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Daily press, September 28, 1989

The more things change, the more they stay the same. 35 years ago people in South Carolina were still reeling from Hurricane Hugo. Very strange how people could just go to someone's house to donate (see left column) back then.

Imagine getting ready to get on a plane to London when you collapse at the airport.

I'd never heard of the comic Outland, it was a spinoff of Bloom County that ran only on Sundays. Here is Mortimer Mouse:

(eBay seller Erickson Comics and Paper)

I found this Sunday night, and then Monday night, I find out that Pete Rose died! VHS Tapes Old newspapers are magic.

Even in 1989, the clothes in these A&N ads already looked outdated. It was always like this with them. I could pull up a newspaper from 1994, and the clothes would look like the clothes people wore in ... 1989.

ooh, we have a Phar-Mor alert. We were not a Phar-Mor family, we did not visit the mythical store known as Phar-Mor. My mom said that area was too crowded. It was like a giant variety store with a pharmacy, right?

I was nosy, and looks like they broke up in 2001. So the Yorks were trying to gain "custody" of their embryo from a lab in Norfolk (they lived in California). I'm not sure if the couple were successful at having children though.

Oh no! It's our boy David Merritt! We remember him from the August 1, 1993 newspaper entry. Remember, his restaurant didn't open until 1992, and was hyping that it was going to open on April 7, 1990.

These ads are magnificent.

Old Mill? I gotta say it:

For you dead mall fans out there, both Outlets Ltd and Great American Outlet Mall are long gone.

I never thought that My Two Dads needed one censor, let alone two. I gotta watch My Two Dads, it has Paul Reiser and Dana from Step by Step! I love that podcast she has with Christine Lakin about Step by Step.

Speaking of censorship, STOPLESS GIRLS. I looked up the address, and looks like it was torn down.

No Cathy in this strip, but there are Fax jokes. Remember faxing in your lunch order? Onion rolls seem so old skool, I feel like I remember seeing them at the bakery at the grocery store when I was a real little kid, and then never again. Is it a regional thing? Do people not eat onion rolls in Hampton Roads anymore?

Garfield was upsetting that day.

OH I almost forgot. Speaking of upsetting:

A man on his bike was hit by a car down the street from the newspaper offices. So just you know, walk down the street and take a photo of it and put it on the front page of the local section. I hope Allen was ok. The McDonalds where it happened is long gone, but the building remains.

/edit/

So the day I went to publish this, I had to take the long way home from Suffolk, and I drove by this intersection on my way to the James River Bridge. Old newspapers ARE magic.

I know we make jokes about certain people putting raisins in potato salad, but what about raisins in your chicken.

I love the names of these raisin recipes! Silk Stockings?! Model T?! I would try a lil bite of each of these.

I can't remember where I mentioned this place, but it amuses me SO MUCH that back in the day you could go to Coliseum Mall and buy steaks.

wait. Bryers made jelly? I wonder if that's the same fruit that was in that yogurt they used to make that was so good. Breyers ice cream is soo bad now.

!! This was my friend Paul's mom! I about flipped when I saw this. This is exactly how five year old me remembers her. She would give me rides to school sometimes in her old jeep and would pick my mom up for room mothers.

Finally, this Eastern Airlines ad is beautiful. They had about a year and a half left, closed in 1991.

I completely forgot to post for September, I got 🦠 at the end of August that went into the first week of September, then I had to get ready for the Norfolk Zine fest, then then this weekend? Is Richmond Zine fest. Don't forget, my zines are available on my Etsy shop.

And there's a new design over at my TeePublic.

#1989 #daily press #old newspapers #Pete rose #Phar-Mor #Hampton Virginia #hampton #newport news #raisins #zines

9 detective series boxsets to binge on by Eastern Daily Press.

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462. Daily Press, July 1, 1992

I'm trying to remember, I think this became a Proffit's department store by the next Summer.

Back when Wal*Mart was simpler times.

Wait. Hold up. WalMart would close at 9:30 back in 1992?! AND AT SIX PM ON SUNDAYS. I thought by the time we got this Walmart in the early 90s in Hampton, Walmart was running 24/7.

Phar-Mor was trying so hard to be lil Kmart or lil WalMart back then. They had so much drama with the way the place was ran I need to get into it soon. Here's just a quick summary from Tedium. Our store was near the mall, so mom never ventured over there, citing that area as "too busy".

I remember OW! I mean, we never went in there because I was 9, but I remember driving by it. The sign always made me uncomfortable because it was just a giant O and a giant W. Like the word "ow!" OW did not last long. It was a spinoff of the HQ hardware stores which I've mentioned before.

I found their logo! From an April 16, 1990 newspaper .

Four days later, there was this advertisment about the remaning stores becoming Office Max:

Here was our cell phone technology in 1992.

