Columbus Neighborhoods
Columbus Monthly's First Issue 50 Years Later
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The first issue of Columbus Monthly was published in June 1975 and focused on Victorian Village.
Columbus Monthly celebrates its 50th anniversary in June 2025. We take a look at the first issue, which asked if Victorian Village, a neighborhood in the city, would make it. Angela O'Neal of the Columbus Metropolitan Library shares the remarkable journey of Columbus Monthly and its first editor Max Brown through its print materials.
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Columbus Neighborhoods is a local public television program presented by WOSU
Columbus Neighborhoods
Columbus Monthly's First Issue 50 Years Later
Special | 1m 25sVideo has Closed Captions
Columbus Monthly celebrates its 50th anniversary in June 2025. We take a look at the first issue, which asked if Victorian Village, a neighborhood in the city, would make it. Angela O'Neal of the Columbus Metropolitan Library shares the remarkable journey of Columbus Monthly and its first editor Max Brown through its print materials.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship>>> All right, we often talk about photographs and their importance in Columbus history, but print materials are just as important and tell some really great stories for historians as well.
Here we have the first issue of Columbus Monthly from June 1975.
The headline and the feature story is Will Victorian Village Make It?
Which is kind of funny, given that Victorian Village is such a fabric of our community today.
In this story, they're talking about new people moving into Victorian Village, and the changes that are happening at that point in the 1970s.
That is also kind of interesting for the development of Columbus Monthly by in itself, in that the first editor, Max Brown, when he started Columbus Monthly, there were many people who advised him against it.
They told him that this isn't Cleveland or Cincinnati.
Well, he proved them wrong, and here we are many years later with Columbus Monthly still going strong.
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