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Aerial of View of the Sandusky Drive-In Theater
According to an article in the May 24, 1948 issue of the Sandusky Register Star News, the Sandusky Drive-In Theater was slated to open at 9:15 p.m. on May 24, 1948. The single feature film on opening...
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Sandusky's Coal Docks
Sandusky, Ohio has long been known as having one of the finest and most well-protected harbors on the Great Lakes. Since the late 1890s, the transfer of coal from railway cars to vessels has been...
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The Graham family operated a drug store in Sandusky from 1845 until 1926. John A. Graham established the drug store, and was succeeded by his son W.A. Graham. The Graham Drug Store was at what is now...
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The Mill Race Ride at Cedar Point
The Mill Race, a log flume ride, opened in Cedar Point for the 1963 season. It was only the second flume ride of its kind in the United States. The ride cost $300,000 to build, and it was over 1200...
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When the VFW Post 2529 was on Water Street
Before the Lowell C. Hein Post 2529, V.F.W. opened its new home at 604 West Perkins Avenue in 1958, for a time in the 1950s the Post was located at 603 East Water Street, at the northeast corner of...
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A Look Back at the Hotel Rieger
The Hotel Rieger was opened by businessman John Rieger at the southeast corner of Jackson and Market Streets in downtown Sandusky in 1912. (The former hotel is now undergoing renovations in order to...
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Floral Mounds in Washington Park
Floral mounds have been a popular feature of the parks in downtown Sandusky for decades. The mound pictured above, which was located near the Erie County Courthouse in 1910, contained an urn and was...
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Postcards of Sandusky
In the historical postcard collection of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center are several postcards of Sandusky from years gone by. The first three postcards are from the early part of the...
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Elmer J. Frank, Musician, Instructor, and Conductor
Young Elmer Frank, with his parents, Julius and EmmaElmer J. Frank was born in Sandusky in 1904 to Julius and Emma Frank, both of German descent. As a youth, Elmer studied piano with Elmer F. Steuk, a...
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At Work in Sandusky and Erie County
The warm weather in the summer months in northern Ohioallows for workers in a variety of occupations to get work done that is not easily accomplished in the cold months of the winter season. Sandusky...
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Wallace C. Glenwright, Teacher, Coach, and Administrator
Wallace Glenwright’s long career with Sandusky City Schools covered over thirty years. He arrived in Sanduskyshortly after his graduation from MountUnionCollege. He served as assistant to SanduskyHigh...
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Program Announcement: A Day for Genealogists
“A Day for Genealogists” will be featured at the Sandusky Library on Saturday, September 20. From 10:30 to noon, learn how to get started in researching your family tree. From 1 to 5 p.m., the Sandusky...
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Judge E.B. King
Edmund Burritt King was born on a farm in July 4, 1850 in Medina County, Ohio to Cyrus and Harriet (Bennett) King. After attending the Oberlin Academy and Baldwin-Wallace University, Edmund studied...
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Judge William Howard Taft’s Visit to Sandusky in 1908
Early in September of 1908, William Howard Taft gave a speech in Sandusky in 1908 that was generally regarded as the first speech of his active campaign for the U.S. presidency as the Republican...
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Fountain at the Foot of Columbus Avenue
A public fountain was at the foot of Columbus Avenue in downtown Sandusky in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, not far from the waterfront. In the picture above, the Post, Lewis and...
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J.D. McFall Men’s Clothing Store
In 1890 and 1891, Jasper Dean McFall operated a store in Sandusky at 121 Columbus Avenue. He sold clothing and gents’ furnishings. The business was begun by J.D. McFall’s father, William H. McFall,...
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Postcards of the Third National Exchange Bank
The postcard above is from the historical postcard collection of the Sandusky Library Archives Research Center. Founded in 1872 as the Third National Bank, the Third National Exchange Bank was at 220...
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Harley Hoffman’s Photographs of Sandusky High School in 1957
Harley Hoffman took this aerial picture of Sandusky High School from an airplane in 1957. Notes with the original picture state that the airplane was going 200 miles an hour at the time the picture was...
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Interior Views of Sandusky Library from the 1940s
Here is a view of a portion of the adult section of the Sandusky Library from the 1940s:The framed Audubon prints seen in this picture are now in the Quiet Reading Room of the Library. The door on the...
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I.F. Mack’s Address on “The Four Pioneers”
On June 8, 1881, I.F. Mack, the well-known publisher of the Sandusky Register, gave an address at the twenty fifth annual meeting of the Firelands Historical Society in Norwalk, Ohio. His address,...
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