I didn't know we got the cardinal and mountain plates so early! I thought they were more from 1995.

Wait, is the "expandable free jug" the burp jug?!

Back in the Summer of 2008, I was about five seconds to a complete nervous breakdown. Well, this was around the time that my mom would watch American Justice every morning, I think they're the ones that Bill Kurtis would do the voiceovers for. So you know, that was absolutely GREAT for my messed up brain. The episode about the kidnapping of Exxon executive Sidney Reso really messed me up. After being shot and kidnapped from his driveway in April of 1992, he was locked in a small box in a storage unit. He died five days later and his body was dumped in a park. Irene received a 20 year sentence while her husband Arthur received a 90 year sentence. Hearing their disguised voices will send shivers down your spine.

Of all the cars to seal in Hampton, why an Isuzu I-Mark. For reference, this is an I-Mark, my mom drove it's copycat, the Chevrolet Spectrum at this time:

wikimedia commons

three.hundred.dollar.rollerblades, I mean Bauers.

I'm with S.M, I'd be mad as hell if I didn't have my Cathy. I've actually begun re-reading the strip again recently.

via GIPHY

OH MY GOD IT'S HAPPENING. The fist time jump in Funky Winkerbean history.

So, finally in the early Summer of 1992, the kids at Westview High finally graduate, and the strip jumps four years later to see them as straight out of college adults -- thus making them graduate in 1988 instead of 1992. Got that?

Too Legit to Quit? Really? How do you do, fellow kids?

This was part of some strange celebrity news insert I guess Daily Press did back then. This was here too:

welp, here's a kid playing with cockroaches with Ross Perot's face on it.

#daily press #old newspapers #ross perot #cockroaches #children's palace #hampton virginia #funky winkerbean #isuzu #sidney reso #bill kurtis #little ceasars #pizza pizza #phar mor #walmart

461. Daily Press, June 1, 1991

Some things never change. While we didn't get to 100 exactly last week, it got pretty close.

Woah, so that's a big correction.

Chris got probation in August:

Rock singer Chris Robinson, 24, was sentenced to six months' probation when he pleaded no contest to a charge of disturbing the peace during a late-night beer run. The court dismissed an assault charge.

Robinson's group, the Black Crowes, had played a May 29 concert in Denver, when he went to a 7-Eleven for beer and was turned down because it was after midnight. He allegedly spit on another customer, Elizabeth Juergens, who asked, "Who are the Black Crowes?" 1

Whitney's concert at the Hampton Coliseum was canceled on July 2nd due to "sluggish sales":

The July 5 concert was killed Tuesday by promoter Dimensions Unlimited of Washington, D.C. Only 2,500 of 10,000 tickets had sold, said Alysia Taylor of Dimensions Unlimited. Even additional television advertising failed to sell the show.

Taylor said a mutual decision to cancel was reached by Houston's New Jersey-based management company and promoters. It was the first cancellation of an East Coast appearance by the singer.

"It's horrible," Taylor said. "I think it hurt us really badly that people got to see Whitney for free a few months ago."

Houston's Easter Sunday concert at Norfolk Naval Air Station aired for free on the Home Box Office cable network. 2

What exactly is a dinette? There were stores devoted to them back then, but all I'm seeing is a dining room set. Webster's says a dinette is a "small dining table and chairs" 3

The Bushes had Graves Disease, which is a thyroid disorder. Millie had lupus.

That motorist was Rodney King. 4

Tops reached their highest in 1991. They've never been that high again.

This is messed up. You know how years ago I would share the bottom 100 from Spy magazine? Well, in the 1991 edition, there was an entire section of ridiculous murders : 5

I'm sure that kid is wearing cutoffs that original said "Colonial" but now they just say "COLON". Colon shorts.

Okay, so here is the thing, the newspaper's microfilm copy that is on ProQuest is missing the Lifestyles section. I'll try to fill in the pieces.

There was supposed to be an article about how the Virginia Living Museum built a dinosaur exhibit in the old Miller & Rhoads department store at the Newmarket Fair Mall. I found this article from a special insert from the day before.

My dad took me to this while mom shopped at Sears. I wish I remembered more from it, I just remember that it was at the mall, and I got a cardboard dinosaur pencil case afterward. I wish I had more memories of going places with my dad, he's not close with me anymore.

WOAH WHAT ARE THE ODDS OF THIS ARTICLE AND THIS AD RUNNING TOGETHER.

I used the Eugene Register-Guard to fill in the comics page:

oh, this was a couple of months after Elly had April, the accident baby.

You know how the strip has been in reruns since 2008? They're currently running strips from 1993. The original strip ended right when I transferred to another college in 2008 when I was 25. We're getting old.

Don't ya just want to slap Jeffy sometimes?

