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Yes, I went to MHHS Jr. High too.
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Yes, I went to MHHS Jr. High too.
I started eighth grade there the year it opened. It was a big downer after being in the high school for a year. It was really crowded, too. We all hated having to go over to the high school in the rain and cold to eat. The Jr. High had been closed by the time my kids were old enough for 7th grade.
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Yes, I went to MHHS Jr. High too.
I started eighth grade there the year it opened. It was a big downer after being in the high school for a year. It was really crowded, too. We all hated having to go over to the high school in the rain and cold to eat. The Jr. High had been closed by the time my kids were old enough for 7th grade.
I didn't attend the Jr. High. The Jr High was still in the old building.
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Yes, I went to MHHS Jr. High too.
I started eighth grade there the year it opened. It was a big downer after being in the high school for a year. It was really crowded, too. We all hated having to go over to the high school in the rain and cold to eat. The Jr. High had been closed by the time my kids were old enough for 7th grade.
I didn't attend the Jr. High. The Jr High was still in the old building.
You didn't miss much. Smiler
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Anne-
Yes, I went to MHHS Jr. High too.
I started eighth grade there the year it opened. It was a big downer after being in the high school for a year. It was really crowded, too. We all hated having to go over to the high school in the rain and cold to eat. The Jr. High had been closed by the time my kids were old enough for 7th grade.
I didn't attend the Jr. High. The Jr High was still in the old building.
You didn't miss much. Smiler
I've never heard anything about the "new" Junior High, one way or the other.
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Anne,
Yes, I went to MHHS Jr. High too. The only movie I ever saw was White Christmas, and I didn't know it was the bus drivers who put the event together. My bus driver was so mean, he owed it to us, I will tell you that!
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Yes, I went to MHHS Jr. High too. The only movie I ever saw was White Christmas, and I didn't know it was the bus drivers who put the event together. My bus driver was so mean, he owed it to us, I will tell you that!
I guess they rented the Paramount because they decided it would be better than giving us all oranges and candy like the grade school kids. Smiler We had a nice bus driver, his name was Mr. Decker. My kids and grandkids had a good bus driver, too. His name is Paul Becker, I think he is still driving a bus for the grade school route.
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For some reason, I don't recall having to go to the high school to get lunch. Ever. Each lunchtime, I would be in the gym dancing at the noon sockhop. I danced all lunch-about 45 minutes. I didn't eat. I danced! I also got in trouble for "dirty dancing" and had to go before the student council for it. Smiler
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We had Mr. Gold for a bus driver. Not a nice man in my opinion. He left my little sister behind in a blizzard and she could have been killed walking down St. Highway 67 trying to get home. My mom didn't drive and ran out in the blizzard to find her. He also moved the bus while we were at the movie so kids didn't find it on time. I was one left behind. He was good at that.
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We had Mr. Gold for a bus driver. Not a nice man in my opinion. He left my little sister behind in a blizzard and she could have been killed walking down St. Highway 67 trying to get home. My mom didn't drive and ran out in the blizzard to find her. He also moved the bus while we were at the movie so kids didn't find it on time. I was one left behind. He was good at that.
I think I've said this before..forget. There were two Gold brothers who drove busses at MH. They owned Gold's Cabinet Shop on Mounds Rd. One of the daughters just passed away a week or so ago.
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I don't know which was which and didn't know there were two. This one drove kids to Roosevelt.
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For some reason, I don't recall having to go to the high school to get lunch. Ever. Each lunchtime, I would be in the gym dancing at the noon sockhop. I danced all lunch-about 45 minutes. I didn't eat. I danced! I also got in trouble for "dirty dancing" and had to go before the student council for it. Smiler
At least the first year there was no cafeteria in the junior high so if you ate you walked across to the high school. We had 20 minutes for lunch. The year I was at the junior high they were really strict and I don't remember being able to dance in the gym at all. When the school year started I had two classes with no desks and one with no blackboards. That was fixed quickly. The windows would not open and it was really hot and the worst thing then was that we had to share lockers and they were the half size ones. Seems silly now, but then those were all major problems.
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Seems silly now, but then those were all major problems.
If we could just have those problems back, I would be willing to trade, how about you? Wink
I did not go to a Madison County School but my tax dollars support them and I hate to see the shape they are in, it is sad for the kids, and our future. Frowner
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Seems silly now, but then those were all major problems.
If we could just have those problems back, I would be willing to trade, how about you? Wink
I did not go to a Madison County School but my tax dollars support them and I hate to see the shape they are in, it is sad for the kids, and our future. Frowner
If I could have those problems and keep my more mature attitude that would be great. Don't want to go back to all the drama teenagers have. Wink
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I read in another thread that this site will close in a couple days? Any suggestions on where to go from here? Not being physically in Anderson, I feel kinda "Out of the loop."
Some of us here still live in Anderson. :)
Just had a thought. You could check into getting your own spot and start a thing in it about Anderson. Just go here: http://theunknownzone.us/smf/index.php?board=89.0
IT SURE WOULD BE NICE TO CONTINUE "BEST TIME" POSTS I REALLY ENJOYED IT. I GO BACK BOUT 4 TIMES A YEAR BUT LIVE IN DAYTONA BEACH. GRAD. AHS 59
The thing is, am I really allowed to take that and post it here? I figured since there are mods here, they would know.
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The thing is, am I really allowed to take that and post it here? I figured since there are mods here, they would know.
You might want to send a PM to admin and ask. I'd say that would be the quickest way to find out and the safest. ;)
Upon request of one of the members, we will be taking screen shots of that thread at HM and bringing them here to the Zone so that all who wish can continue the conversation, and also so the previous contributions to the conversation can be preserved.
thank you for importing this thread to this forum
I have greatly enjoyed reading it and it does bring back a lot of memories i am now a old time fl resident but did live in anderson until i was 16 // attended Madison Heights when it was 7 thru 12 left at the end of my sophmore year
i will be reading a lot on here even if i just stay in the background and be silent
Admin 2,
Please take down what I have brought over if I shouldn't have.
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Admin 2,
Please take down what I have brought over if I shouldn't have.
No worries. The screen shots will be posted on their own thread.
Quote from: bats1932 on December 30, 2008, 10:05:41 AM
IT SURE WOULD BE NICE TO CONTINUE "BEST TIME" POSTS I REALLY ENJOYED IT. I GO BACK BOUT 4 TIMES A YEAR BUT LIVE IN DAYTONA BEACH. GRAD. AHS 59
Hey bats! Welcome! I'm down the road in Fort Lauderdale.
Welcome to all of you I haven't met yet. I can see why you guy's wanted that brought over. I read through some of it and its neat. I've only lived in Anderson since '67' but I remember a lot of whats in those posts.
I lived in Anderson until 1967, so I left it, and you moved there. <g>
Hey bats! Welcome! I'm down the road in Fort Lauderdale.
THANK U I MOVED HERE 2001. EVTHG GREAT CEPT PROP TAXES!!
bats and locotus i am across the state in the bradenton sarasota area moved here from anderson in 1961 i think all is great except prop taxes and insurance
Quote from: bld7 on December 31, 2008, 07:38:34 PM
bats and locotus i am across the state in the bradenton sarasota area moved here from anderson in 1961i think all is great except prop taxws and insurance
A real good friend of mine lives in Bradention.
Quote from: bld7 on December 31, 2008, 07:38:34 PM
bats and locotus i am across the state in the bradenton sarasota area moved here from anderson in 1961 i think all is great except prop taxes and insurance
Hello there bld7! The Floridians are taking over. :biggrin:
I know! We need more Californians to represent! ;D
Now I'm beginning to see where everyone in Anderson is moving to...Fla...lol
Yes but some of us moved a long time ago / I read this forum and realize either how little i can remember ( or how much i have forgot) i moved just b4 i turned 16 (1961) and the most of what i remember is about the meadowbrook neighbrhood
this was b4 they built the madison ave tunnel so you went thru the brown street tunnel or over to main street //
Quote from: bld7 on January 01, 2009, 10:50:08 PM
Yes but some of us moved a long time ago / I read this forum and realize either how little i can remember ( or how much i have forgot) i moved just b4 i turned 16 (1961) and the most of what i remember is about the meadowbrook neighbrhood
this was b4 they built the madison ave tunnel so you went thru the brown street tunnel or over to main street //
I didn't move to Anderson until '66'. I worked at the Burger Chef on 53rd St. starting in 67, which was brand new at the time, for almost 4yrs. It's been torn down now and a Dollar General Store stands in its place.
