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columbusdispatch: Some historical trivia from The Dispatch ...

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:18:13 -0400

Some historical trivia from The Dispatch “Look Back” blog:

This photo taken around the turn of the century shows the F.W. Atcherson livery stable at 56-62 E. Gay St. in downtown Columbus. (Today, if you head east alon Gay Street from the Residence Inn, this is between the Inn and the parking lot at the corner of Gay and Third.)

Signs read “hacks, coupes, baggage, livery, automobiles.” The smaller building, at lower right, is the office of veterinarians Leist and Brandewie. Stairs at the lower left led to more veterinarians — Hillock and Hillock.

More at the blog…

columbusdispatch: Some historical trivia from The Dispatch ...

Wed, 23 May 2012 14:17:42 -0400

columbusdispatch:

Some historical trivia from The Dispatch “Look Back” blog:

This photo taken around the turn of the century shows the F.W. Atcherson livery stable at 56-62 E. Gay St. in downtown Columbus. (Today, if you head east alon Gay Street from the Residence Inn, this is between the Inn and the parking lot at the corner of Gay and Third.)

Signs read “hacks, coupes, baggage, livery, automobiles.” The smaller building, at lower right, is the office of veterinarians Leist and Brandewie. Stairs at the lower left led to more veterinarians — Hillock and Hillock.

More at the blog…

columbusdispatch: Think the dress on the right is too short? In...

Sat, 12 May 2012 04:43:54 -0400

columbusdispatch:

Think the dress on the right is too short?

In 1969, Ohio Senate leaders thought so.

On the right is UPI reporter Betty Work, then 25, with Sen. Marigene Valiquette, D-Toledo. She was asked to leave the reporters’ section of the Senate floor because of her outfit.

“She held her ground,” The Dispatch reported then, “and the attention of the senators and galleryites. There were anonymous reports that her hemline strayed some six inches above her knees.”

Read more at The Dispatch’s “Look Back” blog

"From The Dispatch’s “Look Back” blog comes this story and photo from Sept. 21, 1927: “Marie Finnell,..."

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:24:44 -0400

“From The Dispatch’s “Look Back” blog comes this story and photo from Sept. 21, 1927:
“Marie Finnell, 30 West Fifth avenue, who is employed as a model at the Lazarus store was among the first to pose before the photomaton, the new automatic camera installed at the Lazarus store. The machine takes eight pictures in eight seconds and turns out the completed product in eight minutes. Three photomatons will be operated at the store with an attendant at each machine to explain its operation to subjects. The Russian who designed the machine, was paid one million dollars for his invention.””

- The Columbus Dispatch

Remembering Woody Hayes

Mon, 12 Mar 2012 14:46:26 -0400

Remembering Woody Hayes

columbusdispatch: Want to win $200? Get a time machine and head...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:30:35 -0500

columbusdispatch:

Want to win $200?

Get a time machine and head to the year 1908, when we would’ve awarded you cash for using your best penmanship to write “The Dispatch is read in our home.”

columbusdispatch: Don’t be alarmed at 2 p.m. today, when FEMA...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 14:30:18 -0500

columbusdispatch:

Don’t be alarmed at 2 p.m. today, when FEMA does its first nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System on your television or radio.

Meanwhile, check out these photos Dispatch librarian Linda Deitch found in our archives. These Civil Defense vehicles performed tasks that were later transferred to FEMA, which was founded during the Carter Administration. The top photo shows a Civil Defense “duck,” or amphibious truck, which is transporting families to a local junior high school in 1959. Pictured below is a Civil Defense rescue truck.

Read more about the Franklin County Civil Defense program at the Dispatch “Look Back” blog.

columbusdispatch: A crowd gathers outside the offices of The...

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:56:13 -0500

columbusdispatch:

A crowd gathers outside the offices of The Columbus Dispatch on Gay Street (our location until November 1925) in 1908. We think they’re looking at a 100,000-candle-power searchlight that flashed election returns. The direction of light signified a particular candidate’s lead.

Photo

Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:56:01 -0500

columbusdispatch: The Dispatch’s “Look Back” blog recently...

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 15:17:24 -0400

columbusdispatch:

The Dispatch’s “Look Back” blog recently posted lots of trivia about a little-known cemetery in Columbus where thousands of Confederate soldiers are buried. Camp Chase was once a 160-acre prisoner-of-war camp for the thousands of Confederate troops the Union Army had captured during the Civil War, but all that is left now is the cemetery. Much of the land where Camp Chase was erected is now the community known as Westgate.

Check out their post — it’s pretty interesting!

More Camp Chase links:

Article: Supporters wish Camp Chase were less of a secret

Photos: Yesterday’s memorial ceremony at Camp Chase Cemetery

craftdiscoveries: Household 6 Diva : Army Wife, Busy Mom,...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:19:36 -0400

craftdiscoveries:

Household 6 Diva : Army Wife, Busy Mom, Balance Seeker: Wooden clothes hangers

columbusdispatch: Matt Sharp said his Yorkies love riding on...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:16:21 -0400

columbusdispatch:

Matt Sharp said his Yorkies love riding on the back of his scooter because they know they’re going to a park — when he fires up the engine, they come running. Dispatch photographer Fred Squillante ran into the strapped-in Raleigh and Jersey at Whetstone Park yesterday.

Westminster Abbey, London, England. A fun souvenir button I got...

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:48:00 -0400

Westminster Abbey, London, England. A fun souvenir button I got there during a trip in 1979.

imremembering: Scratch N’ Sniffs Oh, I loved these !!!!

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:33:15 -0400

imremembering:

Scratch N’ Sniffs

Oh, I loved these !!!!

Octopus underside, Newport Aquarium, KY, USA

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:31:36 -0400

Octopus underside, Newport Aquarium, KY, USA

Family clan pajamas, 1960:

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:23:00 -0400

Family clan pajamas, 1960:

Love it!

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:18:55 -0400

Love it!

columbusdispatch: “Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your...

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:16:13 -0400

columbusdispatch:

“Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to read the day’s newspaper. Well, it’s not as far-fetched as it may seem.”

Check out this 1981 broadcast from KRON San Francisco that details a CompuServe “experiment” to put newspapers on the Internet. The Columbus Dispatch was the first newspaper to join the network.

Alden Library at OU, Athens, Ohio, 1983

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:27:10 -0400

Alden Library at OU, Athens, Ohio, 1983

hazor: READ (by Kim Yokota)

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 22:34:54 -0400

hazor:

READ (by Kim Yokota)