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Post by Gregg on Apr 14, 2014 10:33:36 GMT -5
The following information is from 1964. It was in the Looking Back feature in the April 11, 2014, edition of The Republic. Construction is underway on a new Fiesta Restaurant on Third Street. This location is next door to the new Imperial 400 Motel near the Tipton, ‘now named Third Street’, bridge. The restaurant, which could accommodate 200 Diners, is owned and will be operated by Mr. And Mrs. Harold C. Moore of Madison. I can recall getting excited, thinking that Columbus was getting a Mexican restaurant.
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Post by Gregg on Mar 12, 2013 11:07:11 GMT -5
Maybe they really SHOULD have advertised the Douglass lecture.
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Post by Gregg on Oct 3, 2012 1:01:48 GMT -5
Larry, I still have a photo of you playing at Donner Park in 1960. That show was the first time I ever played in public. This is a great forum, huh?
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Post by Gregg on Nov 16, 2011 5:38:36 GMT -5
Shouldn't that read, "looking north", or at that point is White River running east and west?
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Post by Gregg on Sept 27, 2011 19:25:18 GMT -5
I read with much interest that I-65 came past Columbus in 1954! I'm glad Dad never drove on it, because it would have been an awfully bumpy ride. Wasn't the actual date at least in the late 50s?
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Post by Gregg on Jul 15, 2011 18:16:25 GMT -5
Bob, I've seen copies of this photo in various places around Columbus....names of the workers included. My paternal grandfather is in the front row, third man to the left of the front tire of the car. Thanks for posting.
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Post by Gregg on May 15, 2010 20:50:29 GMT -5
David, We just had a little water that dampened the carpet on the landing going down to our den. Gutter guards are on order. We were some of the lucky ones. Nashville will be a long time recovering from this........but then noone from Columbus needs to be told that! Thanks for asking.
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Post by Gregg on May 15, 2010 9:29:36 GMT -5
David, I thought you had been to a yard sale.
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Post by Gregg on Apr 30, 2010 16:16:19 GMT -5
David, that photo may have been taken during one of the "Pioneer Days" celebrations in the 1950s.
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Post by Gregg on Feb 28, 2010 14:03:33 GMT -5
This is just a quick "heads-up" for those who may be interested. Tomorrow, March 1, 2010, at 5:00PM, central time, "Indiana Railroad", a show documenting the inter-urban system that ran through Columbus in the 1930s, will be featured on the show, "Trains and Locomotives", on RFD-TV. That's channel 345 on DirecTV. I saw the show a year or so ago, and while there are only a couple scenes from Columbus, there is quite a bit of footage from Seymour and towns between Columbus and Indianapolis. It's a very informative program.
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Post by Gregg on Nov 16, 2009 21:22:00 GMT -5
Nanc, The building at the SW corner of 7th and Chestnut in the mid-late '50s was Sasseen's(sp?) Toys and Gifts, a really great toy store.
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Post by Gregg on Nov 7, 2009 20:02:48 GMT -5
Bob, Without referring to Google, I recall that the largest industrial building at the corner of 23rd and Cottage Ave. when we were growing up was the Vernco factory, owned by the Sprouse family. It may have evolved from the Orinoco Tannery.
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Post by Gregg on Nov 2, 2009 15:23:40 GMT -5
Bob, I guess that's the building that stood just north of the Smith Jewelry building on the NE corner of 5th and Washington.
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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 Gregg on Aug 19, 2009 19:19:43 GMT -5
Our family moved to 2919 East 17th St. in 1947, the year I turned one year old. At that time the area was still pretty rural. I think the entire neighborhood must have been developed to meet the need for new and affordable housing that came with the end of WWII. If you went more than half a mile in any direction except west, there were still corn fields and a couple farm houses and barns. The two main centers of commerce in our immediate area were Harker's Garage and McKay's East Side Market. The last time I was back home that whole area was still vacant, with the closing of the little gas station at 17th and McClure Rd. McKay's was closed on Sundays, so if we had to make a "bread run" on the Sabbath, we'd go to Bob Harrell's at the corner of 25th and Beam Rd. Richard sent me the city's proposed plans for the re-alignment of 17th Street awhile back.....including the demolition of the nicest home on the corner. As of this writing, I don't know how much work has been done. I'm sure that when they're finished, though, I won't recognize the old neighborhood.
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Post by Gregg on Jun 22, 2009 3:22:16 GMT -5
Richard Bray and I had a discussion about this a year or so ago. We didn't come up with much information concerning Jamie, but we did learn that his family managed Hi-Acres (sp?) orchard, west of Columbus, for the Irwins. Jamie's father, Frank, purchaced Galbraith Photo Center, in the Commons, from my father in the 1980s. Perhaps Richard can add to this.
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Post by Gregg on Mar 29, 2009 13:10:29 GMT -5
Bob, You omitted one important exterior building product......... the dreaded asbestos shingle siding! That's what our house on East 17th was covered with, as were many of the other homes in the area. I've been told that it's a real hassle for the home owner these days who decides to remove that siding in order to replace it with something else. Disposal is quite a headache. You also mentioned the oiled streets and bicycle without a rear fender. My bike didn't have a chain guard either. More than once, while riding on freshly oiled Beam Road, my pants cuff wound up getting caught in the sprocket, which usually led to my thrashing around in the tar and gravel, which led to yet another unhappy mom.
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Post by Gregg on Mar 21, 2009 9:33:12 GMT -5
David, What you may be remembering was the building on Tipton Knoll that served as the VFW, (I think), at the time you were growing up. I'm sure someone can verify or correct that. While we're on the subject, wasn't Tipton Knoll reputed to be an indian burial mound? That's what I always heard.
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Post by Gregg on Mar 18, 2009 14:06:57 GMT -5
I especially enjoyed seeing the Champaign Velvet placard on the back of the Dodge( or Plymouth ) taxi. CV was still only about $1.65 a 6-pack in 1964. I wonder what the price must have been in 1950.
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Post by Gregg on Mar 11, 2009 7:17:06 GMT -5
My Bad! Famous Recipe is now called "Lee's famous Recipe" here in Tennessee and many other areas of the country, and it's named for Lee Cummings, nephew of Harland Sanders. I "mis-remembered " the Columbus locations as being of the same name.
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