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100 Years Ago: 1921
The Country Club which Lewiston and Auburn have been asking about for many months will be organized at the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce rooms on the evening of July 22nd, according to notices which have been mailed to the subscribers in the Martindale Holding Corporation which purchased the property and organized golf links, tennis courts, club house and dance room on the old Martin farm in Auburn.
50 Years Ago: 1971
Striking telephone company workers returned with a picket line this morning at the Lewiston office of the New England Telephone Co. on Ash Street and at the telephone company garage on Park Street. At noon the situation was the same as yesterday, according to Reginald Meyers, local telephone company business manager. The difference however was that the pickets did not leave the area as they did yesterday at 11:30. At mid afternoon the picket line was still there and the employees who honored it were not being escorted back to work as
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Al Munson/TribuneDick Clay, vice president of the Lewiston Jaycees, does his part to help with the annual Lewiston Chamber of Commerce holiday decorating above Main Street in downtown Lewiston in this photo published in the Dec. 3, 1951, Lewiston Tribune. Clay was perched on a ladder, smiling at Tribune staff photographer Al Munson, as he secures garlands of evergreen boughs and lights above the roadway. An accompanying story described a total of 40 garlands (twice used in previous years) being deployed downtown from the west end of Main Street to 18th Street. The story also detailed the decorations put up by the Clarkston Jaycees, which included 15 electrically lighted red candles standing 4 feet tall along Sixth Street from Chestnut to Elm streets. Santa Claus planned to parade through Lewiston the following Saturday, Dec. 8, ending up at the 35-foot Chrsatmas tree installed at the approach to Clearwater Memorial Bridge at 21st Street. Readers who would like