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| The Lubitorium | The Fort Theatre | Hiland Theatre with Tea Room and Candy Store |
| There's a Subway there now, and it was at one time home of the Busy Bee Bar. Note the trolley tracks. Car believed to be a 1932 Ford. Donald Neumeister posted this one on Facebook. |
These days, the building
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The Highland Theatre opened on August 3, 1927, and seated 750. The first show was Senorita, starring Bebe Daniels. It closed in March of 1979. |
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| Stegner's Grocery Ft. Thomas Avenue at Miller, c. 1905 |
Stegner's Grocery, c. 1930 |
Ruth Pulsfort and George H. Stegner inside the store |
At the corner of Audubon Place and the Avenue
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the remodeled store in 1958 after a fire. That's George H. Stegner, Ruth Pulsfort, and George's wife Marie in the front; Marge Jarvis and and Bill Wessel in the rear. |
A cookie display inside the store. |
George and Anna Scharold's Grocery,
1135 S. Fort Thomas Avenue
from a Facebook post by Cathy Martin
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Busy Bee Carryout, 1934 |
Inside the Clover Leaf Store, 1959 David Mahaney writes on Facebook: “The Clover Leaf Dairy was at the top of Highland Ave on the South side right behind the Highland Bank that was on the corner of Highland and S Ft Thomas Aves. There also was a Clover Leaf Dairy on S Ft Thomas Ave at the corner of Shawnee Ave. Just south of entrance to the Army Post which is now Tower Park. Earlier, the The Jersey Farms Dairy Store.” |
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Al Stegeman's Highland Auto Garage Co., left, 1923
Cadillac & Oldsmobile
later a roller rink; still later a Kroger; currently a Convenient Store/Bank parking lot
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| Boron, 1501 Alexandria Pike, 1972 |
E. D. Collins Motor Co. Bivouac and Ft. Thomas Avenues |
Log Cabin Service Station Floyd Prickett, Proprietor Alexandria Pike (where Moore's Home Improvement was) |
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| Dietrich's Club House, The car on the right is a 1910 Reo, and the one on the left a 1910 Packard. |
Summit Lodge |
The two buildings above are the same building. If you want a little more background on it, go here, and also here. |
| As demonstrated here, early post offices could be placed anywhere, and moved sometimes with each election and the patronage therefrom. This is Col. Egbert and Judge Newman's tobacco store, a couple of hundred feet north of the tower, and a US Post Office, among other things. More on Colonel Harry Clay Egbert. |
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| Highland Telephone Exchange Mt. Pleasant and Highland Avenues |
Dobbling and Son |
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| Newport National Bank, 1971 |
Inside Fort Thomas's Highland Bank, |
Fort Thomas Bellevue Bank, 1970 |
Fort Thomas Bellevue Bank, 1955. The building opened on March 26, 1955. |
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| Fort Thomas Building & Loan |
Highland Bank |
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| Paul Sipes, President, Highland Bank |
Howell R. Hensley, President, Fort Thomas Bank |
Midwest Gas, 2557 Alexandria Pike, Fort Thomas