The Burger Chef didn't last long!
Nope Changed to Hardy's sometime in the late 80's or early 90's.
Quote from: bld7 on December 31, 2008, 07:38:34 PM
bats and locotus i am across the state in the bradenton sarasota area moved here from anderson in 1961 i think all is great except prop taxes and insurance
St. Pete Clearwater Tarpon Springs and the surrounding areas used to be my old stomping grounds back in the late 60's and early 70's.
Need to take down the posts from the HB, please.
One thing I miss is the Christmas tree farm that used to be on 53rd St. We used to go in Oct and pick out a tree then get it right after Thanksgiving.
I lived on 53rd but don't remember a Christmas tree farm there.
Quote from: Gardengirl on January 04, 2009, 09:13:45 PM
I lived on 53rd but don't remember a Christmas tree farm there.
It was not too far west of Southdale. I think it's a church now.
I remember the buffalo ranch on what is now 53rd.
That I don't remember so it must have been before I moved over here in '66'.
Yes, I am sure it was. Anyone remember the Huffer family on what was St. Highway 67? Now 53rd.
how about the buffalo's that used to be on 53rd where IVY tech is?
I think the Loose funeral home is located on that property.
Quote from: tv2929 on January 05, 2009, 04:09:51 PM
I think the Loose funeral home is located on that property.
yep, i believe your are right... :yes:
Wasn't there a school building that was last used as an auction where Ivy Tech is now?
I think the school was at the Madison Avenue/53rd st intersection....
Oh ya, thats right I guess it was.
Quote from: smokeykat on January 05, 2009, 11:40:49 PM
I think the school was at the Madison Avenue/53rd st intersection....
I think that was the old Roosevelt school. I attended there.
I ran across this earlier and thought I'd post it. It is very well put together.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dplbI2DWRc
GUIDE LAMP 1929-2008
Just thought I would drop by for a minute and say hello. :wink:
Well hello. Does your username indicate that you went to Madison Heights by any chance?
Hi Pirate!
Quote from: Henry Hawk on January 05, 2009, 11:03:26 AM
how about the buffalo's that used to be on 53rd where IVY tech is?
Quote from: tv2929 on January 05, 2009, 04:09:51 PM
I think the Loose funeral home is located on that property.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on January 05, 2009, 04:27:50 PM
yep, i believe your are right... :yes:
The buffalo were kept on the NE corner of 53rd and Main. Indiana Business College is the school you're thinking about.
Hi folks! It's our first post! Just couldn't stand to see the "best times in Anderson" thread fall by the wayside.
Kind of surprised that no one has posted a recollection of the F-86 Saber jet that stood guard on Broadway at the West edge of Shadyside Park. Anyone out there remember that? Pa.
I do. But, I don't think I ever went to Shadyside Park. I don't think I got around a lot when I was growing up. For one thing, all summer thru fall we were working 4 a.m. till 11 p.m. managing our commercial fishing lake.
Hey Gardengirl, Ma was a '67 Pi-rat; she wonders if you remember trading in those plastic MHHS lunch tokens for a Pirate Bowl (chef's salad, to the rest of the civilized world)? Pa
Pa,
I never got to buy lunch. It was always a packed sandwich or nothing if there was a noon dance. Then, I'd just dance. PM me and tell me who Ma is, okay? But ask her if she remembers the SMELL of that cafeteria. I can still smell it today. I used to have junior high math in it after lunch in 8th grade. Blech!
Quote from: Ma and Pa on January 14, 2009, 04:08:04 PM
Hi folks! It's our first post! Just couldn't stand to see the "best times in Anderson" thread fall by the wayside.
Kind of surprised that no one has posted a recollection of the F-86 Saber jet that stood guard on Broadway at the West edge of Shadyside Park. Anyone out there remember that? Pa.
Remember it, climbed in it, had a great time in it, but it was in pretty sad shape at the time.
I had forgotten about the plane at Shadyside. The Christmas tree farm was in back of a brown brick house on the south side of 67. We never went there but I remember the sign out front. Does anyone remember when you could buy warm donuts and milk in the MHHS cafeteria before classes in the mornings? Or about the sandwich line at noon where you could buy a la carte ham sandwiches, chips, milk and an ice cream sandwich for less than a dollar? This was after they quit selling food at the bookstore. The class of 64 is planning their 45 year reunion for this summer. It will be the weekend before labor day. Anyone who wants information can contact me.
Quote from: Mr442 on January 15, 2009, 10:52:34 AM
Remember it, climbed in it, had a great time in it, but it was in pretty sad shape at the time.
Climbed around on it and in it too. :biggrin:
Remember the tank that was there for a while? The three caves down below? Used to have bars and bears. :biggrin:
Wasn't that tree farm on the side road that crossed the RR tracks between Mounds Road and 67?
Quote from: Gardengirl on January 14, 2009, 05:13:11 PM
I do. But, I don't think I ever went to Shadyside Park. I don't think I got around a lot when I was growing up. For one thing, all summer thru fall we were working 4 a.m. till 11 p.m. managing our commercial fishing lake.
What lake was that?
Quote from: Da Wham on January 15, 2009, 01:48:36 PM
Wasn't that tree farm on the side road that crossed the RR tracks between Mounds Road and 67?
Nope. It was just west of Southdale on 53rd on the south side of the street.
Don't know anything about the smell of the MH cafeteria. MH :razz: An Indian here. :biggrin:
Quote from: me on January 15, 2009, 01:50:39 PM
Nope. It was just west of Southdale on 53rd on the south side of the street.
I remember that one too. West of the miniature golf place. Isn't that house still there?
Quote from: Da Wham on January 15, 2009, 01:54:51 PM
I remember that one too. West of the miniature golf place. Isn't that house still there?
I think it's a church now. I didn't know there was another one besides that on.
Quote from: me on January 15, 2009, 01:57:09 PM
I think it's a church now. I didn't know there was another one besides that on.
I think there were two across from each other on that road I mentioned.
Speaking of smells, do you remember the unique smell given off by the Anaconda factory on 31st St.?
Ma's daddy was the union president there for years; I think about half her family worked there! Pa
Don't remember that but I do remember the wonderful smell coming from the Holsom bakery on Meridian. I lived across the street from it for a little over a year. Both it and the house I lived in are gone now.
Quote from: Da Wham on January 15, 2009, 01:48:36 PM
Wasn't that tree farm on the side road that crossed the RR tracks between Mounds Road and 67?
Maybe you are thinking of Gaar's Nursery, it is on 67 closer Chesterfield.
The one smell in Anderson that has always stuck with me is, the smell of the lard being rendered at Emges. Our FFA chapter went there on a field trip once, and they were rendering the lard. I thought I was gonna barf :eek: For a long time, if I smelled cheap hamburger frying, I'd loose my appetite immediately. Even today, 36 years later, I still get similar results on occaision. Other than that, the trip was great.
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The one smell in Anderson that has always stuck with me is, the smell of the lard being rendered at Emges. Our FFA chapter went there on a field trip once, and they were rendering the lard. I thought I was gonna barf :eek: For a long time, if I smelled cheap hamburger frying, I'd loose my appetite immediately. Even today, 36 years later, I still get similar results on occaision. Other than that, the trip was great.
I use Emge Lard for cooking quite often. My mother-in-law uses it for EVERYTHING, and she got me hooked on it.
I'm glad I did not share your field trip experience with you 442.... ;D
Is lard that thick, white crap in the can? Yikes; how can anyone put that in their body? For cooking, I primarily use EVOO and I use peanut oil in my deep fryer. I'll be trying something new soon, though...Kroger has geese on sale for $.99 lb. so I picked one up last night. Having never cooked a goose before, I've been reading about it and pretty much everyone agrees that when you cook the bird you want to save the fat. Apparently, potatoes roasted or fried in goose fat are the best! We shall see...
Domesticated goose...........wellllllllll.....ok.
Wild goose........ :puke:
Quote from: Exterminator on January 16, 2009, 01:30:23 PM
Is lard that thick, white crap in the can? Yikes; how can anyone put that in their body? For cooking, I primarily use EVOO and I use peanut oil in my deep fryer. I'll be trying something new soon, though...Kroger has geese on sale for $.99 lb. so I picked one up last night. Having never cooked a goose before, I've been reading about it and pretty much everyone agrees that when you cook the bird you want to save the fat. Apparently, potatoes roasted or fried in goose fat are the best! We shall see...
