September 20, 2024
Crowning Miss Kentucky, 2000
Whitney Boyles, center, who was named Miss Kentucky 2000, was crowned by Miss America Heather Renee French, left, and reigning Miss Kentucky Shanna Moore at Transylvania University’s Haggin Auditorium on June 24, 2000. Boyles, 21, Miss Northern Kentucky, was from Louisville, and she was competing in her fifth Miss Kentucky scholarship pageant. The 2017 Miss Kentucky will be crowned Saturday night at the University of Kentucky’s Singletary Center for the Arts. Photo by Mark Cornelison | Staff
UK basketball’s Rick Robey celebrates national championship, 1978
Kentucky’s Rick Robey waved to fans from a balcony at Blue Grass Field on March 28, 1978, after the Wildcats brought home the 1978 basketball national championship trophy. Kentucky defeated Duke 94-88 in the championship game the night before in St. Louis, giving the Cats their fifth national championship. About 7,000 fans waited inside the airport terminal for the team to arrive. The 1978 Cats are among the 14 teams that UK will honor with reunions during the 2017-18 school year. Click here to see a photo of coach Joe B. Hall during the celebratory homecoming. Photo by David Perry | Staff
Rolling Stones concert at Rupp Arena, 1978
The Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger, left, and Keith Richards during a concert at Lexington’s Rupp Arena on June 29, 1978. The concert was a late addition to the group’s U.S. tour. It was the first Rupp Arena concert where all the tickets were not sold on a reserved seating basis. Face value of tickets were $8, $9 and $10. On the day of the show, ticket scalpers, who had expected a windfall outside the arena before the show, found out that there were more sellers than buyers. Tickets were going for $3, $1 and even for free. T-shirts were selling for $6 and $8. The legendary English rock band, which formed in 1962, arrived at Rupp Arena at 8:20 p.m., went onstage at 10:10 and jumped into their limousines at 11:45, headed for the airport. They played 19 songs, including “Miss You,” Beast of Burden,” “Brown Sugar” and “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” to close the show for the crowd of 23,000. There was no encore. Lexington was 11th stop on the band’s 24-city tour of the United States after the release of the group’s 1978 album, “Some Girls.” Eddie Money opened for the band and joined the group onstage during “Miss You” for a sax solo. Click here to see another photo from our archives of this concert. Photo by Ron Garrison | staff
New development on Man o’ War at I-75, 1993
Preliminary work on the development on the southwest corner of I-75 and Man o’ War Boulevard, which would be directly across from Hamburg Pavilion, in August 1993. Man o’ War Boulevard runs horizontally, with what is now Pleasant Ridge Drive running into the new development at center. The site now contains hotels, restaurants, gas stations and a subdivision. Today across Man o’ War Boulevard, which was extended from Bryant Road in 1988, Target, Old Navy and Dick’s Sporting Goods are some of the retail stores that line I-75 on the west side. On the east is Costco and Cabela’s. Today more than half of the 2,000-acre Hamburg Place farm has now been developed. Click here to see another aerial angle of the shopping center being built just four years after this image was taken. Photo by Ron Garrison | Staff
Farming with draft horses, 1992
Nick Coleman, 59, guided a team of draft horses pulling a plow through one of his fields in preparation for planting in May 1992. Coleman farmed the same 187 acres in Henry County that his grandfather did a century before, using draft horses for everything except baling hay. Click on the image for a larger view. Photo by Charles Bertram | Staff
Blue Grass Field fire equipment, 1960
Firefighting equipment and the crash crew at Lexington’s Blue Grass Field in September 1960. The crash crew consisted of one combination firefighter-police officer on duty around the clock, with four volunteers from men on duty in the hangars and two men from each of the three airlines at the field. The photo ran in the Sunday Herald-Leader on Sept. 25, 1960, with a story touting that there had been no deaths or major accidents at the airport since 1946, despite antiquated equipment. The firefighting equipment included the truck at left, a 20-year-old engine donated by the county fire department; an electrical truck in the middle; and a pickup truck with fire equipment mounted on the back. At the time of that image, there were no regulations in place for the number or capacity of fire trucks that an airport should have or a crash-crew size, or how well they should be trained. Blue Grass Field averaged about 15 accidents a year involving light aircraft, many attributed to student training. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
Billy Ray Cyrus in Rupp Arena, 1993
Billy Ray Cyrus, a native of Flatwoods, Ky., performed in Rupp Arena before 8,000 fans on June 26, 1993, shortly after the release of his album “It Won’t Be the Last.” Cyrus’ concert the previous year in Rupp arena was attended by 15,000 people. Photo by Marvin Hill, Jr. | Staff
Lexington Pride Festival, 2009
Lexington’s second Pride Festival was held June 27, 2009, at Cheapside Park. It featured more than 50 booths, food vendors and entertainment. Click on the image for a larger view. This year’s Lexington Pride Festival will be held 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday at the downtown courthouse plaza. Photo by Matt Goins
Highway 80 collapse, 1986
Onlookers peered into a 15-foot hole in Ky. 80 in Floyd County after the roadway collapsed about 2 a.m. Oct. 26, 1986. The road had been built over a pear-shaped steel-arched railroad tunnel. Two cars plunged into the chasm. Patricia Stepp, 32, of Prestonsburg and Terry Boyd, 20, of Langley escaped serious injury, but their cars were destroyed. Two lanes of the four-lane highway reopened in early November. Photo by Jim Wakeham | Staff
Lexington’s ‘burgoo king,’ 1946
James T. “Col. Jim” Looney, a Lexington grocer, known locally as the “burgoo king”, watched over a kettle of the regionally popular stew known as burgoo at the Blue Grass Fat Lamb Show and Sale at Clay Gentry Stockyards on June 22, 1946. His burgoo was served at the Lexington Trots and other events in Central Kentucky for many years. In September 1935, Looney prepared enough of his specialty to feed 4,000 people for a Labor Day “relief” picnic to benefit Lexington’s needy. The ingredients included 450 pounds of lean beef, 100 pounds of chicken, 36 one-gallon cans of tomatoes, 16 one-gallon cans of puree, four bushels of onions, eight 100-pound sacks of potatoes, four bushels of cabbage, 48 cans of corn, 25 pounds of salt and 24 cans of carrots. The remaining ingredients and seasoning remained his secret. In 1938, Looney began canning and selling Kentucky burgoo under the name “Burgoo King,” and the label bore the picture of Col. E. R. Bradley’s 1932 Kentucky Derby winner, Burgoo King, who was named after Looney. Col. Jim Looney died March 23, 1954, at age 84. Herald-Leader Archive Photo
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