Glass pint milk bottle with Ideal Quality Checkd red painted label. Ideal operated in Portsmouth from 1932 to 1973. The 1973 Portsmouth City Directory lists F William Kinskey, Pres. at 1637 10th (Tenth) Street.
Glass pint milk bottle with red painted label. Ideal operated in Portsmouth from 1932 to 1973. The 1973 Portsmouth City Directory lists F William Kinskey, Pres. at 1637 10th (Tenth) Street.
Shows "Queen Quality Shoes" on back loop. This was a type of shoe sold by Weber's. Weber Shoe Store, operated by Louis Weber, was located at 611 Chillicothe Street in the 1932 Portsmouth City Directory.
Amber glass bottle embossed with "Hurth, Portsmouth, Ohio". Aged rubber stopper with rusted metal tie wire and wire lever to secure-called Lightning closure. Adolph Hurth Retail Liquors business was located at both 210 Market Street and 224 Chillicothe Street in the 1906 Portsmouth City Directory.
Silver penny sized token. One side: "Value in exchange for meals, K.B.I. Restaurants 5". Second side: "Kademenos Bros. Inc. Restaurants, 5, Portsmouth, Ohio". In 1939 the Portsmouth City Directory lists George P Kademenos, restaurant manager at WS Corp. (Wheeling Steel)
One copper octagon shaped token:"Value in exchange for meals 1-K.B.I. Restaurants." Other side: "Kademenos Bros. Inc. Restaurants, Portsmouth, Ohio". The 1939 Portsmouth City Directory lists George P Kademenos, restaurant manager at WS Corp (Wheeling Steel)
Silver, quarter sized tokens, Pure Oil Company on one side, WPAY on the other side. Pure Oil sponsored Paul Wagner's radio show at 5:00 pm daily on WPAY, Portsmouth radio station.
Silver with wear-quarter sized. One side-E.J.K. Co., Portsmouth, Ohio. Other side-"Good for 5(cent) when returned with bottle to dealer." The E.J. Kenrick Company was established in 1866 and originally bottled and sold soft drinks, but later became more of a wholesale distributor of food and tobacco. Their final location, a catalog sales showroom at 342 Second (2nd) Street, closed in 2002.
Silver-slightly marred token. Hopalong image and the actor's real name William Boyd (movie and TV star of the 30's, 40's, and 50's) on one side; Good Luck emblems and Good Luck from "Hoppy" on other side.
June 1965 Portsmouth Sesquicentennial Souvenir half-dollar coin with gold color; some tarnish. One side depicts Native American and valley, other side redeeming information. On December 29, 1814 the Ohio legislature passed an act to incorporate the town of Portsmouth in Scioto County. This act took effect March 1, 1815.
