Businesses, After World War II, in Erlanger, Kentucky

Dixie Dry Goods Henry Carter
  Dixie Dry Goods Henry Carter
  From a Facebook post by Belinda Kelly From a Facebook post by Pat Hahn
  Henry Carter (April 12, 1908 - May 6, 2005) ran Dixie Dry Goods. He still had the tatoo on his arm from his days as a prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Wikipedia). He recorded a four-part oral history, which you can watch at this site. Recommended.

 

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Dixie Highway, looking south at McAlpin   Looking north on Dixie, toward McAlpin
From a Facebook post by Ruth Ann Weiss

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Mrs. Juenkine at her Candy Store,
Dixie Highway at Vine, c. 1947
Edward A. Cooper's Appliances
422 Dixie Highway, Erlanger

 

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Doc's Place Erlanger, Kentucky
Known from Coast to Coast for Good Home-cooked Foods,
Located Ten Miles South of Cincinnati, Ohio on U.S. 25 and 42
Phone: Dixie 9600
S. D. "Doc" Edwards' Obituary is here

 

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The Kentucky Independent Warehouse could hold up to 400,000 pounds of tobacco.  This is an AP wire photo from 1965.

 

Frisch's schuler's Erlanger
Frisch's Post Glover Electric Company, 1958 Looking north on Dixie, just
before Edgewood Road, 1954

 

McDonalds McDonalds Erlanger, Kentucky Businesses
Grand Opening, April 14, 1961 It was one of three in Greater Cincinnati The original Mickey D's in Erlanger.
McDonald's Grand Opening was to have “a five-hour concert by a kilted 12-piece Scots bagpipe band.”

 

Forest Lawn

Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Bulldozed in 2022 so an out-of-town company, Stonemor, Inc., could save a buck.
The image is from a Facebook post by Joe Weber

Pat Hahn has written a history of Forest Lawn (pdf).

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Albers Grocery Store,
3104 Dixie
Dairy Queen
(Dixie Heights in the
background), 3042 Dixie
Shell Station, later Corky's
Shell, 3098 Dixie
All three of these were taken May 30, 1954

 

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Erlanger Cleaners, 1954
102 Dixie Highway

 

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Big Bob's Restaurant, later known as the Dixie Airliner.  You more likely know it as The Round Up, 
May 30, 1954
Metropolitan Aluminum Company, 819-821 Dixie Highway, Erlanger

 

Hagedorn's Hagedorn's Hagedorn's
Hagedorn and Sons Appliances

 

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Telephone Exchange Building
on Erlanger Road
Erlanger Hardware,
 On Dixie near Graves
Wimsatt & Keupel Auto Sales,
Kentaboo and Dixie

 

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Erlanger Motors, c. 1955

Dixie at Graves
From a Facebook post by Michelle Benson White

Employees at Mac Fisk's
Service Station

 

Gregory's Colonial Cottage Boom!

Gregory's Steak House
4218 Dixie Highway
From a Facebook post by Dale Ashcraft

The original Colonial Cottage
Marvin Releford was the artist

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Kinnaird

Kinnaird Truck Bodies
From a Facebook post by Beverly Sturgeon

 

Colonial Cottage

Parking on Dixie Highway goes away, 1968.
Read the story here.

 

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Showcase Cinemas, 2004
From a Facebook post by Susanne Firestone

 

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Wainscott's, 1946. Half in Elsmere; half in Erlanger. The tree used as a dividing line is in the rear. This later became Joe Michaels Sunoco (below) and GMC. Brophy's Insurance and Real Estate, 4444 Dixie at Kentaboo Joe Michel's Service Body Shop, 51 Dixie Highway, Erlanger

 

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Putt Putt, 3139 Dixie Highway, 1964
next to China Town
Dixie Chili, circa 1970 - W. corner of Bartlett & Dixie
(ever notice what a fine line there is between history and nostalgia?)

 

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Aerial Views of the Crestview Mall, the forerunner of the
Crestview Hills Town Center, and a successor of the
planned, but never-built Dixieland Shopping Center

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We're indebted to the Erlanger Historical Society for many of the pictures you see here.  Thanks, folks.

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