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What's New - 2003
12/31/03 This month's selected Photo is of an event in the early fifties. Perhaps you saw it. Maybe you're in the picture.
In RGee's Corner, our friend Glenn Watkins shares another detailed memory of the life and times of Cliffside.
A short reminiscence of a day in 1941, titled "The Water Boy."12/20/03 There's a new Family Story, this one of the Robert Sparks family, taken from the book compiled and written by the late Jimmy Sparks. It includes bios of Robert & Ebber Bostic Sparks, his father, and all their children. 12/07/03 They just keep coming! Fifty three more photos in the brand new Faces of Cliffside Gallery IV.
We've added eight new PDF files to the Documents list. These are scans of printed programs, certificates, old tax forms, etc. (All new files are added to the top of the list. )11/30/03 Here's the long awaited Photo of the Month for December that features the young face of a Cliffside fixture.
For Odds & Ends, we've come up with a new "Remember That?" In focus this time are the great grandstand entertainments we used to enjoy at the Cleveland County fair.
In the Memories section we examine a few of the things we produced locally for our amusement and diversion: minstrel shows, woman-less weddings and donkey basketball games.11/22/03 Added a Documents button on the navigation bar (see left) on all "yellow" pages. This will lead you to the Documents page, where, for your convenience, all the Web site's PDF documents are listed. The purpose: if you want to reread a document, you don't have to go searching for it.
In Memories, we've created a new Cliffside High Yearbooks category, and added another entire yearbook, this one from 1947. It and the ones to come are in PDF format, enabling you to see the original pages, zoom in and out, selectively print pages, and save the PDF files to your hard drive. As time goes by, we plan to add all of CHS's year books to this collection.
There's a new Reader Comment.
We still have about 200 new photos to put in galleries. We'll try to get to those before Christmas.11/13/03 Added 29 new names to the Contributors list. This means 29 more people have contributed their pictures, ideas, stories and financial support. That brings the total of active supporters to 153, not to mention the hundreds who give us much needed moral support and encouragement. Thanks to all of you. 11/12/03 In the History department, we've started a new section called Family Stories, relating some history, kinship info and tales from the past of, for now, two families. With your help we could include your family in this section. 10/30/03 On Oct. 11—and on the 18th—the 2nd annual Remember Cliffside Day was held. Because the 11th was such a dreary day, the Masons decided to repeat it the following week. Anyhow, in the Present Day gallery there are 92 photos of many who attended.
And, as predictable as the flowers in springtime, we have a new Photo of the Month.09/29/03 In 1961 someone snapped a picture of Rucker Scruggs standing in front of his River Street store. His granddaughter, Mary, was kind enough to submit it, and we've made it October's Photo of the Month.
We've added another book to the Suggested Reading list. It's Rutherford County in World War II, by Anita Price Davis and James M. Walker. It has many interesting pictures and stories of those who went off to war, Cliffside's Grover Haynes, Jr. and James Price among them.09/18/03 1922 was a big year for Cliffside. Both the new school and the R. R. Haynes Memorial Building, which had been under construction for several years, were dedicated. Read the extensive coverage of these ceremonies and much more in Cliffside in 1922, found in the History department.
In Odds & Ends, we've added a page of Reader's Comments. You might find interesting what people are saying about the web site.
There are a couple of interesting updates, another Ray Nanney Flashback, a new addition to Can You Speak Cliffside? (about cow horns). Plus a new Did You Know ? item on the front page.09/08/03 Reach back to yesteryear—Jan 20, 1978—and recall the day they moved the town clock to its new home in the tower on the hill. 09/05/03 In 1937 the school year book was called “Old Gold & Black.” In our Memories department, we've reproduced it as faithfully as could be. You'll like the photos; the photographer made our little Cliffside girls look like movie stars. (Click on the individual student pics to see larger versions.) Who among you had friends or kinfolks in that class? 09/04/03 Added 20 new photos to Memorial Day 2003 gallery starting here. (As of this date, all galleries combined contain 1,157 photos. This number does not include photos contained in features like Tomb Builders, Hames Studio, year books, etc; original articles and news stories; or Pictures of the Month.) 09/01/03 Moved the “Did You Know?” teaser to the top of the front page. Every new DYK item will appear here first, then, when the next new item comes along, will move to the regular DYK page. 08/29/03 Ta-da! Announcing 23 photos in a sparkling new gallery called School Groups II.
