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Ted's Johnson City Time Warp Take a tour in time through the decades in Johnson City, Tennessee on Ted's Johnson City Time Warp.

22/11/2025

November 1962 - TV Programing for the Johnson City area during the late evening of November 22nd, 1962. Retrieved from a Carolina/Tennessee edition of TV Guide dated November 22nd, 1962 from the Ted Bowers collection.

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November 1937 - In this article about unsightly highway objects on the highways coming into Johnson City, you are looking south on the Bristol Highway just before it and the Kingsport Highway intersect with North Roan. In the article, it mentions the Massengil Monument that is being placed there to beautify that intersection. The Massengil Monument was moved to Winged Deer Park in 1990. Quote: "From 1937 until 1990 this statue of Henry Massengil and his pioneer family stood in north Johnson City at the intersection of two highways leading to Bristol and Kingsport." Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated November 21st, 1937.

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November 1952 - Four inches of snow during the first snowfall of the season on Friday morning November 21st, 1952 in Johnson City. You are looking north on Boone from the intersection of Boone and West Main toward the intersection of Boone and West Market in downtown Johnson City with the Tennessee Theatre showing to the right of the picture (present location of the Johnson City Transit Bus Station). Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated November 21st, 1952.

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November 1963 - Ed McKinney - WJHL - TV Channel 11 News. Source: Retrieved from a Carolina/Tennessee edition of TV Guide Magazine dated November 16th, 1963.

November 1952 - The Langston Golden Tigers Play In Finale Tonight. The game was originally scheduled to be played in the...
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November 1952 - The Langston Golden Tigers Play In Finale Tonight. The game was originally scheduled to be played in the Memorial Stadium but was switched to the college stadium to make way for preparations for the Burley Bowl. The Langston Golden Tigers are named in the article. Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated November 21st, 1952.

November 1970 - Dennis the Menace - Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated Novem...
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November 1970 - Dennis the Menace - Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated November 21, 1970.

November 1963 - East Tennessee State University students observing a wreck on Southwest Ave. (presently University Parkw...
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November 1963 - East Tennessee State University students observing a wreck on Southwest Ave. (presently University Parkway) that resulted in the death of a student. Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated November 21st, 1963, the day before John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

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November 2004 - The Science Hill Topper Band Flag Corps in the Johnson City Christmas Parade in downtown Johnson City on November 20, 2004. The Science Hill Topper Band was in the Hollywood Christmas Parade during November 2004.

November 1970 - Top 40 Most Requested Tunes from WETB Living Legend Survey For Week Beginning Nov. 22, 1970. Source: Ret...
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November 1970 - Top 40 Most Requested Tunes from WETB Living Legend Survey For Week Beginning Nov. 22, 1970. Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated November 20th, 1970.

November 1957 - Fields Inc. on Fountain Square and Main Street in downtown Johnson City. Source: Retrieved and formatted...
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November 1957 - Fields Inc. on Fountain Square and Main Street in downtown Johnson City. Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated November 20th, 1957.

November 1951 - Lebanon Valley's captains Fred Sample and Ed Tesnar get together to talk over some strategy for the Burl...
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November 1951 - Lebanon Valley's captains Fred Sample and Ed Tesnar get together to talk over some strategy for the Burley Bowl game here at Memorial Stadium Thursday against Morris Harvey. Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated November 20th, 1951.

November 1988 - Nikita Koloff, American retired professional wrestler far left, at Freedom Hall on November 11th, 1988. ...
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November 1988 - Nikita Koloff, American retired professional wrestler far left, at Freedom Hall on November 11th, 1988. Photo by Ted Bowers.

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Introduction to Ted’s Johnson City Time Warp

Welcome to Ted's Johnson City Time Warp, a page consisting of a wide variety of past events, happenings and history in Johnson City, Tennessee. These post are attributed to many hours of extensive research and work getting the most of them formatted from microfilm from the Johnson City Press-Chronicle. Much appreciation to the employees of the East Tennessee State University Sherrod Library in the microfilm department and the Archives of Appalachia for all their help in making this happen. All of these post are shared with the Johnson City Memories Group on Facebook, including many more of my post that are not included on this page. I want to thank all the people who have liked and follow this page. If there is an older post you are looking for, go to the left column and click on posts, a space will appear to the right under the cover photo that will say, 'Search for post on this page', just type in a word that relates to what you are looking for and hit enter. If you can't find it there, I suggest you search on the Johnson City Memories site.