Lard makes excellent pie crust. :yes: I roasted a goose one time and screwed up and ate the liver....won't do that again.... :no: :no: The goose was quite good though.
Quote from: Exterminator on January 16, 2009, 01:30:23 PM
Is lard that thick, white crap in the can? Yikes; how can anyone put that in their body? For cooking, I primarily use EVOO and I use peanut oil in my deep fryer. I'll be trying something new soon, though...Kroger has geese on sale for $.99 lb. so I picked one up last night. Having never cooked a goose before, I've been reading about it and pretty much everyone agrees that when you cook the bird you want to save the fat. Apparently, potatoes roasted or fried in goose fat are the best! We shall see...
I'm not sure how bad it really is........my mother-in-law has used it in about everything she fries and is 86 years old..and going very strong......and, it in my opinion enhances the flavor of fried foods........it is used a lot in the south and in most soul foods...lard is a must.....
but, I truly do not want to experience what 442 did on his field trip and ruin it for me.........although, I do us evoo in some of my cooking...and like it just fine.
Lard is that "white crap" in the can. It is basically nothing more than the cooled/congealed liquid that is produced by cooking animal fat. Peolple have been making it forever. The small of it coooking during the rendering is very strong. Heating up lard to cook with does not smell all that bad.
http://homesicktexan.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-render-lard.html
442: When I was a kid in Anderson (in the ancient 50's) we took school field trips thru Emge's a couple of times. At the end, they'd hand you a RAW hotdog as a complementary refreshment! And we'd EAT the damn things! You can't hardly kill a kid!
And yeah, I'll eat most anything that's been cooked in lard; my Mother-in-Law could prob'ly fry dirt in lard and it would be delicious!
Quote from: Gardengirl on January 14, 2009, 10:37:33 PM
Pa,
I never got to buy lunch. It was always a packed sandwich or nothing if there was a noon dance. Then, I'd just dance. PM me and tell me who Ma is, okay? But ask her if she remembers the SMELL of that cafeteria. I can still smell it today. I used to have junior high math in it after lunch in 8th grade. Blech!
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Gardengirl: You knew Ma as Kay; she had a sister, Sue (MHHS '65), and a brother, Rick (MHHS '69). Couldn't PM you because no address was accessible. And yes, she remembers that smell-- she had a class in the cafeteria, too; not right after lunch, fortunately. What nerve, expecting kids to get an education in a non-air conditioned school with uncarpeted floors AND it smelled like food! Shades of Abu-Ghraib prison! Derisive Pa
Quote from: Ma and Pa on January 16, 2009, 05:35:01 PM
442: When I was a kid in Anderson (in the ancient 50's) we took school field trips thru Emge's a couple of times. At the end, they'd hand you a RAW hotdog as a complementary refreshment! And we'd EAT the damn things! You can't hardly kill a kid!
And yeah, I'll eat most anything that's been cooked in lard; my Mother-in-Law could prob'ly fry dirt in lard and it would be delicious!
Quote from: Mr442 on January 16, 2009, 09:47:05 AM
The one smell in Anderson that has always stuck with me is, the smell of the lard being rendered at Emges. Our FFA chapter went there on a field trip once, and they were rendering the lard. I thought I was gonna barf :eek: For a long time, if I smelled cheap hamburger frying, I'd loose my appetite immediately. Even today, 36 years later, I still get similar results on occaision. Other than that, the trip was great.
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Quote from: Ma and Pa on January 16, 2009, 05:35:01 PM
442: When I was a kid in Anderson (in the ancient 50's) we took school field trips thru Emge's a couple of times. At the end, they'd hand you a RAW hotdog as a complementary refreshment! And we'd EAT the damn things! You can't hardly kill a kid!
And yeah, I'll eat most anything that's been cooked in lard; my Mother-in-Law could prob'ly fry dirt in lard and it would be delicious!
:confused:
Pa,
Offhand, I am thinking of a Kay whose last name began with M. Am I right???
I never went to Emge's, but had a relative that worked there. Those hotdogs are cooked in the processing, so you can pull any hotdog out of a package and eat it raw.
Forum friends--(re tonight's two earlier postings): Ma was playing with the computer; I don't know what she was doing. Pretty sure she doesn't know either. ;)
Gardengirl: Kay M must have been another beautiful "Buccaneer"; Ma was Kay W. O'Kay? Wise@$$ Pa
Quote from: Exterminator on January 16, 2009, 01:30:23 PM
Is lard that thick, white crap in the can? Yikes; how can anyone put that in their body? For cooking, I primarily use EVOO and I use peanut oil in my deep fryer. I'll be trying something new soon, though...Kroger has geese on sale for $.99 lb. so I picked one up last night. Having never cooked a goose before, I've been reading about it and pretty much everyone agrees that when you cook the bird you want to save the fat. Apparently, potatoes roasted or fried in goose fat are the best! We shall see...
The lard we hd when we were kids came in a cardboard container, kind of like Chinese food comes in only bigger. The white stuff in a can was Crisco and was different from lard. It was smoother and not as dense.
Emge used to sell larger amounts of lard in cans, about a gallon or two IIRC.
Round, 5 gallon cans show up occasionally at flea markets. Would make nice waste baskets or totes, or.... Pa
Lard is lard; the semitrailers of our circulatory systems, responsible for our high incident of heart attack, obesity, etc. :spooked:
I hate that stuff and would never intentionally ingest it.
PA!
I don't see a Kay W in my yearbook. Was there another name before the Kay? Like my middle name is Kay too, but I don't go by that. Help. :)
Quote from: Gardengirl on January 20, 2009, 12:08:27 AM
PA!
I don't see a Kay W in my yearbook. Was there another name before the Kay? Like my middle name is Kay too, but I don't go by that. Help. :)
Quote from: me on January 15, 2009, 08:08:32 PM
Don't remember that but I do remember the wonderful smell coming from the Holsom bakery on Meridian. I lived across the street from it for a little over a year. Both it and the house I lived in are gone now.
Oh man! Used to go over there after church on Sunday and get loaves fresh from the oven and go home and smear 'em with butter. Yum!
Quote from: Da Wham on January 22, 2009, 12:50:44 PM
Oh man! Used to go over there after church on Sunday and get loaves fresh from the oven and go home and smear 'em with butter. Yum!
Yep, nothin' like it.... :yes: :yes:
Pa and Ma,
Sent you guys a private message, then got yours, but it didn't mention mine, so I resent one. Did you get it?
Do any of you guys have any "special" memories of the old North and/or South Drive-In Theaters? Had my first "real" job there(the North), summer of '65; made a whoppin' 60 cents an hour. Depending on the night, I either worked the gate (buddies got in free!) or in the snack bar. My best "work buddy" was a lanky nutcase named Jim Rebhorn (MHHS '66); he later made out pretty well in California- he's a very highly regarded character actor with an impressive list of appearances in major pictures. Google him, if you're interested. I'm glad he worked there, we had a LOT of fun, and besides that, he made ME look sane! Maybe we even waited on some of you lust-crazed teens! Pa
I saw Clute, starring Jane Fonda at the North. What a poor movie. :rant:
But at the South, things were better. Billy Jack flicks, all the women in prison movies, and the last one I saw there, the Blues Brothers.
Man I miss those drive-ins.
Pa,
We could watch the movies at the South Drive-In from my back porch! The thing is, we couldn't HEAR them. So, it was kinda funny to watch them. The screen was huge and we could see so well. We would sometimes even walk down there. One incident I know you won't believe, but it happened. I swear to God.
Once, my girlfriends and I met there, and we got our popcorn and went and sat on one of the long front benches right under the screen to watch some movie, I forget which. Behind us was a playground for little kids. There must have been 5-6 of us sitting on that bench, and we were well into the movie when all of a sudden the bench rose up and left our feet dangling! We looked behind us, no one there. We looked under the bench, still seated (much more able to move in those days) and there was no one there! We all jumped off the bench at the same moment and ran screaming toward the snack bar. We told someone there what had happened, and they checked out the area, but found no pranksters. Still don't understand what happened there that night unless the place was haunted.
My folks took us many times to the drive-in and we'd sit in the back seat, trying to see past their heads. Only one movie I remember seeing there-Splendor in the Grass. I don't remember ever going to the North. Where was it? But maybe I did because it seems I saw some beach movies elsewhere than the South.
