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Neighbors reunited at Bayley Western Hills High University High School, founded in 1928, is the heart of Western Hills. KAREEM ELGAZZAR/THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
The Wagon Wheel Cafe closed in 2008 after 139 years in operation. Here is when it was the Bridgetown Hotel. GARY LANDERS, CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
The West Side’s favorite son, Pete Rose, owned a restaurant briefly in what many consider the heart of Western Hills. CINCINNATI ENQUIRER FIL E
Where is Western Hills?
DELHI TOWNSHIP – There are some friends who remain friends for life, regardless of how often you connect. You may go for months between visits, you may just write letters during the holidays or you may have lost touch over the years, but it’s amazing that when you do meet again, it’s as if you’ve never parted. There is an instant bond that lets you pick up where you left off, sharing memories and reconnecting the dots on life’s journey. Maybe you attended the same school, worked together or experienced marriage and family life at the same times. Your personalities just click, and you treasure your time together. That’s how it is for Lavern Graham and her longtime friend, Agnes Reilly. They met on a Forest Park tee-ball field in 1959, both pushing strollers while watching their children hit balls and run bases. Turns out their husbands, each named Tom, were both coaches for the team. Lavern and Agnes struck up a conversation and launched their 60-year friendship. Agnes and Tom Reilly grew up on Staten Island, New York. They met at a beach party when they were only 16 and Agnes was smitten by the tall, handsome basketball player. Agnes says it was “love at first story.” Lavern and Tom, both from Bellevue, Ky., used to play together as children when their parents, also longtime friends, would visit. But it wasn’t until Tom returned from three years in the Navy that they began their courtship. After each married, they settled in Forest Park, which at the time was a newly developed suburb of Cincinnati. See NEIGHBORS , Page 1A
For some, Cheviot is considered Western Hills. Here is the 1978 Harvest Home Parade featuring students from St. Aloysius School in Bridgetown walks the Harvest Home Parade Route in 1978. THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER FILE
Residents swear it’s there Scott Wartman Cincinnati Enquirer USA TODAY NETWORK
You won’t find it on a map. But when many people who live in Cincinnati’s western suburbs go home for the holidays, they go home to Western Hills. Like finding your way through much of the West Side, identifying exactly where Western Hills is can be confusing, even for people who live there.
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So where do Western Hills residents call home? “You’ll never find it on a map but it does exist in our opinion,” said Paul Brettschneider, 72, a Delhi Township resident who grew up in Westwood. Brettschneider defines Western Hills like this: It’s Western Hills University High School (his alma mater), Cheviot and Westwood. Price Hill native and Hamilton County Commissioner Denise Driehaus draws a different boundary. She
grew up thinking Western Hills was anywhere in Green Township outside of the city of Cincinnati. “If you look at different maps and they identify different areas of the West Side as this, that and the other thing,” Driehaus said. “The area that they call Western Hills, everyone knows that lives over there where it’s at. It generally means anyone that lives outside the city on the West See WESTERN HILLS, Page 1A
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