100 years ago, 1917
A Mechanic Falls man says: “A person here recently was obliged to ride on the electric cars less than two miles and it cost him ten cents on account of the fare limits. This shows the injustice of the way in which the limits are placed. There is probably no part of the line where the extra carfares are felt as much as by the people here.”

50 years ago, 1967
Work currently is underway by the Auburn Parks and Recreation Department in the large wooded area at the end of Prospect Street at Edward Little High School to convert the area into an outdoor biology classroom for the high school and a picnic and recreation area for Auburn citizens. At the present time, parks department crews are clearing away the underbrush and thinning out some of the trees to open up the area leading off the end of Prospect Street and running through to the path which leads from the school to Minot Avenue.

25 years ago, 1992
Fifty-five years ago, Les Green sang “If I Had My Way,” at WCOU radio in Lewiston. Last week at 66, he came back to the old WCOU studio, now the home of EAB Recording Studios, for an encore performance. This time, however, he recorded, “Our Remember Song,” a tune he said he wrote 44 years ago while singing in clubs in Baltimore, New York and Boston. Green said “Our Remember Song” is “about my whole life. It’s a love song, a ballad,” about his memories. Green called himself a “Maine boy.” He said he was born and raised in Maine and went to school at St. Joseph’s in Lewiston. As a seventh-grade student in 1937, he won first prize in a singing competition. That prize gave Green the opportunity to sing on WCOU radio.

The material in Looking Back is reproduced exactly as it originally appeared, although misspellings and errors made at that time may be corrected.