CINCINNATI — Carl Fox rescued the original Lunken Airport Terminal clock from the trash more than 40 years ago.

He spent years repairing the Art Deco clock, with ‘Gruen watch time’ etched on its face. It was a centerpiece when the terminal opened in 1937.

Fox donated the restored clock back to the airport, believing it would hang there in perpetuity.

When the clock went missing earlier this year, he called the WCPO 9 I-Team for help.

“I felt like it had been stolen,” Fox said. “My hope is that that clock still exists somewhere. That it is still in the possession of the city and that it can be restored and put into that place.”

Where is the historic Lunken Airport clock?

Fox was a maintenance worker at the city-owned Lunken Airport. He discovered the rusty clock during the clean-out o

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