The Lubitorium	The Fort Theatre
There's a Subway there now, and it was at one time home of the Busy Bee Bar, and earlier still a Cadillac dealership. Note the trolley tracks. Car believed to be a 1932 Ford. Donald Neumeister & Paul Stegeman posts on Facebook.	These days, the building on the right is Coffman's Realty.

 

Hiland Theatre with Tea Room and Candy Store
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. left, From a Facebook post by Billie Herzner Donlin of a Jean Callaghan photo.

The Fort Thomas Business District is on the National Register
of Historic Places. The application (pdf) contains lots of images, history, and architectural details.

Stegner's Grocery Ft. Thomas Avenue at Miller, c. 1905	Stegner's Grocery, c. 1930	Ruth Pulsfort and George H. Stegner inside the store	Stegner's From a Facebook post by The Campbell County Historical and Genealogical Society

 

Inside 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.

At the corner of Audubon Place and the Avenue	George and Anna Scharold's Grocery 1135 S. Fort Thomas Avenue from a Facebook post by Cathy Martin

 

Soda Shop at the Midway

 

Busy Bee Carryout, 1934 Ft. Thomas Avenue at Highland Later, the Cake Town Parlor. Later still, a Subway.

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.”

 

Then there was the 100 acre film studio they were going to build in Fort Thomas, or maybe Ludlow. Details.

 

Al Stegeman's Highland Auto Garage Co., left, 1923
Cadillac & Oldsmobile. C. C. Weber, architect.
later a roller rink; still later a Kroger; currently a Convenient Store/Bank parking lot

 

Albers, a grocery chain, denied beer permit in 1938 - too close to a church.

 

Boron, 1501 Alexandria Pike, 1972	E. D. Collins Motor Co., c. 1930 Bivouac and Ft. Thomas Avenues	Log Cabin Service Station  Floyd Prickett, Proprietor Alexandria Pike (where Moore's Home Improvement was)

Dietrich's Club House, The car on the right is a  1910 Reo, and the one on the left a 1910 Packard.	Summit Lodge From a Facebook post by The Campbell County Historical and Genealogical Society	Summit Lodge
Dietrich's / Summit Lodge was at the corner of South Fort Thomas Avenue and Grandview. If you want a little more background on it, go here, and also here.
The Catholic Telegraph, May 13, 1920	The Catholic Telegraph, June 29, 1922	Kentucky Post, November 9, 1933

 

Schulker's Drug Store started in Bellevue, moved to Fort Thomas
when the business changed hands.
From a Facebook post by Bev Achzehner Harber

 

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.

 

Bob's Deli, on Grand From a Facebook post by Barb Fischer	The Busy B, August 10, 1978 From a Facebook post by Fort Thomas Matters	Dobbling and Son Funeral Home

 

Highland Telephone Exchange Mt. Pleasant and Highland Avenues	1937 Flood Scene in Fort Thomas	Inside the Exchange
One of the problems in the 1937 Flood was the lack, or feared lack, of electricity. To fight that, the telephone company brought in generators to their exchanges to insure the phone system would be working.
Fort Thomas telephone operator stands her ground.

1928 fire destroys Fort Thomas confectionary.

Wiedemann's Bakery
From a Facebook post by Don Prather

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.

Fort Thomas Bank moves from from N. Ft. Thomas to Miller Lane.

Fort Thomas Building & Loan	Highland Bank	The Highland Bank opened May 2, 1925 in the Midway District From a Facebook post by Bev Achzehner Harber

 

Paul Sipes, President, Highland Bank	Howell R. Hensley, President, Fort Thomas Bank	Fort Thomas Savings and Loan, 25 N. Fort Thomas Avenue, Jan. 1, 1901 to June 15, 2000 From a Facebook post by Don Prather

 

Midwest Gas, 2557 Alexandria Pike, Fort Thomas