Gardengirl: Regarding the mysterious floating bench, could it possibly have been caused by the unstable combination of estrogen and artificially psuedo ersatz flavor-enhanced popcorn butter? Just a thought.
The North Drive-In stood on the east side of Hwy. 9, between Prosperity Rd. (500N) and Moonsville Rd.
(600N). There was a go-kart operation out there for a few years, too.
Mr. 442: Oh yeah, that big screen musta really done justice to that long-running demo derby known as "The Blues Bros."! We used to have a Blues Bros. LP, pretty much the soundtrack to the movie. Good music, and a lotta laughs.
There is an auto auction where the North Drive-In used to be now. We went to the North more than the South for some reason but went quite a few times during the summer. I'd pop a huge bag of popcorn and we'd load the cooler with drinks and fix the back of the station wagon so the kids could lay down if they wanted. They were almost always asleep by the time the second movie started.
Pa.
It could have been a hormonal thing with all those gals on the same bench. But it was weird!
Remember how popcorn used to taste? Remember the smaller white squarish cartons with the red designs? The popcorn tasted nothing like it does today at the theatres. My mom's popcorn popped with Crisco was the best. Those were good times, when our parents packed us in the old station wagon in our jammies to go see a movie together. I miss the old drive-ins and wonder if they will ever come back.
Here is a site with the Drive-Ins listed in Indiana
http://www.driveinmovie.com/IN.htm
Ah, yes, "beach" movies at the old North Drive-In. Nothing better to bring out a crowd of hormone-fueled teens than that world-reknowned tag team of Avalon & Funicello! The girls came to see what Annette was wearing, and the boys came to see what Annette wasn't wearing. Pretty tame stuff, by today's standards, but I remember times when traffic would be lined up on State Road 9 for a quarter mile, waiting to get in.
I remember a real bad wreck there, too; a couple of local boys were killed, and their dates badly injured. Sid Cleveland was one of the guys- his dad was a judge. I'm glad I wasn't working that night. Man, I miss those warm summer nights, Beach Boys music and Art's pizza. We had it made. Geezer Pa
I went to MHHS from junuor high thru senior year. I have pretty fond memories. I wish I had of paid more attention.
Quote from: Claudine on January 28, 2009, 04:50:32 PM
I went to MHHS from junuor high thru senior year. I have pretty fond memories. I wish I had of paid more attention.
All three of my kids went there. It's such a shame that nothing exists of that school any longer.
Welcome to the forum, Claudine! You've got some catchin' up to do! Share a memory of good old Anderson with us. What years were you at MHHS? Pa
Pa,
Wow! I remember bad wrecks on St. Rd. 67 near the South Drive-In. In fact, the mom of our prom queen was killed that year there. My mom ran down to several wrecks when she thought she could leave three little kids in the house alone. But Minot Cleveland was in my class, the smartest and nicest guy in our class, and he was also the judge's son. I didn't realize he had a brother at all.
Welcome, Claudine! The old school is surely missed.
Quote from: Gardengirl on January 29, 2009, 02:21:36 AM
Pa,
Wow! I remember bad wrecks on St. Rd. 67 near the South Drive-In. In fact, the mom of our prom queen was killed that year there. My mom ran down to several wrecks when she thought she could leave three little kids in the house alone. But Minot Cleveland was in my class, the smartest and nicest guy in our class, and he was also the judge's son. I didn't realize he had a brother at all.
Gardengirl, Jane Cleveland was in my class, she was Minot's sister. I didn't know they had another brother either.
Anne,
I didn't know Minot had a sister!!! I know he was adopted, so I wonder if all the kids were siblings adopted together or kids adopted separately. Minot was our valedictorian, and he was such a cutie and a good guy. We had a lot of fun sending messages to each other about what grades we got when we graded each others' papers. He is a major doctor in Washington state. He went to MIT but dropped out. I heard he went to Africa awhile and hung out, then came home and got a degree in psychiatry.
I don't know if Jane was adopted or not. I remember Minot was a cute kid (way younger than me at the time) with lots of dark hair and a really cute smile. Did you ever see Mrs. Cleveland's hats? She had lots and lots of hats. She even gave talks about them to ladies clubs and gatherings. They were all different and had a story. It was very interesting. I haven't seen Jane since graduation, I will ask about her at the next reunion meeting.
Anne,
What year did you graduate again? There was a Jan somebody (bet I already asked this) at MHHS, and I believe she was a cheerleader. Probably graduated 1961-1964, somewhere in there.
Was Minot's mom a lot older than usual. Hats sound like what an older woman would have cared about in those days.
Minot was VERY cute! VERY smart, and he played all sports even as small as he was. Very nice, too!!
Quote from: Gardengirl on January 30, 2009, 05:56:23 PM
Anne,
What year did you graduate again? There was a Jan somebody (bet I already asked this) at MHHS, and I believe she was a cheerleader. Probably graduated 1961-1964, somewhere in there.
Was Minot's mom a lot older than usual. Hats sound like what an older woman would have cared about in those days.
Minot was VERY cute! VERY smart, and he played all sports even as small as he was. Very nice, too!!
I graduated in 1964. I have looked through the 1959, 61, 62, 63 and 64 annuals and can't find any cheerleader named Jan, unless that was a middle name that wouldn't have been in the annuals. If you had a last name that would help. Maybe she was a majorette?
I looked it up and Mrs. Cleveland was born in 1908, so she would be 100. Mrs. Cleveland's name was Caroline. Isn't it amazing what you can find on the internet. My mother was in her 40's when I was in high school and she and most of her friends usually wore a hat when they went out. I wore one whenever I went to church (which was rarely) or went anyplace to be "dressed up". That all ended in the middle 60's when things began to be much more casual. I haven't had a hat except for a knit winter one to keep out the cold since 1968! I went to a play party at Cleveland's house once, it was a nice house. It was on Mounds Road, the one that looks kinda southwestern, on the north side of the road not too far from Scatterfield. Jane isn't in our 1964 annual so I don't know what happened to her. I am going to ask around, she is in the 63 annual.
Did Minot have blue eyes? Seems like I remember that. He was a cutie.
Anne,
Yes, Minot had those blue, blue eyes against that curly jet black hair. Somehow, my bet is he doesn't have that hair today. I wrote him about the 40th reunion in fall, 2007, and he wrote me back that he wasn't able to come. Busy doctor.
Maybe Jan was a majorette. I wish I could find her. She married my half brother, Dick Johnson, and they had two little boys. She met a doctor and left my brother, and shortly after, he died of pneumonia, mostly a broken heart, really. She supposedly married this doctor, who I think worked at Community, and I think he had been married too. They moved to Hawaii, and that is the last I've seen of my two nephews. I bet they don't even carry my brother's name. I can't find my other half brother, Bill Johnson, who was living in Muncie and worked for the Anderson newspapers for a long, long time. He has an ex, used to be known as Pat Johnson, who was an emergency room nurse at Community.
Sorry I couldn't be more help. Do you remember when they got married and divorced? I do a little geneology research at the library sometimes and maybe I could get a line on her there. Did they have a big enough wedding to be written up in the paper?
It is warmer here today and about half the snow has melted. We had about 12 inches last Wed. Not what I wanted when my husband was away. Thankfully my wonderful neighbors snowblowed my driveway. Thank goodness for great neighbors.
All Hoosiers are great neighbors!
I think they had a fairly big wedding. I just can't remember her last name. We left Indiana in 1967, and they had two boys by then, who were about 4 and 2 when we left. They could have gotten married 1961-1964. His name Richard Johnson. Oh, their dad died in the early 1970s, I believe. His name was Ralph Johnson, so maybe there is an obit with Jan's name and the kids' names, but then you wouldn't have her maiden name.
Anne-
Dick or Richard Johnson died in 1973 in Anderson. His obit ought to give his survivors-wife and kids' names. I'd love to have all that. His father's name was Ralph Johnson.
I will look them up the next time I go to the library. Maybe I can come up with something. Do you know what year they divorced and she married the doctor?
Anne,
My brother died in 1973 at age 33. I think he was divorced by then, not sure she was remarried by then, but she could have been. She was trying to take his motorcycle, the only thing he had left from the divorce. They were probably divorced between 1970 and 1973. They were together when we left in 1967. I think an obit on Dick would show his sons names, if not hers. I sure would like to find out her married name. Assuming they are still married, maybe I could find my nephews.
