Today we are featuring Jim Schlosser, a career journalist who started with the afternoon Greensboro Record in 1967 and retired from the Greensboro News & Record in 2008. For four decades, Jim was dedicated to covering key stories about Greensboro. He also went on special assignment throughout the U.S. and abroad, always bringing back stories to the local community. From the hearthstone/everyday to the Olympian/sublime, Jim took great care to be informative, engaging, and accurate. Jim acknowledges he had the good fortune to work during the golden age of journalism, back in the day when the local paper had multiple photographers, several reporters, and 100,000 subscribers.
While Jim is retired from the newspaper, he is a person who will never retire from documenting and writing about the history of Greensboro. Above, Jim is photographed in front of the Greensboro city directories, books he frequently references when volunteering at the Greensboro History Museum. One of Jim's many retirement endeavors has been to catalog the negatives of local photographer Mr. Carol Martin. There are approximately half a million negatives, dating from 1947 to the early 1990s; Jim laments, to date, he has only catalogued through 1954. In the Martin Collection, Jim finds negatives on every subject from weddings to Greensboro street scenes to photos from Curry High School. The mystery of what he will happen upon in the Martin Collection parallels the serendipity of what he uncovers just by walking up and down Elm Street. Hamburger Square, the area around the railroad tracks, and the 500-600 blocks of South Elm Street have always been of special interest to Jim.
Another "job" Jim found in retirement is playing golf, something he put on hold during his newspaper years. We extend a big thank you for all Jim has contributed to telling the story of Greensboro, and for all of the leads he gave us for future Greensboro Daily Photo posts. Happy Friday!
Thanks for such a fun and interesting story. The Martin Collection sounds fascinating.
Posted by: Angela Cook | Friday, August 20, 2021 at 10:48 AM
A good portrait shot.
Posted by: William Kendall | Friday, August 20, 2021 at 04:28 PM