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| Latonia Deposit Bank |
Latonia Deposit Bank, Bird Building, Latonia |
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Boeckley's Latonia Pharmacy |
Oscar Boeckley's Drug Store |
| Boeckley's was founded in 1917 at the location on the left, above. Sometime in the early 1930's he moved across the street to the corner of DeCoursey and Southern, on the right, above. | |
Ritte's Corner
First National Bank, Latonia
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| 50th Anniversary Picture of FNB Officials | Employees at Latonia's First National Bank | First National Bank of Latonia Holds Opening House, July 26, 1958, to celebrate their remodeling. Names of people in image on the right are here. | |
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| J. H. Kruse | Charles B. Schoborg | Henry Feldman |
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These three men, and several
others, were the victims of one of the ugliest episodes in Northern
Kentucky History. Usually referred to collectively as the Shoborg trials,
this German Shoemaker and other prominent citizens of Latonia were
tried and convicted for utterances it was claimed they made.
It was 1917; fear, paranoia, and hatred for German citizens
was rampant. Men with multiple sons at the front were being
accused of being un-American. Shoborg was a shoe repairman, who had a little office
in the First National Bank Building, below. The crazies put a
"dictagraph" in his shop - in essence, they bugged his store, but
could only listen; the machine didn't record. I urge you to
read Lisa Gilliam's great piece from the
Kentucky Heritage
Magazine, which will give you all the ugly details. It's a
big pdf, but, again, I urge you to read it. You can find it
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Bob's Five & Ten
The Delbee, 4003 DeCoursey
The business was owned by A. J. Delinger and Harry Beerman. hence
the name.
Siefert's Bakery, 1935 - 1939
3737 DeCoursey
photos courtesy Frederick and Catherine Seifert
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| Seifert's Bakery |
| This 36th & Decoursey bakery indoor photo shows Frederick Joseph Seifert, baker and his sister Clara Frances Seifert, clerk. Both resided at the family home, 508 E. 16th St., Covington. He rented a section of the building 1929 thru c. 1935 from owner/landord Mrs M. Carroll. |
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| Liberty Fruit Company, Latonia,
"a sanitary daylight one story building finished in 1941" 227 W. Southern Avenue |
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Maraschino Cherry's and Glace Fruit Founded here by the Bettman family in 1914, moved to this location in 1937. Bought by Pillsbury in 1991, sold to Senaca Foods in 1997, who closed the doors in June of 2000. At one time, over 300 people were employed here. R.I.P. |
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The T. W. Spinks Brick Plant, Latonia
Spinks was just north of what today is Summit Drive.
This map is a very tiny portion of a very large set of maps published by the
Sanborn Fire Map Co
in the late 1800's and early 1900's. You can see every last one by
clicking on "Sanborn maps" at
the Kenton County Library's web site's history page,
here.
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Reams Radio Shop |
Doc's Pure Oil 34th & DeCoursey Thanks to Gary Michael David who posted this pic of his Dad's place on Facebook |
Crescent Ice Cream, 14 W. Southern Avenue |
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Henry Heile & Son, 1901 |
J. H. Hermesch & Co |
J. Weller's Milldale Factory
This is a Hortonspheroid. It held 15,000 42 gallon bbls. of butane. 1941
The plant shown here was in Minneapolis, bit we posted
it for the picture of the Nichols Brothers, whose grocery was at the northwest
corner of Huntington and Taylor (now 40th) in 1910
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"Mr. D. Beets of Latonia, Ky., is here this week
looking after his lumber interest. He is one of the largest
manufacture and dealers in the country, having many plants scattered
from Prentiss, Miss., to Latonia, Ky." |
What's a page on Latonia without a history of Johnny's Toys? Their site is Here.
There's a site that's put Johnny's 1977 toy catalog online. See it
here.
