Mid-century Reading Road (Cincinnati, Avon, Montgomery: homes, schools, live in)

[fhiudt]

thanks for bringing up sammy green. i haven't thought about him. we played a lot there and there was the archery place too next door and on sunnybrook there was the trampoline place which was right pass frisch's.

[veteran observer]

Originally Posted by The Don

Wasn't the 43 bus orignally the BR (Bond Hill Roselawn) bus route; I seem to recall the bus route that is now the 45 bus was the 32 bus.. it went from Swifton to Elberon Ave.

The 32 Route went beyond Elberon Avenue in Price Hill. It went out
West Eighth Street to Pedretti Avenue and had its end-of-the-line and turnaround point at St. Joseph's Cemetary.

[esya]

I had four brothers, of course we had the cap rolls. Who needed a cap gun? You just laid them out on the sidewalk and popped them with your pen knife or lit them with a match. Loved that smell.

[Mikey1003]

You know who was missed in this thread? Bagelman!!!!

Marx Bagels were in Valley Shopping Center for years. That store is closed and now he is politically incorrect over on Kenwood road.

Still, IMHO, the best bagels in the city.

[fhiudt]

we also missed Brahms candies on reading rd in roselawn they where just before the valley shoping ctr. And i remember there was a toy store in the valley by roselawn pharmacy in what is now or was the library. also do you remember when they added the stores where Tilly's was located. And my uncle built a model of his condo's there too.

[Jim Burke]

[quote=MiddleCincinnati;1342628]Could that clothing store near the Cincinnati Gardens have
been a Robert Hall? I seem to recall their having a branch
in the area.[/quote

There was a Robert Hall in that area in the sixties. Do you remember the Coney Chef Restaurant that was near the gardens in this same era? Jim

[franke01]

[quote=Jim Burke;4323850]

Originally Posted by MiddleCincinnati

Could that clothing store near the Cincinnati Gardens have
been a Robert Hall? I seem to recall their having a branch
in the area.[/quote

There was a Robert Hall in that area in the sixties. Do you remember the Coney Chef Restaurant that was near the gardens in this same era? Jim

I think I got my First Communion suit from Robert Hall in the 50's. It was across Langdon Farm on the opposite side of the street from the Gardens.

Don't remember the Coney Chef.

[Hartwell Girl]

Originally Posted by goyguy

Saw an inquiry about Capri Pizza: It still exists (or a business carrying that name does) in Hartwell. It's in a converted house, painted in the Italian tricolor - but horizontally - on Woodsdale, just east of Vine St between Galbraith and Compton.

Bilker's, sad to say, closed for good within the past year after having "followed their clientele" to Blue Ash. But I believe the near-soundalike Pilder's survives on East Galbraith near Plainfield Rd.

Capri is closed, since last summer, new owner tried but it didnt work...now we have an Italian flag painted building in the neighborhood...any takers?
All great info...I know Goyguy started a Springfield twp/Vine thread but more posters here for some reason...Anyone have any old photos of Hartwell they can share. The neighborhood is looking for some for an old calender...they have a web page www.hartwellohio.com Share the history!!! Thanks all, great reading here..trying to get caught up...

[Box2565]

[quote=Jim Burke;4323850]

Originally Posted by MiddleCincinnati

Could that clothing store near the Cincinnati Gardens have
been a Robert Hall? I seem to recall their having a branch
in the area.[/quote

There was a Robert Hall in that area in the sixties. Do you remember the Coney Chef Restaurant that was near the gardens in this same era? Jim

The building that was Robert Halls's is still standing at Seymour & Langdon Farm. There was a restaurant next door (that building is still there too) that may have been the Coney Chef. The owner of Karl's Poney Keg (Virgil - but I don't remember his lastname) purchased the restaurant in the early 1970's and was still operating the place when I moved from the neighborhood in 1976.

Does anyone have photos of any of the businesses mentioned here that can be posted?

Steve

[blockhead]

Anyone remember Wolf's bakery, just south of rockdale and reading. My father used to take me there to get Bagels on Sunday morning...MMMM.

I have a really interesting book I bougth from Amazon called Race and the City. It is about racial changes in Cincinnati in the early to mid 20th Century. Since these changes gradually occurred up Reading Road, this road seems to me to be the archetypal representation of all that is good and is bad about race relatinoships in Cincy