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Erie history in photos: Summer Olympians with ties to the Erie region
Staff report
Take a closer look at the Erie region and our community through images from the Erie Times-News files, from local, state and national archives and contributed from photographers like you.
This week we present athletes with Erie connections to past Summer Olympics and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which began Friday.
Want to take part? Tag your favorite images on social media with #ErieGram, or send them, with complete caption information, to news director Christopher Millette at cmillette@timesnews.com. We ll consider them for publication in print and online for this weekly feature.
It doesn t require liquor, after all, to assure the success of a New Year s celebration, as thousands of Erieites proved Friday night.
The pronouncement by the Erie Dispatch Herald on Jan. 1, 1921, after the first New Year s Eve of Prohibition seemed half-hearted.
But for Erieites in that new year, the continuing prohibition against alcohol was one of just a few clouds on the horizon.
The city was in the midst of a building boom.
Women had voted for the first time in the November presidential election, helping to elect Warren Harding.
Army aviators had flown 9,000 miles from New York to Nome, Alaska, in 111 hours over three months and one week, blazing the way for more postal air service routes.