At age 7, I wanted to know why Old Orchard was named Old Orchard. So I asked The Blade.
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Now: Jamie Farr. Then: Jameel Farah
Jame Farr, Toledo’s reigning favorite son, was well covered by The Blade in his early years.
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The German-American Festival
The Toledo tradition happens again, as it does every late August weekend every year, and you should go.
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Forty years ago today, not much happened
Obviously a diet of fires, disasters and big events gets tiresome, so on any typical day can something be found to talk about or to jog the memory? Yes.
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Snake dancer Zorita arrested
Police found the exotic snake and spider gyrations of Zorita a little bit out-of-bounds in this 1941 case.
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Kenwood Pharmacy, the one and only
A kid growing up in the Toledo’s Old Orchard neighborhood – and probably a wider area – in the 60s and 70s could find no better place in the world than Kenwood Pharmacy.
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John Grigsby
Blade reporter John Grigsby had done just about everything at the paper in his 53-year career.