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Main Street in Lexington, 1976
Traffic on Main Street in downtown Lexington, June 11, 1976. The photo was taken from Cheapside looking east. The Phoenix Hotel was demolished in 1981 and 1982 by Wallace Wilkinson, who had planned to...
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Turf Bar, 1951
The Turf Bar at 122 North Limestone Street in February 1951. A witness in a divorce case in Fayette District Court revealed that one of the parties, William W. Stephens, had been employed since...
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Charles Bohmer driving his Ercoupe, 1947
Charles Bohmer of Bohmer Flying Service drove his Ercoupe back to Blue Grass Field on Feb. 25, 1947, after a month’s display in Kinkead-Wilson Motor Co. showrooms, 177 North Mill Street in downtown...
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Union Station parking circle, 1950
A controversial proposal to turn the Union Station Park into a parking lot was front-page news in April 1950. Union Station sat at East Main Street just west of the Walnut Street (now Martin Luther...
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Rupp Arena construction, 1975
Aerial photo of downtown Lexington, January 1975. Near the bottom is the Lexington Center and Rupp Arena construction. What would later become Triangle Park is just to the left and above the...
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Downtown Lexington, 1956
Aerial view of downtown Lexington in 1956. The photo’s purpose was to show the C&O Railroad tracks in downtown which the city was trying to have removed. The tracks run horizontally just below the...
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Main Street, downtown Lexington, 1950
The 100 block of East Main Street in downtown Lexington at Limestone on March 8, 1950. That corner, once dominated by the Phoenix Hotel, is now the site of Phoenix Park, the Central Library and Park...
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South Broadway skyway construction, 1979
Construction of the skyway crossing South Broadway in downtown Lexington, connecting the Hyatt Regency, left, and Kincaid Towers in July 1979. The concrete span, the first in a series of skyways over...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial service, 1945
An estimated 3,000 people attended a community memorial service April 14, 1945, outside the Fayette County Courthouse in honor of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR, as he was more commonly...
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Mercury 7 space capsule visits Lexington, 1962
As part of the Freedom Bond Drive, a duplicate of Col. John Glenn’s Mercury 7 space capsule was displayed in Cheapside Park on April 27, 1962. Posing in front of the capsule were Bill Staton of the...
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Downtown Lexington, 1938
Main Street, downtown Lexington, circa summer 1938. Rails run down the street, but about that time, streetcar service was discontinued in Lexington. As in most American cities, as roads were improved...
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‘Muppets’ stars visit Lexington, 1985
“Muppet” stars Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog enjoyed a carriage ride down Main Street in downtown Lexington on March 14, 1985. Their ride ended at Rupp Arena, where The Muppet Show was on stage five...
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Nickel beer, whiskey, sandwiches at downtown Lexington bar, 1949
For a couple of hours on June 14, 1949, Fisher’s Bar, 105 North Limestone, was jammed with patrons. The reason? Nickel beer and whiskey and five-cent sandwiches. According to the Deptment of Labor, a...
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Downtown Lexington traffic, 1951
Hundreds of out-of-town automobiles added to a typical downtown Lexington traffic jam on March 17, 1951. Thousands of loyal fans of teams in the 34th annual state high school basketball tournament...
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Lexington Municipal Building, 1962
Workmen began tearing the portico off Lexington’s Municipal Building on Walnut Street in early June 1962 in preparation for construction of a three-story addition to the building. The cost was expected...
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Civic Center tour, 1976
Lexington Center board chairman Jake Graves, at podium, addressed the media, along with Lexington Mayor Foster Pettit, second from right, and Tom Minter, right, Lexington Center Corp. executive...
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Building demolition begins for CenterPointe, 2008
Mary Beth Navmann and Kevin Compton, left, and Brent Roach and Elizabeth Browning watched a crew from Diversified Demolition tear down the former Rite Aid building at Limestone and Main Street in...
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Festival Market opens, 1986
A large crowd was on hand as hundreds of balloons were released to signal the grand opening the Festival Market on July 25, 1986. The grand opening for $16 million development at West Main Street and...
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Shops on CentrePointe block, 1948
A west-facing view of Main Street in downtown Lexington in August 1948, a month before the F.W.Woolworth store was to open. The businesses making up this block included Jane Lee, left, Woolworth, and...
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Baynham shoe store, 1949
Toddler Kathy Lewis was fitted by S.B. Foley with a pair of shoes at Baynham Shoe Co. on Feb. 4, 1949. The popular shoe store, founded by three brothers at 135 East Main Street, operated for more then...
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