100 years ago, 1918

The Bistany Show, now drawing crowds to Post Office Square, Auburn, is a miniature Coney Island. The glamour of many lights, the spell thrown by the surging throngs, the gaiety of the children on the Merry Go-Round and the Ferris Wheel, the excitement of innumerable semi-gambling devices common to fairs and sporting resorts, some excellent side-shows presenting novel features and at least one cheap enough to be run out of town — to the nearest one-piece bathing-suit resort — this is the truth about Bistany’s. It is making money — heaps of it — for itself, and a little for the Auburn public market, by arrangement with the city fathers.

50 years ago, 1968

Several Lewiston High School students and others from the Lewiston-Auburn area, who are involved in putting out school newspapers or yearbooks, are attending a workshop this week at the University of Maine at Orono.

25 years ago, 1993

The Lewiston Planning Board will seek public input Tuesday on a proposed truck route study for the Twin Cities, Sabattus and Lisbon. The Lewiston Auburn Comprehensive Traffic Study a group that represents the four communities, has identified three objectives for its upcoming examination: — To develop a system of truck routes for vehicles that neither begin nor end their trips here — To develop a system of local truck routes for trips within the LACTS region — To develop recommendations for informational and regulatory signs to advise and direct truck operators in proper use of the LACTS area truck network.

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