Jerry, that was a very long time ago when we use to say "Hello Mr. Officer"............
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Yep. And before he'd beat your ass for speaking to him. I read today where one of your NYPD members was cleared after he followed a young man into his house, broke into the bathroom where he was presumably "taking care of business", and shot the kid when he allegedly "reached for his waist band". Of course the kid was unarmed. Four years and two thorough investigations later, the Justice Department couldn't prove that the pig wasn't scared for his life [[screw the fact that he BROKE INTO HIS HOME) and will not be filing charges.
Do you remember when "pissing while Black" was not something that the cops are permitted to kill you for?
Does anybody have the cherished experience of cashing your check on payday, running to the record store, browsing for an hour, and coming home with five to eight new albums? Sometimes, you'd be surprised that a new extended single dropped by one of your favorite bands and you got to play it for your friends before it hit the radio. I remember the plastic, the smell of the records, and eagerly going over the liner notes [[when they were provided) as the albums spun on my turntable. I'd make mental notes of which ones I'd like and the second time that I played them, I'd break out my watch and jot down the BPMs beside the titles on the jackets. I miss that experience as much as anything from the late '70s and '80s. By the time cassettes and CDs took over for vinyl, the fun of buying music was gone.
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I never bought new albums in quantity. I might buy one or two that I really wanted at the same time. I did by new 45s in quantity [[mostly at discounted prices at distributors or record shops that I helped carry in record boxes or did favours for [[often I got the 45s for free for helping), I did enjoy the smell of the new records [[especially at the distributor). I got a LOT of Motown records before they hit the radio. So. my friends got a chance to hear most of them before they hit the radio. And, because I bounced between Chicago, L.A., San Francisco and Winnipeg, I got a chance to hear songs that had been played in one city or another, before in the other ones.
I even requested songs be played by radio stations on request lines, when the song had not been released in the other city. I remember requesting that Jimmy Ruffin's "What Becomes of The Brokenhearted" be played on Chicago's WVON, after having had heard it in L.A., and the DJ told me "It hadn't been released yet in Chicagoland". I was shocked, as I thought Chicago got all Motown product first, after local, Detroit release.
It didn't dawn on me until the '90s that a lot of what you heard on the radio back then was regional. Songs could be huge in Memphis [[where I briefly lived) but never be heard in Miami. In the 1980s, I frequented a record store on the Ohio State University campus that resold records from all over the country. I guess kids at a 50,000 student campus needed spare cash, so they hocked music first. I could find gems [[and frequently, massive duds) in their bins that I never would have heard from listening to the radio. The problem with that is most of those songs are unavailable digitally, so I have to connect my turntable with my computer if I want a sound file. But, that actually is something that's fun to do.
How so very different the World is today:
What It's Like Inside a School Shooting Drill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRHcbJ9DHEg
Who remembers the deluxe playmobile?
JAI I had to look it up, but YEP, I remember the deluxe playmobile. I even had one. It looked like the dashboard to my Dad's Ford Fairlane LOL!
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I shopped across High Street at Singin' Dog Records and also a Mole's Record Shop. I went to Magnolia Thunderpussy a couple of times but like you, I could spend most of a night at the other two. I bought my new records around the corner from my home at Record and Tape Outlet, where the first album that I purchased [[Gloryhallastoopid by Parliament) cost me $3.49 still wrapped.
Small world, Jerry! I remember buying Jean Terrell's record further up the street at a record store [[on the right hand side going north, right across from the entrance to OSU). I think it up upstairs? Can't remember the name of it, which I'm sure is long gone. I remember these Hare Krishna's standing out front chanting and taking donations! Boy, am I dating myself! The good old days in Columbus! I certainly remember Mole's and Singin' Dog Records, too.
Hey Jerry,
Do you remember the Kahiki, Reeb's on Livingston Ave., the Wine Cellar on 161 and Tommy's Pizza on Lane. My parents took me to the Kahiki when I was a kid and was quite dazzled. I think there was even a Playboy Club in Columbus at one time? All gone now except Tommy's. A rush of memories come back! I even remember The Clock restaurant downtown!
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The Xenia ones happened when I was in the 8th Grade. Yep almost destroyed the entire city. The big ones I lived through were the Palm Sunday Tornado 1965[[they have the old news coverage up on Youtube) and the 4th of July Tornado 1969. That one destroyed our backyard.
