A Way to Remember

In the mid 1800’s while living at the corner of Columbus and Bruck St. in German Village, Henrietta Frederica Elizabeth Longhenry Frank and Karl Frank started their family, eventually raising nine children. The street car route to Union Station must have seemed an awesome challange for the uninitiated. Juanita Kientz of Grove City remembers her grandmother teaching the children the following saying that she created. It provided names of the cross streets on Main from High to McNaughton and was intended to help the children memorize their way to the station and know when to get off at intermediate stops:

DIRECTIONS

Mr. Livingston Fulton

Lived on Mound and Main.

He got so rich he bought a Town

Within a State.

He went aBroad, got so Gay

He walked a Long

And tried to Spring

A Chestnut on Mr. McNaughten

Ah, the romance of times gone by. Can you envision the little girls in their frilly dresses and the boys in their dark dress up clothes on such a grand adventure with grandmother’s saying guiding their way, all within the peaceful inner city.

The Original house still stands at 801 Bruck St as a monument to Juanita Kientz’s memories.