Out with 1920
By Greg Hoersten - For The Lima News
This photo of a temperance demonstration in downtown Lima in 1914 shows the gazebo that was once there. What started out as a gazebo for concerts on the square became the Ohio Electric’s rest station, which was condemned in 1920 and to be removed.
Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society
Lima’s Great White Way, the boulevard lighting project, was a heady topic from when the idea first came out. It was getting vehement by the close of 1920. People were concerned about safety.
Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society
Lima detective Willis Kipker, photographed in an unknown year. In a few years, he would be chief.