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Tweets from the @VirginianPilot's archives/library/morgue.

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Feb. 6, 1935 — the demolition of the former Norfolk Landmark newspaper building, located on E. Main St. The office operated from 1870 to 1911, and on January 1, 1912, it was consolidated with the Virginian-Pilot. The Norfolk Waterside Marriott Hotel is located here today.

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78 years ago today, free bomb raid sand was offered in Norfolk at the corner of Westover and Hampton Blvd.

Get your wagonload!

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Here's the story of the Carroll A. Deering, known as the "ghost ship."
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99 years ago today, a schooner slammed into shoals off Hatteras N.C., sails fully engaged, with only a healthy six-toed cat greeting the Coast Guardsmen sent to the rescue. https://t.co/Qf7xDXDeD1

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Shortly after his visit to Hampton Roads, Poe died in Baltimore on Oct. 7, 1849.

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Today, in 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven,” published in the New York Evening Mirror.

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Not so widely known was that the first Norfolk-area reading of "The Raven" by Poe took place on a veranda of the old Hygeia Hotel at Old Point Comfort in Hampton on a breezy, moonlit September evening a few days earlier.

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34 years ago today.

The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded a little more than a minute after liftoff, killing all seven crew members.

Michele McDonald, a photographer with the Virginian-Pilot and Ledger-Star, captured this photo of the explosion.

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85 years ago today in Norfolk.

Children playing on a frozen pond at the City Park.

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Thousands and thousands of papers

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When the Virginian-Pilot and the Norfolk-Ledger Dispatch moved into their new home on Brambleton Ave., the two journals had a staff 325 full time employees and employed over 700 carrier boys.
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The Virginian-Pilot building in Norfolk sold to Monument Cos. for $9.5 million
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The October 27, 1937 special section of the Norfolk-Ledger Dispatch showing the interior of the newspaper's new headquarters.

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The installation of the presses in 1937 at the Norfolk Newspapers building at 150 W. Brambleton Ave. in Norfolk.

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50 years ago, the USS Yancey crashed into the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel closing the crossing for more than a month. @FollowTheGulls

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"War Today" ran daily on the front page of The Virginian-Pilot.

75 years ago, Allied forces were making advances in Pacific and European theaters.

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Did you participate in the 1960 sit-in movement?

We’re looking for people who participated in the protests, counter-protests or worked in the stores and remember that time.
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