E. Crawley made book binding machinery at 328 Keturah
Newport Mineral Water Co,
right, front and back. Building is at 16-18 E. Sixth Street
More about Newport Mineral Water is here.
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| Ray Yung's Grocery, 8th and Isabella |
Fennell Building 9 East Fourth Street |
John Steinhauser Bakery, 285 Tibbets (10th) c. 1895 |
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| The Pieper Dry Cleaning Company 39 Eighteenth Street, Newport |
Beetz's Bakery, 1922 Known for Beetz's English Pound Cake Tenth & Boone, Newport |
Joe Gatliff Auto Sales, 1959 6th and Dayton Ave. |
George Dorne Chewing Gum Factory, & Ad
A Little More on the Dorne Operation is here.
Original Newport Power Station
Still standing, off the southern end of Lowell Street
More than you ever wanted to know about powering the NKY
trolley system is here.
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Bill Yung's Body Shop, 5th and Isabella
Call HEmlock 1-8428.
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Blank's Pharmacy, 10th and Isabella |
Dempsey's Drugs 5th & Columbia, Newport Founded by Joe Feth around 1872; purchased by Joe Dempsey c. 1925. |
Specht's Pharmacy, 10th and York |
National Band and Tag, 721 York Street,
made a business out of selling sun glasses for chickens. No, really.
from a Facebook posting from Jon Wolfe
The Green Line passes 11th & Brighton
Ed Gibbs, photo
York Distilling Company Old 76 Distillery
Reliable Monuments
11th and Lowell
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"Fire destroyed the Dana Coal Elevator at Newport, Ky., entailing a loss of $50,000. The building almost adjoined the remains of the "Old '76" distillery that burned last week." from Fuel Magazine, 1906. |
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You can read about the 1854 explosion of a Newport saw mill, at this site.
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