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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 1:06:27 GMT -5
The following pictures have been lying around here for a couple of years now. I would like to thank Karyn and Kevin Konetzka for giving me a copy of these images. All of the pictures seem to have been taken throughout the 1940's and into the early 1950's. I've studied these pictures, and some I can't place. Maybe you can. Anyone recognize this gas station, and where it was located? Jackson Street maybe? The first picture of a Texaco gasoline station looks like it was on the street (can't remember name of side street off of Washington) across from the old Sears store down one block from old Post Office turning right off of Washington. At the end of that street on the same side, was a dentist my family utilized and his name was Doctor Seal. Next to this Texaco station was the last Montgomery Wards Center before closure. I could be wrong but it sure looks like the same area. Bob Information I received regarding this picture: The station was on the northwest corner of Jackson and 2nd st. To the right you can see the court house yard and just behind the station you see the roof of the old Swartzkopf Opera house where Wilson Olds was for so many years. Powell chevrolet was out of sight but straight south and on south side of 2nd st.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 1:08:20 GMT -5
Info I received: East side of Jackson St. between 3rd and 4th st with bldg. on alley being Everroad Desoto with Shortys lunch next door to the north.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 1:08:49 GMT -5
Info I received: 5th & Jackson St S/W corner. Art Jackson had the Pontiac dealership on the S/E corn with Reeves Ford on N/E and another station and Dunlaps on N/W corner.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 1:09:15 GMT -5
I have a feeling that, in this picture, we're looking kind of north east between 3th and 4th Streets on Jackson. I can't make out what the oval words on the building says. Maybe it's Everroads Garage, but I'm uncertain. Note the alley separating the line of buildings from the shack.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 1:12:00 GMT -5
Info I received: N/W corner 5th & Jackson w/Dunlaps behind station and Reeves Ford on east side of Jackson St.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 1:12:29 GMT -5
If you look at pictures 2 and 4, they are all the same location as this one. I know that, during the 1960's, Everroads was on the corner of 5th and Jackson. This must be Jackson Street. Between 3rd and 4th. Info I received: Same picture as 2 & 4. Everroad has painted the sign. Doc Housemeyer had the Desoto-Plymouth dealership before Everroads.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 1:13:01 GMT -5
What a grand mansion! Does anyone know where it was located? In further review, it appears that there are words above the entrance. It looks like they say "Francis Cory," and then I can't make out the last word. Park maybe? I really don't think this home was in Columbus...
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 1:15:04 GMT -5
This could possibly be the race track at Salem, Indiana instead of the 25th Street fairgrounds. I'm uncertain...
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 1:16:30 GMT -5
In an earlier post, I said that this picture possibly wasn't from Columbus. Boy, was I wrong. This is the demolition of the building that sat on the north west corner of 5th and Washington Streets (where Irwin Union is today). The white building in the background was the St. Denis Hotel (later to become Carpenter's Drugs). Note on the left side how the building was built at an angle to accomodate the railroad tracks that once ran to the railroad station, which was located where the 1st Christian Church is today). Info I received: Building being torn down is the old Griffith Block The actual spot is where Hooks drug store and yellow front shoe store stood. Then on 5th st was Western Union and Pattie May Laundry and the Columbus Milling Co. Columbus Milling Co was on the east side of the alley and west of the alley was Reeves Ford and later Harrison Ford and they went all the way to Jackson St.. The Griffith family that owned this quarter block or what ever was an old Columbus family whose daughter Jean married Ray Marr Sr. who was the son of Edd and Maggie Dickey Marr. They had 2 sons named Griffith and Ray Marr Jr. Griffith was a doctor here in Columbus with his widow still living and she is Betty McCullough Marr. The white bldg on the south you called the St. Denis Hotel was actually Irwin Union Bank. J. I Miller traded that building to the Marr's for the Griffith property so he could have a place for the new bank. For years Irwin Union Bank had a large clock on the corner of their old building. This building is still owned by the Marr family with Ray Jr.'s widow Lou running it the most I think. The St. Denis Hotel entrance was just south of the bank but in the same bldg. Lindsey Bros had a clothing store just south of the St. Denis entrance and Simmens Hardware was next on the South with the White House next south then the alley and Dell Bros and years ago Hoagy Stanfield had a pool room just south of Dells but later was Carpenters drug store with before that it was the McKnight Drug store with their daughter Margie McKnight marrying Paul Newsom who grew up out on the Mineral Springs road and had Newsom Trucking. Hugh and Robert Newsom are both still living and should be able to add to this. Then Cummins book store and the Custer bldg had several renters with Kappy's and Daltons being the ones most will remember being on the N/W corner of 4th & Washington St. For your records Edd Marr was the 4th child of James Marr who was the 3rd child of Louis and Nancy Ruddick Marr with my great grandmother Malinda Marr Sims being the 8th child of Louis and Nancy Ruddick Marr. James Marr lived in the Historical Soc bldg. on 3rd St and my mother showed me where "UncleJim" lay in his casket while the funeral went on at their house. Mom was 9 years old and her mother who was James Marr's neice rode the interurban down from Taylorsville for the funeral.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 1:19:10 GMT -5
Note in this picture that the old Post Office on the north east corner of 7th and Washington had yet to be built! (Correction: nancs wrote and she remembers the Post Office being there at this time. I guess we can't see it sitting behind the building at the corner of 7th and Washington. Sorry about the misinformation!)
