Keystone Auto Parts

A photo of Keyston Auto Parts taken in 1937. Abe styled Keystone after a building he had seen at the 1934 Chicago Worlds Fair. He painted the exterior bright yellow and it became an East Side landmark for the next 50 years.

An aerial photo of Keystone taken in the early 1950s. The Chamberlin farm to the left/north of Keystone grew beans during WWII for the war effort. Phil Alloy's mother Camille, a teenager during the war, said German POWs held at Rossford Army Depot harvested the produce. "I assume life was better as a POW working the fields on the banks of the Maumee than fighting Russians on the Eastern Front," Phil told Kustomrama in 2018. "To the right of Keystone is the Miami Inn; a nightclub with a stage and a hotel upstairs. The Miami Inn had live entertainment and one Toledo Blade ad stated comedian Sid Gans, father of famed Las Vegas entertainer Danny Gans, would be appearing. During Prohibition, the Inn was a speakeasy and smuggling boats from Canada would tie up at the Maumee River bank just across Miami Street and drag cases of the good stuff up the riverbank for Toledoans enjoyment. The Miami Inn was torn down in the 1960s when the street was widened"

Keystone Auto Parts was a used auto parts yard in Toledo, Ohio. Located at 1367 Miami St. on Toledo's East Side, the yard was started by Abe Leibovitz in the 1930s.

In 2018 Phil Alloy told Sondre Kvipt of Kustomrama that his grandfather Abe purchased the property during the Depression; "In the mid-1930s Abe built the structure using materials salvaged from old buildings being torn down ahead of the Anthony Wayne Trail construction. The inner framework is all ancient hand-hewn wooden timbers from 19th Century buildings. Abe said he styled Keystone after a building he had seen at the 1934 Chicago Worlds Fair. He painted the exterior bright yellow and it became an East Side landmark for the next 50 years." In the 1950s Keystone was the place Harry Markiecki and other Toledo hot rodders bought their parts.

In the 1980s the Keystone property was purchased by Custom Deco Co. The building was still standing in 2018 although it had been covered in siding and none of the original parts were visible.