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====== Florence, Kentucky in the 1960s ====== | ====== Florence, Kentucky in the 1960s ====== | ||
- | {{ http://bcplfusion.bcpl.org/Repository/3_93_florence_drive_in_1961.jpg?350|Florence Drive-In 1961}} | + | <html><img alt=" Florence Drive-In 1961" src="https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/23195/0" width="350" align="right" title="Florence Drive-In 1961"></html> |
Starting in the late 1950's, [[Florence]], Kentucky went through a housing boom. Many people moved to the area to work in factories in Cincinnati and thought [[Boone County]] was a great place to live. Because there weren't as many houses as families moving to the area, subdivisions were developed around the main town of Florence. | Starting in the late 1950's, [[Florence]], Kentucky went through a housing boom. Many people moved to the area to work in factories in Cincinnati and thought [[Boone County]] was a great place to live. Because there weren't as many houses as families moving to the area, subdivisions were developed around the main town of Florence. | ||
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|{{http://bcplfusion.bcpl.org/Repository/2_4_Florence_Baptist_Church,us_42_us_25_and_main_street.JPG?750|Florence Baptist Church sign}}|If you look beyond the sign, you can see what downtown Florence looked like in the 1950s and 1960s.| | |{{http://bcplfusion.bcpl.org/Repository/2_4_Florence_Baptist_Church,us_42_us_25_and_main_street.JPG?750|Florence Baptist Church sign}}|If you look beyond the sign, you can see what downtown Florence looked like in the 1950s and 1960s.| | ||
- | |{{http://bcplfusion.bcpl.org/Repository/2_51_1961_corner_of_turfway_and_main_st.jpg?750|Corner of Turfway and Main St.}}|Corner of Turfway Road and Main Street in Florence in 1961. You can see the sign points to Latonia Racetrack, which is now Turfway Park Racetrack.| | + | |<html><img alt="Corner of Turfway and Main St." src="https://bcp.ent.sirsi.net/client/en_US/search/asset/23046/0" width="750" title="Corner of Turfway and Main St."></html> |Corner of Turfway Road and Main Street in Florence in 1961. You can see the sign points to Latonia Racetrack, which is now Turfway Park Racetrack.| |
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