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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.

12/07/2025

July 1963 - TV programing for the Johnson City area for late Thursday evening of July 11th, 1963. The movie listed at 11:15pm on local channel 11 - WJHL-TV was the movie feature for Shock Theatre. Retrieved from a Carolina/Tennessee Edition of TV Guide dated July 11th, 1963.

July 1956 - "Eisenhower to seek second term." Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press d...
12/07/2025

July 1956 - "Eisenhower to seek second term." Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 11th, 1956.

July 1962 - Dennis the Menace - Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 11th...
12/07/2025

July 1962 - Dennis the Menace - Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 11th, 1962.

11/07/2025

Circa 1953 -This photo of members of Jim's Cycle Shop's Motorcycle Club was taken in front of the Tennessee Theatre in the early 50's located at 146 W. Main at Boone, the movies on the Tennessee Theater Marquee are "Silver City" released Dec. 1st, 1951, and "Code Two" released April 24th, 1953. "Members of Jim's Cycle Shop's Motorcycle Club attended the opening of "Code Two," the first motorcycle-themed movie to play in Johnson City, included were John and Leona Hughes, Bill Pate, Melvin Beatty, Ken Hayes and Jim Hayes. At far left was Paul Bashor, a motorcycle policeman." You can see the Capitol Barber Shop to the right of the theatre. Photo courtesy of John Hughes and help of the Johnson City Press. I pasted in an additional portion to the far right that shows the Capitol Barber Shop from the same photo that I had from years ago.

July 1963 - TV programming for the Johnson City area during the evening of Wednesday, July 10th, 1963. Source: Retrieved...
11/07/2025

July 1963 - TV programming for the Johnson City area during the evening of Wednesday, July 10th, 1963. Source: Retrieved from a Carolina/Tennessee edition of TV Guide dated July 10th, 1963.

July 1949 - Peoples Drug Store at 216 East Main Street in downtown Johnson City. I am posting a photo of Peoples Drug St...
10/07/2025

July 1949 - Peoples Drug Store at 216 East Main Street in downtown Johnson City. I am posting a photo of Peoples Drug Store in the comments at this address dated 6-16-40. Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 10th, 1949. Courtesy of the Sherrod Library at East Tennessee State University for the use of their film and equipment.

July 1962 - New Coach - Emory Hale, center, new backfield coach at Science Hill High School. Left: Head Coach Kermit Tip...
10/07/2025

July 1962 - New Coach - Emory Hale, center, new backfield coach at Science Hill High School. Left: Head Coach Kermit Tipton and Athletic Director Sidney Smallwood. Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 10th, 1962, Courtesy of the Sherrod Library at ETSU for the use of their film and equipment.

10/07/2025

July 1969 - In this article and photo about "Lots of Rain", you are looking northeast across West Main and Boone giving you a good view of the Tennessee Theatre and it's marquee, opened on April 2nd, 1923 and demolished June 1985, now the location of the Johnson City Transit System. Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 10th, 1969.

July 1970 - Dennis the Menace - Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 10th...
10/07/2025

July 1970 - Dennis the Menace - Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 10th, 1970.

July 1957 - Your New Tastee-Freez Store - Grand Opening - July, 11th, 1957 on the Kingsport Hwy. (next to Bar-B-Q King)....
10/07/2025

July 1957 - Your New Tastee-Freez Store - Grand Opening - July, 11th, 1957 on the Kingsport Hwy. (next to Bar-B-Q King). Tastee-Freeze presently in the area where a Starbucks is located on North Roan. Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 10th 1957.

July 1950 - One of the many articles published in the Johnson City Press during the Korean War. Source: Retrieved and fo...
10/07/2025

July 1950 - One of the many articles published in the Johnson City Press during the Korean War. Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 10th, 1950.

July 1953 - Dennis the Menace - Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 9th,...
09/07/2025

July 1953 - Dennis the Menace - Source: Retrieved and formatted from microfilm of the Johnson City Press dated July 9th, 1953.

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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.