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Toledo Time Travels is your source for the Toledo story—past, present, and future. We host engaging conversations about local history venues, long heard about but rarely seen spaces, Glass City artifacts, and historical preservation.
1888: A special train of New England Glass Company workers and their families, together with 50 carloads of equipment, arrives in Toledo from East Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is warmly welcomed. Four years later, the company was renamed The Libbey ...…
1903: The Detroit Tigers play a home game in Toledo, Yanks win 12-8. 1916: Race car driver Egnatius "Iggy" Katona is born in Toledo. Known primarily for his performance in the ARCA series in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, where he won six ...…
1962: Suzee Pai, actress (Big Trouble in Little China) is born in Toledo. After appearing on Star Search in 1984, Pai began her career as a fashion model in New York City before joining the Liberty Bells cheerleading squad for the Philadelphia ...…
1885: Otto Kruger, actor (Suspense radio show, host of Lux Video Theater, High Noon, and Perry Mason) is born in Toledo. Originally a Broadway matinee idol, Kruger established a niche as a charming villain in films, such as Hitchcock's Saboteur. He ...…
1904: Micheal Owens patents a machine that automatically manufactures glass bottles. His invention revolutionizes the glass industry and creates tremendous growth in the soft drink and beer industries, as these firms now have a less expensive way of ...…
1864: Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth speak to a packed house at College Hall on Summit Street in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1967: Sean O'Neill, US Olympic table tennis player (1992 Olympics) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1880: Jumbo the Elephant makes his Toledo debut. The giant circus performer was showcased at the beginning of each performance in Ring Number One, right after the Triumphal Pageant and Grant Entrée. For more Toledo history, visit ...…
1928: On July 23, 1928, Toledo throws a one-of-a-kind welcome celebration for Amelia Earhart, just one month after she became an international celebrity for being the first woman passenger to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia Earhart (center) ...…
1813: British and American Indian forces begin a one-week second siege of Fort Meigs by using subterfuge to draw the Americans out of the fort. The plan fails. 1825: Work begins at Middletown on the Miami and Erie Canal. The state legislature only ...…
1931: Bill Moor , American actor (Kramer vs. Kramer, The Devil's Advocate, Hanky Panky) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1901: The Toledo Computing Scale and Cash Register Company is incorporated, later called Toledo Scale, and known for its slogan: "No Springs, Honest Weight." 1949: The first practical rectangular TV tube is announced in Toledo. For more Toledo ...…
1933: Club owner and bootlegger, Jack Kennedy is murdered on Edgewater Drive in Point Place. It was the culmination of Mr. Kennedy's Prohibition-era battles with the Licavoli gang, led by Yonnie Licavoli. For more Toledo history, visit ...…
1877: David Stanley Smith, American composer (Merrymount) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1880: George Mullin, baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers; no-hitter 1912) is born in Toledo. 1919: In what Jimmy Breslin wrote was the birth of the "roaring twenties," Jack Dempsey meets Jess Willard in the "fight of the century" in an 80,000-seat ...…
1909: Opening day at Swayne Field, Toledo's tenth home to organized baseball since 1883. Noah H. Swayne, the donor of the land, hoped to change Toledo's poor baseball image by constructing the finest ballpark the minors had ever known. Swayne Field ...…
1934: Jamie Farr, actor (Klinger on M*A*S*H, AfterMASH) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1972: Burt Reynolds opens with Lois Nettleton in "The Rainmaker" at Ken Shaw's Summer Star Theatre at the Toledo Masonic Auditorium. It was during this theatre run in Toledo that Reynolds stopped by Tony Packo's and casually signed a bun to start a ...…
1873: The city of Toledo offered a 32-acre parcel to the Milburn Wagon Company in Auburndale, a newly established western suburb just west of the city line. Purchased for a discounted $30,000, the Monroe Street property was located adjacent to the ...…
1976: Mother Teresa speaks to an overflow crowd of 2,700 people at the Masonic Auditorium. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1942: Actress Marlene Dietrich leads a Jeep Day Rally in downtown Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1946: Marcia Carolyn (Marcy) Kaptur, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives, is born in Toledo. After attending St. Ursula Academy in Toledo, she graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1968 and completed a Master of Urban ...…
1879: Roger Bresnahan, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher, outfielder and manager (St. Louis Cardinals; invented shin guards and batting helmets after getting beaned in the head ) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit ...…
1928: Kate Wilhelm, American fiction author (Hugo Award: Where Late the Sweet Birds Sang) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1910: Blanche Scott arrives in Toledo in a customized Overland runabout, fitted with its own built-in wardrobe trunk and toilet, on her way to San Francisco to become the second woman to complete a cross-country trip by automobile. For more Toledo ...…
1934: Auto-Lite and FLU 18384 reached a tentative agreement settling the Auto-Lite Strike. The union won a 5 percent wage increase, and a minimum wage of 35 cents an hour. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
1918: Herb Shriner, American humorist and TV host (Herb Shriner Show) is born in Toledo.…
1905: Joseph C. Harsch, American newscaster (Background) and author (''At the Hinge of History: A Reporter's Story'') is born in Toledo.…
1934: National Guard troops guarding the Auto-Lite plant during the 1934 Battle of Toledo, fired into the crowd while trying to push them away from the plant, up Chestnut Street—killing 27-year-old Frank Hubay (shot four times) and 20-year-old ...…
On this day... 1934: The Auto-Lite Strike culminates in the "Battle of Toledo," a five-day melee between 1,300 troops of the Ohio National Guard and 6,000 picketers. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…
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