Your brother was very young. It must have been very difficult for your family to lose someone who was so young.
Yes, it was. But he'd had asthma as a child and got pneumonia riding his motorcycle to work in the winter. He taught me how to properly eat a bacon sandwich-with jelly, and that's the way I eat mine today.
I have never heard of putting jelly on a bacon sandwich. :) I like mine with just the bacon (crispy) and nice soft white bread. Not a very good thing to eat but delicious nevertheless. Can you get breaded tenderloin sandwiches where you live? Central Indiana is the only place I have ever found them. I think it is so interesting how some foods are so local, and yet not really odd or exotic.
Maybe we need a tenderloin thread!!! I'll throw out the first suggestion: our favorite tenderloin comes from Story's Restaurant on the south side of the city square in Greensburg. We've eaten them there for like 27 years; they aren't as big as they once were, but they're still delicious! Gotta be better than bacon & jelly. :rolleyes:
Quote from: Ma and Pa on February 04, 2009, 07:32:50 PM
Maybe we need a tenderloin thread!!! I'll throw out the first suggestion: our favorite tenderloin comes from Story's Restaurant on the south side of the city square in Greensburg. We've eaten them there for like 27 years; they aren't as big as they once were, but they're still delicious! Gotta be better than bacon & jelly. :rolleyes:
My favorite tenderloin comes from a little place on Harrison St. In Alexandria. The root beer stand on 9 runs a close second.
Me: WHAT little place on Harrison? Lighthouse Cafe?
Quote from: Ma and Pa on February 04, 2009, 07:46:15 PM
Me: WHAT little place on Harrison? Lighthouse Cafe?
Don't remember the name of it but its north of town and sits on the north east corner of the street. Its just a little drive in that's been there for years.
I know ME...do I get a prize???? It's Dortee's.......it is soooooooooooo good!!!!!!
Quote from: smokeykat on February 04, 2009, 08:15:56 PM
I know ME...do I get a prize???? It's Dortee's.......it is soooooooooooo good!!!!!!
Yep that's it.... :yes:
Anne and others,
Nope, sure can't get a breaded or grilled tenderloin out here! Isn't it silly? I looked for one for years. Then, my husband, who is from Philly, wanted a cheesesteak and a guy from Philly started Philly's Best out here where we can get a real steak or chicken cheesesteak on an Amarosa roll, and with all the good Tastycake pastries.
I took Bill to a little place outside Pendleton and bought him a breaded tenderloin, I think a place called Jimmy's, and it didn't measure up to what I remember from childhood. I like the grilled tenderloins even better, I think. Tomato, lettuce and mayo is all they need.
Whenever you are around Anderson again, try The Bank in Pendleton for grilled or breaded tenderloin. They are huge and as good as the ones they used to serve at Irish Point.
Anne-
I will, thank you! We might be around in July. I will probably get the grilled, my husband the breaded. I found out or remembered that my ex sis-in-law's name was Janet Kay. But, I still don't know her last name or who she remarried. I am trying to find that out.
We usually drive back to Philly every year. Year before last we took a train, but it was $3000 cross country both ways since we wanted a roomette. I don't like flying, so we drive. I know flying is quicker and safe, but I like the ground too much. <g>
Do you stop in Indiana on the way to Philly area?
How about sugar creme pie west of the Mississippi. Not the gritty one from Mrs. Wicks.
Anyone out there know of good home made pie shop. WE especially like nice Mom and Pop restaurants.
Ma and Pa,
Yes, we either stop on the way or coming back from Philly. It's a 3 day drive to Indiana and another day to Philly. FULL days, like 12-13 hours with not much stopping to smell the roses. I always lose weight on the trips because my husband doesn't want to stop to eat. We might get lunch, but then when we stop at our motel, he doesn't want to go back out to eat, so it's the vending machine for dinner. Love to stop at Cracker Barrel, but never had a sugar creme pie. I can imagine what it tastes like, though. Yum.
Gardengirl: Ma makes the BEST in the world! It's nothing like Mrs. Wick's, which some people seem to think
is just great. I won't eat the stuff; guess I'm a pie snob! She might even give you the recipe, but that probably ought to go over to the food / recipes section; we'll keep this area clear for our "Best times" and
great memories. Me want pie!
There is a food section here? I would love that recipe. I not the best baker in the world when it comes to pie crust. But, I can do the filling.
The one good thing about California is all the good Mexican food. My sis sure misses it. There is a Mexican restaurant in Bloomy, but it's not the same as the real thing she said.
Does anyone remember Sir Beef that used to be out on Broadway?
Quote from: Ma and Pa on February 06, 2009, 03:33:47 PM
Gardengirl: Ma makes the BEST in the world! It's nothing like Mrs. Wick's, which some people seem to think
is just great. I won't eat the stuff; guess I'm a pie snob! She might even give you the recipe, but that probably ought to go over to the food / recipes section; we'll keep this area clear for our "Best times" and
great memories. Me want pie! :biggrin:
Ma has a recipe for sugar cream pie? I love it. Think she might share the recipe with me?
Quote from: me on February 07, 2009, 01:31:52 AM
Does anyone remember Sir Beef that used to be out on Broadway?
I do, we lived up north by Community hospital and we stopped there often. They were much better than Arbys.
I thought so too and can't understand why they closed. They always seemed to be busy when we went.
Sir Beef had a wonderful corned beef on rye sandwich; exotic fare for a Hoosier kid raised on burgers 'n hot
dogs! Lookit me, I'm a real gor-may!
Quote from: Ma and Pa on February 07, 2009, 10:35:17 AM
Sir Beef had a wonderful corned beef on rye sandwich; exotic fare for a Hoosier kid raised on burgers 'n hot
dogs! Lookit me, I'm a real gor-may!
Never ate anything but the roast beef, don't care for corned beef. I have a friend who worked there, didn't know her then though, and she quit before they closed so she don't have a clue either.
I kind of miss Taco Tico too except the reason I heard they got closed down for makes me glad I had quit eating there a while before they closed.
me: I loved Taco Tico! It was Anderson's first Mexican restaurant, as I recall. I'm almost afraid to ask, but
WHY did they get closed down? The answer can't be any more gruesome than a bacon & jelly sandwich, can
it? Hello Gardengirl!
Anyone who would like the Sugar Cream Pie Recipe can get it on the Recipe thread. This pie can be made with frozen or refrigerated dough and has 4 ingredients made in a sauce pan on top of the stove. EASY AND OH SO GOOD.
Now Pa,
You haven't yet tried that bacon and jelly sandwich, have you? Remember, crisp bacon, strawberry jelly preferred. My brother preferred grape jelly.
Gardengirl: No, I confess I haven't and probably won't try the b & j sandwich; you see,
I really don't care much for bacon. Don't eat bacon & eggs, or even a BLT sandwich.
Since I've been ragging you about YOUR sandwich, I'll let you in on my "dirty little secret". One of my lifelong favorites is a peanut butter and TOMATO sandwich!
I know, I can hear you gagging; in my defense, I only eat them in late summer, when Indiana tomatoes (the best in the world, I'm sure you'll agree) are at their best. HINT:
eat one with the tomato on top; it keeps the peanut butter from sticking to the roof of your mouth! Seriously drooling Pa
I just shared that with my hubby, and he went, "Oh, gross!" But this is a man who won't touch any condiment known to man, so he will barely eat the usual, boring food and hardly anything exciting.
I can't imagine what happens between the peanut butter and tomato to make it wonderful, but yes, Indiana tomatoes are the best. I have a friend out here, who years ago went to Indiana and was fed tomatoes, corn and green beans nearly the whole trip by her relatives. When she complained to me, I told her that was the point! That is the best thing Hoosiers can treat you to when you visit.
At the lake, we traded a farmer several acres he could plant with corn for the right to pluck as many ears as we wanted for free. We threw the dead fish into that field, which is the best fertilizer for corn. We'd go out there and get ears of corn and shuck them and eat them raw. They were tender and good that way! I just read "Dewey" about a library cat in Spencer, Iowa, and in it, the writer explained something I didn't know about corn. Each silk strand must be fertilized for every kernal of corn to develop. That's when you shuck an ear, if every strand hasn't been pollenized, there will be missing kernals. Who knew that?
