Listed below are 247+ Marietta, Ohio businesses that was popular in the 1960's and '70's.  
Some are no longer in existance, either by going out of business, name change, moving 
to another location, or destroyed by fire or flood.  This is not a complete list, but 
of those that are remembered by the contributors of this database. (See names below)

I must say, that doing a database of this nature, was rewarding and a lot of fun.

I'm sure that any reader who lived in the Marietta area during is era will enjoy reading 
and remembering some of these places....It was a nice walk down memory lane for me, 
And who knows......This list might prove useful 50 years from now.  

See below the list of names who contributed to this database.

Enjoy!--D. Nitsche
April 2005



A. H. Smith & Son (Corner of Butler & Post Sts.)
A & P Grocery Store (Corner of 3rd & Butler St. Now Moose Club)
Ackerman's Meat Market, aka Eisenmann's & West Side Meat Market (Corner of Gilman & Maple St.'s)
American Cyanamid (E Greene St)
Anderson Radio and TV (Front St)
Andres Bro. (Al & Squea) Family Neighborhood Grocery, both buildings torn down. (Greene St.)
Apex Feed & Supply Store (209 3rd St.)
Apple's Grocery (Maple Street West Side)
Army Surplus Store (Westview)
B & K Drive Up Restrauant (Pike Street)
BBF, Burger Boy Food-O-Rama, building torn down, home of the 10 & 25c hamburgers (7th Street)
Beagle's Drug Store (2nd St.)
Beale's Donut Shop (709 Greene St.)
Becker Motors (2nd St.)
Becker's Flowers (309 2nd St)
Becks Tavern (Warren St.)
Best’s Grocery (Corner of 4th & Marion St.)
Betty Lee Shoppe, 122 Putnam St
BF Goodrich (in Oak Grove, now RJF)
BF Goodrich Tire Company (324 2nd St)
Big Bear Grocery Store (Frontier Shopping Center)
Big Four Used Cars (Frontier Shopping Center where McDonald's now is)
Blue Moon Restaurant (Cherry Tree Inn)
Bob Elston Carry Out (West Side Putnam Ave.)
Bonanza (Pike Street)
Bonded Gas Station (Corner of Greene & 4th Sts.))
Bonham's Department Store (206 Putnam St)
Boyd's Music (2nd St.)
BPOE (Front St. Fire destroyed it in the 1990's. historical building)
Brother's Funiture Store, owned by  Elsie & Daniel R.Brothers (Greene St.)
Broughton’s Ice Cream Parlor (7th Street)
Broughton's Restaurant (Putnam Street)
Brunicardi's Restaurant (Putnam St. by Colony)
Bubs Tavern, building torn down (Virginia St.)
Burger Chef (Pike St. beside Elby's now Quick Care)
Cain's Drive In Restaurant and Motel (228 Pike Street)
Certified Gas Station (Green Street)
CCC Trucking (Gilman Ave. near Dravo)
Cherry Tree Inn (St. Rt. 7 N.)
Christian Anchorage Nursing Home, Anchorage (West Side)
Cinema Theater (229 Putnam St, now Mid-Ohio Valley Players)
Citizens National Bank ( 2nd and Putnam, NW, now BankOne)
Club Continental (Front Street)
Coffman Music (Second Street)
Colony Theater (222 Putnam St)
Congleton's Cafeteria (337 3rd St)
Corbett Appliances (Greene St.)
Corbitt Appliance (Alderman St.)
Corner Tavern (Corner of Greene & 3rd St.)
Croy Lumber Co. (in Westview near Airolite)
Crystal Beverage Company (Marietta West Side)
Crystal Ice Company (3rd St., building torn down)
Cutshalls Poolhall (Front St.)
Das Rook Haus (700 Block Greene Street)
Deb Jones Grocery (Maple street)
Dick Kremer Shoes ( 313 Putnam St)
Dickson Rendering  (Westview)
Dime Bank (now Wesbanco)
D-Marr Beauty Salon (841 Greene St.)
Dounda & McClure Funeral Home (314 4th St.) Now called McClure-Shafer-Lankford Funeral Home
                 Still directed by Genevive McClure, d/o Walter McClure.
Dravo Corporation (Gilman Ave. in West View area)
Dudley's Flowers, once a school (346 3rd St.)
Dutch Grill (Front Street)
East Wind Chinese Restaurant,later the Hong Kong Rest. (1st beside Heck's, 2nd Acme St.)
Elliott's Sporting Goods (Maple Street then moved to Greene Street)
Elston Lumber Co. (309 Lancaster St)
Firestone (Wolfords ?) (Front Street)
First National Bank (2nd and Putnam)
Flamenco Club (Front St. Fire in March of 1962)
Floyd's Grocery (Corner of Acme & Phillips' St.)
Ford's Jewelry, once the 1st P.O. in Marietta (Corner of Front & Putnam St.)
Friendship School, building torn down for Ewing School (Corner of Muskingum & Colgate Dr.)
