The ice broke on the Maumee in March, 1908, and the steamer Yuma, torn from its mooring, took out a good chunk of the former Cherry Street Bridge.
Buildings
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Toledo’s Westwood Art Theater
The Westwood Art Theater was a West Toledo landmark for all the wrong reasons. It’s gone from a theater to a “private club” to closed but now a neighborhood group is looking into the building’s possibilities.
Fires
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Colony Shopping Center
Home to several landmark Toledo businesses in its 50-year heyday, The Colony Shopping Center was also know to catch on fire – a lot. Finally in 2013, what was left of The Colony was torn down.
Buildings
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Old Orchard School
I went back to Ohio, and my school had been totally rebuilt! The old one was gone forever.
Gone But Not Forgotten
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Toledo’s old Union Station
Prior to its 1950 replacement, Union Station was a sore point with travelers and city officials. It was a dump.
Entertainment
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Soybean Jesus visits Fostoria
Rusty tanks in Fostoria revealed an image of Jesus in 1986, some say.
Civic Pride
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The 1979 City Worker Strike
The brief city employee strike in 1979 was a blow to Toledo’s image.