From September 1924 until 1955, the address 3365 N High was occupied by J.L. Oelgoetz Distributors (later calling themselves Plumbing and Heating Contractors). There’s an old post with a photo of Mr. Oelgoetz’s storefront here.

While researching this, I happened on this amusing article about the theft of both a bathtub and a boulder. A bathtub, for $20?

The “coal strike” in this Oelgoetz ad referred to a series of strikes in the bituminous coal mining regions of western Pennsylvania, and also to the anthracite coal strike in Northeastern Pennsylvania. The bituminous coal strike, which lasted from 1925 to 1928, was a flashpoint of racial, ethnic, and class conflict in the industrial North. The anthracite strike, which began in September 1925, involved 148,000 miners and threatened a coal shortage.

3365-1/2 was occupied in 1938 by William R. Barnhill Candy, and in 1939 by J. Howard Lyford Confectionary. Candy! Sadly I was unable to find out more about these sweet businesses.

[Newspaper clippings courtesy of the Columbus Dispatch, accessed through the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Newsbank database.]