Have you ever eaten a tomato sandwich with butter? My sis used to eat plain mayo sandwiches, not another thing on them!
How to find the recipe section here? I don't see it.
Quote from: Gardengirl on February 08, 2009, 11:45:22 PM
How to find the recipe section here? I don't see it.
Here's a link to that pie recipe http://theunknownzone.us/smf/index.php?topic=13264.0
Thank you!
Gardengirl: The recipe section is item #4 on the child boards; Anderson / Madison Co. / Indiana is #1-- the way you get to this thread.
Very interesting, throwing the dead fish out into the cornfield as fertilizer (unless coons and possums ate them as fast as you threw them out); that is exactly what friendly Indians taught the Pilgrims to do when they first came to the New World. Didn't work out so well for the Indians, tho! Wonder if there's any analogy between that and the welfare, medical care, etc. we so freely profer to (dare I say it?) ILLEGAL immigrants sweeping in from the south?
I've never tasted a 'mater & butter sammitch, but I bleeve I could probably choke a couple down without any serious repercussions! I had a buddy in college who introduced me to the pleasures of the "menneraise sammitch" (among other vices) back in the 60's. They floated pretty well on bellies full of illicitly acquired
Pabst Blue Ribbon! Ah, youth... full heads of hair, great vision, and cast-iron digestive systems. Which reminds me of two more teenage quests: loading up the car with buddies and burning up the highway to: A. White Castle in Indy, or B. the Ohio state line, where cold 3.2 beer was ready and waiting. And LEGAL! Anyone besides me want to admit to such shenanigans? How about you, Palehorse? Pa (feelin' old)
Did you go to the Triangle Bar in Ohio? I have heard about it since I was 13, never went. However, my sister, cousin, and children went. Somehow I just never made it over there. I'm probably too old to enjoy it now.
Anne: Ohhh Yesss! The Triangle in Greenville (Annie Oakley's hometown), a place in Palestine (Leo & Mary's,
maybe?), and my personal favorite, the Gateway Inn in Union City! Park in Indiana and walk across the street into Ohio! Their beer and hamburgers -- delicious, the kind you used to get everywhere, until McDonald's came along and changed the game -- were both 25 cents!!! Can you imagine? How many times did I head back home, broke, with both belly AND bladder bulging!? I wouldn't trade those memories for anything.
Gawd, I love this thread! The next best thing to a time machine.
My hubby said Philly teens went to NJ because drinking age was 18, whereas in PA it was 21. He wonders if teens in PA went to the other side of Ohio for the same reason.
I had NO desire for drinking. There was and is alot of alcoholism in Indiana, runs in many families, and once the kids see that, some of them want no part for the rest of their lives.
Gardengirl: I have no doubt that teens from West PA were making the same "beer runs" into Ohio that we East IND kids made; that's the nutty sort of behavior to which adolescents are prone.
That being said, there is much to be said about your viewpoint; young folks just don't realize the implications of their behavior. Lives can be turned upside down (or ended) in an instant. An evening of fun with friends can go suddenly, and irreversably, sour in the flash of an eye. Those of us who were lucky came through the phase with a store of happy memories, and some regrets. I have both,
and tho I have NO inclination to relive the wacky episodes of my wastrel youth, I realize that they're part of what made me the person I am. For better or worse. Pa (feelin' REALLY old now!)
I just wish one person had informed me while I was a teen how really short life was and how it felt to be this age, looking back, and feeling like everything happened "just yesterday." Maybe then I would have cherished each and every day a little more.
I know what you mean GG. I thought I learned that lesson years ago when my children were toddlers, but it hit home again a few years ago when two of our grandchildren were killed. I never wish for time to go faster now, like "I wish winter was over". I may hate the cold, but it is another day with family and friends to enjoy and remember.
You are both right on the money. The sad thing is, we were probably all given this lesson in various forms, by
different people in our earlier lives, but this is one of the facts of life we must all learn for ourselves -- usually
the HARD WAY.
Anne,
That is HORRIBLE! I don't know if I could make it through that. I am so sorry to hear that, you have no idea.
Ma and Pa,
Convince my hubby to take me on a REAL vacation, like to Hawaii or Florida, one that you don't have to see relatives or be anywhere at any specific time. I haven't ever had one of those, and I'm getting to old not to deserve one. :)
Quote from: Gardengirl on February 10, 2009, 10:01:46 PM
Anne,
That is HORRIBLE! I don't know if I could make it through that. I am so sorry to hear that, you have no idea.
Thank you for your kind thoughts. It was five yers ago and at times I had my doubts of any of us would make it through. I know that only her two younger children pulled our daughter through that time. But life goes on and while it is never the same it is still good.
Quote from: Gardengirl on February 10, 2009, 10:03:24 PM
Ma and Pa,
Convince my hubby to take me on a REAL vacation, like to Hawaii or Florida, one that you don't have to see relatives or be anywhere at any specific time. I haven't ever had one of those, and I'm getting to old not to deserve one. :)
The two best vacations I have ever been on for pure relaxation and enjoyment were two cruises my husband and i went on. He prefers a fishing trip for a vacation, something I can live without and never miss it, but he really enjoyed the cruises, too. I highly recommend them.
Anne-
I have been thinking about a cruise. My hubby would find the first deck chair,and in between meals, he would be sound asleep there the whole trip, while I would be out dancing, seeing movies, and having fun! It would be perfect. Did you go to the Bahamas, Bermuda, or Mexico?
We went to the Bahamas both times. The first cruise was on the Royal Caribbean Line and we left out of Miami . It was a beautiful ship and the food was awesome. That was in 1991. We went to Nassau, Freeport, and were supposed to go to a private island but it was too rough to get on the ferry to the island. Now i think they have docks at the island so you don't have to transfer from the ship to a ferry for the island. The second cruise was two years ago on the Princess line and we left from Jacksonville, FL. It was not as elegant but was still very nice. Our room was bigger and we had a real window not just a porthole. We went to Key West and to Nassau on that cruise. Both trips were very relaxing and the food was plentiful and good. There were shows each night and dancing, usually a big bingo game, too. I would like to go on at least two more. One to Alaska and one to Mexico. I think they are really very affordable, and I love not having to pack and unpack and think about where we are going to stay each night.
Sounds wonderful! I am so ready for a vacation. :)
I did find some info on my brother from his obit, but he was divorced before he died, so her name wasn't mentioned. With only the boys's first names and surmising they kept their last name, I might not find them if they were adopted and then took his name.
Hey, any more memories of Old Anderson?
What was the name of that skating rink that used to be on Moss Island Road?
me: was that Skate-mor? The Mesalem family owned Skateland in Alexandria, a much nicer facility. The old Moss Island rink was once the Green Lantern (in the 40's); it was a dancehall and drew patrons from miles around. Lots of big-name orchestras played there, especially during and after the Big Band era. I think that's where my mom and dad first met!
Wow, that's cool! My mom and dad met at a dance after the war. I wonder if it was there. They also use to frequent the Polish Club, I think that's the name. My mom broke a tooth on a polish sausage there. I think there was also dancing. I think those big band, supper club days were much more fun than the TV generation we are!
I had forgotten about being told about that being a night club. I took my kids skating there once but they usually went to the one in Alex. I will have to agree that was the better of the two.
Hey gang! Who here remembers Anderson's original big box discounter, the Giant Store on Fairview Street? They called it a department store; the term "discount store" probably hadn't been coined at that time. Lots of imported merchandise, which at that time meant "Made in Japan", and an infinite variety, it seemed at the time; like none of us had seen before. I'd say it opened around '57 or '58, and preceeded K-Mart, Arlan's,
Ayr-Way, and the others which came along later. Prior to its closure, it was known as Tri-State Discount Center, as I recall.
Quote from: Ma and Pa on February 15, 2009, 10:25:11 PM
Hey gang! Who here remembers Anderson's original big box discounter, the Giant Store on Fairview Street? They called it a department store; the term "discount store" probably hadn't been coined at that time. Lots of imported merchandise, which at that time meant "Made in Japan", and an infinite variety, it seemed at the time; like none of us had seen before. I'd say it opened around '57 or '58, and preceeded K-Mart, Arlan's,
Ayr-Way, and the others which came along later. Prior to its closure, it was known as Tri-State Discount Center, as I recall.
I remember that. I used to shop there quite often. A lot of the LP's I have came from there.
