candidate Sen. Eugene McCarthy. Hoffman, at time, had been nominated for an academy award for his role in “The Graduate”. He found himself surrounded by women and signing autographs at the Zeta Tau Alpha sorority house before speaking at the Dormitory Complex Cafeteria and the McCarthy campaign headquarters. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
Police investigate cracked safe, 1954
Lexington patrolmen Charles Cruse, left, and Bryan Henry used a flashlight to investigate the safe that was cracked in an April 1954 storehouse break-in at the Webb Brothers Distributing Company, 260 East Vine street. Three men were arrested and plead guilty in police court in the Webb case and also to breaking into Roy Hall’s radiator shop, 245 West Vine and stealing a pickup truck used to haul the safe. The safe was found ripped open under the West High Street viaduct. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
Pete Rose at Keeneland, 1977
Cincinnati Reds third baseman Pete Rose at Keeneland during the Fall Meet, Oct. 22, 1977. Rose, the all-time Major League Baseball leader in hits, was at the track with Reds manager Sparky Anderson and Lexington’s Doug Flynn, a former teammate who was then with the New York Mets. Click here to see another image of Rose at Keeneland from the previous year, just before he won the World Series with the Reds. April 14 is Rose’s 77th birthday. Photo by Ron Garrison | staff
Children rehearse at Charles Young Center, 1956
Children practice for a square dance demonstration at the Charles Young Center in April 1956. Square dancers were Spencer Lindsay and Emma Smith, center, and from left, William Smith, Russell King Jr., William Bentley, Jacqueline Lindsay, Janet King and Ledoris Shields. Other portions of the center’s “Recreational Review” were to be an art exhibit, tumbling, dramatic skit, presentation of trophies and a social hour. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
Eclipse Award-winning photo, 2003
Jockey Patti Cooksey lays injured on the track April 12, 2003 as first aid personnel, Will Lockridge, front, of EMT Mediport, and Mike Stout, horse ambulance driver, try to veer Classikas away from her after her mount Ide Rather Not went down in the first turn in the first race at Keeneland. Jockey Inosencio Diego is shown at top right walking away after the three-horse spill. Forty-two-year Herald-Leader photographer Frank Anderson won the 2003 Eclipse Award for Photography for this image. The Eclipse Awards are given annually to members of the media for outstanding coverage of Thoroughbred racing. Anderson died in August 2017 and many of the images on this blog are taken by him. Photo by Frank Anderson | staff
Newsman David Dick on his farm, 1987
David Dick, a former CBS news correspondent, educator and author, at his farm in Bourbon County in April 1987 on the occasion of being inducted into the Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame. Dick worked for CBS news from 1966 to 1985. After retiring he became an associate professor and director of the UK School of Journalism. He left UK in 1996 and worked as a farmer, shepherd, author and publisher. He died in 2010. This past Monday marked the 38th Annual Kentucky Journalism Hall of Fame induction ceremony which included long-time Herald-Leader political writer Jack Brammer. Photo by Tim Sharp | Staff
Jacobson Park playground, 1988
The playground at Lexington’s Jacobson Park, April 10, 1988. A larger, wooden, maze-like playground structure replaced this playground in 1993. That popular structure was torn down and replaced with a bigger playground that included a musical public arts project in August 2016. Photo by John C. Wyatt | staff
Spring House Bar, 1968
The Spring House Bar at the corner of Main and Spring Streets photographed in November 1968. Spring Street, foreground, intersected with West Main Street at what is now Lexington Center’s Heritage Hall, across from Algonquin Street. The building, built in 1791 and believed to be the first brick building in Lexington, had just been sold to the Urban Renewal Agency which planned to raze it for redevelopment. The two-story structure was originally built as a residence by a William Prothero. At one time it was the home of Thomas Harris Barlow, an inventor, who moved to Lexington in 1824 and operated a foundry and machine shop. It later became the Sign of the Cross Keys Tavern. The building was sold by Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Grimes and Mr. and Mrs John A. Patton for $42,720. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
Girl Scouts earn aviation badges, 1960
These 14 members of Girl Scout Troop 132 were awarded proficiency badges in aviation in March 1960. Those pictured along with three others finished the requirements for the badge with an airplane ride over Lexington. Pictured are, front row, Wanda Acree, Sheila Barrett, Mary Banks Breckenridge, Sarah Belle Breckenridge, Jane Cannon, Caltha Cooper and Catherine Hayden, and back row, Jo Ellen Hayden, Micheline Holladay, Colleen Klinker, Betsy Luck, Melinda Milligan, Mary Burkley Preston and Dolores Waits. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
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