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Valentine shopping, 1951
Children shopped for Valentines at the S.S. Kresge & Co. store at 250 West Main Street in Lexington, February 1951. From left are Sara Smith, Paul Leonard and Shirley McQueen. The chain store...
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First National Bank and Trust Co. lobby, 1940
First National Bank and Trust Co. lobby, March 1940. Known as Lexington’s first skyscraper, the 15-story landmark at 167 West Main Street is now a 21c Museum Hotel. The part of the lobby shown in this...
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Walgreen’s advertisement, 1945
Full-page advertisement for Walgreen Drug Store on page A7 of the April 13, 1945, Lexington Leader. Some of the items listed in the ad were a five-piece cooking set for $4.98, toothpicks for 3 cents,...
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Rogers Restaurant, 1965
George Rogers in front of his restaurant at 601 West Main Street in June 1965 after announcing plans to move the popular eatery to 808 South Broadway. Rogers had bought a former confectionery at...
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Christmas shoppers at S.S. Kresge, 1948
Christmas shoppers filled the S.S. Kresge store in downtown Lexington on Dec. 9, 1948. S.S. Kresge, a Detroit-based company, brought its 5 and 10 cent stores to Lexington in 1912. The downtown store...
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Downtown Christmas shoppers, 1945
Christmas shoppers along West Main Street in December 1945, with the largest crowd on the sidewalk outside JC Penney and Purcell Co. department stores, top left. World War II had ended three months...
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Lexington Farmers Market, 1977
Garnett Edwards of Waco, Ky., right, sold produce at Lexington’s Farmers Market, which was on West Main Street across from Newtown Pike in May 1977. The market began in 1973 on the current site of the...
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Downtown Lexington jewelry store burglary, 1956
Lexington patrolmen John Johnson Jr., left, and James Perkins looked at the damage after a burglary on June 21, 1956, at Kirk Jewelry Co., 301 West Main Street. Eight Bulova watches, valued at $400,...
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McAdams & Morford Drugs on Main Street, 1939
Looking west down Lexington’s Main Street at Upper Street, 1939. The building at the corner is the McAdams & Morford Building. The drug store occupied the corner space from 1898-1994. The...
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Lexington rainbow mural, 1983
The Lexington rainbow mural was about all that remained of the former Philip Gall & Son sporting goods building at 230 West Main St. in downtown Lexington, as workmen took down the last wall on...
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