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Post by Gregg on Mar 10, 2009 12:40:53 GMT -5
When they removed the Colonel's picture, didn't they re-name it "Lee's?"
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Post by Gregg on Jan 14, 2009 10:49:07 GMT -5
The last time I was in Rickett's would have been late February of 1968. I had just been discharged from the army. I was 21 years old, and I hadn't renewed my civilian driver's license yet. The guy behind the counter would not accept my military license or ID card. Hence, I didn't drink any beer that night! I also never shopped at Rickett's again. I do recall that we used to stop either there or at Riley's IGA on Central on the way home from church for groceries quite often.
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Post by Gregg on Dec 3, 2008 17:41:58 GMT -5
My dad used to own most of the property where the White Castle sits today. When the Commons first opened, and he decided to re-locate his photography business there, he had one heck of a time selling the place at 17th and US31. After it sat on the market for ages with no takers, he wound up selling it to some sort of holding company for a (small) fraction of its true worth. Not long after that, the largest,(at the time), White Castle in Indiana went up on that spot! I'll always wish that Dad could have found a way to eliminate the "Middle Man." I also wonder how much the property sold for.
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Post by Gregg on Aug 2, 2008 9:32:41 GMT -5
Nanc, John Boeschen was a year behind me at St. Peter's Lutheran School, He was Herb's son, and would have been born in 1947 or late 1946.
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Post by Gregg on May 21, 2008 19:55:41 GMT -5
Babs, I'm no expert, but the same thing happens to me when photos are still opening in a particular thread. Once everything is opened, the posts stabilize.
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Post by Gregg on May 5, 2008 9:48:05 GMT -5
David, I played with the Blue Angels during my senior year at CHS, which was 1963/ 1964. The band was based in Speedway, and I would make the drive up there once or twice a week to rehearse and then again on weekends to play dances. If we played Friday or Saturday nights, I'd usually stay over at the bass player's house, because we usually played Sunday nights at a sock-hop in Greenfield with Jim Shelton from WIBC. I recall the Greenfield gig paid $4 per man. Not great money, even in those days, but we got to hear Jim mention us on the radio! The photo shows, from left to right, Denie Smerdel, Bud Osboure, who I replaced, Bill Compton, and I'm not sure who the drummer is, as he had been replaced when I went to work with the band. They never played the Whiteland Barn while I was with the group, although I did take dates there a few times to hear other bands. Playing with the Blue Angels was a fun experience, but the schedule was pretty gruelling for a high school student living 50+ miles from the band's headquarters....( at least that's what Mom and Dad ultimately decided.) The first band I played in was "Tommy Purcell's Foot Warmers", based in Columbus, and run by Otto "Barney" and Bernetta Purcell, who owned the flower shop near US 31 and 17th Street. We were all junior high students from Columbus, and we played a lot of lodge dances, proms, and fairs around Southern Indiana. The band members included, besides myself, Don Jessee, Tom Purcell, Ken Heiner, Pat Dooley, and Stu Lawless. Our band instructor was Jerry Manley.
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Post by Gregg on Apr 28, 2008 22:48:41 GMT -5
David, As Phil described in his article, the lady worked at the PRR station,(probably as the dispatcher), and she is handing the engineer his train orders with the forked stick. There were a pair of strings spanning the distance between the forks, and a piece of paper called a "flimsy" could be wedged between them and handed up to the cab so the engineer could grab it without having to stop.
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Post by Gregg on Jun 30, 2006 15:03:54 GMT -5
The Hook's 5th and Washington location was where I first recall seeing ceiling fans.....Hunters, no doubt.
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Post by Gregg on Aug 3, 2006 15:08:49 GMT -5
George, I'd be interested in knowing if some of your recent postcard postings were from my dad's collection; especially those of CHS, Donner pool, and the Public Service shot. Dad did an entire series of postcards including photos of various "highlights" of Columbus in the late '50s or early '60s. That was when he still owned Smith Studio, at 409 5th Street, and before he moved to the corner of East 17th St. and National Rd., and renamed the studio, "Galbraith's." I still recall his having boxes upon boxes of the postcards stored in the original studio location and re-supplying local outlets as needed. Oh, if we only had a crystal ball to tell us what to hang on to from the past! Gregg Galbraith (Galbo46@aol.com)
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Post by Gregg on Jul 13, 2006 11:52:55 GMT -5
George, When I was growing up in the 1950s, the Central Christian Church had become the Lutheran Center. I don't recall much about the main floor, but the basemant had a kitchen, dining area, and a two-lane bowling alley. We "upper-classmen" at St. Peter's were allowed to spend Sunday afternoons there setting pins in order to pick up a little,(very), spending money.
