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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 5h

🏢 Downtown #Columbus as seen from North Front Street at the turn of the millennium in the year 2000.

Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 9h

🏈 Ohio stadium, built in 1922 by E. H. Latham Company of Columbus, with materials and labor from the Marble Cliff Quarry Co. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 14h

✨ Sleeping under the stars in the Streets of Yesteryear at old COSI. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🏨 Historic hotel The Neil House, as it looked in 1900. The hotel operated on Capitol Square in downtown #Columbus from 1842 to 1980.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🚙 A busy crossroads in downtown #Columbus (the intersection of Front and Broad) as it looked in the year 1950.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

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

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🚀 POV: It's 1991 and you're in downtown #Columbus getting ready to experience the best school field trip in the state of Ohio.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

🏨 What it might have looked like traveling in downtown #Columbus in the early 1910s. This is a room in the Chittenden Hotel, located at 205 N. High St. The hotel opened in 1889, closed in 1972, and was demolished in 1973.

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

✈️🎓 The bucolic Ohio State University campus in 1932, illustrated as seen from the air. Ohio Stadium was only ten years old at this time. #ohiostate

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

🍔 Max & Erma's Easton location as it looked in its late-2000's prime. #columbus

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

🛍 A notable stretch of Morse Road in #Columbus, featuring a sign for Gold Circle Department Store and, in the distance, a Value City.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🏈 On the banks of the Olentangy River in Columbus, Ohio. Ohio Stadium in 1984. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🏡 A house in Old Beechwold, just north of Clintonville, in the early 1920's. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

🏝 The legendary #Columbus restaurant Kahiki Supper Club (1961 - 2000), as it looked in 1980.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🏗 LeVeque Tower, under construction in downtown #Columbus sometime in the mid-1920s. The skyscraper was completed in September of 1927.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The Neil House was a historic High Street hotel operated on Capitol Square from 1842 to 1980. Neil House was one of few sites listed in The Green Book in #Columbus serving as a safe haven for African American travelers during the era of segregation.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🏈 A 1983 view of Cooper Stadium shows off multi-purpose capability with football field lines drawn on the artificial turf. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🏢 Looking east on East Gay Street in downtown #Columbus, as it looked in 1981. Businesses can be seen on the south side of East Gay and include Ohio State Federal, K's Cocktails and Dining, Bernie's Bagels and Deli, Catlett Typewriter Exchange, and Annie's Restaurant.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

#Columbus children yearn for the mines. COSI's original Coal Mine exhibit opened in 1973. ⛏

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🏈 A crowd gathers for the groundbreaking of Ohio Stadium. The stadium was finished in 1922 with the Buckeyes playing the first game in the stadium against Ohio Wesleyan University on October 7, 1922. Ohio State was victorious on that day, winning 5-0. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🍹 The legendary Kahiki restaurant on the east side of #Columbus, as seen from the air circa 1986.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

🍞 A 1910 view of a portion of North High Street in downtown #Columbus. The photo was taken from the Hotel Star. Businesses visible from this location include the Eben B. Baird Shoe Store and Strengs Store (1903-1912) can be seen to the right of the Square Deal Bread advertisement.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🍽 POV: You're about to experience the finest in 1980's dining at the last remaining York Steak House in the world. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

⚡️ #Columbus High Street arches as they looked in 1910. Columbus was known as "Arch City" in the very early 20th century due to the prevalence and popularity of the arches but most were removed by 1914. Arches returned to Columbus in December of 2002.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🚌 A classic Downtown #Columbus photo from the 1970s, especially when you notice the details. The vantage point is from the lobby of BancOhio looking towards the Athletic Club. A passing COTA bus, complete with vintage colors, carries an advertisement for Q-FM 96 radio, "Ohio's Best Rock."

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

🎣 A photo from 1897 labeled "River Road, Scioto River" and taken near downtown #Columbus. A horse-drawn buggy can be seen approaching on the dirt road and a bridge can be seen in the distance.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🍨🍦 Golden Eagle Ice Cream Shoppe was a German Village fixture for years on South Third Street, just under the restaurant The Place Upstairs. Golden Eagle operated from 1967 until closing in 1986. The building is now Cameron Mitchell's Cento. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A 1910s view of the Broad Street bridge area in downtown #Columbus.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

🚋 A genuine #Columbus streetcar, one of only two remaining. Streetcar #703 was a 1926 series Kuhlman car that operated in Columbus until 1948. #703 was restored by the Ohio Railway Museum in 1973.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🍽 Gone but not forgotten: Jai Lai Cafe. Coach Woody Hayes was a frequent guest, and the restaurant was one of the most popular in Columbus history, known far and wide for their prime rib and salt rolls with herb butter. The Jai Lai closed in 1996. #columbus

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🌳 Desire paths, as seen here on the campus of The Ohio State University, typically emerge as convenient shortcuts where more deliberately constructed paths take a longer or more circuitous route, have gaps, or are non-existent. #ohiostate

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🐦 A mid-century bird's eye view of downtown #Columbus and the bridges crossing the Scioto River.

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Columbus Navigator @columbusnavigator.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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

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

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

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

🏈 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 · 03/10/2026

💦 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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