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Salem in 1976

World Events

Mao Zedong of Communist China dies after a mortality record of causing up to 70 million deaths due to executions and forced labor.
IRA bombs explode in London. Ten thousand Protestant and Catholic women demonstrate for peace in Northern Ireland.

Salem in 1937

World Events

In Spanish Civil War, Guernica is destroyed. Picasso’s most famous painting immortalized that horror and of the coming war.
In China, the unarmed civilians in Nanking, up to 300,000, are raped and massacred by Japanese troops.

Carol Smith shared this historic State Street post card with us. It was taken before two prominent buildings were lost to fire ~ the Oregon Capitol in 1935 (in the left distance) and the Guardian Building in 1947 (to the right forefront)...

View East on Court Street, ca. 1912

Here’s a view from the top of the former State Capitol building. The street on the left is Court Street and on the right is State Street. The Supreme Court building is under construction in the lower right and you can see the outline of a house that was moved still in the ground on the lower left...