Coffee with Crawford | The Courier Journal leaves its building, and a great many memories

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The Courier Journal this week will leave its iconic building at 525 W. Broadway for new, more modern quarters on Main Street.

The old art deco building at 6th and Broadway always, to me, seemed like a building out of a grander time. The lobby of that building was a spectacle, with a huge globe hanging above all who walked in, and the words of Robert Worth Bingham in gold letters above the elevators for any about to enter the working floors of the enterprise:

“I have always regarded the newspapers owned by me as a public trust and have endeavored to conduct them as to render the greatest public service.”…

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