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Nov. 13, 1947: The Sports Arena opens
The Sports Arena in 2004. Photograph by the author. For sixty years, One Main Street was the home of the Toledo Sports Arena. It was the first thing that greeted you when you went east over the Cherry...
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The Hinkle Tree
The national golf spotlight returns to Inverness Club this month with the USGA’s 2011 Senior Open the week of July 25th. Frankly, I don’t know why there aren’t more majors at Inverness. Beautiful...
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The closing of Raceway Park
On Sunday, September 15, 2013, Raceway Park ran its final card. Horse racing in Toledo, which goes back to places like Fort Miami in Maumee and even beyond that, is now but a memory. The Blade covered...
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Par 3 at Talmadge and Monroe – photos!
I never got into photography all that much during my formative years, mostly because I didn’t have a camera and getting pictures developed cost money. It’s far different from the instant thrill of...
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New, beautiful Maumee Downs
The closing of Raceway Park in 2013 brought an era of over a century of the ponies in Toledo to an end. Horse racing was not an insignificant part of my upbringing since my father, as the old joke...
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Hasty House Farm
Toledo had a horse in the Kentucky Derby? The year was 1954, and in fact, Toledo had not one but two horses in the Run for the Roses that year (Goyamo, who finished fourth, was the other). The most...
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