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Post by TEXACO on Sept 2, 2007 20:51:19 GMT -5
Hi Texaco, Thanks for your additional information on the Trimnell (Trimmel) tire place. I also typed it wrong from the directory. Well, I guess I had two wrongs, and thanks to you it is now right. The 54 year old Columbus Directory apparently had the spelling wrong. Here is a segment quote of the 10th Street 1953 directory: Bernice Street intersects2320 Joy’s Flower Shop 2324 Harold Trimmell (gas station) Brookside Avenue intersects Haw Creek bridge Smith Street endsns Louis G. Sitterding ss Rust Monument Works Gladstone Avenue endsss Garland Brook Cemetery North EntranceYep. His name was Harold Trimnell and his little station was located on the north side of 10th Street just west of the bridge (where Thomas and Smith is now).
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Post by richard on Sept 6, 2007 0:32:41 GMT -5
This information from 1957 was in the Looking Back column in today’s paper.
The Jive Kennel board reported 1956 attendance at 14,778.
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Sept 7, 2007 6:12:37 GMT -5
Wow, do the math...they must have had a good crowd of kids whenever they were open. This information from 1957 was in the Looking Back column in today’s paper. The Jive Kennel board reported 1956 attendance at 14,778.
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Post by richard on Sept 8, 2007 17:23:38 GMT -5
Wow, do the math...they must have had a good crowd of kids whenever they were open. This information from 1957 was in the Looking Back column in today’s paper. The Jive Kennel board reported 1956 attendance at 14,778. I received an e-mail from a reader of this message board about the 1956 attendance at The Jive Kennel. The comment I received was, that he and his brother attended in the fall of 1956. He stated that the Jive Kennel always had a good group in attendance and Pete Burns and Glenn Line, member’s of The Columbus Police Department, was always there. He also wanted to remind everyone that in the 1950's the Memorial Gymnasium was filled with 8,000 fans for each game.
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Post by RER on Oct 29, 2007 14:55:22 GMT -5
What Were These Buildings Used For? They may have been on East Jackson Street in early yearsComment: Richard sent me this picture a few weeks ago thinking it might have been the building for a certain business. However, we determined it wasn't the building for the one we had discussed. So, does anyone know the history, usage and location of these buildings. I can't read signs on my computer.
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Oct 29, 2007 16:29:23 GMT -5
What Were These Buildings Used For? They may have been on East Jackson Street in early yearsComment: Richard sent me this picture a few weeks ago thinking it might have been the building for a certain business. However, we determined it wasn't the building for the one we had discussed. So, does anyone know the history, usage and location of these buildings. I can't read signs on my computer. The building with the sign is 335 Jackson - The Sportsman Bar in 1965 and 1966. That must have been at the start of the Commons demolition. That part of the block is now inside the Commons Mall but may soon be a regular street again when they do the renovations.
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Post by RER on Oct 29, 2007 16:42:57 GMT -5
Thanks Ricky..........in the 1953 locater it says on building usage during that period:
-335 Jackson Street was vacant
-In same building is 333 Jackson Street which was Everroad Brothers Garage (DeSoto & Plymouth)
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Oct 29, 2007 16:53:52 GMT -5
Thanks Ricky..........in the 1953 locater it says on building usage during that period: -335 Jackson Street was vacant -In same building is 333 Jackson Street which was Everroad Brothers Garage I keep an Excell file with business on various streets over the years and plug in new info now and then when I have time to spend with a directory. In 1938-39 ... 335 Jackson was Shorty's Lunch room (that would have been Shorty Sr.!). In 1957-59 it was something called Rice and Rice and in 1963 it was the Elbow Benders Office (bar).
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Post by RER on Oct 29, 2007 17:00:50 GMT -5
Ricky that is interesting that it was Shorty's Lunch Room during 1938 and 1939 (probably even before 1938). If this is the Shorty that makes tenderloin sandwiches (presently next to Cummins) then it shows how long he has been around.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2007 20:40:46 GMT -5
Bob.... the lunch room on Jackson St. was Shorty's Lunch Room, little Shorty's dad's place. Little Shorty.... Marion Prather, the son worked there while going to High School and shortly there after along came WW2 and Shorty was called to serve. Shortly after the war Little Shorty open a lunch room on the corner of 6th. and Wilson St., the dinner was located where his parking lot is today, he lived in a house that is now the present Shorty's Lunch Room. That area was on my paper route and I delivered his first paper there, and for about three years after that, the year would have been 1946.
