RETRO ROME – Direct from the Daily Sentinel pages. The blizzard of Jan. 27 – Feb. 2, 1966 closed Rome schools for a week, thousands were stranded along the NYS Thruway… some 50 inches of snow fell on Rome during a five day period.
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Boston Store sign going up – Sept. 1973
RETRO ROME – Before JC PENNEY there was the Boston Store. New sign sign going up – September 1973.
New Boston Store sign going up – Sept. 1973
RETRO ROME – New Boston Store sign going up – September 1973. JC Penney currently occupies this building.
Parade purchase – July 4, 1967
RETRO ROME – A young parade spectator, with scraped knee and soda can in hand, makes a balloon purchase on North James Street – July 4, 1967.
General Cable fire – Nov. 25, 1996
RETRO ROME – General Cable fire – November 25, 1996. Firefighters in the aerial tower shoot down at the flames inside the abandoned General Cable building on East Dominick Street. A suspect accused of setting the fire was taken into custody that same night. #retrorome