Tag Archives: Reynoldsburg
Tomato Festival Queen – 1985
Taken in the offices if Lynx, Inc., on Main Street in Reynoldsburg in1974. Clockwise from top, Philip Vaughn, Wes Brown, Kenny Francis, Roy Combs, Norm Tinkem, Dick Barth, Ginny Sharp, Jim Mills, Center, Carolyn Nicodemus. Former mayor, the late Kenny Francis, is in the striped tie, and the man known as “Mr. Tomato,” Roy Combs, […]
Don’s Drive In – ca 1950
Don’s was quite a historical landmark in the fabulous fifties and on into the sixties. It was the unofficial town hall where all the movers and shakers held their lunchtime meetings. Don’s, of course, had the car hops and everything else that went with drive-in restaurants. There is a menu from don’s on display in […]
Green Gables Restaurant
A very traditional and popular “Old Reynoldsburg” restaurant in this 1987 photo, the year it closed.It was the Reynoldsburg stop for the Lake Shore system bus line. The Reynoldsburg-Truro Historical Society has a display and a Columbus Dispatch article about the closing of the restaurant. The building was recently sold and is now the store […]
Cleveland Avenue at Briarwood looking north in 1923
Features the original Linden Hardware where Cornwalls was later located at 2451 Cleveland Av and the Francis Wilson Drug Co at 2453 Cleveland Ave where later Frank’s Paper Shop was located.
Alexander Wilmer Livingston
Alexander Wilmer Livingston began domesticating the tomato and produced the first successful variety in 1870. Alexander founded the Livingston Seed Company in 1876. Livingston’s experiments with tomato varieties on his farm near Reynoldsburg were so successful that the community was dubbed the Tomato Capital.