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Post by RER on Oct 29, 2007 20:57:41 GMT -5
Well, George you delivered papers at Shorty's house in 1946 and we lived at 502 Union (now a Cummins parking lot) during that period. Shorty's place was only a block away, but I don't remember any of that because I was a little younger. My brother would remember that much better. We moved from there in 1950 and I don't recall much about Shorty's until older age. Next door to our house was Bob Welmer and his family. You may have delivered papers there and even our house.
I have been to the present Shorty's for lunch a few times over the years to eat (of course) tenderloins etc. I understand he still sits on his stool and greets the customers each day. Shorty's Dad's place I have no memory because that was before my days, but it was interesting what you said about little Shorty learning the business and working there as a younger boy and man.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2007 22:00:40 GMT -5
Bob.... my route was on the east side of Union St., it started mid block between 5th and 6th. St., I remember the first house was a brick and around 1949 or 50 it was taken down for a parking lot. Something of interest, when Shorty's was on Jackson St, Jackson St. was US 31 and the old 2nd St. bridge was on that route,......much less traffic !!!!!!.
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Post by RER on Oct 29, 2007 22:18:20 GMT -5
George you missed our house by only maybe 3 or 4 houses. We were on the corner of 5th and Union. Interesting to relate that far back. I had a Louisville Courier Journal route in the area we moved to, out past the hospital during the middle 1950s.
I wrote about it a little in other posts herein a couple years ago it seems.
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Post by Ricky_Berkey on Oct 30, 2007 11:14:51 GMT -5
Bob.... the lunch room on Jackson St. was Shorty's Lunch Room, little Shorty's dad's place. Little Shorty.... Marion Prather, the son worked there while going to High School and shortly there after along came WW2 and Shorty was called to serve. Shortly after the war Little Shorty open a lunch room on the corner of 6th. and Wilson St., the dinner was located where his parking lot is today, he lived in a house that is now the present Shorty's Lunch Room. That area was on my paper route and I delivered his first paper there, and for about three years after that, the year would have been 1946. I thought "Little Shorty" had been in WW2, he must really be up getting up there in years? He still sits and breads the tenderloins and there is always someone in the line begging for his secret recipe! He still draws a big crowd for lunch even with the Reeves plant gone and Cummins Plant One downsized the last few years. Wasn't his original lunchroom there some type of old train car?
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Post by richard on Oct 30, 2007 11:34:36 GMT -5
The information below is from today’s Looking Back column in the ‘The Republic’. The Columbus City Council awarded the Hawcreek Boulevard Construction project to Meshberger Stone Company. Perhaps in a few years we’ll find the date that road opened.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2007 19:44:07 GMT -5
Ricky....Shorty is now 83 and still going pretty strong, he arrives at the lunch room at 2:30 am to start getting breakfast going, he is usually out of there by 1:30 pm, a long day for a man of 83, but that has always been his life. You are correct about his first lunch room, it was an old wooden box car, but with some remodeling it looked pretty respectable. It was located on what is now his parking lot, he lived in a house that was located were the present lunch room is located. At the time he first opened there were houses on both sides of Wilson St. from 6th to 7th St., Reeves parking lot was in the future. Shorty has always rode motorcycles and has several at his home and still rides them, in his younger days he raced cycles.
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Post by RER on Nov 10, 2007 22:29:50 GMT -5
A New Twist To Bring The Downtown 1950s Back Into Your Imagination (POST ONE of TWO)Starts at 4th Street going North on Washington StreetI have taken one of George's pictures & enlarged it by cutting it in half and then identifying what businesses or citizens occupied the addresses. Starting at 4th & Washington Street.
The views are probably applicable for the years 1953-56 time-frame. I used the Columbus Directory dated 1953 to refresh your minds of days of Rock & Roll music, and folks in the shopping mode. There could be some variations to names but it will be very close.
