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Toledo, Ohio: A stroll back in time through West Toledo

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  • čas přidán 12. 09. 2014

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  • @dd-nv6sw
    @dd-nv6sw Před 3 lety +7

    This Sept will be 30 years since I left Toledo.
    I still remember all those places.
    Thanks 😊!

  • @johnl2202
    @johnl2202 Před 2 lety +2

    So many familiar places and significant businesses we grew up with and saw daily. A wonderful collection. Thanks.

  • @florimeeks
    @florimeeks Před 3 lety +5

    Thank you! Really enjoyed this. Used to visit my grandparents in Toledo in the '70s and '80s. Remember walking with my grandmother to the Westgate Shopping Center and the Baskin-Robbins on Secor.

  • @greendiode5522
    @greendiode5522 Před rokem +1

    Wow Betsy Ross and White Hut! I remember both of those from my childhood. Brings back so many memories. Thank you for sharing!

  • @northshore1000
    @northshore1000 Před 8 lety +20

    Ok, Toledo Memories, I watched your other video and was moved beyond what I can express. Then, I found this video and watched... Now I have tears in my eyes. I miss those days!!! Thank you again for putting this together for us.

  • @Endrough
    @Endrough Před 5 lety +7

    I live at Phillips and Lewis and it's unreal that so many of those original buildings are still there!

  • @woodstream6137
    @woodstream6137 Před 10 měsíci +2

    I would have liked to see the west toledo public library on sylvania and willys as well as Augsburg Lutheran church next door. Loved their architecture.

  • @daemonhat
    @daemonhat Před 2 lety +1

    Brings back memories. Grew up a couple blocks from whittier school. Used to hang out at the Blade Station on Lewis Ave and Martin when Red was in charge, getting bottles of coke out of the machine for a dime and going sledding down the hill in the back along the alley in the winter, playing video games at the Open Pantry and getting ice cream at the Dairy Queen the next block up on Lewis next to the school. Every once in a while we would get a special treat and mom would go to Rudys and get chilidogs and chocolate malts. Remember seeing Herbie the Love Bug and The Rescuers as a double feature at the Miracle Mile Drive-in. Good times.

    • @woodstream6137
      @woodstream6137 Před 10 měsíci +1

      Small world, lived just down the alley from the blade station. Sadly, Red passed away while working a Sunday morning i think. Rudy's was always a special treat.

  • @kennypeshlakai2416
    @kennypeshlakai2416 Před 3 lety +2

    Love these nostalgic videos of Toledo. We live in the miracle mile/ library block. I’ve been hoping to see some pics of the old YMCA with the coolest pool I’ve ever had the pleasure to swim in. We also went to the pool at Manhattan and Suder(?) by the yacht club .

  • @themessiahssecondassembly7761

    WOW!!!!!!!!! What an oldie but a definite goodie, that's what I remember growing up as a kid and as a young adult. I'm 68 now, but I went to all of the drive inns in Toledo at one time or the other. Great memories, Toledo had a future back then, whatever happen to good old T town, thanks for the memory's.

    • @robertott2631
      @robertott2631 Před 2 lety

      All the big factories and companies moved overseas or to Mexico or some southern or western state that gave them great tax breaks., used to be a big blue collar good pay check town., people had money to spend and all the houses and cars were affordable. My dad made 13.75 hour at DANA back in the 70s., that pay amount is about the average in Toledo now.

    • @themessiahssecondassembly7761
      @themessiahssecondassembly7761 Před 2 lety

      @@robertott2631 Do you know a Allen Ott from Toledo Ohio, he was a friend of mine. I'm 70 so if the age and or name doesn't work, then it's just a coincidence. Hay there any way.