Frische's Big Boy Restaurant (at one time the ONLY restaurant on Pike St., later Elby's Rest.)
Frontier Hardware (Frontier Shopping Center)
Frontier Jewelers (Frontier Shopping Center)
Golden Cue Poolhall (Front St.)
Goodie Shop (Bakery) (414 Warren St)
Goodwill Store (Green St., now located on Front St.)
Grant Edwards Gas Station (Colegate and Muskingum Drive)
Greyhound Bus Station (Corner of 3rd & Butler St.)
Grey's Drug Store (Green St. & Colgate Dr.)
Hacketts’ (3rd St. adjent to Tiber Way)
*Harmar House Convalescent Nursing Home (Harmar Hill, destroyed by fire.  See history below)
Harts Department Store (Family Shopping Center)
Hasty Shopper (West Side, at the end of the Putnam Street bridge)
Headquarters (Putnam St., beside the Courthouse Annex build.)
Heck's Deptment Store, later a lumber store (Pike & Acme St.'s)
Hedge Cheesman's Live Bait Shop (Maple St.)
Hilltop Restraunt, building torn down (Corner of 3rd, Marion & Matthew St.s)
Hi-Lo Wine Celler, later became Cleggs Drive Thru (Pike St.)
Hoff’s Bait Shop (Corner of Butler & 7th St.)
Hoff's Sproting Goods (414 Greene St.)
Hoyt Sams Demolition (Maple Street)
Hughey Grocery (Oak Grove)
Immel Fishing Tool Company (Ohio St.)
Irene's Fashions - Frontier Center
J & W ( a metal working shop, corner of Gilman and Putnam Ave.)
J.W. Dudley Sons Co. (414 Greene St.)
J C Penney (117 Putnam St, now Putnam Commons)
Jackson Hill Pool (Cisler Drive)
Jackson Store (Maple Street)
Jean Frock’s Clothing Store (Putnam St., later moved to Front Street)
Jim and Jimmys Bar & Grill (Front Street)
Johnny Burkes Barber Shop (Tiber Way)
Johnny's Restaurant, later Stremmel Plumming & Ohio Lottery Office (7th and Putnam at foot of H.S. Hill)
Kedelphrey's Restaurant (Front Street)
Keystone Shoe Store (Front Street)
Kitchen Mart (113 Putnam St.)
Kreesge's Five & Dime Store (Putnum St.)
Kremer Shoe Store (Putnam St.)
Krogers, Foodland, IGA (7th St. now part of Marietta College)
Kuhn Automotive (167 Front St.)
Kentucky Fried Chicken (Pike Street, now located on corner of Greene & 4th St.)
Lang Equipment (Virginia St.)
Leos Pizza (later became Napolis, Greene St.)
Maple Cafe (109 Maple St)
Marietta Apparatus (Maple St. West Side)
Marietta Basket Factory (in Westview near Airolite)
Marietta Cab (Front Street - also once on Tiber Way)
Marietta Chair Factory (Seventh Street)
Marietta Concrete (Cr 4 at Oak Grove)
Marietta Metals (replaced J & W)
Marietta Paint and Color (3rd St. between Uncle Bobs & A.& P. Grocery Stores)
Marietta Radio and TV (1028 Greene St.)
Marietta Silos (Gilman Ave. in Westview)
Marietta Truck Growers (Second St)
Marietta Typewiter (220 Putnam St.)
Marion School (now St. Mary's School) Corner of 4th & Marion)
Marlin Swimming Pool (Fairgrounds) Once operated by Francis Parlin.
Maytag Store (Front St., across from the Post Office)
McCabe's Shoe Repair (Maple Street)
Merryland Pizzeria (Front Street)
Miller Grocery (on Slaughter House Hill)
Miller Memorial (corner Gilman and Lancaster Sts.)
Miller's Grocery  (Groves Ave.)
Montgomery Ward Co. (Putnam Street)
Montgomery Ward Catalog Store (274 Front St)
Moores Lumber (Greene Street)
Morrison Refrigeration Inc. (410 Colgate Dr.)
Murphy’s Supper Club (113 Greene Street destroyed by fire)
National Guard Armory (soon to be revived as an Intermodal Transportation Hub Front St.)
Nelson Drug Store (2nd St.) I believe this was the same drug store once located on 4th St. 
                   close to Washington School, before it moved to 2nd St. in the mid '60s.
New Dainty Bar and Grille (Front St.)
New Mecca Cafe (Putnam St. in the Jonathan Meigs build. now Wash-Morgan Community Action)
New System Bakery (127 Putnam St.)
Newman Optical (Putnum St.)
Norwood Beauty Salon (Green Street)
Norwood Drug Store (1001 Greene, possibly the same as Norwood Grocery)
Norwood Grocery (Greene Street)
Norwood School, now Wash. Morgan Co. CAP Day Care & Head Start (Corner of Greene & Phillips St.)
Norwood Restaurant (935 Greene St.)
Oasis Restaurant (Corner of Warren & 7th Streets)
Ohio Bell Telephone Office (4th Street)
Ohio Theater (Second St. where Zides' is now)
Ohio Unemployment Office (Once located in the Frontier Shopping Center, now on corner of 3rd & Butler)
Ohio Valley Cable Corp. (Frontier Shopping Center & 2nd St.)
