Queen City Beach, c. 1910	Queen City Beach, c. 1910	Queen City Beach
The Queen City Beach was opened in 1902, and ran from Washington Street to O'Fallon. Horseshoe Gardens was a the same place. It was renamed in the 1920's.
A description of the Queen City Beach from 1909 is here.

 

William E. Kroger, the man who ran Queen City Beach
From a Facebook post by Tammy Cornett

1915. Queen City Beach, and the steamer Princess

 

Sanborn Fire Map showing exact location of Manhattan Beach
What's a Sanborn Fire Map? More here.

 

Queen City Beach, Bellevue	Bellevue Beach, from Ohio

 

Beaches painting by Thomas Satterwhite Noble

 

The Island Queen Passes  Queen City Beach		The Island Queen Passes  Queen City Beach,  1909 Thanks! to K Sutkamp for this one.

 

Dayton & Bellevue Beaches The Riverboat is the Princess	The steamer Princess coming downstream at the Queen City Beach	Beach Scene

 

On the Beaches of Bellevue, Kentucky

 

“Bellvue” Bathing Beach,  1906	“Bathing Beach, Opposite Cincinnati, Ohio”  1912	Queen City Bathing Beach, Bellevue, Kentucky, 190

Read about the beaches here

The Behringer-Crawford posted a brief history of the Beaches

Queen City Bathing Beach	Horseshoe Gardens thanks to Ellis Hudson for this one Notice Eden Park in the distance

Beach Scenes, 1922

Manhattan Bathing Beach, Bellevue image on the right is from the Vanishing Cincinnati Facebook page.

 

Bathing Beach, Bellevue, Kentucky Thanks! to K Sutkamp for this one.

 

Queen City Beach in 1907  Flood, Bellevue	Queen City Beach, Bellevue

The Keonac Klub (It's Canoe K, backwards) from a Facebook post by Bary Lusby

Kentucky Post, May 23, 1918	Kentucky Post, May 21, 1919

These are the good old days.

 

Queen City Beach, from an old stereoview, c. 1900
 

Bathers at Queen City Beach Thanks! to K Sutkamp for the image.	Queen City Beach, Bellevue  On the Ohio River  Thanks! to K Sutkamp for this one.	Bathers at Queen City Beach	Michelle Denham Swaw sent us this picture of her great- grandmother, Violette Grimsley Herfurth, at the Queen City Beach in 1915. Thanks Michelle!

 

Three more Beach Scenes.

Notice that plagiarism is rampant in  pre-WWI postcards. Except for the coloring, these are identical. All three of these cards have a different publisher.  We're thankful to Don Prout for sending them to us.  He notes he has three more  different cards with the same exact scene!

 

Horseshoe Gardens at the Bellevue Beach Thanks to Roy Klein for this one.	John Nichols' Queen City Beach March  Thanks! to Bill Wray for this one!

 

Here's the guy who ran Queen City Beach.

 

  

The Blu-J Boys are playing at Bellevue's Riviera Dansant,
at the foot of Ward Street