history: The Fiery End of a Historic Worthington Home - 03/19/12 08:05 AM
The fiery end of a historic Worthington home in 1979 was planned and controlled demolition to make way for progress on W. Wilson Bridge Road.
Don O'Brien shared a photo on Flickr he titled "End of an Historic Home." The W. Wilson Bridge home he has a photo is NOT the home his parents built on W.Wilson Bridge Road.
Mr. O'Brien says "I used my ________ in 1979 to take the photo," naming the film and camera used to capture the photo of the home being used in a fire exercise as part of the demoltion to make way … (3 comments)
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history: Happy 200th Birthday Columbus, Ohio - 02/14/12 09:24 AM
Happy 200th Birthday Columbus
Who knew Columbus' birthday is Valentine's Day? I do not remember the 199th birthday celebration, the 198th, 197th...
There will be birthday celebrations for Columbus throughout 2012. There is much to do in Columbus this weekend.
The photo is downtown Columbus from the Scioto Mile in December 2011.
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history: Columbus Ohio restaurants - 06/13/11 05:51 PM
Columbus Ohio restaurants : circa 1951
Upper Arlington a trip down memory "Lane"
I found list from 1951 Columbus restaurant directory from ColumbusChefs.com looking for any info on Arlane Restaurant shown in Don O'Brien's photo of Lane Avenue Shopping Center.
Columbus Ohio restaurants
It looks like the Arlane Restaurant was between a flower shop and a photographers studio in the photograph. The 1951 list identifies the place as "Arlane Tea Room" and gives the address as "1689 W. Lane av (UA)" It is one of very few suburban locations on the list from a 1951 directory.
I wrote … (2 comments)
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history: Upper Arlington: a trip down "Memory Lane" - 05/03/11 05:41 PM
Upper Arlington - Lane Avenue about 1950... a trip down Memory Lane... there was a movie theater? called "The Lane"
If you look at the original size photo of Lane Avenue on Dok1's Flickr Photostream you can read the street sign and see you are standing on the lot just west of Chester Rd. looking south at shops on Lane Avenue including a movie theater. I put the blue pin in the map on the corner with the street sign. Lane Avenue Columbus, Ohio: circa 1950
View Chester Rd. at W. Lane Avenue in a larger map
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history: You say "sanitarium" I say "sanatorium" - 04/15/11 02:42 AM
"You say tomato...
I say tomahto....
Lets Call The Whole Thing Off "
Wikipedia says:
"A sanatorium (also spelled sanitorium and sanitarium) is a medical facility for long-term illness, most typically associated with treatment of tuberculosis (TB) before antibiotics. A distinction is sometimes made between "sanitarium" (a kind of health resort, as in the Battle Creek Sanitarium) and "sanatorium" (a hospital)."
The Wikipedia page needs a citation so don't go believing this is gospel.
In old movies I always got confused about what was wrong with people who were in "sanitariums" or "sanatoriums" Tuberculosis? Or insanity? I wondered if one of … (5 comments)
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history: Flint Ohio - September 1921 - 09/13/10 09:37 AM
In 1921 Flint Ohio was a little village in Sharon Township that is now mostly annexed into the City of Columbus. The area south of the Franklin County line is in the Worthington City School District today.
Map - Flint Ohio is near the intersection of Flint Rd. and Park Rd. The Flint Carryout just west of the railroad tracks is a sure sign you've found Flint. The train station that sat in Flint was moved further east long ago and is a residential property.
Today in the Flint Ohio area as all over Central Ohio you'd see Honda Accords, … (2 comments)
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history: Africa Road - Ohio's Underground Railroad to Freedom - 06/03/10 04:16 AM
Did you ever wonder about the name of Africa Road in southern Delaware County? Where the name "Africa Road" came from? I wondered.
View Larger Map An Ohio Department of Natural Resources site has a page called Ohio's Underground Railroad to Freedom which talks about slaves coming across the Ohio River from the south. Ohio played a large part in the Underground Railroad in the 1800s. I wondered why Africa Road. The site says:
"One of the most famous Underground Railroad routes in central Ohio was Africa Road. This was the setting of one of the most extra-ordinary chapters … (3 comments)
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history: How St. Patrick Discovered the Americas - 03/17/10 02:54 PM
This is a Re-Blog of content from Brian Madigan who describes himself as
"Brian Madigan LL.B., Realtor is an author and commentator on real estate matters, Royal LePage Innovators Realty"
Royal LePage is Real Living HER's distant cousin by the "marriage" between Real Living's franchise unit and GMAC real estate through Brookfield a Canadian company that owns Royal LePage.
