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Originally Posted by Chuck Klein
On the NE corner was the Cities Service gas station run by Garrett Kaufman
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That must be the gas station replaced by Chili Time, ca. 1970.
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Originally Posted by Chuck Klein
Before the large apartment building (Amberley House?) east side across from the Valley Shop-in, there was Jimmy Bats welding shop. The apartment building was origanially a brick venear that particially fell off, c. 1970.
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That is the Essex House. I can remember when it was built, and when
the facade came off, but could not recall the welding shop which stood
there before. Many of the original residents were Bond Hill retirees.
The Amberly House is west of French Park, on Section.
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Originally Posted by Chuck Klein
Also, just south of the Valley Shop-in was the Roselawn Tavern building (two stories, brick) which housed a restaurant (bar in the basement) and the Roselawn Pharmacy.
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That building had a sort-of Tudor style. Ron's Hunt Club, a bar, was also
on or near that site at one time, as was Mario's, an Italian sandwich place.
Pilder's delicatessen, now in Dillonvale, was just south of this building.
Behind there, in the Valley shopping center, was a yellow-brick building
with a 5th. Third branch on the first floor and professional offices on the
second.
Any idea what lay south of the welding shop? There was an older brick
building with a dentist's office on that side of Reading, but south of that
was some kind of restaurant or bar with a lively exterior. Was this the
Gypsy?
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West on Section Road, in Edgemont, was (is) Lefty's Tavern and behind it on a side street was a pony keg that sold fireworks on the side.
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There was a tiny dance hall in that block in the 1950's, which later
became a synagogue. I seem to remember seeing, from the sidewalk,
a large sailfish mounted on the wall behind the bar at Lefty's.
Somewhere near the intersection of Greenland and Section, closer to
Roselawn than to Edgemont Terrace, was another synagogue, built in the
mid-1960's. That stretch of Section had a type of two-story apartment
building common throughout Cincinnati: brick, built circa the 1930's
or 1940's, with double-decker screened-in porches and a neon tube
light displaying the street address.
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East on Section Road was a grocery (Thriftway? Albers?) at the intersection of Rienhold Drive which had horse riding trails and a golf course (?) before it became a industrial park.
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There was a Thriftway around there, dating from the early 1960's,
as well as a Putt-Putt course. Interesting that there was once a bridle
trail in the area: my mother said that driving north to the Wishing Well
in the 1940's was like driving through the country. The Thriftway was
in a little plaza which featured small discount stores. For a while there
was another fish-and-chips place there, the "Wholly Mackeral".
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At the intersection of Section and the Pennsylvania RR was Tiny's Sohio (SW corner). Just across the tracks was the Progress Lithographing Company (built 1952) and across from that was (in 1955) the Gibson Art Company. Continuing East, before there was Elbrook (between Section and Losantiville) a dairy farm took up all the land up to Fair Oaks Drive. I was born in the house on that SW corner in 1942. Our mailing address was, RR 3, Lockland, Ohio.
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That Sohio survived for many years. It sounds like Gibson Art must have
been the predecessor to Gibson Greeting Cards, the big factory at the
base of the hill, with bushes trimmed to spell "GIBSON". So before
Amberly houses filled up the area, it was all farmland - even as late
as the 1950's. Interesting that the rural route used the Lockland post
office: it is separated from Lockland by chunks of Cincinnati and
Reading. The incorporation boundaries must have been very different
back then.