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Christmas Morning in Worthington Ohio 1928

Don O'Brien and his younger brother David on Christmas morning in 1928, in one of black and white photos he shares on Flickr.   Actually their house on W. Wilson Bridge Road was north of Worthington.  The house at 130 W. Wilson Bridge Rd. was out in the country north of the Village of Worthington in the 1920s. The Village of Worthington, what is now called "Old Worthington" was from North St. to South St. and Morning St. to Evening St., West Wilson Bridge Rd. was way out in the country in Sharon Township.  In the 1930s at least W. Wilson Bridge Road was in the Worthington school district of the time, there was a Sharon Township school district too.

On his Flickr page on this and another Christmas 1928 photo, Mr. O'Brien describes the flash powder used to take the indoor photos.  They had to open the windows to clear the smoke after the photos were taken.

Look at those toys!  I tried last year to find something on Delko Dumper or Delko Wagons but was not able to.  See the Tinker Toy container on the right?

Another Christmas Morning with the O'Brien family?  Christmas Morning 1935 - Don O'Brien got his first camera. This photo is "All Rights Reserved" it is one of my favorites on Flickr.  Don O'Brien has a great collection of his own photos of Worthington Ohio from the 1930s and 1940s.

Christmas in Worthington Ohio 1928 - Winter is colorful, after all

I wondered if there was snow on the ground on Christmas morning 1928.  From his father's diary describing their Sharon Township Property at 130 W. Wilson Bridge Rd.:

"Wandering around outdoors in the bright, snappy air this afternoon, I looked at the Euonymus patens or spreading euonymus, the Viburnum rhytididiphyllum and the Oregon hollygrape, each green in the shrub border. Berries still cling to the highbush cranberry, some of the cotoneasters and the barberry. Many of the rock garden plants not yet covered were still green and fresh. Winter is colorful, after all."

just  part of a commment that Mr. O'Brien (Dok1 on Flickr) added last year to the photo of him and his brother on Christmas 1928.  O'Brien's father wrote a column for Better Homes and Gardens magazine and wrote extensively for Country Gentleman, a magazine for farmers.  The father's diary tells about Christmas Eve preparation for Donald and David's Christmas morning, what he got for Christmas 1928 and about a walk outside, "Winter is colorful, after all."    The photo of the O'Brien brothers in front of their Christmas tree in 1928 is linked to the photo, so you can read more of what Don O'Brien shares from his father's diary.

Wilson Bridge 1936 or 1937

Worthington School Bus 1938

The Christmas Morning 1928 photo is part of Don O'Brien's Flickr Photostream - Dok1.  Just today Mr. O'Brien  added to Flickr a photo of himself on Christmas 1933, with his main gift, a desk.  A few days ago he shared a card his mother made for Christmas 1930.  The photo of Christmas Morning 1928 is licensed with a Creative Commons license which allows me to use it here.

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Worthington schools are called the Worthington City School District today.

The George Bleimes family moved from the east side of Columbus to High St. just  south of the Village of Worthington  in the 1920s. They had a Worthington mailing address.

The Bleimes family history by George Bleimes (the son)  says:

"My mother had been an elementary-level teacher before marriage and was critical of the “country” schools of the Worthington School District. Therefore my parents paid tuition for me to attend Columbus schools. Columbus buses did not come out as far as our home, so I had to ride the street car (trolley car). The fare was six cents; if you bought a strip of tickets they were five for a quarter."

A photo on the family history shows young George Bleimes and his father in front of The Delawanda, a "tea room" with a Worthington address.  The Delawanda "tea room" was where the Delawanda Park and Ride is now.  High St. just north of Old Beechwold.  I first saw the photo of The Delawanda on Flickr.

Worthington schools

If George Bleimes was born in 1923 he started school about 1928 or 1929... I would guess.   Worthington did not become a city until the late 1950s, so Worthington Schools would have been rural in the late 1920s and into the  1930s and after.

I think of "rural schools" or country schools having been one room school houses.   The photo here is of a Worthington school that was razed in 1937.  It is from Don O'Brien's Worthington photos on Flickr.  This one is shared with a Creative Commons license. He has other photos of the building.  The photos is part of Don O'Brien's My School: Worthington Ohio series.  His grandfather had attended school in this building in the 1800's.

The Sharon Township school north of Worthington is more what I think of as a country school, a photo of the Slate Hill School from the 1920s from Don O'Brien's Flickr photosteam.  That school building is used as a home and has been for years,  Click through to Flickr on the photo with the school childrena and there is a picture of the house on Flint Road O'Briend took in 2008.  

Times change... today where The Delawanda was where the Delawanda Park and Ride is (4300  4900 block of N. High St.)  is in the Columbus School District.   I believe that area was annexed into the City of Columbus in the  1950s, when Graceland Shopping Center was annexed.

Worthington School - Creative Commons license.  Thanks to Don O'Brien for allowing the photo to be used.  O'Brien is Dok1 on Flickr.  He has amazing photos of Worthington from the 1930s and 1940s, including photos of Worthington schools.

Information on selected Central Ohio schools including the Worthington and Columbus school districts and others, is on my website MaureenMcCabe.com - Central Ohio Schools public

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Is Worthington Ohio a ghost town as in deserted?  Not on your life!  Worthington is a thriving Central Ohio community with a history.  I got a big kick out of the Worthington Libraries series of Ghost Stories last fall when I found them.  I found them after Halloween 2007.  I'd posted a couple on my Discover Columbus site last winter... Not scary but a bit grisley ... this is a part of Worthington history I did not know. This is my favorite Worthington Ghost Tour: The Tale of Dr. Morrow   From the Worthington Libraries starring the webmaster at Worthington Libraries, Stefan Langer, as Dr. Thomas Morrow.

Angry mobs of citizens, grave robbers, a missing body from an insane asylum?  I don't believe I had ever heard of the the story of Dr. Thomas Morrow and the Worthington Medical College's demise.  The Worthington Library has a series of videos of Worthington ghost stories that they produced in 2007.  I did not find them and amuse myself with this one until 2008.

Worthington 2008    "Worthington was founded in 1803 and has grown into a well established community while maintaining its New England atmosphere. Worthington offers a wide variety of homes, both in style and price range. The proximity to the 1-270 outer-belt with Interstate 71 and Route 315 makes transportation to downtown Columbus easy, allows fifteen to twenty minutes driving time at rush hours."

and ghosts too!  Who knew?

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