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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 1h

🏗 The razing of Ohio State University's armory in 1959. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 6h

🏈 Bumper to bumper parking for an Ohio State football game taking place in 1917. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 9h

🏈 A fresh and new Ohio Stadium scoreboard, as it looked in 1984. The stadium upgrade included six different scoreboards with a new sound system all at a cost of $2.6 million. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 10h

💦 Walking along the banks of the Scioto River in downtown #Columbus, as it looked in 1930.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧱 A 1950 view of German Village in #Columbus. The intersection seen is East Beck and Mohawk, and the corner store is Daeumler's Food Mart.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🏈 A packed Ohio Stadium crowd spends their 1950 fall Saturday afternoon watching the Ohio State Buckeyes. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Neil House is prominent in this look at 1940's downtown #Columbus, with LeVeque Tower looking large in the background.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

🌲The Ash Cave parking lot in Hocking Hills, as it looked in 1937. The sign reads "Hocking State Forest | Ash Cave | Ohio Division of Forestry". #ohio

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

POV: It's the early 80's and you're driving east on Broad Street. Downtown #Columbus looms large in the distance. 🚙

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🐨🐯🦁 From the air, #Columbus Zoo as it looked in 1987.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🏈 An aerial shot of a very new Ohio Stadium, taken by the United States Army Air Force in the early 1920s as part of the War Department's efforts to document American airscapes. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🚙 A 1980 view of I-270 west of intersections with OH-315 and U.S. Route 23. Signs can be seen for Exit 23 to U.S. Route 23, Delaware and Worthington, and Exit 22B to Ohio Route 315 North and Olentangy River Road. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The downtown #Columbus riverfront, as it looked in 1930.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🏗 The steel superstructure goes up during construction of Ohio Stadium on the campus of The Ohio State University, sometime in 1921-1922. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🏎 The #Columbus 500's hairpin turn with the Columbus skyline in the background. Columbus held the event every year from 1985 - 1988 on a 2.65-mile course through the heart of downtown.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🏬 A 1905 view of South High Street at Rich Street in downtown #Columbus, featuring the Lazarus Block which opened in 1895. Also in the image are New Bargain Store, Belmont Restaurant, and The Old Stand.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

⛽️🚌 A Sohio station at the intersection of Greenlawn Ave. and High St in 1976. The property today is a BP station. In the background you can see an orange COTA bus. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🚙 POV: It's the late 1950's, you're driving east on Broad St. in downtown #Columbus and you see LeVeque Tower in the distance.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A busy day in downtown #Columbus at Broad and High sometime during the 1910s.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🏎 Racers drive west down Spring Street at one of the #Columbus Ford Dealers 500 automobile races that ran in downtown Columbus from 1985-1988.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A view of the arches on High St. in 1910, along with much of downtown #Columbus. Taken from the Great Southern Hotel.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

POV: It's 1965 in downtown #Columbus and you're looking at a famous block of buildings that includes LeVeque Tower, the Deshler Hotel, and the RKO Palace Theatre.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🚙 A 1988 view of a parking lot in downtown #Columbus looking towards LeVeque Tower. The AEP building can be seen to the left and a Q-FM 96 billboard can be seen to the right.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🦍 A giant inflatable gorilla strapped to LeVeque Tower in downtown #Columbus, sometime in the 80's, as some sort of advertising stunt involving the roast beef sandwich restaurant Rax.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🚌 Downtown #Columbus as it looked in 1981. The classic orange COTA bus is picking up passengers at 90 N High Street. The wild street clock next to the COTA bus reads Argo & Lehne Jewelers. Ohio Federal can be seen to the right.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

❄️ A very cold day in 1981 in downtown #Columbus featuring a snow and ice covered Scioto River. Also notable in the photo are the confluence of the Scioto and Olentangy Rivers in the lower left and Mount Carmel Medical Center in the middle right.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

⛽️ A view of a #Columbus Sohio gas station on a cold November day in 1976. This location was at Cleveland Avenue and 161 (East Dublin Granville Road).

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🏗 One of the most iconic buildings on Ohio State's campus, Orton Hall, under construction in 1893. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🏈 A look at an Ohio State Buckeyes tailgate on a fall Saturday in Columbus, 1980. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🍽 #Columbus had never seen anything like the Jai Lai Restaurant (1933 - 1996), with a seating capacity of 1,070 people. Private party rooms were available for 15 to 450. Ample parking provided, either self service or attended.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

🚁 An aerial view of I-270 and Schrock Road as it looked in the summer of 1981. Schrock Road passes over I-270 and Schrock Lake is the body of water in the top middle of the photo. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🏈 Inside Ohio Stadium, as it would have looked after construction in the 1920's. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

🏗 A view of Front St. in downtown #Columbus in the mid-1920's, with LeVeque Tower (AIU Citadel) construction in the distance.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Shrum Mound, a Native American burial mound in Campbell Memorial Park on the west side of #Columbus. The mound was created by the Adena culture, a Pre-Columbian Native American culture that existed from 500 BCE to 100 CE.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🏨 The Neil House, opposite the Ohio Statehouse in downtown #Columbus, as it looked in the 1950's.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The intersection of Broad and High in downtown #Columbus as it looked in the 1950's. Looming over everything is the Deshler Hilton Hotel sitting atop Gray Drug Store. The Deshler Hotel was built in 1916 and was considered one of the top hotels in the Midwest.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🛣 #Ohio highways before the interstate, as they looked in 1948.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🏥 A much smaller #Columbus Children's Hospital complex, as it looked in 1978. Children's Hospital's name was later changed to Nationwide Children's Hospital in 2007 after a $50 million donation by the insurance company.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🏗 Rendering of the Hyatt Regency #Columbus hotel which opened in downtown Columbus on October 26, 1980.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🏈 Quadruple Script Ohios became an Ohio State Marching Band tradition in the 1970s. This example comes to us from the 1992 season. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

📚 For many decades, a familiar corner at 15th and High for Ohio State students. Long's Book Store, as it looked in 1945. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🚁 A 1985 aerial view of Ohio Stadium, Morrill Tower, Lincoln Tower, and the Drake Union. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚂 W. Broad St. entering Franklinton in 1911. Horses pass under a rail bridge as a train passes through. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚌 POV: It's 1980 and you're hopping on COTA's 2 route after an afternoon shopping at Lazarus in downtown #Columbus.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

🚋 A map of the interurban streetcar system in the #Columbus region, as it existed in 1917.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

#Columbus State Hospital, also known as Ohio State Hospital for Insane, was a public psychiatric hospital in Columbus, located on the west side on W. Broad St. and pictured here as it looked around 1900. The facility operated all the way into the late 1980's.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🌍 The Avenue of Flags, along Civic Center Drive and the riverfront in downtown #Columbus, as it looked in the late 1960's. The Avenue of Flags showed off all 50 state flags and was dedicated on Columbus Day in 1967. The flags were replaced in 2002 with 25 Ohio flags and 25 Columbus flags.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚧 A fresh and new Georgesville Road exit at I-270 as it looked in June of 1970. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

🚙🚗 Heavy traffic heading west on I-70 in downtown #Columbus, just before the Fourth St. exit, sometime in the 1970s.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

🚋 A double decker streetcar stops in front of the Ohio Statehouse in downtown #Columbus. 🚋

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