    • @robertott2631
      @robertott2631 Před 2 lety

      @@themessiahssecondassembly7761 My dad might have. He worked at DANA

  • @burton48
    @burton48 Před 11 měsíci

    Dad graduated from the University of Michigan in 1948 and accepted a job as a salesman for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company. We lived on Prescott Street until 1950 when Dad was transferred to the Baltimore Branch. We returned to Toledo in 1952 and lived at 1655 Crestwood Road until 1954, then at 2458 Evans Street until 1957. After five years with the Cincinnati Branch, O-I brought Dad back to Toledo again for a year living at 4131 Sheraton Road in Ottawa Hills, then a final transfer to the Chicago Branch in 1963. I remember Longfellow School for kindergarten in 1953-1954, Nathan Hale Elementary School for grades 1, 2, and 3 in 1954-1957, then freshman high school year at Ottawa Hills High School in 1962-1963. My memories of Toledo are vivid and voluminous. It was a wonderful place for my childhood. The public schools were terrific. The video reminded me of when in 1956 my grandmother took me to see "Run for the Sun" at the Colony Theatre a great film with Richard Widmark, Jane Greer, and Trevor Howard. Toledo, you will always be a part of me. Thanks for the memories.

    • @cindyeason7450
      @cindyeason7450 Před 2 měsíci +1

      I lived on Crestwood. 1600 block. Family owned house for over 50 years.

  • @marshadelucia1387
    @marshadelucia1387 Před 7 lety +4

    Been at all these places!! I went to Wernert School for sixth grade and spent a lot of time at Middle mile Mall. Was a regular on Fridays at the Hut. Used to live on Selma Dr and then on Rush and Ave. Went to DHS class of 64!! Thank you so much for your wonderful trip down memory lane!!! Those were great times!!

  • @margaret8391
    @margaret8391 Před 4 lety +4

    I worked at the first McDonald's in Toledo on Laskey Rd., across from the Miracle Mile shopping center. I sure remember a lot of these places. In late H. S., went to the White Hut on Secor Rd. many times. Even though I went to Bedford, west Toledo was where I spent most of my Toledo time. It all changed a little when I met a girl that had graduated from Libbey H. S. and then I started going to S. Toledo as well.

  • @donnawatson845
    @donnawatson845 Před 3 lety +1

    Grew up in old west end...Woodward hs!! That big slide at miracle mile was priceless

  • @terrencenbanbury5220
    @terrencenbanbury5220 Před 6 měsíci

    1954 to 1964, I lived in the Old West End as a small boy. Wonderful neighborhood to grow up in. It had a diverse make-up: Norwegian, German, East European and typical midwestern Americans, of course. Young families and elderly. I lived on the corner of Virginia and Maplewood. Just a few blocks from the Art Museum and Swayne Field Shopping Center ( W.T.Grant store). Went to Glenwood Elementary. Moved away when the freeway was built and cut into the neighborhood😢. Came back in 1972 for technical college downtown. Lived across from Art Museum in the Plaza Hotel. Things were much differentby then. But fond memories of Toledo.

  • @pauljnolan1000
    @pauljnolan1000 Před 3 lety +1

    I've been to the Colony Theater, over sixty years ago. It was a block and a half from my grandmother's apartment at Monroe and Central.

  • @johnstone8760
    @johnstone8760 Před 2 lety +3

    So sad, the way this city has ended up......

  • @juliedevries4565
    @juliedevries4565 Před 2 lety

    Thankyou so much for this!

  • @scottmyers8662
    @scottmyers8662 Před 5 lety +8

    The first 4 pictures in the video of Wernerts Corner construction were taken by my grandfather William Perry Myers

    • @RomeKG471
      @RomeKG471 Před 3 lety

      Did he know who the contractor was?

  • @dougchristlieb5270
    @dougchristlieb5270 Před 4 lety +1

    Thank you so much for making this video. Many fond memories

  • @edreynolds8063
    @edreynolds8063 Před 7 lety +2

    Nice presentation. I see one photo slipped in of the "Southwyck Shopping Center" (Mall). If you carefully read the clouded caption you'll see Southwyck noted. I had previously recognized that photo from the Blade archives before watching this montage. Most of my memories are of Southwyck and South Toledo. Thanks for the memories!

  • @horatiobeaker
    @horatiobeaker Před 26 dny

    Great job. Having moved here only recently, this was really informative.

  • @dustinrhoades4453
    @dustinrhoades4453 Před 7 lety +11

    Hinkle's! oh how I miss you 😭

  • @ohboy511
    @ohboy511 Před 7 lety +5

    Remember being a Cook at Betsy Ross several years before becoming a Chef after Culinary school in Boston...

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak Před 8 lety +2

    Interesting seeing what the Clark station on Alexis & Douglas looked like. It's still there as a Clark station, though it's been passed through so many different owners over the years (at one point it had Citgo's oil).

