Toledo History Box – Page 5 – 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!

Par 3 at Talmadge and Monroe – photos!

Toledo History Box, July 22, 2016September 20, 2017

From the 40s to the 80s, a golf oasis lived at the corner of Talmadge and Monroe. And I have photos!

Toledo History Box, January 11, 2017November 10, 2017

The Fiberglas tower is seeing some new life, but a lot of hopes were pinned on its construction.

Toledo History Box, August 7, 2017February 27, 2018

Let’s take a quick trip around Toledo and have something to eat, circa 1980.

Toledo History Box, September 23, 2017October 5, 2017

The West Toledo Expressway – an 8.8 mile section of Interstates 75 and 475 – opened in December, 1970. Sylvania felt snubbed.

Toledo History Box, September 15, 2017April 14, 2018

The Anthony Wayne Trail was built on the bed of the Miami and Erie canal, but its official draining ceremony in 1929 was ruined by saboteurs.

Toledo History Box, August 30, 2017September 25, 2018

The king of tornadoes in the Toledo area will likely always be Palm Sunday, 1965, but it wasn’t the first destructive tornado in the area.

Toledo History Box, August 23, 2017June 24, 2024

Tough to imagine now, but for a brief time in the mid-1950s, Sylvania’s school district found themselves strapped for operating expenses.