"Where Southern Hospitality Begins” by Carl Ackerman (5 September 1964).
This file appears in: "Where Southern Hospitality Begins" by Carl Ackerman (5 September 1964).
Photo courtesy of the Carl Ackerman Collection, Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, Ohio (Accession No. 1996.2.6029).
This file appears in: "Where Southern Hospitality Begins" by Carl Ackerman (5 September 1964).
"Where Southern Hospitality Begins" by Carl Ackerman (5 September 1964).
In the early 1960s, City Manager Frank Gerlach and others championed a new slogan for the City of Portsmouth — “Where Southern Hospitality Begins.” In the summer of 1964, a welcome sign with the slogan was painted on the then bare concrete flood…