THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, April 25, 1996 TAG: 9604240099
SECTION: SUFFOLK SUN PAGE: 16 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY FRANK ROBERTS, STAFF WRITER SUFFOLK
LENGTH: Medium: 55 lines
THERE THEY ARE - Scoop, Scoop and Scoop - standing by their cars in front of the Daily News-Herald office. They look spiffy.
That's a 1932 expression. This is `32.
The picture shows a trio of reporters, ready to roll. Only one has a notebook. Presumably, the others are pocketed.
They are part of ``Our Lives in Photographs,'' sponsored by the Nansemond Historical Society.
Many of the pictures show members of the Riddick family, a family so large that most of the subjects are listed as ``unknown.''
``Some of them are people who lived in this house,'' said Starr Matton, program and activities director of Riddick's Folly.
An easily identifiable subject is Nathaniel Riddick - born in 1819, died in 1882 - son of Mary Taylor and Mills Riddick, who built the house, now a museum.
Here's what you can see in the exhibit, which continues through July 14:
There are two drug stores in pictures that go back to the 1930s and 1940s: the Nansemond Drug Store and Russell's Drug Store.
There are 1920s pictures of two churches - Main Street Methodist Church and First Baptist.
In the world of entertainment, there was the Chadwick Theater on Main Street. The marquee in the picture on display shows a movie and stage show, the latter starring Jean Ballance.
A photograph taken in front of Laderberg's store on West Washington Street shows a fair-sized crowd lining up for some fire sale bargains.
If you are old enough, you will appreciate the flapper fashions and fads.
Pretty ladies of many, many years ago are smiling for the camera - almost the only ones who did smile. Most of the face shots show people whose expressions are quite solemn.
Picture taking in those days was expensive and tedious, which probably explains why the subjects took it all so seriously.
There were frowns and smiles on an unusual picture taken in front of the old post office. Hundreds of postal employees are shown in a photo taken between 1915 to 1925.
It was an all-male domain in those days, although a couple of children, and one pup, sneaked in.
One of the oldest photographs goes back to 1895, a picture of the Phoenix Military Band.
The center of the display is even older - a large, bulky mid-1800s camera. ILLUSTRATION: Staff photo by JOHN H. SHEALLY II
An old-fashioned photography studio setting is part of the Riddick's
Folly exhibit.
by CNB