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The Highlander: Remembering Hillsboro dining in the 1960s • • Ladies and gentlemen, now that we’ve had a steak and some Drambuie at Stanforth’s Steak House, where should we go next? Today, we have Alley 21 and Highland Lanes in Hillsboro, but in the 1960s, there was the Highlander. Let’s take a short drive over to 972 West Main Street. The Highlander Restaurant dates back to the early 1950s, and construction on the Highlander Bowling Lanes began in the summer of 1959. The restaurant was owned by Harold M. Day, and later by Mae Rosse...

Remembering uptown Hillsboro dining in the 1960s • • Ladies and gentlemen, before we decided to spend some time in Highland County in 1942, we had been hanging out in the 1960s. We had visited grocery stores like Albers, auto companies like Baker Auto Sales, and other iconic businesses of yore like Stockwell’s, Limes Jewelry, Ellison Brothers and Kaufman’s. Quite a few folks have told me how much they have enjoyed these offerings and reminiscing about those days, and considering there are still a lot of places we haven’t visited, l...