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20th Century Toledo from the view of the Toledo Blade and Toledo News-Bee, with some personal recollections thrown in for no good reason. WITH A NEW LOOK!

Toledo History Box

20th Century Toledo from the view of the Toledo Blade and Toledo News-Bee, with some personal recollections thrown in for no good reason. WITH A NEW LOOK!

Category: Retail

Buildings

Miracle Mile

Toledo History Box, June 13, 2018June 17, 2018

One of Toledo’s first suburban shopping centers, Miracle Mile survives to this day.

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Buildings

The 19-year odyssey of the Franklin Park Mall

Toledo History Box, July 4, 2011December 11, 2017

It took nineteen years for the Franklin Park Mall to go from idea to reality before it finally opened in July, 1971.

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Buildings

How Tiedtke’s Burned Out, and Up

Toledo History Box, April 19, 2017September 20, 2017

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?

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Retail

Westgate Shopping Center

Toledo History Box, January 4, 2016July 31, 2019

When it comes to retail in Toledo, the Franklin Park Mall churns on like a juggernaut, The Andersons and Southwyck are gone entirely, but Westgate is a shadow of its former self.

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Gone But Not Forgotten

The double blow: Tiedtke’s and Buckeye Beer close

Toledo History Box, December 23, 2010August 22, 2017

On the same day in 1972, two Toledo institutions announce plans to close their venerable doors.

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Fires

Colony Shopping Center

Toledo History Box, May 18, 2011January 17, 2017

Home to several landmark Toledo businesses in its 50-year heyday, The Colony Shopping Center was also know to catch on fire – a lot. Finally in 2013, what was left of The Colony was torn down.

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Buildings

Franklin: Ice Cream, Airport, Park Mall

Toledo History Box, August 27, 2010January 25, 2018

Long before Franklin Park, there was Franklin Ice Cream.

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