Babs
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Post by Babs on Oct 22, 2008 7:03:30 GMT -5
Think I've found a home for the bubble lights, will know for sure in a couple of weeks and likewise the wooden Zaharako coin. If either of these two do not pan out, I will post again or delete this post. One of our committee members asked for the coin because she is related to someone from the Zaharako family so I told her she could have it and another committee member may want the bubble lights if they fit the strands he has already. He happens to be in Florida right now so that is why the delay on the certainty of the lights.
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Post by BobLane on Dec 13, 2008 11:52:12 GMT -5
Hi Dear friends, I just wanted to wish you a joyful Christmas as we celebrate the birth of our wonderful Savior and Redeemer. Take a time to visit the Christmas story with your family. It's what Christmas is about. Bob Lane
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Post by RER on Dec 13, 2008 12:04:15 GMT -5
Reposted to Holiday Memories
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Post by RER on Dec 13, 2008 18:33:29 GMT -5
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Post by RER on Dec 13, 2008 18:55:21 GMT -5
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Post by katie on Dec 14, 2008 19:14:03 GMT -5
It is just amazing to see this card. The corner of 3RD. and Washington was always a gathering place.As you can see from the card the people were on the corner Reposted to Holiday Memories
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Post by guest on Dec 15, 2008 13:06:38 GMT -5
:)Isn't amazing how time changes.yes people gathered arournd a chatted about famlies an what ever came to mind.Not now adays. Merry Christmas to all.Prayers to all of our loved one serving our country. Be safe God Bless To All.
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Post by nancs on Dec 24, 2008 8:22:34 GMT -5
Merry Christmas, and Happy Holidays to One and All
Treasure the season and wishing all a wonderful 2009 Nanc
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Post by RER on Dec 24, 2008 13:08:51 GMT -5
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Dec 24, 2008 17:11:31 GMT -5
Happy Holidays!
Best wishes to all my Columbus friends, both near and far. Thanx for letting me steal all your Columbus memories...I promise to not let them get away!
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Post by Babs on Dec 25, 2008 1:45:15 GMT -5
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO EVERYONE! HOPE YOU HAVE A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS! HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ONE AND ALL!
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 27, 2009 15:57:58 GMT -5
I'm sitting here looking out the window at the rainy overcast day outside. The leaves are in peak season now and I'm afraid with the change in weather coming up later in the week, many of the leaves may have blown away by Saturday.
All this has got me to thinking about Halloween back in my State Street School days. I remember quite a few of those Halloweens looking just like it does outside today.
I don't remember the city picking up leaves. But I do remember raking them into a large pile in the back yard and burning them. It wasn't unusual at all to smell that smell of burning leaves all throughout the neighborhood. Any remembrances of the summer before were not even a blink of thought inside me. There were different things to look forward to now, such as Halloween, Thanksgiving (my own personal favorite holiday to this day), and Christmas.
We started trick-or-treating about a week before Halloween officially arrived, picking different streets or neighborhoods each night. If Halloween fell on a school day, we'd take our costumes to class and sometime in the afternoon, we'd have a party. Fall colors of construction paper were passed around, along with that big glob of paste dabbed out from an industrial sized jar onto a square piece of paper. Mrs. Fulp, as well as the other teachers, ordered cookies for the class. The Halloween cookies always had orange icing and tasted great. In about a month, we'd be doing the same thing for Thanksgiving. I think the first place I heard Night On Bald Mountain was in Mrs. Fulp's class during one of those Halloween celebrations. And leading up to Halloween, Mrs. Fulp would read "scary" short stories to us in class. Mrs. Fulp's 3rd grade classroom was on the 2nd floor in the older State Street School building
Center Street wasn't very well lit up at night. There was a streetlight adjacent to our house and on the other side of the street. The next light was at the corner of Southeastern and Center. The closest light going south was at the corner of Wolf and Center. They used those old mercury vapor lamps which will burn forever but emit less and less light until they reach a point where they simply glow. That's how I remember the light by our house, just that bluish glow glowing and not lighting up much of anything at all. A few houses turned on their front porch light, that is, if the house had one.
There were some houses we were afraid to go to. I remember one not too far from our house. It sat back off Center Street. There was a rusted old pump on a wooden platform in the front yard with weeds knee high all the way to the porch. The old lady who lived there sat on the front porch in the evenings, smoking her pipe. It was the first time I ever saw a woman smoke a pipe.
We didn't bother her on Halloween...
The best place to trick or treat was over on Hege. Also, I seem to recall going into Hooks Drugs and getting candy there. This had to have been soon after Hooks and Jay-C moved to the new building on State Street. Maybe I'm wrong here, but I don't recall the stores passing out candies like they do in the malls today. Maybe the downtown stores did and we just never went.
No traditions here. Just random thoughts of Halloween from days gone by...
Lots of people gave out fruit. Apples. Oranges. Tangerines. Those we normally set aside and immediately dug into the candy we got.
