Businesses, Fort Thomas, Kentucky


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