The Lorraine Motor Hotel – updated!
I started writing about the Lorraine Motor Hotel but somehow ended up at the Jefferson Avenue Circus.
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: Law and Order
The great Toledo cult dig
For a few days in June, 1985, Spencer Township was firmly in the national media spotlight as the Lucas County Sheriff’s Department conducted a large-scale dig for evidence of a Satanic cult.
The 1979 City Worker Strike
The brief city employee strike in 1979 was a blow to Toledo’s image.
Who’s up for a Harbor View Orgy?
Hey, who wouldn’t be? But when police did nothing, residents turned to a Lucas County Probate Court judge to help break up the orgies – or more accurately, drinking parties – in Harbor View.
How bootleggers helped build Sylvania
In the 1920s, the Sylvania village mayor’s court became a hub of enforcement of the Volstead Act.
Hoover leads arrest of Karpis associate
J. Edgar Hoover himself came to Toledo to arrest Alvin Karpis confederate Harry Campbell.
Robbery and murder at Sylvania Golf Club
Insurance man John L. Parker was murdered at the Sylvania Golf Club’s 15th tee in 1933. The killer was eventually caught, but not after a bizarre turn of events.