One thing hasn't changed over the years: People like to eat. Here are two photos from what's listed on the negatives' envelope as the "Country Kitchen/City Cafe - Simon Warner" from Nov. 10, 1952 -- exactly (this was unplanned!) 57 years ago today. This was a "commercial order" photographed for the cafe owner and not published in the newspaper. So we don't have names, or any idea where this was located...

Just how well can deer see? An Associated Press story on hunters' camouflage quotes experts as saying that deer see "less than 20-20" like humans, but have a wider field of vision and, especially, detect movement much better. Okay. So, if deer can use their vision and senses to get away from humans, why not cars?...

Here's a photo of the south side of the Shelbyville square, which led off the advertisements section of the 1958-59 Central High Aquila yearbook. Thanks to Vick Avetissian for the e-mailed contribution. Yearbooks are usually put together during the first half of the school year (Been there, done that...I was on the Aquila staff myself years later) and the trees above still carry their leaves, so I'd guess this photo was shot during September or October 1958...

The banging from the ceiling in the T-G newsroom lent an eerie feel to the post-midnight Oct. 30 atmosphere as I ran in to grab the camera I'd left behind earlier. Anyone who's ever worked in this newspaper on a cold, quiet night knows the sound. It's an old building with lots of used and formerly used pipes and chill just seems to set them off...

Sticking with 1963 for another week, here's a photo of the northeast side of the Shelbyville square. One of the first Picturing the Pasts I did was of some of these same buildings in the 1940s, when Parks Belk was under construction. At right is Pope's Cafe and Simmons Jewelers, and to the left of Parks-Belk is Bracey's hardware. Across Holland Street, at far left, is Taylor's Drugs...

Looks like the SEC's going after Lane Kiffin again. Kiffin publicly complained after Alabama's Terrance Cody threw his helmet after blocking a field goal try that would have given the Vols a win Saturday night. Tennessee's first-year football coach is accused of breaking the SEC's code of ethics for pointing out that officials called eight penalties against UT to one for the Crimson Tide...

Traffic just heard over the police scanner: Officers have been told to be on the lookout for a reckless motorist on North Main Street in Shelbyville who is playing his guitar while driving. Only in Shelbyville, y'all...

Here's a look at the north side of East Depot Street in April 1963, in an area which took on a much different look within the past year. The photo was actually taken due to street paving, but the background tells its own story. The side of the Ben Franklin store is at left. ...

At last, it's over. The state House election was held Tuesday, which means primarily that you won't be getting bombarded by phone calls from Ty Cobb's campaign, seeing the cartoonish image of "Pat Marsh" in a swimming pool on TV (you know that wasn't actually him...) and wondering if Chris Brown could surprise folks with his numbers...