|
Post by richard on Jan 29, 2006 8:55:36 GMT -5
Ads from June of 1961
|
|
|
Post by richard on Feb 4, 2006 21:26:57 GMT -5
Ads from June of 1961
|
|
nancs
HCI Forum Board Member
Posts: 948
|
Post by nancs on Feb 5, 2006 10:33:53 GMT -5
Hmmm, interesting ads, Richard. Did anyone else's eyebrows go up upon noting 'charcoal' in the list of items available at the drug store?? Was surely not in my frame of reference, but an internet search did come up with the fact that it was used, particularly with children, as an antidote to accidental poisoning. Input anyone?? Altho' the ad did mention picnic and fishing items, I wonder. Was charcoal for a Bar-B-Q or as a medicinal item? Nanc
|
|
|
Post by richard on Feb 5, 2006 12:36:41 GMT -5
Hi Nancy. That’s a good question. I’m not sure but suspect that the ad was for Charcoal Briquets. The W. T. Grant Company ad that was posted December 23, 2005 has a grill and 10 LB. Bag of Briquets. This link www.modernhomeproducts.com/about.html says that the first gas grill was sold in 1960 and the first rectangular grill was produced in 1963.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2006 15:29:04 GMT -5
Hi Nancy, I was working at Arvin's at the 13th St plant in 1957 in the furniture engineering dept. and at that time was making model charcoal grills for their product shows. They were already producing grills at the time. The charcoal in the ad was more than likely for grills.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 5, 2006 20:26:15 GMT -5
A picture of Noll Motors on National Rd. in the 1960's. The location was were Saps or Dolly Madison is at today, the address being 3060 N. National Rd.
|
|
jimbo700
HCI Forum Board Member
Posts: 12
|
Post by jimbo700 on Feb 7, 2006 19:11:11 GMT -5
I love to see these old ads. I remember the Kangaroo Court trampoline place. There were two or three of them in Columbus. Another was on the east end of State Street, just before the Clifty Creek Bridge (heading out of town). It was on the right (south side of State St). The one on State St. was cheaper than Kangaroo Court, so my mother would drive across town to save the money. The Kangaroo Court was owned by Ed Jones who owned the Dog N Suds (later leased to Carl Correll). I believe there was also a trampoline court next to the mini-golf and Tasty Freeze that was on 25th St. where Auto Zone sits today (I could be wrong about this one). The trampoline fad only lasted one or two seasons, but the one on State Street was open longer than any of the others. When Carl Correll closed the Dog N Suds, Ed Jones (who still owned the building) demolished the drive-in restaurant and built a seafood restaurant called "Cape Codder". It closed after a couple of years and Mike Sullivan set-up shop and opened "Gropp's Fish Of Stroh" in the "Cape Codder" building. Gropp's had a long run but eventually closed. I believe there were a couple of Pizza places in that building after Gropp's closed. Today the original Cape Codder building is the home of JD Byrider. -Jim-
|
|
|
Post by David Sechrest on Feb 8, 2006 10:07:07 GMT -5
I'm like Jim...I enjoy the old ads too! Moving away from Columbus in 1972, and then moving back in 1996, I missed out on alot of places. Of course, when I came "home" to visit mom and dad, usually around the major holidays, I did some drives through the places I remembered, but many places popped up that I didn't pay much attention to. I remember the fish place Jim spoke of, but not very well. Noll Motors was an anchor on that corner for many years, and that picture brought back memories. Looking at the corner of 2nd and Franklin, it's hard to even picture that they were once located there as well! Remember the business that used to be just north of Grindstone Charlie's on Central? It was about where you drive in to the Mall today. What was the name of that place? It sat back off Central, with parking out front. Another place was Shopper's Fair on National Road. And then, although not that old, was Cliff Hagan's Ribeye place on 25th Street (they had the best ribeyes!). Back in my high school days, there was a small, independently owned car dealer along there somewhere. Sometimes it's hard to believe that when mom and dad moved into the house where I'm currently living, that Washington Street was two-lane and cars could park out front. This was around 1979(?) Hooks was once a staple all around Columbus and East Columbus. When I lived off Lowell Road, my next door neighbor owned the old Park N' Eat during some point, for a short period of time. I asked him if he had any pictures of the place, but he didn't have any...
I don't think I mentioned this elsewhere: after Harry McCawley's article in last week's paper, I was contacted by a lady whose dad ran the concession stand in Donner Park. His name was Dolph Beck. He ran the stand during the 1930's and 1940's. Mr. Beck's daughter said she had pictures of the stand, and I'm trying to make arrangements to borrow them, as well as any info regarding her father that she can provide (I think that Bill Becker ran the concession stand during my day). She also said her dad ran a fish place on 5th Street back in the 30's and 40's, but I can't remember the name of it. She said he kept it open 24 hours a day back during the depression. I'm looking forward to talking to her!
|
|
|
Post by richard on Feb 8, 2006 18:51:05 GMT -5
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2006 20:43:34 GMT -5
The car a 1955 Olds Super "88" four door sedan was sold at Ed. L. Schaefer, Inc., located at 216-218 Jackson St. Phone: 5550. The car featured the new" Rocket" 202 engine.
