Category: The Blade

The Lorraine Motor Hotel – updated!

Toledo History Box, June 7, 2017February 13, 2025

I started writing about the Lorraine Motor Hotel but somehow ended up at the Jefferson Avenue Circus.

Toledo History Box, January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

We reopen this little corner of Toledo history with a popular topic: Toledo restaurants of the 1970s.

Toledo History Box, August 13, 2020October 25, 2020

Years after she retired, the columns of Mary Alice Powell are still worth a read.

Toledo History Box, February 15, 2011October 18, 2015

Toledo Tomorrow, a vision of a future Toledo, came at a time the city was straining under the weight of many problems.

Toledo History Box, January 25, 2011March 4, 2020

With very little fanfare save a front-page announcement, a thin fourteen-page edition marked the end of the The Toledo News-Bee on August 2, 1938.

Toledo History Box, February 14, 2011October 19, 2015

It was really great to see Seymour Rothman, who spent 53 years at the Blade and died in June, 2013, pop up in the paper in 2011 and 2012.

Toledo History Box, March 26, 2012October 19, 2015

I’ve mentioned Mitch Woodbury more than once here without going into great detail about who he was, or what he did. So here goes.