Buster’s zoo move
25yearsago: 1990
Construction has stopped at the Lorraine Civil Rights Museum downtown and workers have been told not to return until Jacqueline Smith, the project’s lone protester, is gone. Project manager Tony Vaccaro said Ms. Smith, who has camped outside the Lorraine Motel for 2½ years, would be endangered by continued construction. He said company attorneys may go to Chancery Court next week to obtain an order allowing authorities to remove Ms. Smith fromthe site. He said Ms. Smith’s sidewalk tent sits atop an underground electric main vital to the $9.25million museum’s completion.
50 years ago: 1965
Singer David Brooks takes the stage at the Overton Park Shell as guest artist for the second concert of the summer series. Mr. Brooks, who made his Broadway debut in the musical “Bloomer Girl,” has starred in a number of other hits including “Brigadoon,” and “Mr. President,” and his program tonight will include songs from those shows. He also will sing two operatic arias and a medley of American folk songs. The Memphis Concert Orchestra’s program, conducted by Noel Gilbert, will include selections from “The Sound of Music,” a Mendelssohn overture and “Emperor Waltz.” The Shell series began its 18th season of concerts last Tuesday night with a first-night crowd estimated at 4,000.
75 years ago: 1940
LONDON — In a vast extension of Britain’s “defense area” — her last ramparts against German invasion — the government yesterday excluded the public from the entire East Coast and substantially all of the Southern Coast, a 12,000-square-mile region, signaling the intensity of preparations for the nation’s supreme test.
100 years ago: 1915
The Twilight League of the YMCA schedules games for each Tuesday and Thursday on the Y fields at Somerville and Vance and exciting baseball contests are the rule all the time.
125 years ago: 1890
Yesterday a Negro boy was knocked senseless on Adams near Main by a horse ridden by a Negro man who was galloping down the street at a furious pace. Luckily none of the boy’s bones were broken and he was revived in Justice Powell’s office. The rider escaped by whipping his horse to an even faster pace and outrunning several deputies chasing him.