100 years ago, 1913
Lewiston’s bowling fast which has endured since the destruction of the Lewiston and Auburn alleys in the garage fire is broken with the installation of the four new alleys in the basement of Edward A. McIlheron’s cigar store at 132 Lisbon street, Lewiston. Four new alleys under shining electric orbs in the renovated basement was better to the starved fans than gumdrops to the Esquimaux. The doors were opened Thursday evening and a few minutes later the sound of falling pins and rolling balls filled the building.
50 years ago, 1963
Some businessmen located in the downtown Urban Renewal Project may have changed feelings today concerning Urban Renewal plans for that particular area. At least, a couple of the familiar red-lettered signs reading “Smash Urban Renewal” were removed from store windows Tuesday. One businessman in the area, who said he wished to remain anonymous, reported that the results of the referendum question on housing for the elderly in Lewiston in Monday’s election persuaded him to take the sign out of his window. “I feel that the Housing Authority and Urban Renewal go together,” the businessman said, although he admitted he still doesn’t like the idea. Another businessman told the Journal that he removed his sign only to wash the windows Tuesday and that as soon as he gets more adhesive tape, the sign will be back in view.
25 years ago, 1988
William Pierce Frye’s eloquent plea in 1866 for people to do their share to make the area a beautiful place still carries a strong message more than 120 years later. A number of people in the past few years have been renovating historic buildings and older structures like Frye’s home at the corner of Main and Frye streets. They are following Frye’s wish that people do their part to hand down to their children “not only a good and useful, but beautiful thing which shall be a joy forever.” Normand and Coreen Roberts of Minot are two of those people. They have acquired 17 old buildings in Lewiston-Auburn over the past 13 years, including the Frye home at 457 Main St. Frye lived there in the mid-1800s while serving as mayor, state legislator, attorney general and congressman.
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