2000 – 25 years ago
- The Professional Figure Skating Association will break ground Friday at its new home at Estate Lane and Country Club Road in southwest Rochester. The $1.5 million building is scheduled to be done by December.
- Ben & Jerry’s is selling out to the corporate suits. Unilever is paying $326 million for the ice cream company started by two ex-hippies in an old gas station in 1978.
1975 – 50 years ago
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- The Veterans Administration counted 1,098 Spanish-American war vets alive last month. The youngest veterans are around 87, with an average age of around 96.
- The Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women has sided with the Priests’ Senate of the St. Paul-Minneapolis Archdiocese in calling for the legislature to rescind its ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment.
1950 – 75 years ago
- A central air conditioning plant for Mayo Association buildings will be built at Third St. and Second Avenue SW adjacent to the Franklin Heating Station with construction being about July 1.
- Eighteen-year-old Floyd Plein paid a $100 fine and lost his driver’s license for six months in municipal court after tying the local speed record of 90 miles per hour.
- Razing operations began this week at the Hayes-Lucas Lumber Co. at North Broadway and Center Street. Its disappearance will leave one lumberyard in the downtown district once known as Lumber Row.
1925 – 100 years ago
- A 12-foot wall of water inundated homes and covered 5000 acres in the Huron River valley below Flat Rock, Michigan when a 32-foot power dam for the Ford Motor Company burst after heavy rains.
- A possible new airmail route from Chicago to St. Paul could be operating by this summer and would include Rochester. (airmail service would not arrive in Rochester until 1930)
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