Aerial view of Worthington, Looking East from West of the Olentangy River

This black-and-white, aerial photo shows a view of Worthington sometime in the 1950s decade. The photograph is oriented with east at the top and north to the left. At the bottom of the photo, the Olentangy river runs left to right. Dublin-Granville Road runs from near the top to the bottom of the photo. The Worthington High School campus (now Thomas Worthington High School) appears just below the center of the photo, to the left of Dublin-Granville Road. Above that, near the center of the photo, is the intersection of Dublin-Granville Road and High Street, with the surrounding neighborhood of Old Worthington, the homes appearing as small white dots. The intersection of Dublin-Granville with Sinclair Road, running left to right, is above that, in the top third of the photograph. The Rush Run watershed is surrounded by trees and runs from the intersection of Sinclair and Dublin-Granville roads to the Olentangy River, at the right center of the photograph. Beyond Sinclair Road is a patchwork of fields, wooded areas and homes. The photograph is darkest nearest the bottom and fades as the landscape retreats into the distance at the top. 

The photograph was taken by A.V. Shirk when he was a child, riding in his father's airplane. He writes: 

"In the 1950s, my father, Al Shirk, owned a small airplane, a two-person Ercoupe...in which he would take my mother, my brother, my sister or me flying all over central Ohio. On some of these occasions, I took my Speed Graphic press camera and took pictures. When I wanted to take a photo, I would pull down the window of the cockpit, and Dad would then turn and bank, to give me a good view. I suppose holding a large camera, with a leather bellows, that close to the slipstream would strike some people as chancy, but nothing untoward ever happened. We lived, at that time, at 525 Meadoway Park, in Colonial Hills."