Today on Flashback, two one-time Rhode Island icons; a drive-in movie theater and a bank.

We don’t often hear about earthquakes in Rhode Island.  But they do happen occasionally.  One such earthquake occurred 26 years ago today, October 7, 1983. Here’s today’s Flashback.

Today’s Flashback goes back 32 years ago today, October 6, 1977.

Today on Flashback, the day Amtrak’s pride-and-joy, the Acela high speed train was unveiled to the public.

Security at defense industry companies like Electric Boat is a good deal more sophisticated today, as opposed to several decades ago, before the terrorist attacks in this country. 

Today’s two Flashback items deal with a prison riot, and an explosion at a hazardous chemical dump in Coventry. We begin 18 years ago on Sept. 30, 1991.

It was 20 years ago that a big rock band came to town, in fact, it was one of the biggest rock groups of all time, the Rolling Stones.  Not all Foxboro residents were pleased, as we see on Flashback.

Today’s Flashback items involve controversies in the arts.

A sports reporter accuses members of the New England Patriots of sexual harassment.

In 1997, Rhode Islanders were not all that supportive of the Patriots moving to Providence.

Today’s Flashback shows you what Council 94 was doing 27 years ago today, Sept. 23, 1982, during another big labor dispute with the state. 

In Flashback we feature the Providence Diocese, sealed documents and a judge’s decision. It all happened on this day seven years ago.

Today is the 71st anniversary of the Hurricane of 1938.

The old Jamestown Bridge is featured in today’s Flashback.

In extreme instances, teachers are actually sent to jail for violating the no-strike law in Rhode Island