I've always noticed Brian's last name because my 100% Irish Grandma worked for a department store in Chicago named Madigan's. It was a family owned department store. I remember wonderful dresses and outfits coming in "Madigan's" boxes at Christmas and birthdays. I … (3 comments)
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history: The Columbus Santa Connection - 12/25/09 03:34 PM
The Columbus Santa connection is in Westerville, a northeast suburb.
Merry Christmas from DiscoverColumbusOH.com and Maureen McCabe of Real Living HER.
Hope Santa stopped by your Columbus Ohio home… if you believe.
Westerville, a suburb north of Columbus has a Santa connection. Did you know that Benjamin Hanby, favorite son of Westerville Ohio (Hanby is featured on the signs when you enter Westerville, that were put up in 2003 for Ohio’s bicentennial for another of his songs) had a Santa connection? Hanby wrote “Up On The Housetop” or maybe it is it “Up On the House Top”? Looks like the … (0 comments)
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history: Westerville History - the Underground Railroad - 11/02/09 07:35 PM
Westerville History - the Underground Railroad
Benjamin Hanby lived in Westerville as a teen and young man. His father William Hanby was an abolitionist. Hanby House was a station on the Underground Railroard.
The song "Darling Nelly Gray" was the story of an escaped slave Joe Selby on his way to Canada to earn money to free Nelly Gray.
Westerville history - the Underground Railroad
Hanby House - 160 W. Main Street Westerville Ohio is owned by the Ohio Historical Society and operated by the Westerville Historical Society.
The image is the sign as you enter Westerville on W. Main … (0 comments)
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history: Westerville's history - 10/29/09 07:42 AM
I was trying to find something about Westerville's history and ended up on the Westerville Libraries website.
Westerville has such an interesting history, the Underground Railroad, the temperance movement and the Whisky Wars including the Anti-Saloon League...
Sometimes I think Westerville has a much more colorful history in many ways than some of it's Central Ohio neighbors.
What I was looking for about Westerville was.... I was thinking Westerville was having a birthday. I keep thinking that Dublin and Westerville are the same age.... I thought Worthington was settled in 1803 and Dublin and Westerville were settled in 1810. I was … (0 comments)
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history: Which Ohioan to send to Washington DC? - 08/17/09 07:11 AM
Which statue of a historic Ohioan should be sent to Washington to represent the state in the National Statuary Hall Collection?
Paul Brown from Massillon
Thomas Edison from Milan
Bob Hope from Cleveland
Dean Martin from Steubenville
Annie Oakley from from Greenville
Jesse Owens from Cleveland
The Wright Brothers from Dayton
Currently one of Ohio's two statues is William Allen a congressman and former Ohio Governor (?)
I read an article about it in the Columbus Dispatch. I'd never heard of Allen before... or why Allen is losing his spot. Other states have switched statues. Each state has 2 statues. President … (2 comments)
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history: Worthington Ohio - A Ghost Town - 09/23/08 07:21 AM
Is Worthington Ohio a ghost town as in deserted? Not on your life! Worthington is a thriving Central Ohio community with a history. I got a big kick out of the Worthington Libraries series of Ghost Stories last fall when I found them. I found them after Halloween 2007. I'd posted a couple on my Discover Columbus site last winter... Not scary but a bit grisley ... this is a part of Worthington history I did not know. This is my favorite Worthington Ghost Tour: The Tale of Dr. Morrow From the Worthington Libraries starring the webmaster at Worthington Libraries, Stefan … (4 comments)
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history: "When housing segregation was born" - 01/15/07 07:30 AM
Broker Bryant's "Martin Luther King, rest in peace my brother" about him sneaking out as a boy in the 1960's to watch a Ku Klux Klan rally, reminded me of a book "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age" by Kevin Boyle.
Ossian Sweet, the main character in this true story was haunted by seeing a lynching as a child in Florida. This was pre- Martin Luther King, the teens and twenties... The majority of the story takes place in Detroit but Sweet went to college in Ohio at Wilberforce University, which describes itself as" "The oldest … (2 comments)
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