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Roy Hotchkiss has lived in Price Hill for most of eight decades. He was a sign painter and graphic artist before he retired to become a gentleman writer and historian, and you might still see a sign he painted or a display he created in one of the more senior drinking establishments in the Cincinnati area.
His displays in bars, pharmacies, and grocery stores were works of art, as were his set designs for several community theatre groups during the 1960s and 1970s, including one that put on productions at St. Michael’s Palace, a theatre originally built by the early settlers of Lower Price Hill in Cincinnati as a place to present German operas.
Roy’s displays can currently be seen at the Price Hill Historical Society’s museum.
In 2005, Roy was presented
with the prestigious Griffin Yeatman Award from the city
of Cincinnati’s Recorder’s Office for his diorama of the
Price Hill Incline.
ROY HOTCHKISS
Historian & Author
Curmudgeon, ker-
ACCORDING TO ROY
I call my column for the Price Hill Historical Society’s newsletter “The Old Curmudgeon’s Corner.” My grey beard, the diminishing hair on my head, and the crick in my neck certainly qualify me for the “old” part of the title, and according to the definition above and my wife and daughters, the second part applies as well. And there’s a lot for me to be cantankerous about, so I stay busy. If you’re interested in what I’ve been up to, visit the Old Curmudgeon’s blog. (I’m still trying to figure out just what a blog is, though.)