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

 

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

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

 

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

 

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.”

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

 

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 and Sons Appliances

 

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

 

Erlanger Motors, c. 1955	Employees at Mac Fisk's Service Station

 

Dixie at Graves
From a Facebook post by Michelle Benson White

 

	Showcase Cinemas, 2004 From a Facebook post by Susanne Firestone

 

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.		Joe Michel's Service Body Shop 51 Dixie Highway, Erlanger

 

Brophy's Insurance and Real Estate 4444 Dixie at Kentaboo

 

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?)

 

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

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