The Lubitorium

The Fort Theatre
 

Hiland Theatre
with Tea Room and Candy Store

Donald Neumeister posted this one on Facebook. There's a Subway there now, and it was at one time home of the Busy Bee Bar. Note the trolley tracks. Car believed that's a 1932 Ford.

These days, the building on the
 right is Coffman's Realty

 
The Highland Theatre opened on August 3, 1927, and seated 750.  The first show was Senorita, starring Bebe Daniels.  It closed in March of 1979.

 

 

Stegner's Grocery
Ft. Thomas Avenue at
Miller, c. 1905

Stegner's Grocery,
c. 1930
Ruth Pulsfort and George H. Stegner inside the store

 
       

left, Inside the remodeld store in 1958 after a fire
That's George H. Stegner, Ruth Pulsfort, and George's wife Marie in the front;
 Marge Jarvis and and Bill Wessel in the rear.
right, A cookie display inside the store.

 

Busy Bee Carryout, 1934
Ft. Thomas Avenue at Highland

Inside the Clover Leaf Store, 1959
David Mahaney writes on Facebook: The Clover Leaf Dairy was at the top of Highland Ave on the South side right behind the Highland Bank that was on the corner of Highland and S Ft Thomas Aves. There also was a Clover Leaf Dairy on S Ft Thomas Ave at the corner of Shawnee Ave.  Just south of entrance to the Army Post which is now Tower Park.

    

             

Al Stegeman's Highland Auto Garage Co., left, 1923
Cadillac & Oldsmobile
later a roller rink; still later a Kroger; currently a Convenient Store/Bank parking lot

 

Boron,
1501 Alexandria Pike, 1972

E. D. Collins Motor Co.
Bivouac and Ft. Thomas Avenues

Log Cabin Service Station 
Floyd Prickett, Proprietor
Alexandria Pike
(where Moore's Home Improvement was)

 

As demonstrated here, early post offices could be placed anywhere, and moved sometimes with each election and the patronage therefrom. This is Col. Egbert and Judge Newman's tobacco store, a couple of hundred feet north of the tower, and a US Post Office.

 

St. Luke's Hospital

St. Luke's Hospital

St. Luke's Hospital

St. Luke's Hospital, 1958

St. Luke's first patient was admitted on July 14, 1954.  Ironically, even though the hospital was built to fulfill Campbell County's need for it, the patient, Mrs. Edward Schulte, was from Kenton County. She gave birth to a son, whom she of course named Luke.

   

Notorious Newport Club Owner Frank "Screw" Andrews met his death on December 17, 1973,
 by going out a window at St. Luke.  Whether he was a suicide, and had  jumped, or
whether he was pushed, depends on who you ask.

Highland Telephone Exchange
Mt. Pleasant and Highland Avenues

Dobbling and Son
 Funeral Home

Fort Thomas
Building & Loan

 

Newport National
Bank, 1971
Inside Fort Thomas's
 Highland Bank,
Fort Thomas Bellevue Bank, 1970
 
Fort Thomas Bellevue Bank, 1955.  The building opened on March 26, 1955.

 

Paul Sipes, President, 
Highland Bank
Howelll R. Hensley, President,
Fort Thomas Bank

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