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Exploring Northern Kentucky’s hidden, forgotten, and erased stories. YouTube: @COVertNKY
- Reposted by COVertNKYThis Covington, Ky., site is haunted by failed businesses and dashed development dreams. What's beneath the parking lot surface? Flooded brewery tunnels? An old parking garage? Ghosts? The only way to find out is to peer inside. 🗃️ nkytribune.com/2026/02/covi...
- I wonder what this 1830s Kentucky anti-gambling society did for fun?
- A conversation with Sister Janet Sister Janet Bucher, July 2025. Photo by David Rotenstein. Sister Janet Bucher was one of the first people I met after moving to Covington, Kentucky, last summer. Before the move, I had subscribed to City of Covington email lists promoting future events in our new…
- A gambler who played a key role in regional & national sports betting history died while living in an apartment inside this Northern Kentucky building.
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- Assembling sites for new crime history tours in 2026. One site that should be on the bike tour but won't b/c it's too far afield is this brick building (left). It has ties to the birth of syndicated horse race betting, Churchill Downs, and key Cincy area casinos. If only its walls could talk!
- How much more criminally corrupt was Northern Kentucky than Pittsburgh? Where do you see "Pittsburgh" in this 1985 graphic?
- Did Jakie Lerner ever gamble in Northern Kentucky? He was friends with and did "business" with many of the region's big-name racketeers, including Moe Dalitz & the Lookout House's Sam "Gameboy" Miller. Are we going to find his footprints here? pittsburghquarterly.com/articles/fin...
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