Article: LOOKING BACK

1999 (10 years ago)

n "The man who taught hundreds -- if not thousands -- of Roanoke area residents to play music died Monday. Elmer Ray Ridenhour, who owned Ridenhour Music in Salem, died after 85 years of music, kindness and compassion."

n "Congressmen Bob Goodlatte and Virgil Goode couldn't persuade National Park Service officials to allow Columbia TriStar Pictures to film a $30 million movie starring Sandra Bullock and Garth Brooks at the Peaks of Otter Lodge."

1984 (25 years ago)

n "Roanoke Republicans Tuesday night welcomed longtime Democrat Willis M. 'Wick' Anderson as a member of their city committee."

n "Roanoke County's Hidden Valley Junior High School has been chosen as one of ...

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