Staff. ‘ROCK SINGER GETS PROBATION’. Buffalo News. Accessed 30 May 2022. https://buffalonews.com/news/rock-singer-gets-probation/article_ee81dda5-27d2-5820-91df-5e9d00d0e0b2.html.

Daily Press. ‘WHITNEY’S CONCERT CANCELED’. Accessed 30 May 2022. https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm-19910703-1991-07-03-9107030079-story.html. https://archive.ph/dcx7Q

Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, s.v. “dinette set,” accessed May 30, 2022, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dinette%20set.

UPI. ‘Attn: Editors and Publishers Reporter Fined for Refusing to Identify Source in King Case’. Accessed 30 May 2022. https://www.upi.com/Archives/1991/05/30/Attn-editors-and-publishers-Reporter-fined-for-refusing-to-identify-source-in-King-case/3514675576000/.

Spy. ‘Ten Most Senseless Murders in New York City This Year (so Far)’, October 1991. https://books.google.com/books?id=66y_cHgHTYYC&printsec=frontcover&lr=&rview=1&hl=en#v=twopage&q&f=true.

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441. Daily Press, November 1, 1984

Ok, so here’s the thing, for some reason ProQuest doesn’t have any issues of my local newspaper for the tail end of 1983. So I’ll have to go back and cover 1983 in January. Maybe this was a good mistake -- November 1, 1984 was a beast of a newspaper, full of ads, and the food section and the neighbors section!

The Bowditch Ford logo always annoyed me from a design perspective. It looks like someone’s 12 year old kid drew the logo, and an adult drew the king.

I can’t help but wonder if Zola retired so quickly after the 1984 Olympics because of the bumping incident with Mary Decker. I mentioned it before in one of my Favorite Commercial posts (of all places!). However, her retirement was short lived, she returned to the Olympics, competing for South Africa in 1992.

aw, wedding hat!

Maybe because I watch Adam-12 every day after work, but I’m getting big Adam-12 vibes from this troupe of “Angels” who watched over a neighborhood in Newport News on Halloween.

The Dalkon Shield was a IUD like device that was discontinued due to harmful side effects from bacteria getting into the string. It looks like a scary ladybug attached to a string.

A&N’s ads looked pretty much like this up until the time they shut down in 2008.

I didn’t know we had Bradlees in Hampton back in 1984! Bradlees is just a store I don’t remember, because it left the Hampton Roads area back around 1989 when I was only six. It wasn’t a store my family frequented, like Sears of Kmart. I like that our local bus company, Pentran makes a special stop at Bradlees on Mondays through Saturdays.

‘Yall know Company Man on Youtube? He needs to do a vid on the rise and fall of GNC. If you’ve been to a dead mall in the last 20 years, you know GNC because its the only store there along with Bath & Body Works. Walls and walls of protein powder and supplements that haven’t been touched in 5 years. The GNC of 1984 actually had real food like Tuna and raisins, yogurt and prunes. It’s kinda funny to think about going to the mall to buy tuna and peanut butter.

I hope Jim Fuhs the lasagna making fireman is still with us today.

I’m thinking that Farm Fresh used to be a lot larger back in the day, or they sold a lot less food. The Mr. T doll and Montgomery Moose!

There has to be a catch on that $99 computer.

Fae, the baby with the baboon heart died a couple of weeks after this article.

This was back when we flew too close to the sun and thought we could cook anything including roast, cakes, and muffins in the microwave.

Here is the commercial for the E.T. Vitamins. Mr. Big reminds me of that episode of King of the Hill where Hank and the boys kidnap Dale’s new lawnmower. It wasn’t that episode, oops. Yall know the scene.

~Mr. Big~

well...i investigated where the Shoney’s once was in Hampton. It’s some dump for construction vehicles-- I think the restaurant was long torn down, but look:

they kept the sign! You can see the “S” a little.

There was a York Steak House at Newmarket North Mall?!

Ok, Beautyland. Good thing people didn’t care too much about copyright back in 1984.

#old newspapers #1984 #hampton virginia #newport news virginia #newport news #hampton #daily press #york steak house #bradlees #shoney's #e.t.#radio shack #farm fresh #gnc #dalkon shield #halloween #pugeot

437. Daily Press, September 1, 1981

(August, 1980)

September wasn’t nearly as exciting as August, 1980 was. Then I remembered that it was a Tuesday after a holiday, and the kids were going back to school, so no wonder it was a slow news day.

I love the “the surprising thing is that when you get these people off the ship, we’re still getting the same amount of work done” quote. I feeel that so much. We’ve all worked with that person.

RIP.

well, knock on wood, a plane has never crashed at Lynnhaven Mall in Virginia Beach. Here’s WAVY’s news archive of the grand opening, and the ribbon cutting.

