Toledo History Box – Page 13 – 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!

Civic Pride

The Old Orchard Zip Line letter

Toledo History Box, January 20, 2012November 4, 2016

At age 7, I wanted to know why Old Orchard was named Old Orchard. So I asked The Blade.

Civic Pride

Now: Jamie Farr. Then: Jameel Farah

Toledo History Box, September 5, 2011June 11, 2017

Jame Farr, Toledo’s reigning favorite son, was well covered by The Blade in his early years.

Entertainment

The German-American Festival

Toledo History Box, August 25, 2011August 25, 2011

The Toledo tradition happens again, as it does every late August weekend every year, and you should go.

Entertainment

Forty years ago today, not much happened

Toledo History Box, March 10, 2011April 7, 2011

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.

Entertainment

Snake dancer Zorita arrested

Toledo History Box, February 17, 2011April 5, 2012

Police found the exotic snake and spider gyrations of Zorita a little bit out-of-bounds in this 1941 case.

Gone But Not Forgotten

Kenwood Pharmacy, the one and only

Toledo History Box, September 23, 2010February 14, 2011

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.

People

John Grigsby

Toledo History Box, January 14, 2011November 29, 2016

Blade reporter John Grigsby had done just about everything at the paper in his 53-year career.