  • @beccabaker7636
    @beccabaker7636 Před 3 lety +2

    Drexel's standing all by itself that was odd on that corner, but sure could recognize the building.

    • @anthonyharder1469
      @anthonyharder1469 Před 3 lety

      Philips and lewis still has the archway building still there. It's boyds retro candy shop now. Crazy

    • @beccabaker7636
      @beccabaker7636 Před 3 lety

      @@anthonyharder1469 I was talking about when they were building the corner it just looked odd to see Drexel's all by it's self, no Mancys, No roller rink, no Boyd's just being built, wow the difference it looks. It was odd looking at it by itself in it's youth, my uncle is the guy that tried to race the train there he was very lucky to been alive after drug him passed the stop on Phillips, Mom said.

  • @hugoflores6866
    @hugoflores6866 Před 4 lety +1

    I have no West Toledo memories but I have lived in the Toledo metropolitan area my entire life so there are few that I can recall Hinkle's donuts for sure being one I was eight or nine years old when my big brother met his second wife Ellen whose father worked at art iron but they resided just across from Hinkle's donuts off of laskey on that small cul-de-sac but I digress love your videos keep posting

  • @howiemichael7508
    @howiemichael7508 Před 5 lety +2

    Love these vids - haha some of it is a little before my time but still love it

  • @WuestDennis
    @WuestDennis Před 3 lety +1

    I went to Wernert's School and enjoyed seeing it again. That was my neighborhood and it was a good one.

    • @WuestDennis
      @WuestDennis Před 3 lety +1

      I'm 60 now so I remember all the old stuff. I remember Big Uncle Sam standing there for years. And then he stood ourside some junk yard for another 20 years.

  • @carnivorecave
    @carnivorecave Před 3 lety

    I worked a Westland Lanes and lived in west Toledo, most of my family lived there. Many of those buildings are still standing. The last time I lived in West Toledo was 2012. Ended up in East Texas.

  • @robd.4768
    @robd.4768 Před 2 lety

    I remember pumping gas 3rd shift at the Fleet Wing, (full service of course) and sitting in White Hut enjoying their Monster burgers while waiting for customers to pull up to the pumps. Great times!

  • @nancyjames9471
    @nancyjames9471 Před 2 lety

    I remember playing hooky my senior year and going to Betsy Ross with my girlfriends.

  • @williamnagy8098
    @williamnagy8098 Před 5 lety

    Thanks so much! My fondest childhood memories were W.T. Grants 1:13 buying 85 cent 45s in 1958, and 2:38 Philips and Lewis. In the late 50s on the nw corner was Jacks model shop, spent my young summers there. Miss that time soooo much.

    • @themessiahssecondassembly7761
      @themessiahssecondassembly7761 Před 4 lety

      I'll bet you remember Rudy's hot dog place then don't ya. How about Tidkes, sorry about the spelling it was down town.

    • @anthonyharder1469
      @anthonyharder1469 Před 3 lety

      Jacks went up in flames didn't it?

    • @williamnagy8098
      @williamnagy8098 Před 3 lety

      @@anthonyharder1469 My parents and I left Toledo in 1961, the model shop could have burned after that but looks as though the corner bldg is still there. Mom worked at the old Lamson's just west on Sylvania.

  • @kathydriscoll5729
    @kathydriscoll5729 Před 4 lety

    Just talking about Hinkles donuts this past weekend. Thx. Great fun! Hi to all up north.

  • @queenbuzybee4074
    @queenbuzybee4074 Před 5 lety

    Nice. Some of my better childhood memories: Franklin Park Mall, shopping at Krogers, grade school at Hopewell Elementary School, Miracle Mile Drive In movies. Thank you:)).

  • @nancycooper1396
    @nancycooper1396 Před 3 lety

    Went to Wernert in the early 50s went to Whitmer high 64. Hung out at Rainbow Acres & West Toledo Y. ( no standing in the hallway) Lived on Springdale 👍

  • @dd-nv6sw
    @dd-nv6sw Před 2 lety +1

    The only thing missing?
    Red Well's Roast Beef!

