Boonie's
On Idaho Street; that's Blessed Sacrament on the left; you're looking south.
Find an older person that grew up in Fort Mitchell and ask them if they remember Boonie's. Watch'em smile.

 

Al Schlossser's
A Northern Kentucky Business brings in $50,000 a year. In 1917. Raising goldfish.
Kenton County as America's goldfish capital? Yup. Story's here.
The ponds were where they later built the Dixie Gardens Drive In.

 

Aerial view of where the Dixie Gardens and Schlossser's Goldfish was.
From a Facebook post by Nancy Oelsner Baute

 

Five and Dime

 

Fort Mitchell Garage, 1948	Fort Mitchell Garage, 1922	Dixie Highway - that's Kyles Lane turning right beyond the houses.	Dixie Highway - that's  Kyles Lane turning right beyond the Fort  Mitchell Garage.
The above four pictures are from the Fall-Winter 2006 issue of Northern Kentucky Heritage,  which contains many more pictures from the Joseph Kuchle Family albums.

 

Meyer's Grocery on Dixie From a Facebook post by Jennifer Meyer

 

Korzenborn's Sunoco Service Station, now Camporossa's From a Facebook post by Karen Broering Ready.	Neal Moser at his service station just south of the Greyhound Tavern. Note Blessed Sacrament in the background. From a Facebook post by Richard Cardosi. What's that thing hanging on his belt? A device for making change in coins.

Breaking Ground, March, 1940
From a Facebook post by Dr. Richard Cardosi

 

New Theater coming to South Fort Mitchell
The Times-Star, August 10, 1940

 

Hauer's Service Station in Fort Mitchell (call Hemlock 6300) from a Facebook post by Lynn Slayback	Fort Mitchell Dairy Betty Bravo's history of the Ft. Mitchell Dairy is here.

 

The Freirhofer Bakery, on Dixie near Orphanage Road
From a Facebook post by Steve Ott, who grandparents were proprietors of the bakery.

 

Earlier and later locations of the Toll Pharmacy

 

The Oldenberg Brewery