What Happened To Toledo Ohio?

What happened to Toledo?

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"20190812 38 Toledo, Ohio" by davidwilson1949 is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

"20190812 37 Toledo, Ohio" by davidwilson1949 is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

[noodengrthree]

I live about 1 1/2 hours west of Toledo just in to indiana. I have visited a couple of times. They do have a very nice art museum

[DocMosquito]

As a resident of Point Place in Toledo I love this city! I was part of a student jazz group that went around to parks in the summer, surprisingly Toledo has a nice jazz scene too. Imagination station, Toledo Speedway, the Metro parks, and honestly nice people despite how much we all badmouth the city. Nice video covering the place man, keep it up!

[Alphaskeptic]

In the 1970s I worked on Canadian lake boats. Toledo was one of many ports throughout the lower great lakes that we frequently went into to load or unload various cargoes. Iron ore, coal, grain would be handled in the river ports that sometimes only the older smaller boats could get into. Today traffic on the lakes is much reduced and the dock areas of many of those ports are abandoned. In part they were victims of free trade agreements that resulted in the closure of many of the steel mills.

[JustinTyme]

I've lived in Toledo for 57yrs, I've seen it slowly because a cesspool. The main reason for its downfall is ignorant leadership.

[LentilSoupChilean]

"Toledo, Ohio! Don't get killed here"

-Scott The Woz, Toledo resident.

[JustinG]

I live near Toledo, it's amazing how run down and unsafe parts are, then if you go a couple blocks over you can see mansions

[Wiseguy]

I was born & raised there and have many great memories of my time there. I was 22 when I left there in 1961. Out of all my old friends there, only one is still alive!

[michaelrains]

A vastly underrated place to live. Affordable, great parks, museum, zoo minor league and university sports, on major N/S and E/W transportation lines, on Lake Erie, fully enjoying four distinct seasons. Still a major auto and glass manufacturer. There are areas of crime and decay like it’s peers but there are great neighborhoods too. Old West End is an historic and beautiful old neighborhood on the national register of historic places built at Toledos height of prosperity. Downtown has seen a major renaissance over the last two decades. Visit us and find out for yourself how great the people and places in Toledo really are for a medium sized Midwest city.

[robertsmith]

Toledo Speedway is a great race track. I live in the Detroit area and go to Toledo often.

[TBH_Inc]

Even bigger than Owens Corning, there’s Owens Illinois headquartered in a suburb of Toledo, and First Solar (the US’s largest solar manufacturer) has much of its production and development on that suburb as well.

[anothercitizen]

In the late 80s I took Amtrak from Grand Central Station in NYC to Chicago. The train made an extended stop in Toledo. The station had a sign above the station entrance that read “Glass City.”

[virginiansupremacy]

toledo is a chill city, probably one of the most forgotten of Ohio's biggest cities

[marvin]

I drive trucks through there sometimes, it's like a city that time has left behind (not all of it though) I see a lot of towns in Mississippi that look like that too.

[nedwright]

Toledo is a wonderful place to live. Best park system of any mid to large size city by a large margin. Library system is second to none. Great art museum symphony and other institutions. Loving and friendly people. I returned here from 20 years in Rochester NY. I am so happy I did.

[luannkurfis]

I grew up in Toledo and have many fond memories growing up there.

[deplorablecovfefe]

Shutting down the steam plant killed downtown, then in the 70s and 80s the gradual union busting that killed Detroit also killed Toledo. All the great manufacturers shutdown and moved away.

[jhutch]

Toledo was also known for their world class "run about" boats in the 1920's and 30's. The factory on Summit Street is still there.

[thinkfromabove]

People hate on Toledo all the time. I have traveled all over America and I always wanted to come back to Toledo. It's actually a pretty nice place to live and we are surrounded by bigger cities. Not far from Detroit(they have the best concerts), Cleveland, Columbus, Chicago, and so on. It's also not far from NYC. It's near all these places but has a small-town vibe to it, unlike a lot of other bigger cities. I genuinely feel that all the Toledo people that hate on their own city and leave the first chance they get, I think THEY are the problem. It's not the city, its you. Toledo is great and I am never going to live anywhere else.

[johnwalker]

I’ve owned so many jeeps that were built in Toledo! Willys, Kaiser, AMC, Chrysler, Fiat and Stellantis. I wonder which company Jeep will outlive next?

[bluelgt]

I grew up in Toledo, first on Cowan street in the 50s and then on Moore St. In the 60s. I left for the Air Force in 1971 and never looked back. I had to stay in downtown Toledo 6 years ago on business. It is greatly improved downtown but the north end is worse than ever. Still proud to be from and survived Toledo. Wore a Mudhens cap in Afghanistan!