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

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

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

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

The death of the Miami and Erie Canal
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’s lesser known tornadoes
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.

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