- 1971
The Globe-Wernicke office-furniture line is sold to Hamilton Cosco,
Columbus, Indiana. The manufacture of Globe-Wernicke furniture at
the Avco plant in Tennessee ceases.
- 1971 (June 10 and July 1)
The Enterprise reports that Norwood will
have the first complete Fire-Police Emergency Reporting Telephone
System in the Greater Cincinnati area. The new phones will allow a
citizen to call either the Fire or Police Department to report an
emergency. The previous red fire boxes will be removed. The
installation of the new network was expected to take 12 to 18
months.
- 1971 (October 10)
The new headquarters for the Norwood Eagles
at the remodeled Penn-Central Depot, 2863 Harris Place, is
dedicated.
- 1972 (September 28)
The longest strike against General Motors ended after 174 days when
the U.A.W.'s Norwood Assembly Plant members approved a new contract.
The following month, the plant announced that just 40 of the 1,100
partially built Chevrolet Camaros and Pontiac Firebirds assembled at
the facility before the April strike would be saved from the scrap
yard.
- 1973
Construction on Surrey Square Mall is begun late in the year on the
site of The Strobridge Lithography Company on Montgomery Road.
- 1975 (February)
Former Norwood Mayor George Kleb dies.
- 1977
Norwood uncaps one of the old artesian wells at Park and Linden
Avenues, providing an alternate source of clean water after a carbon
tetrachloride spill in the Ohio River.
- 1978 (January 1)
Effective on this date, the YMCA and YWCA of Hamilton County
terminated the operational agreement of the Northeastern Branch
building at Sherman and Walters Avenues. The YWCA was to sell its
part of the jointly owned building.
- 1978 (January 19)
Joseph W. Shea, Sr., Norwood's Urban Renewal Director, died at the
age of 83.
- 1978 (February)
Council approved moving the Norwood Community/Senior Center to the
former St. Elizabeth School building. Negotiations to lease the
building were finalized in September.
- 1978 (February)
Norwood's Sheila Anderson was crowned Miss Ohio Universe.
- 1978 (March)
Council approved the rezoning of property at Smith and Lafayette
Avenues for the construction of a new GMAD credit union (today's
Wright-Patterson Credit Union). Ground breaking occurred in August.
- 1978 (March)
Plans were started to create the Norwood Historical Society. On May
2, a charter was adopted and the board of trustees was elected.
- 1978 (March)
Pennington Bros., Inc., Sherman Avenue, bought the Rubel Rye Bread
bakery.
- 1978 (April)
Linclay Corporation and Schroder Real Estate formed a partership
called Surrey Square Associates.
- 1978 (May 1)
Norwood pharmacist Robert Simon was fataly shot in the parking lot
behind Stan's Pharmacy. Four men were later arrested for the murder.
- 1978 (June)
Council approved $85,000 for the Community/Senior Center.
- 1978 (June)
The Linwood Waterfields, land purchased years ago in hopes of
providing Norwood with anothe source of water, was offered to
Norwood residents for use as 25'x25' garden plots.
- 1978 (June)
The U. S. Shoe Corporation announced that it was considering moving
its corporate offices and warehouses to Cincinnati at the new
Eastwood Village Industrial Park.
- 1978 (July)
Norwood's 75th anniversary of its incorporation as a city was
celebrated at the annual Summer Daze festival, the Jubilee Days
parade and Norwood Day at Americana Amusement Park.
- 1978 (August)
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra had a concert at Shea Stadium.
- 1978 (August)
SILCO, Inc., a Norwood-based industrial laundry and janitorial
service, sold it operations to ARA Services, Inc., a Philidelphia,
Pennsylvania business.
- 1978 (September)
The Norwood Ecumenenical Witness Housing Board purchased Regina High
School for senior citizen housing.
- 1978 (October 29)
Opera singer Roberta Peters sang at the Norwood Junior High School.
A reception followed at City Hall.
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