Now: Jamie Farr. Then: Jameel Farah
Jame Farr, Toledo’s reigning favorite son, was well covered by The Blade in his early years.
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
The German-American Festival
The Toledo tradition happens again, as it does every late August weekend every year, and you should go.
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.
Snake dancer Zorita arrested
Police found the exotic snake and spider gyrations of Zorita a little bit out-of-bounds in this 1941 case.
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.
John Grigsby
Blade reporter John Grigsby had done just about everything at the paper in his 53-year career.
Now we are ten
After ten years, it’s time to come clean.