Otto Bros. Dept. Store (Putnam St.)
Pape's Sunoco (corner Gilman and Maple)
Parkette Drive In (SR 60 and 821 toward Devola)
Pastime Complex (211 Second St.)
Pastime Bowling Alley (2nd St.) On Jan. 19, 1967 a fire caused the death one Marietta 
                                Firefighter, Robert Berry, age 33
Piece Goods Shop (Putnam St.)
Pike Street Church
Pinkerton Hotel (233-235 South 2nd St)
Pioneer Savings & Loan ( 216 Putnam St)
Pottmeyer Dodge Car Lot (Corner of 2nd & Green) 
Producers Supply & Tool Co., later became The Producers Industrial Supply (2nd St.)
Putnam Theater (Putnam St. and also called the "Rat House")
Quakerstate Gas Station (Corner of Hart & Pike St.)
Rambler Motel (Muskingum Drive)
Remington  Rand (900 Greene St)
Rich Loaf Bakery & Outlet Store (16 loaves of bread for $1.00 in 1960's) (203 Acme Street)
Richard (Dick) Clark Trucking (by Harmar School on Fort Square)
Riddles Restaurant (Corner of Washington & 5th St.)
Rinard Coal Company (beside Bub's Tavern on Virginia St.)
Rings Sunoco (2nd and Scammel)
Rinks Department Store (now a Flea Market, Corner of St. Rt. 7 & Pearl St. Extension)
Riverside Bar (Front Street)
Riverside Drive In (Rt. 7, between Marietta & Belpre)
Rummage Sale Building, building torn down, now a car lot (Corner of Green & 4th St.)
Robert's Mens Shop (118 Putnam St)
Roy Rhodes Jewelers (Putnam St.)
Salzman Cycle Shop (Ohio St. - sold and repaired bicycles)
Sam Goldish Junk Yard (Second St)
Sam Yablock's Junkyard (S. 4th St.)
Sams Bait Shop (Maple St.)
Scents & Sounds (Putnam St.)
Sears (Frontier Shopping Center)
Shafer's Gas Station And Auto Repair
Silver Moon Motel & Restaurant (Route 7 N)
Singer Sewing Center (Front St.)
Slaughter House (Westwiew) Meat processing plant
Sleepys Poolhall (Tiber Way)
Snedecker's Grocery (Front St.)
Sniffen's Men's Shop (136 Putnam St)
Sohio Station (A different Schafer - I think Jim - on Pike St)
Sohio Station (Doan's Putnam and Gilman)
Sohio Station (Schafers' Second and Wooster)
Sponge Rubber Co (Greene St. near Broughtons)
St. Cloud Hotel (Front Street)
Stalnaker Body Shop (Third Street)
Starlight Drive In, torn down (St. Rt. 7 between Marietta & Reno)
State Liquor Store (7th St. beside BBF)
Stein House, later became The Red Tree (Front Street)
Sterling Service Station (2nd & Scammel Sts.)
Strimel Plumbing (756 Greene St)
Strimmel Plumbing (Below Middle School)
Swan Lumber Co. (350 Phillips St.)
Teen Center (basement of the YMCA)
Texco Gas Station (Corner of 3rd & Greene St. the last gas station with the old time pumps)
The Child Development Center Day Care (Front Street, near fairgounds, later Mental Health)
Time Out Bar (2nd Street)
Tornes Body Shop (Gilman Street west side)
Towne Motel (279 Muskingum Dr)
Uncle Bob's Grocery Store, aka Weber's Meat Market (3rd St.)
Union Hardware (221 Putnam St.)
Valley Beauty School (once located in the old Willard School and BPOE buildings)
Vere Smith Audio (Second Street)
Voll’s Cafe (Greene Street)
Vrooman's TV & Radio Repair (3rd or 4th St.)
Wagner Art Shop (404 3rd St)
Wagon Wheel Restaurant, building torn down for shopping center (536 Pike St.)
Wakefield Motor Inn(Hotel), building torn down, now a parking lot. (233 Putnam St.)
Walla Halla Gallery (Corner of Front & Putnam St.)
Warren St Laundromat (517 Warren St)
Warrens Grocery Store, later Warren's Foodland (Warren St.)
Warren's IGA (Seventh St.)
Warren's Market (1007 Greene St.)
Washington/Morgan Co. CAP (once located in old Lock house on Front St, now on Putnam St.)
Washington County Landmark (219 3rd St)
Webers Meat Market, aka Uncle Bob's (3rd St.)
Weihl's Funiture & Appliance Store (949 Greene)
Wendelkens (Front St.)
West Side Transfer (311 Gilman Street)
White's Restaurant (Front St)
Wilhelm's Grocery (Maple and Franklin West Side)
Willard School, building torn down, now KFC (Corner of 4th & Greene St.)
Williamson Chevrolet (249 Second St.)
Williamson Chevrolet (Frontier Shopping Center)
Wilson Music (Putnam St. between Colony and Brunicardis)
Wilson's Dairy Freeze (Corner of Franklin & Putnam Ave. later became Dairy Queen)
Woolworths (Family Shopping Center)
Winans Hardware (2nd St.)
Wun-Der Shoes (282 Front St.)
Yarn Shop (306 5th St)

