Pike Street in Covington, Kentucky

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Pike Street, c. 1900

 

Dan Cohen's Pike Street, Covington, Kentucky Pike Street, Covington, Kentucky

Dan Cohen's, 26 Pike, more here.
“There was no finer feeling in the world than walking into Dan Cohen's with enough money in your pocket to get that new pair of shoes.” - my Mother.

Cohen had a chain of shoe stores throughout the midwest. It closed in 1957.

“The Cohen Building, on Pike-st., Covington, containing 18 offices on the second floor, a beautiful, thoroughly modern building, was completed a few weeks ago. finishing touches are being made. Three large storerooms are on the ground floor. Plans were drawn by Architect Lyman Walker, of Covington. The building is 93 by 120 feet. the facing is of white laced terra cotta. The building cost $50,000 and is strictly fireproof.” Kentucky Post, August 15, 1910

 

<iddendorf's Middendorf's
Middendorf's had their own baseball team - not an uncommon thing at the time. From a Facebook post by Joe Middendorf   Middendorf's, 153-55 Pike, 1852

 

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Herman Hanneken, of Hanneken's Dairy, on Pike
From a Facebook post by his granddaughter, Linda Kreke Higgins

Pike Street
Harry Faulwetter's mantel store, on the right, was at 3 Pike Street. This is Edward Moore, Jr., behind the wheel, with his cousin, Morgan Coyne, c. 1915. He once raced at Indy. The car is a Crawford (Wikipedia). From a Facebook post by Walter Molony

 

Tabling's

Tabling's Dry Goods, 408 Pike
From a Facebook post by Cindy Cobbe Greener

 

The Old Mill

Fred Rehfuss. Carriages, Buggies and all kinds of Wagons made to Order; Blacksmithing and Horse Shoeing. 244 to 250 Pike. c. 1890.
From a Facebook post by Angie Rehfuss


Tabling's

Accident, Pike Street at Lee, looking north (note Mother of God steeples)
(on the left, 215 Pike, John H. Moore, Wallpaper; 254 and 256 Pike, the Louis Fritz Mineral and Soda Water Co. (Sarsaparilla, Dewey, Cream Soda, America Favorite, Ginger Ale; Bottlers of Lithia, Selzer and Vichy); and 250 Pike, Kieswetter Compressed Air Carpet Cleaning)
From a Facebook post by Judy Marqua Huth

 

The Old Mill

Joseph Hartke's Sons
Carriage Manufacturers; Automobile Repainting
Repairing promptly attended to.
67, 69 and 71 Pike, Telephone South 556
From a Facebook post by Christy Robinson


Dick Pilger's Dick Pilger's Pike Street
Dick Pilger's Service Station, 602 Pike, 1938
From a Facebook post by Dick Pilger's son David		 Gas Station just west of the underpass
Thanks to Leslie Leeke, Sr. for this one. His uncle, John
Edward Smith is the man on the right

 

Riedinger's Dry Cleaning Riedinger's Dry Cleaning Riedinger's Dry Cleaning
Riedinger's Dry Cleaning, 600 block of Pike, taken out by I-75
From a Facebook post by Muffett Henn Barlow

 

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 Pike Street, Covington, Kentucky
Group headed for Baseball's
Opening Day. Dibowski's Cafe
in the background, #6 Pike Street		 Pike Street Scene Pike Street Scene

 

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  Looking south on Pike at Hermes
     
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  Pike, west of Main, looking west Pike, west of Main, looking west
    (Essentially, under what is now I-75)

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Pike Street, Covington, Kentucky

This is George W. Hill, owner of a long-time Pike Street business.

Read more about George H. Hill Co., here.

See his family's Grant County pics, including the original Hill store, here.

Hill's Hill's Hill's Hill's morning View, Kentucky
April, 1931 Undated Boone County Recorder, July 19, 1899 Hill's reminds you they have the best gluten. Hill donated 40 acres in
Morning View for a Boy Scout Camp

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Pike Street,  1910 Plagiarism is common in early postcards. At least they changed the clouds.   Pike Street,  1910

The Old Towne Cafe on Pike.

schuler's

Schuler's Pharmacy, 702 Pike

Theo's G> & G>
Theo's Theo's
Geiser's
If a man needed a drink in 1894 on Pike Street, there were . . .possibilities.

 

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Pike Street, 1902 Pike at Lee, toward Main The Phoenix Cafe
s.e. corner of Pike and Russell

Schmidt's

Schmidt bakery, 343 Pike in 1930. Key
From a Facebook post by Ryan Schmidt

 

Pike Street, Covington, Kentucky

Thanks to Mary Jo Schlickman for sharing this with us.  She notes: “I can see a sign on the tree with
arrow - Burlington and Petersburg. There is also an old Bavarian Beer sign. I was told by family that this is a picture of a bar around Pike and Main or Pike and Lee in Covington. As to the date I can only guess. The man in the apron is my Grandfather (Charles Mueller). He was born in 1884 and died in 1917.”

 

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Pike Street West
from Madison		 View of Pike Street
 East from Washington		 East on Pike

 

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Pike Street, c. 1910

 

Pike Street, Covington, Kentucky 

Promotional postcard for Art Off Pike, 2011

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In 1914, the Kentucky Post looked back on an old Pike Street
landmark, The Day House.  You can read it here.

An earlier Day House story is here.

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