The Roanoke Valley in the 1950s
Harris, Nelson![The Roanoke Valley in the 1950s](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/457/45761169/CHSBZCOP0345761169.jpg)
Drag racing at Starkey, the debut of television, mass polio vaccinations, college football games at Victory Stadium, Roanoke's Diamond Jubilee, Salem's Sesquicentennial, and Vinton's Dogwood FestivalAmerican Viscose closed, the N&W, Railway switched to diesel and the General Electric plant opened. The Roanoke Valley welcomed the Children's Zoo on Mill Mountain and the Miss Virginia Pageant to Hotel Roanoke. From a new terminal at Woodrum Field...