Philip Spiess
Paul: It was the elephants. For some reason they hated Skyline Chili (elephants have delicate stomachs -- though big ones), and so the IGA store, known locally as Keller's Supermarket, had to stock pet food (also fot the numerous goldfish which inhabited various Clifton residences, which, if they were very good, got to graduate to the waterways in the Krohn Conservatory in Eden Park).
The eastern end of Ludlow Avenue changes to Jefferson Avenue at Brookline Avenue (which was also the northern entrance to Burnet Woods) (cf. Enoch T. Carson Lodge, halfway between Skyline Chili and Brookline Avenue, the address of which is 518 Ludlow Avenue). There also stood the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house, the former home of Cincinnati's political boss, George B. Cox [see Part VI of my treatise on "Cincinnati's African-Americans"]; I believe it is now a Cincinnati Public Library branch. If you continued east on Jefferson Avenue, you could cut north on Ruther Avenue or Vine Street and quickly find yourself at the front entrance to the Zoo -- hence the elephants (tusk, tusk).
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