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Post by indy101 on Oct 28, 2009 18:30:16 GMT -5
Tonight it is pumpkin carving night for upcoming Halloween. I'm still trying to figure out if I can carve a jack o lantern with the face of Edward from Twilight (which is what my kid wants to do).
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Post by Gregg on Oct 29, 2009 8:59:32 GMT -5
David, thanks for affirming something that I have been trying to convince my wife and kids of for years; that being that in Columbus,(or at least our neighborhood), in the 1950s, Trick-or-Treating was a SEASON, although a short one, rather than just a one-night event. I can recall going out at least 3 nights in a row, leading up to Halloween. Maybe getting candy was more of a rarity for us back then, or perhaps we were just greedy, but having Halloween last for several days was pretty neat.
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Post by David Sechrest on Oct 29, 2009 12:20:55 GMT -5
indy101, good luck with that pumpkin!
Gregg, I might have been exaggerating a little when I said we started trick or treating a week before Halloween. Like you said, more than likely it was 3 or 4 days before. Sometimes people would tell us to come back on Halloween. But I do remember meeting other kids along the street, and we'd all share who was giving away the best candy!
I'm with you. I think candy was more special to us back then. I know mom and dad very very rarely bought us kids candy. If we wanted any, it was bought with our own allowance.
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RER
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Post by RER on Oct 29, 2009 13:22:09 GMT -5
Halloween In The Late 1940s & Early 1950sColumbus Indiana As Clint Eastwood Movie Title Would Say: "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly"The Good: During the late 1940s and early 1950s Halloween did start a week early. Dressing up in the scary stuff and collecting candy, gum, coins, fruit and cookies was the norm. Kids knew the better treat places to go for collection of the "goody stuff." The Bad: However, there were the “more malicious types” that threw corn at windows and even soaped the house and car windows. A common sounding “tick tack” made from a wooden thread spool (with cut nicks on the round end parts), plus a string wrapped around it, held by a large nail was used to make noises on home windows. It operated by pulling the wrapped spool string while holding the nail. The Ugly: Other malicious acts (from some) was smashing pumpkins and filling the front of car seats with shucked or shelled corn. Many boys and even girls did these tricks. Some guys threw rotten tomatoes from the fields at cars as well as shelled corn. Once they hit a police care and were chased, but I don’t know the outcome. It wasn’t uncommon to read in the newspaper that wooden outhouses (half moons) in those days were moved around and some placed in the middle of roads. The old outhouses (half moons) were common in those days. Source: Discussion with my brother and our recall of Halloween and various events that where observed, and read about.
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Post by nancs on Oct 29, 2009 19:46:49 GMT -5
Hey, you guys, I agree that Halloween went on for several days, make that the 'dark of night,' and frankly, I was thrilled when someone threw shelled corn on our front porch------------gave me 'ammunition' for the next night's antics............who, me? ;D Yeah, that is the way I remember it. It seems to me that in the late 40s, the city 'powers that be' in cooperation with the schools arranged with the downtown merchants to allow local junior high and high school art students, and groups like 'scouts' to paint pictures on their display windows. Somehow, I think that this effort was to create a 'family affair to view the art work,' and sort of keep the kids off the streets with their 'tricks.' I remember that some of the 'paintings' were truly 'works of art.' Think that one year the winning art work was on Nagel's window. Wonder who the artist was? I also think that I put this same 'account/thinking' somewhere on the boards a long time ago. Happy Halloween Nanc
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Post by RER on Oct 30, 2009 8:33:02 GMT -5
Nanc, I recall the store windows at downtown Washington Street were painted for Halloween and Christmas. Many stores had very decorative scenes.
Margo a few years back mentioned the name of one of the CHS artists that painted on the big windows of stores. He was the person that made the "roll out" bulldog for basketball games at CHS. I understand that the rolling dog is still being used. I think he built and painted it during the early 1950s before the Newer Gym at present North CHS school was finished.
It was a great period of time in promoting community holidays and the like. Seems like as years pass some small tradition fades into the dust bowl of life. Thanks for the reminder!
UPDATE ON ARTIST: My brother said it was Gordon Huckaby that did a lot of the store windows. He also created the CHS rolling bulldog for a parade float and then modified too roll out on the first Gym floor at the long gone Peal Street gym. The "rolling bulldog was later moved to the present Maple Street CHS gym in 1954 after the construction completion. It appeared first in the parade, then the Pearl Street gym and last it continues the history at the present North CHS. Over the years many repairs and the the like have been made, but still has the original appearance that Gorden created. The bulldog is around 55 years old at this writing.
Bob
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Post by Babs on Nov 25, 2009 7:20:29 GMT -5
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! :-)
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Post by RER on Nov 25, 2009 14:05:10 GMT -5
Happy Thanksgiving Columbus History Board Folks"Gobble, Gobble"
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