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Billings & Sons Sohio, 8330 W. Central Ave.

Demolished c2005.

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Author retrotoledometroPosted on November 21, 2025Categories Auto Repair, Gas Stations

Cyprus Lounge, 2430 W. Laskey Rd.

Cyprus Lounge, 2430 W. Laskey Rd.

Cyprus Lounge (Cyprus Rock Cafe) 2430 W. Laskey Rd. Toledo thrash metal venue in the 1980s and ’90s. Demolished.

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Author retrotoledometroPosted on November 17, 2025November 17, 2025Categories Bars, MusiciansTags Concerts, Dethtoll, Thrash

Red & White, 3745 Centennial Rd.

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Author retrotoledometroPosted on November 16, 2025Categories Gas Stations, Grocery Stores

6400 Block, Central Avenue. (South Side)

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Author retrotoledometroPosted on November 16, 2025November 16, 2025Categories House

Duplex, 2931 Moffat Rd.

This duplex was located on the west side of Moffat Road, south of Central Avenue. It was one among many homes demolished to make way for the US 23/Central Avenue interchange in 1961/62. 2931 is a guess at the address in relation to the property located across the street in 1959 which was 2932 Moffat (now 2936).

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Author retrotoledometroPosted on November 15, 2025Categories House

Greenwood Village Nite Club, 6335 W. Central Ave.

Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Block Card Collection

Demolished to make way for US 23/Central Avenue interchange in 1961/62.

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Author retrotoledometroPosted on November 13, 2025Categories Bars and Restaurants, HouseTags 300 years, Forestry, Joseph Sweeney, Mieszkalski, Turanski, White Oak

Greenwood Drive

1949.

Greenwood Drive no longer exists. The US 23/Central Avenue interchange construction in 1962 erased Greenwood Drive and the homes that lined it.

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Author retrotoledometroPosted on November 11, 2025Categories House, Roads, Streets

Sound Asylum Records, 2582 Monroe Street

1998, AREIS.

Built c1921 as Hi-Speed Gas Station (later E.E. Moore’s Hi-Speed Station). Might have been a laundromat in the late ’40s/early ’50s.

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Author retrotoledometroPosted on November 11, 2025November 11, 2025Categories Gas Stations, Record Stores

Sylvania Township Fire Station No.2, 6448 W. Central Ave.

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Author retrotoledometroPosted on November 10, 2025Categories Fire Station

Emmanuel Congregation of the Evangelical Church, 3690 Centennial Rd.

Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Block Card Collection

Built c1938. Demolished c1969. Other names associated with this property: Flynn, Sherman, Toledo Concrete.

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Author retrotoledometroPosted on November 10, 2025Categories ChurchTags Demolished

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