Do You Remember Bazley Meats?

In the picture above, Bazley Meats can be seen in the 200 block of Columbus Avenue during a Grape Festival Parade held in 1940. The Bazley family had a chain of meat markets throughout states in the Midwest for several years.  From 1928 to 1930, Bazley Meats was in Sandusky at 148 Columbus Avenue.  By November of 1930, the business had moved to 216 Columbus Avenue, where later Woolworth’s had a store in the 1950s and 1960s. An advertisement in the Sandusky Star Journal of November 21, 1930, stated that the Bazley Cash Market was modern and sanitary, and pledged to “give you better quality meats at lower prices.”

In today's dollars, pork loin was $2.49/lb and ground beef $1.62

In 1936, an article in the December 23 issue of the Sandusky Star Journal, reported on a pig named Oscar that was given free run of the market for a day. The manager of Bazley’s Meats, Leo Hall, reported that Oscar “would go the way of all porkers” and was soon to be at the table of an employee.

In February, 1949, a newspaper article reported that soon Bazley Meats would be moving to a new location at 182 East Market Street.

By April 26, 1972, Family Meats had taken over the location at 182 E. Market Street, where Bazley Meats had been in operation since 1949.  You can see Bazley Meats at its East Market Street location in the picture below, taken by Helen Hansen in 1963.

Locations of specific businesses and homes in Sandusky throughout several decades can be found in the historical city directories housed in the Reference Services area of the Sandusky Library. Consult the street directory, where addresses can be looked up by house number in an alphabetical listing of streets in Sandusky, Ohio.