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The automobile gave Americans the freedom to travel where and when they wanted, including to vacation spots. That changed the clientele and dynamics of the resort and created opportunity for those with mechanical skills and a knack for peddling . . . — — Map (db m175588) HM
Replacing an earlier bridge that was carried away in a spring flood, the Harpersfield Covered Bridge was built in 1868 and spans the Grand River, a state-designated wild, and scenic river. This bridge, which currently carries County Road #154 . . . — — Map (db m121531) HM
Welcome To Geneva, Ohio
The first covered bridges in Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia were built by private stock corporations and were toll bridges. Geneva has carried this history forward by providing a toll booth at the Nation's Shortest . . . — — Map (db m214246) HM
Miniature Golf became popular in the United States during the 1920s. GOTL's course is based upon the design used by courses that New York City's millionaires had built on the rooftops of their penthouses when miniature golf was a faddish game for . . . — — Map (db m175590) HM
E.M. "Pop” and Martha Pera renamed their “Pera's Park” amusement-ride business to "Pera's Kiddieland” in 1955. The move reflected the business potential of marketing to the baby-boom generation and the types of rides that the park offered.
Pop . . . — — Map (db m175569) HM
the short-lived Pergola Gardens and Green Lantern Restaurant stood at this location in the early 1920s. It was directly across from The New Inn and helped form the nucleus of the "New Lake Road" business district, or "Strip."
Originally . . . — — Map (db m175589) HM
The Pier Ballroom was built for E.M. "Pop” and Martha Pera in 1927. The grand ballroom was the finest of its kind between Cleveland and Buffalo. A contest was held to name the attraction, and "The Breakers” was chosen. But Martha Pera disliked the . . . — — Map (db m175584) HM
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Ransom E. Olds was born on this property on June 3, 1864. Olds co-founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, forerunner of the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors in Lansing, Michigan, on August 21, 1897. The curved dash model, built . . . — — Map (db m121529) HM
Hotel Shady Beach was built in 1896 by Warren and Ida Avis Putnam Spencer. Ida was the daughter of George C. and Mary "Polly” Temple Putnam, who owned the Fitch house and Grand View Farm to the west.
Arthur B. Bowers and his wife, Fannie, were . . . — — Map (db m175585) HM
The New Inn was built by Newton Mott and Gary Swan at North Spencer and the new Lake Road at the site of a former fast-food sandwich shop. Perhaps inspired by the success of the stand, Mott and Swan purchased the shop and expanded it into a hotel, . . . — — Map (db m175592) HM
The Popcorn Ball was one of the most novel structures to grace The Strip. Community directories from the 1930s place the snack shop on the south side of Route 531, between Golf and Spencer.
Owner William O'Neil sold popcorn, soda, candy and . . . — — Map (db m175583) HM
