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This postcard was created by noted photographer Louis James Pesha in the early 1900s.
The eastern side of Columbus Avenue is pictured in Sandusky’s busy downtown
district. The Cooke building, with a
flagpole atop a decorative tower, can be seen at the northeast corner of Columbus
Avenue and Market Street. Stone’s Block, which housed the
general offices of the Lake Shore Electric Railway, is at the southeast corner
of Columbus Avenue and Market Street. At this time N.E. Marshall ran a
bookstore at 210 Columbus Avenue. The S.H. Knox and Co. 5 and 10 Cent Store was
in business at 214 and 216 Columbus Avenue. The Dietz and Mischler cigar store,
at 224 Columbus Avenue, was known for selling Siesta cigars for five cents
each. Puck, a cast zinc statue, stood in the front window of the store from the late 1800s until about 1915. Puck now can be
seen at the Follett House Museum.
The Bauman Brothers sold wallpaper at 226 Columbus
Avenue, and the Melville Brothers drugstore was located at 228 Columbus Avenue.
Also in the 200 block of Columbus Avenue was William Seitz Sons, merchant
tailor and the American Banking and Trust Company. O.S. Alcott ran a men’s
furnishing store at the northeast corner of Columbus Avenue and Washington Row.
You can read a portion of the sign of the O.S. Alcott store in the close up
view of the postcard below.
Thanks to Mr. Pesha, we can take a peek into our community’s past. Sadly, L.J. Pesha was killed in an automobile accident in 1912.
2 comments:
I remember the statue of Puck when it was on the roof of a little store located on the southeast corner of Scott and Hancock Streets. I walked past that store every day on my way home from St. Mary's School to our house on Fifth Street at Buckingham. Later, my brother Bob worked across the street at the main office of Grill Meats.
I remember Puck on that little corner store too! I don't remember the name of the store, my mother had told me at the time. It's gone now though, along with the two houses next to it.
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