To celebrate Labor Day, we've found a fascinating Photo of the Month for September, of a long ago parade in downtown Cliffside that may well have been taken on a Labor Day.
And don't miss the new Did You Know? items.
Finally, we've included some advance notice of this year's Cliffside Day—coming up on October 11th.08/20/03 Today we take you back to 1904 to read the first announcement of plans to build the Cliffside Railroad.
There's a whole new picture gallery, called Families of Cliffside 2, with 35 photos. And you'll like the eight new photos in the Faces at the Mill gallery, starting here.
Check out the new items in Remember That?
Finally, we've reordered the Site Map a little to make it easier to find things.08/11/03 Think you know all there is to know about the R. R. Haynes Memorial Building? Not so fast! Here's a full description of that famous landmark, written shortly after its dedication in 1922.
And there are a couple of new updates.08/06/03 Just in time for Wednesday, there's a bright, shiny new gallery called Scenes Around Town 3 containing 18 never-before-seen-lately photographs. Some of the people shown are unidentified. Help us ID them if you can.
While you're at it, check out the new item in Remember That?08/05/03 We've added 10 additional pictures to People & Their Vehicles gallery, starting here.
And, starting here, you can see 14 new photos in the World War II gallery.
There are several interesting new items in Did You Know? and a new Update which sheds some light on an old photograph.
Finally, as we're apt to do when we run across new information, we've added an “Info Link” to a name in the 1910 Census. This time, it's Horace Carpenter. Who was he?07/31/03 Anita Price Davis has done it again! In our Reading List we've added her informative new book: North Carolina During The Depression. In it you'll find lots of familiar people and places. 07/30/03 We're happy to present an important addition to the web site: Cliffside in 1910. You can search the 2,118 names in that year's Federal Census records. Where did grandpa live? How old was he? Did he work? Could he read or write?
Then, as regular as clockwork, there's a new Photo of The Month, this time an old picture of R. R. Haynes and his managers.A little early, but here's the new Photo of the Month for July, an exhibit at the Cleveland County Fair.
Plus there's a new entry in Remember That?At long last, the three “Cliffside” model galleries are now complete. There are 88 new photos in two new galleries (130 total), and a revised format allowing you to see more pictures per page. This is a remarkable model that took Jim Scancarelli years to complete. Revised the Site Map. Under the Flashbacks category, it now lists each contributor's name, and links directly to that contributor's page.
Speaking of Flashbacks, read the three new submissions by Sam Davis, a Cliffsider with a thousand memories. There're at the top of his Flashbacks page.In Photo Galleries, in Present Day Photos, there's a new collection of 43 pictures taken during the Memorial Day weekend, May 10-11. There are a few persons who are unidentified. Help us if you can.
Under History there's a new sub-section called Crimes, Misdemeanors and Skullduggery, in which we'll include all the instances of mayhem we know about. To begin our journey down this dark path, we've provided stories of a killing and two bank robberies in our fair town.Due to overwhelming demand by one or two of our readers, we've added a search facility to the website. Let us know if it's helpful. You can access it from the front page by clicking the new Search button. In the History section, there's an interesting discussion by Jim Ruppe about Cliffside's company stores. Did you realize there were more than one?
In Odds & Ends, there's a quaint 1943 letter of agreement from Cliffside Mills to Pick Biggerstaff. And something you'll recognize and remember immediately, a funeral home fan. There's also a new item in Remember That?
In Flashbacks, Yates Bostic, Jr. tells of helping tear down the Memorial Building.
In Memories, there's a newspaper column titled “An Election Night in Shelby,” about someone you might remember.
