Now and Then

According to history. The first brick store was built by Anthony Swarthout in 1869, and leased to C. Beebe & Sons for a drug store. This store would later become Jenk’s Drug Store and now it is the current Inspiration Station Scrapbook store. Can you spot all of the differences from the last 70 or so years? The lamppost looks like the same style. Definitely in a different position.  Some buildings on the left, side street are gone. Flower box. Handicap sign. Anyone have any memories to share please contact us. 

Late 1930’s to early 1940’s.  Left to right: Ovid Bank,  Lou Storrer’s Clothing store, Kroger Grocery  Store. Unknown officer at the doorway, unknown man by store.

September 18, 2011.  Left to right:Fifth-Third Bank, Lawyers office, Inspiration Station Scrapbook  store, Officer Kevin Pettigrew at the doorway.

1.  A picture show (moving pictures) 
2. The Princess Hotel/Restaurant. 
3.  The Ovid Register Union Office (Newspaper). 
4. A harness shop 
5. C.T. Snyders  Store 
6. H.R. Hemstreet’s general repair shop. To the far right - Ovids only hospital.

Current left to right. Ovid Farmer’s Elevator, empty lot where the IOOF building once stood, private business, current post office (building with the many windows), hospital is now a private home.

Looking Northeast from the corner of Clinton and Main Street. The building  with the boards leaning against it is the bank. Notice to the right, that the  building that would become Jenk’s drug store is there, but there are still the  original wooden buildings next to it. The brick buildings would come later.

Now you see it, now you don’t. A little part of our town’s history disappeared due to a new ordinance.

Most of us have known this building as Moore’s garage. The building next to  it, with the Coca Cola sign, was once the tallest building in Ovid.

Aerial view of M-21 looking towards the west.. The cemetery is at the bottom of the picture. The Lifesaver Inn is in the middle right

The lifesaver Inn, with the addition of bowling lanes,  would later become Tri-Ami and then  Nic’s

The Ovid Roller Mills, notice the horse and wagon, plus the electrical transformers. The buildings have changed just a little over the last 100 years.

The West side of Main Street. None of the buildings from the early 1900’s are left.