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Post by Gregg on Mar 21, 2006 19:56:37 GMT -5
David, I meant to include this in my previous post, but I couldn't recall the answer. It finally came to me that Vernon Albright worked for Honeywell and Todd. Correct me if I'm mistaken. I haven't seen any re-runs in years. Also, what was the name of Gale Storm's subsequent TV series?
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Post by Gregg on Mar 21, 2006 19:45:01 GMT -5
David, I remember that when the Wyatt Earp series premiered, there was talk around Columbus,(maybe even an article in the Evening Republican), that Hugh O'Brian had an aunt who lived in Columbus, possibly near Terrace Lake. Hopefully someone's memory will be jogged, and they can enlighten us further on the subject.
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Post by Gregg on Jun 17, 2005 9:44:37 GMT -5
Some time during the early-mid-1950s, Post Cereal offered a "Roy Rogers Ranch Set" that could be purchased by mail, and I bought one. It included a cardboard bunkhouse, plastic Trigger and Buttermilk(saddles and bridles made separately), as well as figurines of Roy, Dale, Pat Brady, Bullet, and a plastic "Nellybelle" Jeep. I spent many happy hours playing with the set. I discovered later on that all of the plastic items except the jeep were manufactured in Columbus, by Como Plastics, at 17th and Keller! They had virtually barrells full of the items, and a neighbor and I bought as many as we could afford. There was also a Columbus connection to the Wyatt Earp TV show. Hugh O'brian had an aunt who lived out somewhere near Terrace Lake.
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Post by Gregg on Nov 3, 2006 9:00:07 GMT -5
Bob, Ross was alive this past May, when he appeared in Columbus at a concert of the present-day Four Freshmen.
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Post by Gregg on Oct 25, 2005 15:10:03 GMT -5
David, Tommy Thompson was, indeed, the same man who owned "Camera and Hobby." He was a very nice man. When he hobby shop was first opened, he drove a BMW Isetta-300, and I think it had the name of his shop painted on it.
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Post by Gregg on Jul 22, 2005 11:01:22 GMT -5
I rest my case!
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Post by Gregg on Jul 15, 2005 8:19:16 GMT -5
Bob, I've lived in Tennessee for 41 years, and I've never heard the term here either. Perhaps it's more of a difference in era rather than geography.
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Post by Gregg on Jul 14, 2005 20:39:40 GMT -5
Ok, here are a couple things that have perplexed me for years. Why is it that everyone in Columbus is familiar with the term "gom sandwich", yet, travel 30 miles in any direction and nobody knows what you're talking about? Is the term a "Zaharako-ism?" Item number 2: Up until the time our family took our first vacation to Florida, I thought a mango was a bell pepper. That's what everybody in Columbus called them. I checked the dictionary a few years back, and definition #2 for "mango" is: sweet pepper, yet I have never heard the two terms used interchangeably except in dear old 47201. Any guesses as to why?
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Post by Gregg on Jan 18, 2006 21:25:16 GMT -5
My dad took me there around 1952 for the first race I ever saw. From that day forward, I pestered him to take me to the races every Sunday morning during racing season, and he actually did take me there a few more times. The drivers I remember from that era are Bobby Baker, Red Carmichael, Jim Quillen, "Crowbar" Taylor, "Bearcat" Chapman, and "Barber-Boy" Hurley. A few years ago I was home over the holidays, and a friend and I drove out to the site of the old track. At that time, you could stand at the top of the "bleachers" and still make out where the track had been. In amongst the trees, there were still a few speaker poles standing.
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Post by Gregg on Feb 2, 2007 19:50:37 GMT -5
Nanc, It sounds as if that may be something akin to the chess pie that is so popular here in Tennessee. I don't recall much about Central Park's desserts-it could be that we weren't "allowed." I do, however, remember one occasion when, for my entree, I chose the chicken gizzards. They smelled great, tasted OK, and chewed just like shoe-leather! Years later, the good "Colonel" hit on pressuring gizzards, and that made a big difference.
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