For Photo of the Month fans, here's the picture for June, a rare old picture of Cliffside's train depot.Here are 44 pictures in a new gallery called Faces of Cliffside III. There are a couple of unidentified people shown, so help us ID them if you can.
And yet another addition to the Suggested Reading List.A new addition to the Suggested Reading List. Betty Whitaker Butler has contributed some of her memories in our Flashbacks section.
In Odds & Ends, there is a reminiscence about life in the mill villages of Charlotte that is close to our own experiences, with an overview of how cloth is produced in a mill.
There's an interesting update to our March Photo of the Month. The lady on the street is identified.
And there's a new Photo of the Month—for May (we're going to forget April).We're baaaaaaack—with a new photo gallery titled Demolition. There are 16 photos from the '60s and '70s showing various states of Cliffside's decline. We have a new feature in Odds & Ends called Remember That? It's a list of topics guaranteed to spur fond memories of the past. A photo for March, although a bit late. An interesting picture from about 1917 of a lady standing on the street in downtown Cliffside. We've acquired another Cliffside postcard from Myles Haynes, Jr. It's another view of the Memorial Building lobby, photographed in the 1920's. Ever notice how folks tend to photograph themselves on, in or around their cars? Here's an amusing new gallery of 26 photos called "People and their Vehicles." In Odds & Ends, there's a new page called The High Cost of Living, a doctor's bill from the depression years.
We've added a dozen new names to the Contributors list.
There are a few new entries in “Did You Know?,” and new Flashbacks from Anne Cargill and Peggy Putnam Houser.
There's an entirely new gallery called More Scenes Around Town containing 17 photos.
In Sports Groups, we've added a photo taken at the Cliffside High football team banquet of 1956.
In Community Groups, there's a photo of Cliffside's first rescue squad.
In Early Days, there are two compelling new photos of the Baptist Church being built and the mill office being remodeled, starting here.
Pony fans will be glad to find a new pony picture—and another featuring a goat wagon—starting here.
We added six new photos in the World War II section, starting here.A new month has rolled around. (We've noticed that happens more frequently these days—about every couple of weeks or so.) Anyhow, we've got a new Photo of the Month, this time of the men and boys who work at a spoke and handle plant of 1890.
And we've typed our fingers to the bone to bring you twenty-five (count 'em, 25) new Sun stories from the year 1927. In “In The News” read all about the new dry cleaning plant, the new ladies rest room (“first in the county”) and the church that became a school gymnasium. You'll be absolutely dazzled by the exquisite detail of the story on the commencement of the class of '27 (the “last class to graduate from Cliffside High School”).
There's a new Update on the Hames Studio feature.
Under Memories, there's a 1964 Shelby Star article about Cliffside's one and only jet crash.
We've also revised the Site Map to make it easy for you to find all the new stuff. Each new article listed on the Site Map can be identified by this blue star:In History, you'll find some exceptional photos made by the first photographer ever to document the people and events of Cliffside, W.E. Hames. In The Hames Studio there are 16 unique photos and information you may not have known.
Also, a major improvement has been made to the Site Map. It now lists individually all the stories posted in the “In The News” section, giving you a better view of the substantial contents of that section, and better control of what you've read, or missed. We'll be adding new material from The Sun in the very near future.In History, we've added a brief Story of The Haynes Mill and Avondale, written about 40 years ago by Hollis Owens, Sr. For photo fans, we've added a gallery of Sports Groups, 25 pictures of teams and individual athletes of the school and town. (We need your help in identifying and dating these photos!) In the History section, you'll find a fascinating article called “Tomb Builders,” about the building of R.R. Haynes tomb at Cliffside Cemetery. There are rare “Hames Studio” photos provided by the family of Press Freeman, one of the stone masons who worked on the project. Added January's Photo of the Month, "New Year 1943," contributed by Bob Hawkins.
In the past week, for technical purposes, we have made a number of changes to the website, most of which—we hope—will not be obvious to the reader. If you run across broken links or other mistakes of any kind, please let us know.
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