|
|
|
Post by richard on Feb 9, 2006 10:12:41 GMT -5
Two more posts from June 24, 1961 Columbus Paper
|
|
|
Post by David Sechrest on Feb 9, 2006 13:26:25 GMT -5
Out Our Way was a staple in the old weekday Evening Republican. And it hasn't been that many years back that the local paper didn't have a Sunday edition. Out Our Way, and Alley Oop. Those are the two I remember best. Also, back in the 60's, The Evening Repubican was an afternoon paper. About the only papers you could have delivered in the morning were the Indianapolis Star and the Courier Journal. In 1967, weekly subscription rate for the Courier Journal, plus the Sunday, cost 65 cents. I think the Indianapolis Star was a nickel more. Are there such a thing as "paperboys" today? In early 1967, I started my job as a paperboy delivering the Courier Journal. First thing I had to do was become bonded. I guess they thought we were going to run off with all that money we collected. I had a route that ran from 16th Street south, from Washington over to Pearl. The downtown route was separate. My boss dropped off the papers at 4:45 am. I could set my clock by him. Once he was finished dropping off all the papers, he'd drive around to see if any bundles were still sitting on the front porch. If they were, he'd bang on the front door and wake everyone in the house up! As recalled in a different folder, there was a specific way the papers were folded, and once this was accomplished, they were loaded into an oversized cloth bag which usually had the logo of the newspaper on the front. I had too many customers to carry the bag over my shoulder while I rode my bike, so normally, I'd fix it to the handlebars so all I had to do was pedal, reach in, grab a paper, and throw it on the porch. There were some customers who requested the paper be placed inside their screen door. The Sunday paper was different and required more time. My boss dropped off all the Sunday supplements on Saturdays (did they drop off part of the other sections as well? Something tells me they did sometimes). Those Sunday papers were much bigger and couldn't be folded like the weekday. I think I might have folded them in half and threw a rubber band around them. I know that the Sunday delivery took twice as long to deliver because I couldn't get all the papers in my bag and had to make two trips. About six months into the job, the downtown route became available and it was added to my existing route. That really added alot more customers to cover. For a short period of time, there were once some houses just west of the 3rd Street bridge, and I had to deliver papers to them, as they were part of that downtown route. Christmas time was always a joy to collect, as many customers would tip me. Especially all the downtown bars. I always made it a point to collect on Friday afternoons. I'd walk in to the bars and stand at the bar waiting to collect for the week. It wasn't unusual for some customers who were feeling pretty good to reach into their pocket and tip me as well. Each summer, the Courier Journal had contests that us paperboys participated in. The goal was to get new customers, and those paperboys that signed up the most customers won trips. The paper was pretty sneaky in the way they went about it, giving away so many free weeks of newspaper deliveries. I won two trips: one to the old Coney Island Park in Cincinnati, and one to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. I carried around a book with tickets in it, and when a customer paid me, I tore off the tickets gave them to the customer. Each week, I had to go to the old Standard Grocery on Washington Street and purchase a money order for the amount of papers I delivered that week. Most people normally paid their bill weekly. If for some reason they skipped town and didn't pay, the money came out of my pocket. There was a guy that lived in an apartment on Lafayette who held the record for the most weeks unpaid. His tab got up to 13 weeks, and when I finally caught him at home, he raised cain with me because he had to pay something like $3 and some change. We were like postmen and delivered the paper rain, sun, snow, or sleet, 7 days a week. Sometimes if it was raining, and especially on Sundays, I loaded the papers on the back seat of dad's car, and he'd drive me around. I can only think of a couple of times that I overslept and my boss had to pound on the door to get everyone up. It was a nice job for a kid of 14, and gave me spending money, which I wouldn't have had otherwise. I finally turned in my bag in the winter of 1968 and went to work at Zaharako's, with a grand starting salary of 65 cents an hour (any food purchases were extra). I don't think there are paperboys any more. They went the wayside of so many other things. But at one time, many kids broke their teeth on the employement world by getting stacks of papers thrown on their front porches for delivery. If you lived in town, it was a kid's job, and put spending money in many teenage pockets all through Columbus...
|
|
|
Post by richard on Feb 12, 2006 21:50:20 GMT -5
More ads from June of 1961.
|
|
|
Post by richard on Feb 14, 2006 9:58:17 GMT -5
Ad from June 24, 1961 Ad from 1963
|
|
|
Post by richard on Mar 10, 2006 11:20:37 GMT -5
More ads from 1963
|
|
|
Post by richard on Mar 24, 2006 9:17:54 GMT -5
More ads from 1963
|
|
|
Post by richard on Apr 29, 2006 9:36:05 GMT -5
More Ads, from 1963
|
|
|
Post by richard on Apr 30, 2006 14:25:42 GMT -5
Ashtray
|
|
nancs
HCI Forum Board Member
Posts: 948
|
Post by nancs on May 1, 2006 7:58:55 GMT -5
Hi Richard, love the ads you have been posting. Question: One of the recent ones that are here-----Gause Cafe on 3rd street, across from Crumps---------The Gause Cafe that I recall in the 40s was on Washington St., between O'Bryan's Jewelry Store, and the alley to the south. Might have actually been right next door to the store. Are these one and the same, and just moved later on? Nanc
|
|
|
Post by David Sechrest on May 5, 2006 11:21:48 GMT -5
Hello to all...
Sorry I haven't been involved here the last few weeks. Blame it on some bad things from the VA...
There's a picture in the "More Columbus Indiana Pictures" portion of the website that shows the aftermath of the Belvedere Hotel fire in the 1960's. The Gause was in this same building, as can be seen in one of the pics. There is also at least one postcard on the Postcard Page showing the Gause located on Washington Street, between 3rd and 4th St. It was just south of the Mode Theater. In my 1966 City Directory, the Gause is listed as being at 426 3rd St., which would have put it just west of the Belvedere. I'm uncertain as to when it moved...
|
|