Early Bellevue Ferry	Little Jim, the Bellevue Ferry	Foertmeyer's 401 Fairfield, Bellevue	Peoples Mutual Building Association, 331 Fairfield Avenue, Bellevue

George Groat, Bellevue ferryman

Otto G. Wahle's Bowling Alleys, Bellevue, c. 1910
on the southeast corner of Taylor and Walnut

 

Bellevue & Dayton Ice Man
On Poplar in Bellevue
from a Facebook post by Barbara Sparks Rawe

 

Cement Block Factory, Bellevue
 near present day site of 6th Street and I-471 Overpass
Thanks to K. Sutkamp for the above picture!

Bellevue to get a new Depot in 1892? Here.

 

Grote Manufacturing	In later years, this building would be known as The Avenue Restaurant.	The Central Cafe, John Lehmann, Proprietor
	Raid at the Avenue Club.

 

“The Only Newspaper Published in Bellevue”
From a Facebook post by Tom Poe

 

Krogers, 308 Walnut, c. WWII
From a Facebook post by Judy Robinson Cederholm, whose Father, David Morgan Robinson, is on the left

 

A Kroger's on the right, 300-308 Walnut, c. 1920

"These properties were built by my great-grandfather, John Butcher in the late 1800's. They consisted of the corner property (with a store fronting on Walnut St., offices in the rear with entrance from Taylor Ave, and an apartment above); the adjacent property with the sign "ED BRAUN'S BOWLING ALLEYS."; and the two houses at 306 and 308 Walnut Street. My grandfather Ed Braun (whom I affectionately called "Pop"), is the man third from left in the picture. He and/or my grandmother Irene lived at 308 Walnut until her death in 1974. My family lived with them during and after WWII. My great-aunt Anna Butcher lived in the house at 306 Walnut most of her life until 1970. My granddad's bowling alleys also had been a tavern until Prohibition. He sold (lost?) the property due to Prohibition and the Depression. It became the WE Tavern sometime after Prohibition was repealed." from a Facebook item added by John Drach

 

The Marianne
A painting by Tyler Hildebrand

 

	“The John S. Weigand Ice Company was my great-great grandfather's business. I looked it up in a business directory from 1897 and it was located at 12 Union Street in Bellevue. A later newspaper advertisement from the Cincinnati library has an address of 403 Fairfield Avenue. later I see 335 Fairfield. I know John Weigand also had an interest in Tacoma Park. The man hanging onto the truck is my grandfather, Jack O'Hara. I was a young child when Dad took my to see his Grandpa Weigand in the early 1950's. By then the old man was in a wheelchair. John Weigand is the large man wearing a hat and seated in the front row. I believe the little girl on the ground is my grandmother, Elizabeth.” From a Facebook post by Marc O'Hara
	About Weigand Ice, from 1907

The Bellevue Bank,  c. 1910	The Campbell County Bank, Bellevue

The Campbell County Bank added a third floor, 1914
From a Facebook post by Tammy Cornett

The Campbell County Bank, Bellevue
H. A. Rogers, President

The Campbell County Bank was acquired by the Fort Thomas Bank in 1959.  Campbell County Bank celebrated its 50th anniversary in 1953. It was chartered on January 16, 1903. The original incorporation papers, including a stockholder list, is here (pdf).

 

Wm. A. Ulmer, Plumber, 1902	The Toggery Shop, 1911  321 Fairfield Avenue, Bellevue  front and back	Matchbook from the Avenue Nite Club 181 Fairfield Avenue, Bellevue	F. W. Petri, Florist 238 Fairfield

Theil's Cafe in the 1945 Flood. Note the floor of water.
From a Facebook post by Tammy Cornett

 

Bellevue Motors, 128 Taylor, c. 1960
From a Facebook post by Cliff Wartman

 

Casket Car, Cunningham & Dobbling, Bellevue,  c. 1920	Bellevue Fire Dept #1, in the Balke Opera House,  c. 1900	Wm. Schaufle, Hardware & Cutlery, 149 Fairfield Avenue, 1902.	Foertmeyer's 401 Fairfield from a Facebook post by Barbara Sparks Rawe

 

Ray Leurck's Gas Station,  147 Fairfield, c. 1949	Schulkers' Pharmacy, 1922 Fairfield avenue and Van Voast building built circa 1915. Later, Al Technow's pharmacy.	Petrie's Floral Co., 1922 238 Fairfield Avenue	Schmidt Shoe  Repair, 1922

 

The Dry Goods & Notions store of Bernard and Anna Hater in Bellevue, Note a nice display of postcards on the door at left. A barber pole is next to the doorway at right. The Haters lived at 336 Taylor Avenue, and the street sign mounted on the right side of the building does say "Taylor," so we assume that they lived in the house at left or in the space above the store.

 

The Old Homestead, 1922, Fairfield and Dayton. The Old Homestead was a hall used for entertainments, gambling, private parties and society meetings.	Barney Sproehle, proprietor	The Old Homestead, Fairfield and O'Fallon “Sporting Events By Wire”

In 1905, the Sproehle family purchased the building and it became a hotel and restaurant. The building was listed as Barney’s Old Homestead through the 1930s until 1970 when the name was shortened to the Old Homestead. In 1980, Walter Gruner purchased the property and ran it as an antique store until 1993 when it was sold.
		713 Fairfield, Barney's

 

The Loyal Cafe Menu, c. 1970

 

Sylvia Theatre, 1922 Fairfield Avenue	Employee's at National Colortype, Bellevue manufacturers of Fire Ball Reflector Buttons

 

Patchen and Fairfield Ave across from the Bellevue Vets Club. Was a gas station, and later on a liquor store. Thanks to Thomas Rouse and Don Sturgeon for the background.	Chinn's Auto Sales from a Facebook post Gary Chinn

 

Bellevue Dime Store. That's owners Ed and Fran Wray with daughter Barbara in the b&w image. Big thanks to son Bill Wray for sending us these.

Pasquales
From a Facebook post by Michael Autry

 

The Whitehouse Deli
Taylor and Division, September 19, 1978
From a Facebook post by Dennis Mains, who appears in the picture.

Background on the sternwheeler Bellevue, here.