HARMAR HOUSE CONVALESCENT NURSING HOME FIRE--Once located on Harmar Hill, it was one of the 
worst fires in Marietta's history.  Only 1 1/2 years after the Harmar House Nursing Home was 
built, it was destroyed by a fire on January 9, 1970 and claimed the lives of 36-38 people 
caused by the smoke.  Because of the high number of deaths, the National Guard Amory building 
was set up as a morgue. Many others were injured including 2 firefighters.  The fire was caused 
by a cigarette being discarded into a plastic trash container by a patient, which spread very 
rapidly due to the rubberbacked carpeting, and lack of fire doors.  In 1972 a $400,000 law suit 
was filed against a patient & six people involved in building the home.  The City of Marietta 
was also named in the lawsuit claiming it was negligent in not keeping a nearby fire hydrant 
in working order.  This nursing home fire devastated the community and the state of Ohio, thus 
leading to changes in laws pertaining to fire and building codes throughout Ohio and the U.S. 
Facts obtained was taken from various area newspapers.  (Debbie Noland Nitsche)

Contributors to this database:  Tim Beardsley, Ernie Thode, Barry Murphy, Larry Noland, 
Rick Ritchie, Rick Bloomingdale, Carolyn Westberry, Jeanice Kalbach, Sheri Evans, and
Debbie Noland Nitsche

Compiled by Debbie Noland Nitsche
April 2005