Old Post Files is a regular feature within the pages of The Vicksburg Post’s print edition and digital e-edition. This feature looks back at some of the happenings from the pages of The Vicksburg Post over the past 100 years. Enjoy.

100 YEARS AGO: 1925

“Sally” Ziegfeld’s musical comedy was presented tat the Walnut Theater.

90 YEARS AGO: 1935

Joseph Coccaro died. 

80 YEARS AGO: 1945

William M. Owens died. 

70 YEARS AGO: 1955

Services were held for Mrs. Edith Sanders.

60 YEARS AGO: 1965

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Ammons were in Memphis. 

50 YEARS AGO: 1975

Mr. and Mrs. Michael Edward Strachn were the parents of a daughter, Angela Michele. 

40 YEARS AGO: 1985

The roof of the downtown YMCA collapsed under the weight of snow and ice. 

30 YEARS AGO: 1995

Mary Minder of Vicksburg was named to the dean’s list at Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.  

20 YEARS AGO: 2005

The Claiborne County NAACP announced support for a second reactor at Grand Gulf Nuclear Power Station. 

10 YEARS AGO: 2015

Vicksburg family physician Dr. Carlos LaTorre was named to the first class of Mississippi State Medical Association’s Physician Leadership Academy.