Thirty years ago — 1993

The Chautauqua County Airport North (Dunkirk/Sheridan) could have a second fixed base operator, Great Circle Aviation, in business by this fall. Although Dunkirk Aviation has served the airport as a fixed base operator for many years and there is “probably not enough business to support two FBOs,” the county cannot refuse to lease land to Great Circle and permit it to offer aviation services in competition with Dunkirk Aviation.

Forty years ago — 1983

Vintage vehicles from the 1929 to 1939 period are being sought by the movie company that will be filming a sequence of the movie, “The Natural,” in Gowanda in September. The film sequence will include the star and his female companion in a convertible, passing through the Gowanda Village Square, up West Main Street from the direction of the Gowanda Bridge. Gowanda will be depicted as a downtown street in Evanston, Ill., in 1939.