    • @terrencenbanbury5220
      @terrencenbanbury5220 Před 6 měsíci +1

      My dad took us there several times when I was a little boy 65 years ago. I remember it was across from the A&P store, I think. Loved the old wooden boothes with the hat racks.

  • @MrDougpro
    @MrDougpro Před 4 lety +1

    Can you make a video about South Toledo? My old stompin grounds...

  • @eascec8374
    @eascec8374 Před 5 lety

    Snipes From The Miracle Mile And Franklin Park Is Found On CZcams Back In 1959, (czcams.com/video/RwoHjAzRvzw/video.html)
    The Toledo Drive-In was opened on August 21, 1946, featuring Gale Storm & Phil Regan in “Sunbonnet Sue”. It was owned by the Toledo Drive-In Theater Co. Cleveland, Ohio and operated by OCHS. The theatre had a capacity for 1,000 cars, a 60 feet wide screen, In-A-Car Speakers, projection and sound equipment by RCA. On August 14, 1959, Theater Corporation of America purchased it and invested $100,000.000 into the theatre. Many improvements were made, including a new marquee, new box offices, enlarged concession areas, entrances, exits and ramps. Also a new playground area was built, including a miniature trian ride and pony cart rides for the kids. Three hundred new car speakers were added, making the car capacity a total of 1,300 cars. It was reopened September 2, 1959 as the Franklin Park Auto Theater with a big grand opening.
    Redstone/National Amusements bought the drive-in in 1963. In 1971 they built the Franklin Park Cinemas beside the drive-in theatre. National Amusements closed the Franklin Park Drive-In, along with the Maumee Drive-In and the Miracle Mile Drive-In at the end of the 1986 season. The Franklin Park Cinemas closed in 2005. This coincided with the Franklin Park 16 opening at the Franklin Park Mall, located at 5001 Monroe Street.
    The Franklin Park Drive-In was demolished but the indoor theater building is still standing. A Target store and strip mall sit on the drive-in site now. The Franklin Park (aka Toledo) Drive-In was the second oldest drive-in theater to be built in the Toledo area with the Telegraph Drive-In (April 26, 1946) being the oldest.
    The Miracle Mile Drive-In opened on November 26, 1954 with Spencer Tracy in “Broken Lance” (in CinemaScope) and Walt Disney’s “Peter Pan”. The car capacity was 1,500 with an expansion planned for the following spring to bring the total capacity to 1,870 cars.. The CinemaScope screen was 60 feet high & 120 feet wide, with the screen tower built to withstand winds of up to 125 MPH. The projection booth was located 425 feet from the screen, which made it one of the longest projection throws in the country. The drive-in was also equipped with individual car heaters that plugged into the speaker pole, and they could be rented at the concession stand. In the late-1970’s, it ran all winter long with in car heaters Brrr…
    It was built and owned by Glass Mill Inc. at a cost of $450,000.00. The Theater Operating Co. was the operator/management of the drive-in. Theater Corp. of America took over ownership in 1961. In 1963, it was sold to Redstone/National Amusements. It was twinned in May 1977, the screens were named red & blue, and if you parked by the fence in the center, you could watch both movies at once. In the 1980’s, the Miracle Mile Drive-In was famous for being one of the first with radio sound and for its having an awesome marquee.
    This theater still had a playground up front and a four lane concession stand in the late-1970’s. It also had three ticket booths and large spike rows at the gates. In 1976, a ticket cost $1.25, and pay was $1.90 an hour for ticket sellers.
    In the early-1980’s, they were having a Flea Market and Farmer’s Market at the drive-in on Sunday’s. On October 14, 1985, $100,000.00 worth of damage was caused by a fire in the office/storage area in the base of the screen tower.
    National Amusements closed the Miracle Mile Drive-In along with the Maumee Drive-In and Franklin Park Drive-In at the end of the 1986 season. It was later sold and demolished. A shopping center was built in its place, which now stands empty.
    The Colony Theatre was opened on October 16, 1941. Located on West Central Avenue and Galena Street, it closed in 1981 and was demolished in Summer of 1985.

  • @stelthy100
    @stelthy100 Před 7 lety

    I used to hang out at white Hut in the early 70s its was a wild place at times

  • @tekthrash7178
    @tekthrash7178 Před 7 lety

    I went to Wernert when I was little. I used to live in Gate House Apartments and My Grandmother would walk me to school.

