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Hi there,

I was wondering if you had any information regarding Esther Antin Untermeyer and her husband Louis Untermeyer, specifically where they lived while in Toledo. I believe I may have purchased their home. I've only done a quick internet search and found Louis' name and the address of the home I purchased on a couple correspondences. I would just like to confirm and I can't really find anything on the auditors website.
 
Thanks,

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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My wife and I were talking of diners we remember growing up. Do you remember Sal's restaurant. Also there was an steak house, truck stop, on Telegraph just north of Alexis. Would you know of this place?
 
Thank You
Bob
 
 
 

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.

 

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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.

 

Justin DuVall
 

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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Hi there,

My name is Sandrine Hedrick. I work for YAFA pen company who own the brand Conklin.
Conklin was born in Toledo, Ohio. Apparently after few researches, we discovered that the building is closed and was called Spitzer building.
Conklin was born in 1897
We will be interested to find some people that worked there before world war !! and hopefully find some pictures from the factory/ building at that time.
Any way you could help?
Thanks

Best regards,
Sandrine Hedrick
YAFA Brands
Monteverde USA - Conklin USA
International Sales Director
Monteverde pens USA
 
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I have an Uncle who is looking for a picture of the corner of Cherry St and Central but not Central Catholic.  His childhood home was on 3101 Cherry Street above a dentist office. In the 1933 from a Polk directory on ancestry.comAmos Hoffman had an address of 3101 1/2 Cherry Street, if that helps (1933 Directory) and the name of the Drug Store below was Pennell Drug Store.
We have checked with the Images in Time Collection but to no avail.  I believe my uncle has also checked with the Blade, again, with no success.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.
 
 
Thanks.
Sandra Commager Steger
 
 
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