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 1:19:47 GMT -5
Looking southeast just north of 5th and Washington. That's the old Tasty Snack place on the northeast corner of 5th and Washington.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 11:30:23 GMT -5
I don't know what year this aerial photo of downtown Columbus was taken. BUT, it was taken sometime after the new Irwin Union Bank (downtown) was completed. Although this picture is somewhat out of focus, it still gives the viewer a great idea of what the downtown area used to look like. Once you've located the Courthouse, the streets will fall into place. Brown and Lindsay Streets are nothing more than side streets, with Jackson Street being the main thoroughfare west of Washington Street. To acquaint you, north is at the top. South at the bottom of the picture. Of course, that's Washington Street running north and south beside the Courthouse. You can see the old Belvedere Hotel one block away from the Courthouse (to the right), sitting on the nw corner of 3rd and Franklin. Directly across from the furthest, western side of the hotel sits the old Crump Theatre. Moving one block south is the old school building on the corner of 2nd and Franklin. Directly behind the Courthouse is the old jail. The shot also shows all the buildings that accomocated the city block where the Commons is today. The area that is interesting (and I wish more clear) is that area west of Jackson Street, from 3rd north. At least one can get a good idea at what the area looked like where Cummins Headquarters is today. It's also interesting to note the area south of the Courthouse. 2nd Street, running the entire length of the photo would not be recognized today...
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 12:14:23 GMT -5
This picture is of the old 2nd Street Bridge. Info I received: 2nd St Bridge, and just north of it was a large hill (and House) they cut down for the road (my note: the home that once sat here was also where the Schwartzkopf's lived). It was Tipton Knoll, the home of Mr. Tipton who left Columbus because they would not name it Tipton and then was the road commissioner for the state of Indiana. Because of his dislike for Columbus for refusing to name it Tipton he build the first bypass road ever built. He was in charge of building a road from Indianapolis to Louisville and just south of Franklin he built the Mauxferry Road and brought it south and around the west side of Columbus and then back to Seymour. The Mauxferry was cut off when Camp Atterbury came, but goes north and south thru the camp and comes out of the camp west of Taylorsville on the Ohio Ridge Road and goes along side Camp Atterbury all the way down to the Georgetown road where the camp quits on its southern border. Mauxferry road then goes south to IN 46. My own thoughts here: I don't remember the 2nd Street bridge when growing up in Columbus in the late 50's/early60's. I remember the 3rd Street bridge (of course), but I do remember the old Tipton home, or Schwartzkopf mansion, or whatever you care to call it. It sat on the right side (north) of 3rd Street just before crossing the 3rd Street bridge. I think it was a VFW home when I was a kid. I couldn't be wrong here, but I thought they tore this house down in conjunction with cleaning up Death Valley. Maybe someone can help me clarify this thought.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 12:16:01 GMT -5
A better shot of the gas station in an earlier picture. This must be the west side of Jackson Street, somewhere around the corner of 5th and Jackson. You folks agree?
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 12:18:05 GMT -5
The 25th Street Fairgrounds?
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 12:18:33 GMT -5
The next three pictures show the demolition of some building. I'm wondering at this point in time if this building might have been where the 1st Christian Church is today. The reason I'm wondering this is because there are two other pictures (not posted here) in this collection of the church. It appears they might have been taken around the time the church was first built. Anyone?
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 12:18:49 GMT -5
Might this have been the old railroad station depot where the 1st Christian Church is today? I don't know...
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 12:19:06 GMT -5
Is this picture of a house related to the prior demolition pictures?
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 12:19:26 GMT -5
This picture might have been taken from the old 25th Street Fairgrounds grandstand.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 10, 2005 12:19:57 GMT -5
Another picture of the demolition of the building where Irwin Union Bank is today
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