Remember Woody’s lunch counter in Springfield?

Claude Carl Woody Woodward was born in Shelby County, Ohio in 1890. Around 1900, his family came to Dayton where he worked for a time on the railway. Around 1920 he came to Springfield with his wife Bessie and son Robert and opened Woody s, a lunch counter at 12 N. Fountain, shown here in January 1921. By 1930, he has moved back to Dayton where the family ran a restaurant for a number of years on West 5th Street. CONTRIBUTED

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Claude Carl Woody Woodward was born in Shelby County, Ohio in 1890. Around 1900, his family came to Dayton where he worked for a time on the railway. Around 1920 he came to Springfield with his wife Bessie and son Robert and opened Woody s, a lunch counter at 12 N. Fountain, shown here in January 1921. By 1930, he has moved back to Dayton where the family ran a restaurant for a number of years on West 5th Street. CONTRIBUTED
Looking Back
Updated Jan 15, 2018
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Claude Carl Woody Woodward was born in Shelby County, Ohio in 1890.

Around 1900, he moved his family to Dayton, where he worked on the railway.

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Around 1920 he came to Springfield with his wife Bessie and son Robert and opened Woody's, a lunch counter at 12 N. Fountain, shown here in January 1921.

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By 1930, he had moved back to Dayton, where the family ran a restaurant for many years on West 5th Street.

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