Local writer Sarah St. John pulls from the Journal-World archives to compile reports of what it was like to be in Lawrence decades ago.
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 12, 1990:Work was getting under way on a $750,000 project to improve traffic flow on 19th Street. City officials said 19th from Naismith to Iowa would be closed to through traffic during the project, and utility companies working in conjunction ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 11, 1915:"McCarter Byrd and the business he conducts under the name of the Lawrence Rug and Fur company, at 145 Maine street in Lawrence, together afford an interesting study. Byrd because he is an ex-slave who came to Lawrence in 1892 from North ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 11, 1990:Summer had arrived with hot weather and the inevitable road projects. "This is a critical time of year for us," said Frank Hempen this week, adding that seven miles of county roads were to be repaved this summer and that his office was ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 10, 1915:"Many automobile travelers and owners of cars here are complaining of the poor method of doing the grading on the Golden Belt route from here to Eudora. There is also a bad mudhole on the California road a few miles out. One man complains ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 10, 1990:Radio stations in "cattle country" were irked at singer k. d. lang's "Meat Stinks" campaign, and some were pulling her music from their airwaves. At least 14 stations had joined the boycott. Lyle Gray, president of the Kansas Livestock ...
From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 9, 1915:"If you find your letters unsealed and your packages watersoaked, blame it on the weather. All mail that came into Lawrence from the east and had passed through the storm district around St. Louis, is in bad condition, owing to the terrible ...