Reminisce is a cooperative effort between The Lima News and the Allen County Museum and Historical Society.
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Reminisce: Lima’s Cadillac connection since 1904
In a Saturday edition of the Lima Times-Democrat in 1904, at the bottom of a back page dominated by an ad for Newbro’s Herpicide...
Reminisce: When a tornado destroyed East
On July 20, 1950, the day after a tornado ripped through Lima, The Lima News remembered an earlier, memorable storm.“On a sultry Saturday afternoon,...
Reminisce: Lima’s connections to ZR-2 disaster in 1921
One lived in Lima with his family as a young man, while the other often spent boyhood summer vacations with cousins in the Spencerville...
Reminisce: The rebirth of the Ohio Theater
Weakened by vibrations from decades of passing truck traffic, the four chains holding up the marquee of the Ohio Theater let go one by...
Reminisce: When the Ohio Theater’s organ left Lima
When the Ohio Theater opened Nov. 17, 1927, Mathew Mathews, of Buffalo, New York, was working the keys and pedals of the theater’s thousand-plus-pound...
Reminisce: Early days of Ohio Theater
On a cold Thursday night in November 1927, a chance to nab the hottest ticket in town brought a crowd estimated by The Lima...
Reminisce: Lord’s place in bustling downtown Lima
One by one in the mid-1960s, the big department stores like Penney’s, Sears-Roebuck and Montgomery Ward were leaving Lima’s deteriorating, parking-poor downtown for the...
Reminisce: Rise and fall of Lima Dime Savings Bank
Lima’s newest bank did a “thriving first day of a business” when it opened its doors at 130 S. Main St. on a Saturday...
Reminisce: Steffens’ 50 years in education
Simon Steffens would later recall that Lima in the years after the Civil War seemed like the kind of place he would not want...
Reminisce: When a tornado destroyed East
On July 20, 1950, the day after a tornado ripped through Lima, The Lima News remembered an earlier, memorable storm.“On a sultry Saturday afternoon,...
