The Royal Lounge on Gallia Street, Portsmouth, Ohio (December 2013).
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The Royal, a popular bar on Portsmouth's Esplanade, is the former location of Security Savings Bank, which was established in 1905 by George E. Selby. Image courtesy of Andrew Lee Feight, Ph.D., from the Scioto Historical Series, private collection, Friendship, Ohio.
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“The Kricker family’s long-term faith in the economic strength of Scioto County is a matter of historical record,” noted the Portsmouth Daily Times in May of 1978. Edmund J. Kricker, the seventy-nine year old chairman of the board and chief…