The Commodore Perry closes
The Commodore Perry, still standing at Superior and Jefferson downtown, spent 53 years as Toledo’s top hotel.
20th Century Toledo from the view of the Toledo Blade and Toledo News-Bee, with some personal recollections thrown in for no good reason 
Category: Buildings
Toledo’s new Union Station opens
A week-long celebration marked the opening of Toledo’s new train station, Central Union Terminal, in 1950. It was a long time coming.
The Toledo Tomorrow exhibit
Toledo Tomorrow, a vision of a future Toledo, came at a time the city was straining under the weight of many problems.
How Tiedtke’s Burned Out, and Up
A spectacular fire in May of 1975 brought down the Tiedtke’s building at Summit and Adams. But what brought Tiedtke’s, the business, down?
The Spielbusch Armory Fire
The long-forgotten Spielbusch Armory burned in December, 1934 in a spectacular fire.
Toledo’s Westwood Art Theater
The Westwood Art Theater was a West Toledo landmark for all the wrong reasons. It’s gone from a theater to a “private club” to closed but now a neighborhood group is looking into the building’s possibilities.
Old Orchard School
I went back to Ohio, and my school had been totally rebuilt! The old one was gone forever.