I remember shopping at the Giant Store. It was near a park, Fairview, which was across the street from Miller's Grocery Store where we shopped for food. I remember 10 cent soups.
GG: I don't recall Miller's Grocery; where was it located? Back in those days, every neighborhood had little "Mom & Pop" groceries -- the advent of today's convenience stores -- which augmented the "big" stores: Payless, A&P, the Hoosier Market, Matthews', Mace's, et al. Was that what Miller's was? Remember the smells? Wonderful! Especially the over-riding aroma of freshly-ground Eight O'Clock Coffee. YUM! ;D
Across Fairview from the Fairview Park was a little shopping area that included Miller's Grocery. I think there was a driveway onto Fairview where if you had some from Miller's Grocery and turned right, you would have gone to the Giant Store. This shopping area had a building that backed to Fairview, but when you pulled in that same driveway off Fairview, Miller's was across this gravel parking area and also fronted onto the other street that ran perpendicular to Fairview at the crossing. Was it 29th St.?
Okay, I went to Google maps, streetview for 29th St. and Fairview in Anderson, Indiana, and there is where Miller's was. It is now a laundromat. There is still the old building sitting on Fairview, backing to it, and across the parking lot is the laundromat, which was the grocery store.
I remember the skating rink on Moss Island as the Green Lantern back around 1960. The floors were really uneven. We usually went to Alex to skate, too. I don't remember when the Giant Store opened but you are right it was there before K-Mart. My mother's sorority wrapped Christmas gifts there one or two years as a money making project.
I skated at both rinks, and loved both for different reasons. I loved the Alex one because it had small rooms for the little kids to learn how to skate before they got out on the big floor with the big people. I loved the hokey-pokey there every night we went. It was big and it was fun.
The Moss Island one was great just because of its wood, uneven floors, fun to skate. I loved the posts in the middle of the floor because you could skate fast and grab one to spin around. When everyone did the "whip" in a line, it would be around those posts and over that uneven floor and it was great fun!!!
Great memories of a simpler time. All we had to worry about was a Russian nuclear attack! :spooked:
The school bus drivers used to take their riders to Alex for a skating party every year or so. It was a big deal for us rural Pendleton kids. Unfortunately, that particular skating rink set the standard (in my mind anyway) for all skating rinks. I have yet to see another that measured up to that one. Large open wood floor, big Wurlitzer for music, a snack bar, and a beginner's rink for those of us who were less than adept on wheeled shoes. :rolleyes:
Is either skating rink open still?
Memories of the Paramount Theatre-standing room only for Jerry Lewis movies.
Quote from: Gardengirl on February 17, 2009, 12:12:27 PM
Is either skating rink open still?
Memories of the Paramount Theatre-standing room only for Jerry Lewis movies.
The one in Alex is now the Eagles and the one on Moss Island Rd. closed a long time ago.
Mr. 442 (school buses) and Gardengirl (the Paramount) have reminded me of another treasured Anderson memory: the annual Safety Patrol Picnic! Assemble at the Paramount for a free movie, and afterwards, march off to Shadyside Park for all the hot dogs, drinks, and other goodies you could eat! It made it all worth while, standing out in rain and snow in that white Sam Browne belt, holding the red flag on a pole! 8) :police:
I don't remember the safety fair, but I remember each October, I believe, when the fire trucks would be at Delco or Guide Lamp for the fire safety fair, and we'd hear the firetruck sirens all day long as kids got rides on the trucks. Was there the Delco or Guide up on 109 past Linder's Point? I think that's where it was.
GG: Yes, that was Guide Lamp on the former Pendleton Avenue (not 109) from 25th St. south to the RR tracks.
The Patrol Picnic was a "thank you" event for the kids who served on the Safety Patrol in city elementary schools. I expect you went to what was then a township elementary (Roosevelt, maybe?). Don't believe they had the Patrol. City kids walked to school; the Patrol helped them cross at intersections. We worked cheap!
I did go to Roosevelt, and no, no safety patrols there. So, kids helped other kids cross intersections? They wouldn't allow that out here, and nowadays. Maybe kids were more responsible back then. They have old ladies crossing kids here, and one I know used her stop sign to beat the hood of a car when the driver didn't follow her orders. :)
Pendleton had safety patrol kids, but you had to live in town to be one of them. Pretty much the same deal for paper carriers. If you lived out of town like I did, you missed out on a few things. But then again, there was so many more good things about being a country kid that made up for it. Even now, I can tell the difference between cow, pig and horse manure, just by the smell. :eek:
Who knows, 442; in today's economic situation, that could be a valuable skill to possess. Especially if you could refine your olfactory sense to sniff out bull-dookey and warn us when you detect the same. Drug-sniffing and bomb-sniffing dogs are scarce and valuable; maybe there's a demand for bull-detectors, too!
Just a thought. Pa (sniffing myself)
My BS detector has been off the chart the past few years. :wink:
My best time in Anderson was when i was dating Mike B. I will NEVER get him out of my head or my heart. The love i have for him is forever and will never fully go away. I miss him daily and long to hear his voice. I pray daily for him to call and say how much he misses me and wants me back! I need to know if he is truely happy now or not.
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:shrug:
:spooked:
So, now back to our scheduled program.......
Are there hills in Anderson to speak of? Everyone talks about going up some hill to a cemetary, and I was just wondering. It seems like there are some hills out by Grandview Country Club.
Speaking of hills.......because our lakes were dug out gravel pits, the hills were formed from the digging, and most of it was shale. I was a brave girl in those days. I used to climb up those hills, while the shale fell away at my feet, then surf down them, trying to run ahead of the shale slipping, but usually used it to surf all the way down the hill. Now that was some fun! ;)
GG: Too bad that sport never caught on; we might have had a couple more Frankie and Annette movies to watch! "Hey gang...shale's up!" 8)
Quote from: Ma and Pa on February 19, 2009, 11:54:22 PM
GG: Too bad that sport never caught on; we might have had a couple more Frankie and Annette movies to watch! "Hey gang...shale's up!" 8)
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LOL!!!!!
How about the good ol days of hardware stores?.....Stricklers and Strocks was two store where you could get about anything you needed realted to hardware.....
Remember Kauffman's which was where Strock's moved to? I worked there for a year and was there when they went out of business. There was also Moser's in Edgewood and and there was another small one on 38th and Main that I can't remember the name of.
One business I really miss is Seybert's electronics.
Quote from: me on February 20, 2009, 10:24:04 AM
Remember Kauffman's which was where Strock's moved to? I worked there for a year and was there when they went out of business. There was also Moser's in Edgewood and and there was another small one on 38th and Main that I can't remember the name of.
One business I really miss is Seybert's electronics.
it was Meadowbrooke Hardware...ironicly enough, I happened to work in Meadowbrooke AND Stricklers Hardware right after High School.....I was a manager of Meadowbrook for about a year....THEN came along Furrows and pretty much shut us down.
I loved my time working in both....especially in Stricklers, I learned so much by working there.
Henry: That struck a chord! Don't know what time period you worked there, but as a kid growing up in Meadowbrook, I spent a lot of time (and my allowance money) in that great hardware store; at the time, it was known as Baldwin's Hardware. Site of one of the first "big" purchases of my life: a fishing rod I saved for, and did odd jobs to raise extra cash. Guess now I could apply for stimulus money to buy a new one. :wink:
Quote from: Ma and Pa on February 20, 2009, 11:20:41 AM
Henry: That struck a chord! Don't know what time period you worked there, but as a kid growing up in Meadowbrook, I spent a lot of time (and my allowance money) in that great hardware store; at the time, it was known as Baldwin's Hardware. Site of one of the first "big" purchases of my life: a fishing rod I saved for, and did odd jobs to raise extra cash. Guess now I could apply for stimulus money to buy a new one. :wink:
I did not work there until AFTER baldwins sold it...back in the mid 80's......but, it is fun the think back of some of the neat things that Anderson USED to have.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on February 20, 2009, 11:42:11 AM
I did not work there until AFTER baldwins sold it...back in the mid 80's......but, it is fun the think back of some of the neat things that Anderson USED to have.
Like Mays Ice Rink, Putt-putt in Edgewood, and two Taco Tico's!
Speaking of Putt Putt's there used to be one at Southdale too.