There will two posts to complete the Washington Street view. The second view follows in the next post and it will show more active shoppers on the opposite side of the same street.
Dalton Payne Men's Clothing starts the list at the bottom of the picture and goes North on Washington. 402 Dalton & Payne (men's clothing)
404 Capital Finance Corp. 404 ½ Custer Building Allen E. Goltra (Lawyer) Leon D. Cline (Lawyer) Psi Iota Xi Thrift Shop (used clothing) L. E. McCormack Roy A. Cheatam L. E. McCormack (tax accountant)
406 Cummins Book Store (opened in 1892) Re-opened in November 2006
408 Val-U Dress Shop
410 Carpenter's Drug Store 410 ½ John C. Hilger (tailor)
412 Tovey Shoe Co.
416-18 Dell Brothers (men's clothing) (still open 2007)
422 The White House (department store)and The Joseph V. Hilger Company
426 ½ Howard G. Frohman (dentist)
430 The Lindsay Co.(men's clothing)
432 St Denis Hotel
436-38 Irwin-Union Trust Co. John T. JenkinsComment: Geroge H. Cummins (Cummins Book Store) opened the store in 1892 and ran the store for 56 years until he died in 1948. Closed at some point. Reopened November 2006 on Washington St.Partial Source: Babs concerning Cummins Book Store
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Post by RER on Nov 10, 2007 22:31:50 GMT -5
A New Twist To Bring The Downtown 1950s Back Into Your Imagination (POST TWO of TWO)Starts at 4th Street going North on Washington StreetThe views are probably applicable for the years 1953-56 time-frame. I used the Columbus Directory dated 1953 to refresh your minds of days of Rock & Roll music, and folks in the shopping mode. There could be some variations to names but it will be very close.
Enjoy the Shopping trip back many years ago.401 Parker Drug Store Walter E. Hart (watch repair)
405 Cook's Shoe Store 405 ½ Crump-Lucas Building Archibald T. Conner (Lawyer) Bartholomew Building & Loan Association John E. Summa (Lawyer) Atlas Mutual Life Insurance Company Donald Sharp (office) Harold B. Havens (dentist) Charles R. Wills (Lawyer) Mitchell Beauty Salon
407 Merit Shoe Store John Wooley (shoe repair)
409 Bruning's Specialty Shop (women's clothing)
415-17 G C Murphy Co.(department store)
421 American Security Co.
421 ½ Lawless Realty Company Delbert G. Brown (photographer)
423 Lane's (women's clothes)
425 Jack W O'Bryan (jewelry)
427 Sears Roebuck and Co. (mail order office) 427 ½ Mid-State Real Estate Co.
431 Citizens Building & Loan Fischvogt Jewelry Store
431 ½ Indianapolis Life Insurance Company Warren E. Brougher (insurance agent)
433 Nagel's Office Supplies Sharpnack & Bigley (Lawyer’s)
435 F. J. Meyer & Son (dry goods) (Since 1868)
437 H. L. Rost & Son (jewelry) 437 ½ Rost-Meyer Building John J. Dewey (insurance & real estate Lowell B. Zerbe (optometrist) Joseph StJohn John T. Jenkins
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Post by Rhonda on Nov 11, 2007 10:36:53 GMT -5
Bob,
Can you tell me anything else about the Crump-Lucas building on Washington Street? Both those names are in my family tree. I'm sure it has some connection, and have run across the building's name somewhere in my family history research, but don't know how/why it is named that.
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Post by RER on Nov 11, 2007 11:36:12 GMT -5
Hi Rhonda,
No I can't but you have sources in Columbus that can maybe fill in the unknown details. I might suggest that the Court House history records of the building owners be reviewed, the library on 5th has loads of history and maybe the BCHS boxes of memories and records could find something.
Another, source would be to contract some of the local Crump family members, that still live in Columbus and some have businesses on Washington Street. Even Harry at the Republic paper might know, He might research the paper's vast storage files of Columbus building history.
Lastly, Nanc, Richard, George and David may know or some of the readers on the board here might be able to contribute to your question.
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