Toledo History Box – 20th Century Toledo from the view of the Toledo Blade and Toledo News-Bee, with some personal recollections thrown in for no good reason. WITH A NEW LOOK!

The Lorraine Motor Hotel – updated!

Toledo History Box, June 7, 2017February 13, 2025

I started writing about the Lorraine Motor Hotel but somehow ended up at the Jefferson Avenue Circus.

Toledo History Box, November 5, 2020November 14, 2020

The lost story of how a Middleton Township woman lost her life in 1972 after endless nights of harassment.

Toledo History Box, August 13, 2020October 25, 2020

Years after she retired, the columns of Mary Alice Powell are still worth a read.

Toledo History Box, April 11, 2023April 11, 2023

When I went here, it was new. Now, not so much.

Toledo History Box, January 17, 2023January 17, 2023

We reopen this little corner of Toledo history with a popular topic: Toledo restaurants of the 1970s.

Toledo History Box, August 31, 2020August 12, 2022

I associate both good and bad memories with FM104, Toledo’s Best Rock (ugh).

Toledo History Box, February 12, 2020October 25, 2020

Real estate mogul Allie Reuben found his fame nationally in horse racing as owner of the Toledo-based Hasty House Farm.