I remember all of them. The Kahiki was the scene of one of the most notorious police harassment cases in city history some time around 1975. Its owner is rumored to be the creator of General Tso's chicken recipe. The Playboy Club became a.McDonald's right across the street from the Kahiki. Reeb's finally came down about five years ago [[that was three blocks away from my childhood home).
I forgot about the Clock restaurant until your post! And I didn't know that the Wine Cellar closed. Finally, Tommy's it's a landmark. The original one is on Lane Avenue in Upper Arlington just west of OSU campus and they built a new one for the students on Lane Avenue near High Street. They are printing money with those locations.
I loved Reeb's. I went there a lot in those 'college years' as I lived in the German Village area [[Berger Alley). Also went to Planks. I have some recollection of the incident at the Kahiki. I love Tommy's on Lane....been going there forever....then, run across the street to Half Price Books! I heard the Wine Cellar closed because some mess with 'not paying taxes' or the like. And, I can't leave without mentioned the old standby on campus....the Blue Danube. The greasy spoon of all greasy spoons....but, it had a charm all it's own....esp. at 3 in the morning! LOL!
Oh....remember 'Peaches' records and the Buzzards Nest?
I remember both stores. I shopped more at RTO because it was half a mile from where I worked. Besides, Peaches and Buzzard's Nest were mainly in malls and both charged about a dollar more for their records to cover their rent. And if you lived in German Village, you no doubt visited Schmidt's Sausage Haus, who used to sell the best bratwurst in town. And Planks wound up smack in the middle of the Brewery District, which is absolutely jumping seven nights per week. I'll bet their business has doubled.
Do I know Schmidt's! My love affair with those cream puffs continue to this day!
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For some reason, that reminded me of all the food we used to eat at the state fair. They used to sell brats with tons of sauteed onions, elephant ears, cotton candy, sno-cones, sugared waffles, and just about any other diabetics' dream. My brother and I would catch the COTA bus to my cousin's house early in the morning and we walked about a mile from there to the fair. We'd start from 10:00 am until they closed at 10:00 PM. This is when we were still in elementary school [[kids can't have that much freedom these days). Those were the closest things to perfect summer days that I can recall.
Oh yes, the State Fair. Fond memories for me, too. Diana Ross and The Supremes performed there in the late 60's. I didn't see it, though.
This should bring some memories back for you....it did, me.
http://columbusrestauranthistory.com..._continent.htm
I remember when the Continent opened. I think it is still open although I don't believe it has any newer shops. The last time I went to it was 20 years ago, at which time its movie theater has become a dollar house after being one of the nicer two-screen cinemas in town. Now, no theaters in Columbus have fewer than 14 screens.
My mother took me to see "Star Wars" at the Cinema East on East Broad Street. Its screen was so large, it would blow people's minds in today's world. I went to movie houses all over the city by remember trips to the drive-in the most.
I do remember Cinema East. I think I saw "Funny Girl" there! Yes, huge screen. Do you remember 'One Nation Restaurant"? The elevator went on the outside of the building and you got some fantastic views! I remember going to Studio 35 a lot in Clintonville when I was in college as well as the Drexel in Bexley. I also thought Engine House restaurant on Thurman where the waiters came down the pole was pretty cool! I still miss Lazarus!
http://www.dispatch.com/content/grap...fffff,q:90,r:1 Dispatch File PhotoOne Nation afforded patrons a view of the Downtown from the top of One Nationwide Plaza. The restaurant opened when the building was dedicated in 1978 and closed in 1997.
Yeah, I remember One Nation, which was on the top floor of the Nationwide Building. I'll be surprised to find out it's not still open. And Studio 35 is still the only cinema in Columbus that runs first run double features [[well, but including the South Twin Drive In). Do you remember Lazarus' air curtain that blew heat on you in the winter?
There are so many good restaurants here. Most of the newest and best are in the Short North.
I had long forgotten about that heated air curtain at Lazarus! That takes me back many years!
Love the Short North. My favorite Greek restaurant, "The Happy Greek," is there.
http://www.happygreek.com/
The Gallery hop is fun, too. The Short North and the Brewery District seem to be booming these days. Remember The Claremont on S. High St.? I think that's long gone. I think there used to be a hospital south of German Village. I can't remember the name of it anymore?
Remember St. Anthony's Hosp. off E. Broad St.? My first job out of college was there.
