95 years ago
Dec. 11, 1914
Advertisement. "His Master's Voice." The dance craze was made by the Victrola. Thousands of Enthusiasts entertained their friends by giving dancing parties. Write for free book showing how to do the Tango, Hesitation Waltz and One-Step. Record catalouges will be included if you inform us that you have a Victor. Emporium of Music, Masonic Temple, Phone 94, Reno, Nevada.
80 years ago
Dec. 13, 1929
For the second time this winter a timber wolf was trapped this week at Lake Tahoe. The animal was found by William Johnson, proprietor of the El Campo resort, in one of his trap lines near the lake shore. It has been several years since a lobo was killed in the high Sierra, Tahoe hunters declare.
50 years ago
Dec. 10, 1959
Already experiencing an "explosion" in both commercial and residential growth, the Lake Tahoe section of Douglas County is to have a $20 million development at the foot of Kingsbury Grade, it was revealed Friday. The development is to include a shopping center with supermarket, stores and a medical-dental building, a large motel with swimming pool and ice skating rink, a two-story office and store building, 205 luxury homes and approximately 200 apartments. The office building and motel will be located east of Highway 50, adjacent to Oliver's Club.
25 years ago
Dec. 6, 1984
Douglas County sheriff's deputies have a new tool to help them conduct roadside sobriety tests. It's called the "gaze nystagnums" and it tracks the jerking of the eyes of someone who has had alcohol. This DUI aid is the most sensitive field sobriety test available, according to Daniel Hill, a training officer with DCSO.
10 years ago
Dec. 8, 1999
At the same grade school where he was a student 70 years ago, Sen. Lawrence Jacobsen spoke to fifth-graders in his daughter-in-law's class about his experiences at Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Teacher Robbi Jacobsen has been inviting her father-in-law to speak to her students at Gardnerville Elementary School since 1991, to give the children a better appreciation for the veterans of World War II. "Teaching about World War II has to do more with learning and appreciating that we owe a generation of Americans - who expect nothing in return - our recognition and our gratitude," Robbi Jacobsen said.
A look at past issues of The Record-Courier by Sharlene Irete.