I forgot that Elizabeth Taylor was still married to Senator John Warner at this point. They had about a year left.

okay, I love that Hoover Portable. Just throw that lil guy in the closet when you’re done.

huck-a-poo

That filler paper seems expensive for the time. y/n. Its .99 at Target right now.

The Muppet Lunchbox!!

sooooo they noticed that drug dealers liked malt liqour, so they dressed an officer up like the bull from the Schlitz Malt Liquor commercials to make arrests. And their badges were made from malt liquor cans?? okay.

b u t t e r b e a n s

(Dean & Dons over on Warwick is still going)

Me on social media.

I keep forgetting that Nermal the Kitten is a boy cat. Because on Garfield and Friends Nermal had a female voice. Right?

I wanna know why the train stopped for the guy who flagged it down.

#1981 #daily press #old newspapers #september 1st #space shuttle columbia #lynnhaven mall #elizabeth taylor #farm fresh #hampton #newport news #garfield

443. Daily Press, December 1, 1985

I was so disappointed by this month’s newspaper. It’s 500 and something pages of mostly very dark microfilm scans of salespapers.

(source, L.A. Beast)

Teddy Ruxpin was the big toy that year. Also, Herman’s screwed up.

Does anybody know the episode of The Purple Stuff Podcast where Matt & Jay discuss a Teddy Ruxpin commercial where the boy has a very Staten Island accent?

“He tawks...”

Here are more details from the L.A. Times about the Foxes struggle living in the Elmwood neighborhood:

A black couple, Marietta Bloxom, a 25-year-old department store supervisor, and Charles Williams, a 23-year-old worker at a fast-food hamburger chain, learned this the hard way when they moved to Elmwood from an apartment in a black neighborhood Oct. 31.

So, too, did Gerald and Carol Fox, a black man and a white woman who moved in 2 1/2 weeks later and three blocks away. Bloxom said she was unprepared for the hostility that greeted them: windows shattered by BBs, bottles tossed at the house, a demonstration by 400 whites outside the house Nov. 20.At the Fox house, where 200 whites milled about and chanted the following night, vandals had by then already axed kitchen cabinets, destroyed a lamp, a clock radio and the water and oil heaters, and left behind a broken bottle stuffed with a rag soaked in gasoline. The night of the demonstration, reporters watched deli workers pass out free coffee to protesters. Bloxom and Williams’ home was later gutted by fire from an arsonist, even they were packing to leave Elmwood. The Foxes, however, say they are staying. 1

Someone get Malloy and Reed on the case! I love that silly show so much, Adam-12. I watch it every day after work on metv.

OH, YOU DON’T SAY.

I included that Canon ad because I love that building. I think this was around the area where I went to that ripoff for profit school after high school.

Guess what, chicken butts. From here on out, its just gonna be salespapers.

My parents have those marble top tables, and who knew they came from People’s Drug?!

Mmm, I don’t like the name of those lights.

I had a tiny chuckle when I saw that Sherwin Williams the paint store at one time had a drugstore. Then, I got bored to death reading about the history of the store.

Remember when Rob from Theadbanger on YouTube had a robot? I think he’s the $50 one, modified:

(Montgomery Ward)

I had NO clue that Furskins were THIS expensive. I feel like I had a little one from Shoneys? I want to say? It was Wendys!

I love the ripoff that is the Cabbage Patch Twins. You’re getting two of the same doll for $70. This had to be around the time that the Cabbage Patch craze was dying down, too.

I was wondering why these were NINETY DOLLARS. Then I saw the little girl! Don’t you want that giant Garfield?! I know I do!

The PEN-GUIN bathroom.

DUCK bathroom.

I said this a few years ago, but back then we flew too close to the sun with the microwave back then.

I love that a fancy store like Thalhimers sold bag clips. I’m fascinated by the potato baker. Also, I didn’t know salad spinners existed back then!

Aaaaghg I want to see this in color so bad! (Murphy’s Mart)

omg I want her, she’s so adorable!

More crap that didn't work for the microwave.

We all know that this is just the “do not eat” packets that come with shoes.

Things that wouldn’t fly in 2021.

This looks ingenious, but I feel like with today’s packaging, you couldn’t use it.

Years ago, I posted a similar ad on my Flickr, and I though the idea was gross, reusing your teabags. I got attacked so bad! I can’t be the only one who doesn’t reuse their tea bags, because they get weak, you know?

(Herman’s)

I’ll be back ... next month with another newspaper.

1. “Racial Protest Splits Urban Neighborhood : Philadelphia Black Couple Forced to Move; Interracial Pair Plans to Stay Despite Threats.” Los Angeles Times, December 29, 1985. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-12-29-mn-25919-story.html. https://archive.md/giPIO

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