That hospital was Mercy Hospital. And Saint Anthony is now an Ohio State Hospitals subsidiary. Do you remember Saint Ann's? They were on Bryden Road and were primarily a maternity hospital. A whole lot of babies were born there. They moved to Westerville about 20 years ago.
And yeah, the Claremont is gone with the renewal of the Brewery District. The other trendy area is the Arena District, which is situated around Nationwide Arena and Huntington Ballpark downtown. Columbus has really grown.
Yes.....Mercy Hospital! I'd forgotten. I think it was changed to Columbus Community Hospital by the 70's? Yes, I remember St. Anne's. I think it's a Mt. Carmel Hospital now in Westerville as you said, off Schrock Rd. Do you remember the old Columbus State Hospital on W. Broad St. I did a couple weeks of my psych rotation there and it was right out of a horror movie with all those old tunnels connecting buildings. Also fond memories of the Veteran's Memorial on W. Broad. I think it's gone now. They used to have some pretty good concerts there back in the day. I saw The Supremes at the Ohio Theater when Jean became lead singer and Faith, Hope and Charity was the opening act .....a memory I'll never forget.....so many wonderful memories of Columbus and yes, it's grown tremendously. I read in one of my Mt. Carmel alumni newsletters that they plan on closing Mt. Carmel West and building a new Mt. Carmel in Grove City. The old Mt. Carmel will be expanded into the College of Nursing and the rest, outpatient offices. You live in a wonderful city, Jerry. I miss it.
Wow,that was a hospital? The place they used to take us looked like that windmill lab that dr.frankenstein used...and that was on the good side of town.
I went to several concerts at Vets' Memorial back in the '70s. That's where I graduated in 1980. I also saw a few shows at Mershon Auditorium, Ohio Theater, and the RCA Palace [[in the old Lincoln-Leveque tower). That was a lifetime ago.
I'd be afraid to step into the State Hospital for fear of not being permitted to leave... The west side also has TICO, the Forensic facility, and Buckeye Youth Center for hardened teenaged criminals, criminally insane people, and adolescent criminals in training respectively.
Mt. Carmel West is about to move to Grove City and they are building a new Vets' Memorial at the old Central High School site. Our last mayor was truly good for the city and it grew a lot under his watch.
Yep. It was rumored to be something like you see in horror movies, but blueskies knows better than I do. And in my city, the citizens in the west side are just as crazy as the ones in those facilities I was talking about. You would feel right at home there...
[[Just kidding, homeboy):rolleyes:
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Yes, it was horror movie deluxe! We [[as students) were not allowed to go through those underground tunnels by ourselves as patients periodically escaped and would hide in the tunnels. They had a large number of violent patients housed there. It was a very sad place, really. This 'asylum', as they called it back in the day, was a Kirkbride structure. I found them to be particularly creepy as they were so gothic. They were all over the US. Several websites are devoted to the Kirkbride psychiatric hospital architecture.
http://www.asylumprojects.org/index....State_Hospital
http://www.kirkbridebuildings.com/buildings/
I learn so much around here...
Remember when people were easily committed to psychiatric fafacilities? Judges were working on kickbacks from the hospitals like they are today with private prisons to send them patients/inmates. The courts decreed involuntary commitment to the psych facilities to be unconstitutional and put millions out patients on the streets, more than a few of whom still needed care.
HMMMM,THAT'S STRANGE...WHEN THE DOCTORS SAID THAT I COULD LEAVE,THE CITY FATHERS[and most of the mothers]PASSED AROUND A PETITION THAT INSISTED THAT I BE KEPT THERE FOR AS LONG AS POSSIBLE[or until the sun fell out of the sky]WHICHEVER CAME FIRST.
Well, at least they gave you a new suitcase and a one-way bus ticket to anywhere but where you were.
http://opacity.us/site23_pilgrim_state_hospital.htm
Yes, this hospital was huge. Warehousing at it's finest. These were sad places and so many sad stories.
http://www.suitcaseexhibit.org/index...tion=suitcases
I read the book and saw the traveling exhibit. Heartbreaking.
And the US penal system is still doing that today. How else to account for the fact that we have 5% of the world's population, but have 25% of the world's prisoners? Prisons employ a lot of people just like policing does. The fictional "war on drugs" is really just a job stimulus they keeps a huge segment of the population working with zero possibility of ending the problem it purports to address. If it worked, why are so many still doing drugs?
America needs to wake up.