Greg Hand

Live burials as promotional stunts were fairly common in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1969, a Bridgetown car dealership entombed a woman in 5,000 pounds of ice.

After World War II, a male veteran allegedly ran for UC homecoming queen and won. The legend survives on UC’s web site in an alumni magazine quiz.

A trashy tale of community refuse, from pigs roaming our streets and eating garbage tossed from windows to the creation of Mt. Rumpke.

On Friday, May 24, 1935, the Cincinnati Reds defeated Philadelphia 2-1 in major league baseball’s very first night game at Crosley Field.

Our hilly city once boasted five inclines to Price Hill, Fairview, Bellevue, Mt. Auburn, and Mt. Adams. Here are some lesser-known facts about them.

Crowds would gather at Platt Evens's Main Street haberdashery in the mid-1800s just to look through the plate glass windows.

Hal Young's marriages led to divorces that overflowed with infidelity, spiritualist séances, voodoo, horsewhipping, prostitution, and chicanery.

The partying and quarreling of Cincinnati saloonkeeper William Geiger and Pansy Williams made the couple local celebrities in 1889.

A public divorce between Augustine Ogden and Ernest Drewitz (aka the Violet Honeymooners) aired salacious-for-its-time dirty laundry in the early 1900s.

Before 1910, Cincinnati's Asian population was extremely small and almost exclusively Chinese. Still, the city had a 30-year obsession with Japanese wedding ceremonies.