[13][11] For more than 20 years, Bachrach and his parents lived in the now-defunct Vernon Manor hotel; his childhood bedroom later became the base of his political office.
[13][12] He attended Guilford School, then Culver Military Academy in Indiana, where he was part of the Black Horse Troop, an honor guard organization, for four years.
[17][12][15][3] Bachrach left his budding law career in 1937 to help run the Wheel Cafe while his father turned his focus to the Sherbrook Distributing Company (originally the American Beauty Malt Company), which he founded with business partner Isaac Feld towards the end of American prohibition.
[20] Before retiring from politics in 1967, Bachrach sold the restaurant; unfortunately, due partially to the baseball strikes in 1980 and 1981, the Wheel folded and closed in August 1981.
[8] As a politically and socially active young man, he quickly became well-known, and in 1935 was elected without opposition as secretary of the Republican Club of Hamilton County.
[21] In 1953, he was selected as a Republican nominee alongside Bruce McClure and William Cody Kelly to fill three vacant seats on the City Council.
[32] After two days of fires and looting, Bachrach asked Governor Jim Rhodes to send the Ohio Army National Guard to relieve and support the overwhelmed local police forces.
[32] 800 soldiers from the first battalion of the 147th Regiment showed up not long after to aid the 1,500 city, county, and suburban Ohio police attempting to keep things under control.
[3] Among his accomplishments were the funding and building of the Cincinnati Convention-Exposition Center; fundraising for the Riverfront Stadium, for which construction began in 1968; and jumpstarting a downtown renewal program.
[41][43][18] He was a loyal Cincinnati Reds fan and was delighted several times by the opportunity to throw the ceremonial first pitch of the season.