Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Gainsborough Photographers

›
From 1931 until 1982, Gainsborough Photographers did business at 223 West Washington Street, on the street level of the Odd Fellows Temple ...
5 comments:
Saturday, June 27, 2015

Postcards from Lakeside

›
Lakeside had its beginnings in 1873, when land was cleared for the purpose of creating an area where religious meetings could take pla...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Hoover and Woodward, Wholesale Grocers

›
  In 1880, Frederick E. Hoover and William W. Woodward started a wholesale grocery business on Water Street in Sandusky, Ohio. Frederic...
Sunday, June 21, 2015

The Terminal Inn, on the Downtown Waterfront

›
In May of 1903 the Terminal Inn opened in downtown Sandusky at the foot of Columbus Avenue, close to the passenger steamer docks and ra...
Wednesday, June 17, 2015

Limestone Quarrying Has Been Important to Sandusky and Erie County for Generations

›
Hewson Peeke wrote in his book A Standard History of Erie County, Ohio , about the limestone underlying the ground in Sandusky and the Lak...
Sunday, June 14, 2015

David S. Curr, Practical Sail and Awning Maker

›
Two receipts from David S. Curr are housed in the business collections of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center. In the spring of 1...
Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Annual Session of United Commercial Travelers, Grand Council of Ohio in 1906

›
The seventeenth annual session of the Grand Council of Ohio, United Commercial Travelers, was held in Sandusky, Ohio from June 7 to Jun...
Sunday, June 07, 2015

Aerial View of Dutch Lane and Cove

›
Photographer and pilot Thomas Root took this aerial view of Dutch Lane and the surrounding area on June 7, 1959.  You can still see the rai...
Thursday, June 04, 2015

Holzaepfel Kodaks Baseball Team

›
In the 1910s, the Holzaepfel store sponsored a baseball team known as the Kodaks. When you look closely at the players, the name Kodak...
Monday, June 01, 2015

Manhattan Clothing Store

›
Around the turn of the twentieth century Samuel Kaplan and Henry Isaacs were the proprietors of the Manhattan Clothing Emporium at the ...
6 comments: