Toledo Time Travels

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.

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Bill Moore is Born

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.…

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Toledo Scale is Incorporated

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 ...…

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Jack Kennedy Gunned Down

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 ...…

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Dempsey-Willard Fight

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 ...…

Swayne Field Opens

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 ...…

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Jamie Farr is Born

1934: Jamie Farr, actor (Klinger on M*A*S*H, AfterMASH) is born in Toledo. For more Toledo history, visit www.holytoledohistory.com.…

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Burt Reynolds Starts a Toledo Tradition

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 ...…

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Millburn Comes to Town; Ed Ford Passes Away

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 ...…

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Marcy Kaptur is Born

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 ...…

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Roger Bresahan is Born

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 ...…

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Kate Wilhelm is Born

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.…

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Blanche Scott Arrives in Toledo

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 ...…

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Auto-Lite Strike Ends

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.…

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