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Journalist and author Harry Van Stack donated several matchbook covers from Sandusky businesses to the Sandusky Library. The matchbooks were from five restaurants and a service station that were in operation primarily in the 1930s and 1940s in downtown Sandusky. The Boulevard Cafe can be seen in the picture below next to the Ohio Theatre on West Market Street in 1937.
In the 1931 photograph of downtown Sandusky, the Pelican Restaurant is on the west side of Columbus Avenue, just north of Rosino’s, and Martin’s is at the northeast corner of Columbus Avenue and Market Street.
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I can't beleive I missed this article from 2020 that mentioned Rosino's shoe store on Columbus Ave. As a young teenager, probably 14 or 15, I worked in that store on Saturday mornings, dusting shelves, breaking up cardboard boxes for the baling machine in the basement, sweeping the floor, and other custodial tasks. Our family were long-time customers of Mr. Rosino's. I still (at age 84) remember the wonders of seeing the bones in my feet when, as a customer, feet were scanned in the store's X-ray machine when trying on new shoes. I think such machines were eventually banned in retail shoe stores due to possible X-ray overexposures.
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