Great Photos from
Yesteryear Lexington!

We looked up the date of "Singing Marine" on the Internet Movie DataBase -- it came out in 1937! And what was it that sold for 5 cents at Snappy Service? Coffee? Anybody remember?

All things pass eventually. Main Street Theater looks sadly empty in this shot. Can anybody hazard a guess as to when this picture might have been taken?

Now, here's a picture that will bring back some memories for some of us: A menu from Mitteville. Not a bad selection of food, either.

Just across 13th from the Main Street Theater was Benny McAlister's. That was in the days when a service station provided service, not just gasoline that you pump yourself!

See? Fruit cake is a Christmas Tradition! But those prices were pretty hefty for 1943, probably because of the war.

Now here are some prices that you might want to see again! Of course, if you didn't have the points in your ration book, you couldn't buy it!

A sign of the times, from 1943. And a pretty grim one.

And Ceno did come back! We think this is a post-war picture, though we can't spot the "Ruptured Duck" placard that was proudly displayed. Lots of fond memories of this store!

Just north of the railroad tracks from Ceno's grocery store stood this fine old building...

Crosby's was a little before our time, so could someone please tell us to what address we were to go to buy our Christmas gifts? Of course, according to the ad, we could just pick up the telephone and tell the operator we wanted the number "95"!

Fires have always changed the landscape of our town. This one is from 1967, and if our eyes aren't playing tricks on us, the Lexington Public Library now occupies that store front. And isn't that Mode O' Day just to the left of the picture?

Another grim picture of change in Lexington. Lots of us went in, through, and upstairs at Ford and Rush. Remember the soda fountain? And wasn't the elevator going up to the medical clinic upstairs the only elevator in town? Or was there another?