East Side of Xenia Ave.

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East Side of Xenia Ave.

Photos are ordered from north to south.

1. Corner of Corry and Xenia

Address: 209 Xenia Ave.
This image depicts the structure that currently houses the Winds Wine Cellar. In this image, there is no signage indicating what was occupying the building when the photo was taken.

2. Glen Cafe

Address: 215 Xenia Ave.
This image focuses on the building that currently houses the Winds Cafe. The building from the last image is seen to the left of the Glen Cafe, though this time with a sign. If you look very closely at the sign, you can make out the words “Village Bakery” and “Donuts”. The building to the right of the Glen Cafe doesn’t seem to be occupied by anything and is the current-day location of Yellow Springs Credit Union (YSCU).

3. H.H. Electric

Address: 217 Xenia Ave.
H.H. Electric encompassed Zenith Radio & Television and Whirlpool Appliances. Today, this location is part of where the YSCU sits.

4. Zenith and Carlisle

This image depicts some similar businesses to Image 3, but with slightly different names or signage. This is the only image that shows Carlisle Market. Today, these two buildings would encompass the entirety of the YSCU and part of the building located at 221 Xenia Ave., which is owned by Iron Table Holdings LLC.

5. Model Dry Cleaning & Laundry

Address: between current day 217 and 221 Xenia Ave.
In this image, you’ll find another business that occupied the building between what is now 217 and 221 Xenia Ave. Model Dry Cleaning & Laundry opened in December of 1959 in what was Carlisle Market. Today, it’s roughly the location of a building recently built on the Iron Table Holdings LLC-owned lot.

6. Multi-Business Building

Address: 221 Xenia Ave.
In the image, this building housed three different businesses at once: a furniture store, Klip ‘N Kurl Beauty Shoppe, and F.E. Jones Ceramic Tile Contractor. Today, this space is occupied by the Iron Table Holdings LLC building.

7. View of Xenia Avenue

In a wide view of Xenia Ave., this photo shows Glen Cafe, Model Dry Cleaning & Laundry, the multi-business building, and McAllister Plumbing & Heating. Also pictured is a truck with the Carling name, most likely a Carling beer delivery truck.

8. Sign-free Buildings

Address: 225 Xenia Ave.
The prominent building in this photo is current day Dino’s Cappuccinos. In this photo, there appears to be no businesses occupying 221 or 225 Xenia Ave., but in other images, 225 is the location of McAllister Plumbing & Heating.

9. Real Estate Building

Address: 227 Xenia Ave.
Above the entrance to this building, you can see a large clock. The sign appears to be for a real estate company, though the name of the company is unclear based on the signage. Today, this building houses the Yellow Springs Senior Center (YSSC), and an addition has been added to the front of the building since this photo was taken.

10. Yellow Springs Variety Store

Address: 233 Xenia Ave.
This photo shows the town’s 5-10 variety store and is the current-day building housing Emporium Wines & Underdog Cafe. To the left of the building, now an outdoor seating area, there appears to be a driveway. To the right of the building, there is another driveway, which is the location of the building that currently houses Pangea. Parked out front of the building is a Studebaker Hawk car, and the photo was taken from the current-day Tom’s Market parking lot.

11. Miracle 5¢ to $1 Store

Address: 233 Xenia Ave.
This photo is mostly the same as Image 10, but shows 233 from a different angle and with a different business name. Also, at this time the Yellow Springs News was operating out of the same building and their sign can be seen to the left of the awning.

12. Furay Rexall Drugs Before & After

Address: 239 Xenia Ave.
This file contains a before and an after image of Furay Rexall Drugs, possibly to document renovations made to the building. The writer of the words “before” and “after” on the photos themselves is unknown. The building in the “after” photo is the same as today and now houses Glen Garden Gifts.

13. Furay Rexall Drugs (Negative of Image 12)

14. Furay’s Gift Shop

Address: 243 Xenia Ave.
Furay’s Gift Shop opened after their drug store was sold in 1955. In this image, the store is having a sale. The building is the same as what sits there today and now holds Unfinished Creations. The triangle on the wall to the right of the door is still there.

15. View from Short Street

This photo depicts a clothing store called The Mart, now the building in which Ohio Silver Co. operates, and the Little Art Theatre. The Little Art Theatre’s marquee design in this photo is similar to the recently renovated marquee. Based on an old calendar of movies being shown at the theater from August of 1960, the movie poster in this photo could be The Savage Eye.

16. The Little Theatre

Address: 247 Xenia Ave.This image is similar to Image 15, but the front of The Mart and the Little Theatre is paneled in wood. This photo could have been taken before the theater was bought and renamed “The Little Art Theatre” in 1955. A poster for the 1954 documentary The Vanishing Prairie can be seen to the left of the doors of the theatre, which was showing at the theater on March 4-7, 1955.

17. Yellow Springs Market

Address: 251 Xenia Ave. Bordered by Bales Chevrolet Co. and a store that appears to be called the Thrift “E” Market, the Yellow Springs Market is in the same building as today’s Dunphy Real Estate Inc.

18. Yellow Springs News

Address: 253 ½ Xenia Ave.
This photo was taken after Image 17, and the Yellow Springs News is in its current location. The Yellow Springs Market appears to have been converted to an IGA in this picture. While the building to the right of the News looks to be without a business when this photo was taken, it is the current location of Art + Craft Salon.

19. Gegner’s Before & After

Address: 255 Xenia Ave.
The location depicted in this before-and-after pair is where Tweedle D’s sits today. Then, it housed Gegner Barbershop, the site of an important protest for the town when Lewis Gegner was the only business owner left who refused to serve the Black community. His shop closed down in 1964. Similar to (Furay Rexall Drugs Before & After), the writer of the words “before” and “after” are unknown. To the right of Gegner’s is a dentist, and to the left is D&G Appliances.

20. Gegner’s (Negative of Image 19)

21. D&G Appliances

Address: 257 Xenia Ave.
While the sign in this photo isn’t very visible, D&G Appliances and Television operated out of the building pictured here. Today, this location, but not the same building, is home to ‘Running Errands’ Natural Nail Studio.

22. “No Left Turn”

Address: 257 Xenia Ave.
This photo is similar to Image 21, but taken from across the street from where the First Presbyterian Church and US Bank sit today. At the time of this photo, the US Bank was the Miami Deposit Bank.

23. Dick & Tom’s and Erbaugh & Johnson Drugs

When this photo was taken, these buildings housed Dick & Tom’s restaurant and Erbaugh & Johnson Drugs. Today, in the same buildings, you can find Sunrise Cafe and Yellow Springs Pharmacy.

24. Xenia Avenue Corner

Visible signs in this photo taken of the corner of Xenia Ave. and Glen St. are for D&G Appliances, Dick & Tom’s, the Independent Order of Oddfellows (IOOF) Lodge #279, and Erbaugh & Johnson Drugs. The IOOF lodge is still in the same location today, above Yellow Springs Pharmacy.

25. Old Marathon

Address: 301 Xenia Ave.
Beal’s Service Marathon sits where today’s Speedway does. Visible in this photo are several ads and promotions in the window of the station.