Oct. 14 in 1925, 1950, 1975 and 2000
100 Years ago – 1925
S. Heiner advertised hats: “The colors – new, vivid! Aster, Phlox, Black Prince Epinard – Sapphire Blue, Pencil Blue and Black, also combinations of black and wood. Large Brimmed Hats, Tiny Brimmed Hats, Hats that flairs off-face! Trimmed in a score of captivating new ways!” Prices ranged from 98 cents to $7.50 ($18 to $137 in today’s dollars).
75 years ago – 1950
The Fieldale PTA launched a paper, cardboard and scrap iron drive. Trucks drove through all of Fieldale to pick up those items. People also could drop them off at the gate at the opening room of the Towel Mill bleachery or the Jessup Upholstery shop in Collinsville.
50 years ago – 1975
On sale at Globman’s: ladies leather-look jackets, $14.96; Growing Up Skipper Dolls, $4.96; men’s denim jeans, $5.96; Pelon-type interfacing, 3 yards for $1; Instant Hairsetters (hot rollers), $16.96; Mr. Coffee II drip coffeemaker, $27.96. (With the Growing Up Skipper Doll, turn the doll’s arm in one direction and she grows breasts and her torso gets taller, and turn it the other direction and the breasts go away and her torso gets shorter again. It was a controversial toy.)
25 years ago - 2000
Happening on this Saturday was the annual Fall Festival at Blue Ridge Village, Stanleytown Elementary School’s Fall Carnival and Magna Vista High School’s drama department’s first workshop for elementary and middle school students. The Fontaine Ruritan Club was gearing up for its fund-raising steak supper which would be held the next weekend.
— Information from museum records and the Henry Bulletin and the Martinsville Bulletin.