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Forty years ago today, not much happened
I’ve always thought you can usually find something interesting in the newspaper every day. So, I thought I’d try March 10, 1971, forty years ago today. The headline sums up what I found. There was...
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Eight die when train hits interurban
“It’s a scene that will haunt me for many years to come. I’ve seen some bad disasters, but last night was the worst.” With those words to a News-Bee reporter, an aged railroad crossing flagman, J.F....
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The End of Toledo’s Streetcars
The Long Belt Streetcar route, from a 1943 map On the front page of the January 1, 1950 issue of the Toledo Sunday Blade, the big news was front and center: the Long Belt streetcar had made its last...
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The Toledo Tomorrow exhibit
With the Second World War nearly over and peacetime reconversion already beginning, Toledo in July 1945 was a city straining under the weights of many problems. In the space of twenty-five years,...
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Toledo Images in Time
(Featured photo above: Clyde Mock’s Hi-Speed filling station and eatery at present day Airport Highway and Reynolds Road, 1924.) I look at the “Images in Time” archive of the Toledo-Lucas County Public...
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