  • @americanfreedom6417
    @americanfreedom6417 Před 3 lety

    Thank you

  • @juliegoldberg1955
    @juliegoldberg1955 Před 2 lety

    Valiton Motors. My family.

  • @user-iz5ue7xd4o
    @user-iz5ue7xd4o Před 7 měsíci +1

    Bob yates popcorn stand at miracolemile shoping center god bless

  • @dennislyons7158
    @dennislyons7158 Před 6 lety +1

    Wow

  • @ChristopherSobieniak
    @ChristopherSobieniak Před 8 lety

    Burdette should be Tremainsville, or have they only changed the name later? I think before it was 'Trilby Motors' it was a Kroger's supermarket.

  • @katzpajamas5597
    @katzpajamas5597 Před 3 lety

    At 3:17 Country Motors was at Wernert Corners

  • @johntremmel3949
    @johntremmel3949 Před 3 lety +1

    We use to set along the back wall of the strip mall and watch drive in movies at miracle mile back in the mid seventies they would show real trash movies like stewardess or cheerleaders plenty of weed wine and beer good times

  • @carnivorecave
    @carnivorecave Před 3 lety +2

    Rudy's Hot Dogs.

  • @davidboose5803
    @davidboose5803 Před 2 lety

    great pictures but not shown long enough and music too loud takes away from viewing pictures

  • @beccabaker7636
    @beccabaker7636 Před 3 lety

    The pancake House my aunt Bonnie worked at.

  • @terrycleary85
    @terrycleary85 Před 7 lety

    Anyone remember the name of the airstrip near the telegraph theater

  • @mythicnoetic
    @mythicnoetic Před 3 lety

    So many donut shops but no Zyndorf's!

    • @dd-nv6sw
      @dd-nv6sw Před 2 lety +1

      Zyndorf's Bakery 1:28
      Best pumpernickel bread ever!

    • @mythicnoetic
      @mythicnoetic Před 2 lety +1

      @@dd-nv6sw when I was a kid I would usually go for their jelly rolls

    • @dd-nv6sw
      @dd-nv6sw Před 2 lety

      @@mythicnoetic
      OH yeah!
      Almost forgot about those, they were great!

  • @Auggies1956
    @Auggies1956 Před 8 lety

    Monroe and Sylvania ? Alexis and Tremainsville ? It's Papa John's now.

  • @rickwisnieswki9584
    @rickwisnieswki9584 Před 4 měsíci

    Is time go on the more this town gets screwed up by the politicians running it

  • @elijahheath9716
    @elijahheath9716 Před 3 lety

    SS4L

  • @lm3828
    @lm3828 Před 5 lety

    Used to be cool till a Sawicki escaped the looney bin in 99

  • @luckeychuckey70
    @luckeychuckey70 Před 5 lety +7

    SAD WHAT IT'S BECOME WITH DEMOCRAT RULE FOR YEARS!!!!

    • @luckeychuckey70
      @luckeychuckey70 Před 5 lety +2

      @@nicholascisternino4760 are you sure you want me to leave? I'm one of the few still here paying for your Democrat handouts. look how bad Toledo has gotten since the last Republican mayor in 1989 Donna Owens. Lack of jobs, bad roads, crime, drugs, gangs, failure schools, deteriorating neighborhoods to name a few. All With less population (1990) 332,848 (2017) 276'491 and still dropping. That is your tax base leaving, Oh wise man. What do you base YOUR FACTS ON ??? Patrick Vernon ???

    • @luckeychuckey70
      @luckeychuckey70 Před 5 lety +1

      That seems fair to me, ONE Republican and SEVEN Democrats but they share equal blame LMAO!!!

    • @karencroy9386
      @karencroy9386 Před 4 lety +1

      @@luckeychuckey70 Toledo has been in decline for a long time even BEFORE Donna Owens. please don't sing her praises to me. that woman was a liar right off the git. "she didn't know there were sex shops in Toledo!" bull. she asked Gary Oliver, former owner of The Adventurers Club, when he was going to give her her honorary membership. he told her "when you pay your honorary dues like everyone else." the next month it was big headlines that they raided the CEX club at Byrne and Dorr. but oh, she didn't know it was there. don't make me laugh. both sides are responsible for the decline.