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Elsmere, Kentucky
  The Swan, a.k.a. The Nine Mile House
815 Dixie Highway, Elsmere, Kentucky
Routes 25 and 42
 20 Minutes from Cincinnati 
SAM A. GAREY, Manager
Famous for Kentucky Mint Juleps
Open the Year Around, Serving
Southern Fried Chicken, Steaks, Lobster,
Country Ham and Sea Food Dinners
Northern Kentucky's Finest Dining Room

 

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The Swan's menu
The proprietors of the Swan are reputed to have abandoned the place very, very suddenly in 1955, essentially walking out the door with the clothes on their backs, and with dinner, not eaten, on the table.  A Fort Mitchell florist, Schreiver, moved into the location but kept the Swan name.  The restaurant tables are still there, used for floral displays.  Ask to see where the slot machines were bolted down.

Reportedly called Swan because of swan's in a lake that used to be behind it.

Swan Menu

Swan Menu
From a Facebook post by Charlie Lunsford

 

Swan

Swan's children's menu
From a Facebook post by Charlie Lunsford

 

Gayety Gayety Dixie Highway, Erlanger
The first Gayety Theatre The Gayety Elsmere, c. 1950
From a Facebook post by Ruth Ann Weiss
These two images ran along with a history of the Gayety in 1955.

 

Burns Brothers Four Aces
Burns Brothers Service Station, May and Dixie
From a Facebook post by Buzz Burns

Four Ace TV, Dixie at Sunset
From a Facebook post by Mark Link, of his Dad's shop

Dusings

Mark Dusing commissioned this painting from artist Marisa Paolucci.

 

Dusings
From a Facebook post by Donald Lee Skirvin

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Elsmere, Kentucky Dusing Brothers
 from upper left, an aerial view,
Franklin (l) and Ben (r) Dusing
(1938), The Business, Workers
at Dusing Ice, Electrical Panel
(?!?) at Dusing Ice
Elsmere, Kentucky
The Dusing Brothers call it quits. Retrospective and history at this site.

 

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Dusing Brothers

Brothers Ben and Franklin Dusing, c. 1930
from a Facebook post by Old Photos of Northern Kentucky

 

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Sid's, an Elsmere institution
From a Facebook post by Beverly Sturgeon
Chester Dryer's Gateway Grill
3619 Dixie, next to Dusings

 

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Zitt's Taylor Shop, on Garvey Little Boy Blue Golf
At Dixie and May in Elsmere

 

Michaels

Joe Michael's Service, 1946.
From a Facebook post by Sue Michaels Howell

 

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Tate Builders Supply

 

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Elsmere Grocery
From a Facebook post by Candace Schaefer Olivo

 

Jimmie's

Jimmie's Roller Rink opened on January 31, 1948.
from a Facebook post by Joe Mullins

 

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First Federal Savings and
 Loan, Elsmere, 1959
Inside Tom Howard's
Grocery on Garvey

 

Heving Brothers Pieper's
Pieper's on Dixie, near across from Forest
From a Facebook post by Shelley Pieper Miller

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