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Book

Kalamazoo gazette 150 years, 1837-1987 : Thursday, May 21, 1987.

Call Number

  • H 977.417 K1445 (CEN)

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Physical Description

96 p. : ill. ; 60 x 36 cm.

Uniform Title

Kalamazoo gazette.

Summary

"A lot has happened in 150 years and some of the best sources of information about the lives and times of Kalamazooans are old issues of the Kalamazoo Gazette. Kalamazoo and the Gazette grew up together. In this commemorative edition, we want to share with our readers how the newspaper has aged and matured, how it coverd major local events, institutions and people. Some of those institutions are found in this section. The five other sections cover the subjects their titles suggest : Sports & Leisure, Working in Kalamazoo, The Way We Were (a history of the Gazette), Photography in the Gazette, and Today's Gazette"--[p. A2].

Notes

Bound copy of the 150 year anniversary issue of the Kalamazoo Gazette.

Contents

  • Section A. A word from the editor
  • A key to the cover
  • How Kalamazoo landed the state's first psychiatric institution
  • Going to school in Kalamazoo: a city of higher learning
  • A judge decrees: integrate the schools
  • Crime & punishment: how crime reporting has changed
  • Religious institutions celebrate long heritage
  • Kalamazoo through the wars
  • That's the ticket: politics in Kalamazoo
  • Race and the Gazette
  • Martin Luther King Jr. visits Kalamazoo
  • The annexation battle : Portage vs. Kalamazoo.
  • Section B. Sports and leisure. Big screens and local stages
  • The 'literary' Kalamazoo
  • Society news
  • Charities and philanthropy
  • At the track: Peter the Great
  • The scribe: 44 years in sports
  • Great moments in sports
  • The great outdoors
  • Pro sports and early baseball.
  • Section C. Working in Kalamazoo. The paper industry
  • The story of Parchment
  • B&B: the Borgess-Bronson saga
  • 'Miracle cures' and other advertising maladies
  • Labor history
  • A compendium of Kalamazoo products
  • The railroads at our crossroads
  • The drive to give the city its wings
  • The river
  • Newspaper diplomacy
  • The Upjohn Co.
  • Kalamazoo names.
  • Section D. The way we were. Ownership saga
  • Editor Ford Rowe
  • Letter from the publisher
  • Who's oldest? The title of state's oldest paper is still debated
  • The day Kennedy was shot
  • Our mistakes: we don't like to make them, but we want to correct them when we do
  • Jottings
  • Covering the region
  • Comics
  • Editorial
  • Op-ed.
  • Section E. Photography in the Kalamazoo Gazette. Photos of some dramatic events taken by Gazette photographers
  • A look at some people in some attention-grabbing photographs
  • Kalamazoo-area people, frozen in moments of time
  • More people in the news
  • A look at the effects of World War II and the Korean War
  • An unpopular war in Vietnam has an impact on Kalamazoo
  • Words and illustrations about some major disasters here
  • Many celebrities visit Kalamazoo over the years
  • More celebrities' names and faces
  • Still more celebrities
  • Two future presidents campaign in Kalamazoo in 1960
  • More top-10 stories.
  • Section F. Kalamazoo Gazette Today. Contacting the Gazette: how to reach us by phone, mail
  • Gathering news: editorial and photo
  • In your words: advertising
  • Putting it together: production and printing
  • To your house from ours: circulation
  • Behind the scenes
  • Gazette people: our personnel.

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