Monroe Street: A 50-year look back at major change

City straightened it by building a curve in the road and put up a street light

SANDUSKY — Sometime in late 1973 or early 1974, the Sandusky City Commission voted to reconfigure the Monroe Street intersection at Camp Street — a change that would alter local traffic patterns for decades.

An illustration from March 1974 in the Sandusky Register showed readers an aerial view of the plan. At the time, both Monroe and Madison streets for…