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Hi there,
Aaron
The 1934 and 1935 city directories show that 21 Birckhead was the home of Mrs. Esther Antin and Louis M. Untermeyer. He was listed as a poet and she as a lawyer with an office at 338 Spitzer Bldg. The 1931 directory listed Mrs. Antin and Louis Ginsburg, a physician, at this address.
Mrs. Untermeyer was the first female judge in the Toledo Municipal Court serving from 1925 until 1933.
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Sal's was established as early as 1966 and was still in business in 1986. During that time, its ownership did change hands but the recipes were standardized and few customers noticed the changes in ownership. It was located at 3816 West Alexis.
Was the restaurant on Telegraph named the Fireside Inn? Mary Beck operated it for eight years from 1984 until 1992 when it was sold.
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Hi,
Could you tell me if the C.M. Robinson Company was a carriage maker around 1895 in Toledo?
THANK YOU!!
Dean Harmon
According to the 1896 city directory, Charles M. Robinson was the manager of the Robinson Thermal Bath Co. located at 900 Summit and lived at 318 Michigan. By the way, the 1891 directory listed him as a principal at a downtown short-hand school.
Hello,
I grew up on Orville Drive in the neighborhood bound by Detroit Avenue and Telegraph Road, south of Raceway Park. There was a restaurant located approximately at the intersection of Sunset Blvd. and N. Detroit Avenue which, at least by the mid 70’s and later, was Joey’s Supper Club. Google Maps street view tells me it is now torn down and vacant. I have a recollection from childhood that in the 60’s it started out as a Frisch’s Big Boy. Can you tell me if my memory is correct?
Thanks so much.
Yes, you are correct. The Frisch's commissary (bakery, freezers, and warehouse) moved from 4635 Detroit in 1961. It coincided with the opening of the 11th Big Boy on Laskey Road and the relocation of the commissary to 115 S. Erie.
Joey's Rascal House opened in the same year at that site. Named for a grandson, the restaurant was renamed Joey's Supper Club for the last 27 years before its closure in 1996.
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I hope you will forgive me the intrusion, but I wondered if you knew if the residence shown in your pics file as 2301 Monroe (across Collingwood from the Browning Building) was the former office of Dr. Anna May Newton and her husband Dr. Charles Klippel? They were my childhood physicians and that house held me spellbound. I can still remember the creaking of the heavy quarter-sawn wood door with beveled glass. It was a fine old home and another fine house next door was home to a group of nuns at the time.
Any chance you could provide further information? Do I have the correct house?
Thank you sincerely for your time.
My soul is still living in the early twentieth century, prowing the yester-year streets of Toledo.
sandy j couture
Yes, 2301 Monroe was known as the Newton Clinic according to the 1958 city directory. Dr. Newton served her patients from her office Suite 1.
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