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Toledo Strip Clubs: From baseball to funky signs to gangsters, Cincy area offers plenty of fun viewing
July 1, 2010 | | Leave a Comment
An entirely different type of quintessential American art is featured at the American Sign Museum, where owner-curator Tod Swormstedt has assembled a funky collection of hundreds of roadside signs from yesteryear. From fancy gold-leaf glass to “chaser” light bulbs to flashing neon, Swormstedt’s nostalgic signs – many of them very familiar and very big – will bring a smile to anyone’s face.
Just across the Ohio River in the little town of Newport, Ky., visitors can get an eye-opening and entertaining look at what’s been described as the “prototype for Las Vegas.” On the “Newport Gangsters, Gamblers & Girls” historical walking tour, guides dressed like mobsters lead visitors on an eight-block stroll, spinning colorful yarns – which they swear are true – and pointing out buildings that once housed casinos, strip clubs, speakeasies, and brothels. The tours, which are an absolute hoot, start and end, fittingly, at Gangsters Dueling Piano Bar.
See the full article from “Toledo Blade”