G of J: I only remember the Taco Tico on Mounds Rd. Where was the other one? Remember the Sancho they served? And their empanada, or "Apple Annie": apple pie filling in a white flour tortilla. YUM! We never did get the story on their closing. :confused:
Quote from: Ma and Pa on February 20, 2009, 01:09:38 PM
G of J: I only remember the Taco Tico on Mounds Rd. Where was the other one? Remember the Sancho they served? And their empanada, or "Apple Annie": apple pie filling in a white flour tortilla. YUM! We never did get the story on their closing. :confused:
I'm not GJ but the other Taco Tico was on Nichol Ave. close to the shopping center. Don't remember exactly which building it was in though 'cause that's been a loooong time ago.
there was a Taco Tico out north too. It was where the old Tio's...in front of Marsh Supermarket. I loved that place...the had the best sancho ever.
me: It all depends on your perpective -- President Eisenhower was a while back; President Buchanan (the worst!) was a loooong time ago. :laugh:
Quote from: Ma and Pa on February 20, 2009, 01:55:29 PM
me: It all depends on your perpective -- President Eisenhower was a while back; President Buchanan (the worst!) was a loooong time ago. :laugh:
Guess it was a while back then in that case.... :biggrin:
Quote from: smokeykat on February 20, 2009, 01:42:42 PM
there was a Taco Tico out north too. It was where the old Tio's...in front of Marsh Supermarket. I loved that place...the had the best sancho ever.
Well, then maybe there were four because my cousin worked at one on 53rd street.
Btw, I really disliked the sancho. But the cheese enchiladas I loved!
Hey! They are still alive, just not around: http://www.tacotico.com
ROAD TRIP!!!!! 8)
Road trip to a Taco Tico? Count me in!
No mo memories of Anderson?
I remember wasting a good deal of my time (and my teenaged allowance) shooting pool at the Golden Palms Cue Room, on Broadway. And there were a few games down at the Paramount Billiards, in the basement below the theater. Man, what a dive! Looked just like one of those pool halls in Paul Newman's old movie "The Hustler". Miss ya, Paul.
Standing in line for three hours to see a movie at the Paramount that was about Custer's last stand and had Sal Mineo in it. He and the horse both died. I cried over Sal, my little sister cried over the horse!
I remember Elvis movies and the move called something like The Doctors, which has Stephanie Powers in her first movie, I believe. We could see Sat. matinees for 25 cents each on some movies, 50 cents on others. The popcorn came in one size and it tasted way different than it does today.
I remember going into Merle Norman's for a makeup job and coming out looking like a model. <g> I don't remember where it was. I remember very little about the businesses in Anderson because we didn't live in town. My mom would drive uptown and park and we'd watch the people go by. It was a hobby of hers and we were along for the ride.
Anne: I believe the name of your movie was "Tonka", and it came from the Disney studios. Ring any bells?
Sounds like that might be it. Disney put out a lot of good movies back then. Couple other movies I remember, (not Disney) were Gypsy, West Side Story and Diamondhead. My dad was not a happy camper when he went to see Diamondhead after I had been to see it with my boyfriend (not my husband of 44+ years). He considered it inappropriate for a young lady.
I think maybe Merle Norman was at the Banner Store, but I may be wrong. I only remember them in Ayres in Indy.
Nothing better than meeting friends uptown for lunch and a movie. I can't remember where we ate. There was a little lunch place, really nice, someplace not to far from the theatres. I can't remember what it was called. Not Woolworth's lunch counter.
The Toast or maybe Hill Snappy Service?
It was a restaurant with a corner window, seemed like mini-blinds open. I can't remember the name. It seems like there was a lunch counter. But it seemed a little dark and sophisticated too.
The Toast has corner windows and blinds, don't remember about Hills.
Sounds like it was the Toast. But were there any well known national type eateries uptown at that time?
GG: Frisch's (Big Boy) had a sit-down restaurant near the corner of 9th & Meridian (West side of Mer.). It was popular with all ages, not just teens.
I really miss that old Frisch's. One of the waitress' reminded me of the character Vera on that show that used to be on TV, Alice.
Well Hell, I'D probably remind you of Mel!
;D
You know, I think it probably was Frisch's. I remember hamburgers. :razz:
Went to the Wing On Inn today to eat and when we passed the Triangle we noticed it is now closed. Talk about a landmark in Anderson. The signs are gone and everything so it don't look like it will be opening back up any time soon. :(
I doubt the Triangle will be greatly mourned; it really was a dive. I expect Board of Health regs were at the crux of its demise. But the Wing On! My favorite place to eat Szechuan Chicken! Do they still bring out those almond cookies along with fortune cookies at the end of the meal? You can tell I don't eat there often; Ma doesn't like oriental food -- I think it makes her wonder what it ONCE was. :icon_twisted:
They quit giving out the almond cookies a couple of months ago. :(
Although I never went there much it seems like at one time the Triangle was the place to go on a Fri or Sat night to hear a band.
Triangle has been closed for a few years now....it was painted green and re-opened a few years ago...was called Grasshopper's. But I noticed the other day...it also closed.
I was meaning the building itself when I said the Triangle. It had changed hands and was something other than Grasshoppers for a while before it closed for good but I don't recall what it had been called most recently.
It's all Triangle to me; but then I was probably sampling their beer and greasy food long before you two "kids" ever stepped thru the door! :laugh:
Quote from: Ma and Pa on March 05, 2009, 10:32:04 PM
It's all Triangle to me; but then I was probably sampling their beer and greasy food long before you two "kids" ever stepped thru the door! :laugh:
Oh to be a kid again.... :smile: Hum, on second thought make that, oh to feel like a kid again... :yes: :biggrin:
Quote from: Ma and Pa on March 05, 2009, 10:32:04 PM
It's all Triangle to me; but then I was probably sampling their beer and greasy food long before you two "kids" ever stepped thru the door! :laugh:
I doubt that Pa...I am pretty old myself....I don't go to bars anymore...but I do believe I was in the Triangle once when my husband(now ex) played in a band there.
Hubby used to play in there too a long time ago. I have some clips I might put on here to see if anyone remembers the band he played in.
Country music? That's the best kind to get people drinkin'. I remember back in, I think, 1970, Larry Beeman bought the old Stables (at the north end of Main St.) and renovated it as the "Sugar Cube II", a psychedoodle tavern featuring small-time rock bands. Some of them were pretty good. Anyway, I was laid off from D-R at the time, as was the custom, and Larry gave me a job there. Might be the only job I ever had that I really looked forward to going to work! Every night was a party, and employees got free beer! As you may guess, it was too good to last; rock music just doesn't make ya thirsty enough, and the young crowd must not have had enough grief and pain to need heavy alcohol sedation, so "Sugar Cube II" lasted a VERY short time. It reverted back to the Stables, replete with country music, and stayed in business for a long time.
Quote from: me on March 05, 2009, 06:10:25 PM
I was meaning the building itself when I said the Triangle. It had changed hands and was something other than Grasshoppers for a while before it closed for good but I don't recall what it had been called most recently.
Rockabilly's
True Triangle tale back when Vern owned it.
Hanging on the wall at the back of the stage was a long bamboo pole painted like a candy cane. Underneath the pole was a sign that read: This is an 11 ft. pole - for those women you wouldn't touch with a 10 ft. pole. :biggrin:
I have some other Triangle tales......but they may be beyond telling on a forum. :rotfl:
Quote from: me on March 06, 2009, 01:34:10 AM
Hubby used to play in there too a long time ago. I have some clips I might put on here to see if anyone remembers the band he played in.
I may vaguely remember that band. :biggrin:
Quote from: Ma and Pa on March 06, 2009, 09:18:25 AM
Country music? That's the best kind to get people drinkin'. I remember back in, I think, 1970, Larry Beeman bought the old Stables (at the north end of Main St.) and renovated it as the "Sugar Cube II", a psychedoodle tavern featuring small-time rock bands. Some of them were pretty good. Anyway, I was laid off from D-R at the time, as was the custom, and Larry gave me a job there. Might be the only job I ever had that I really looked forward to going to work! Every night was a party, and employees got free beer! As you may guess, it was too good to last; rock music just doesn't make ya thirsty enough, and the young crowd must not have had enough grief and pain to need heavy alcohol sedation, so "Sugar Cube II" lasted a VERY short time. It reverted back to the Stables, replete with country music, and stayed in business for a long time.
That's interesting to know. By the time I came back to town not to long after that it was still the Stables, and it was the Stables before I left, so I didn't know of that incarnation.
Quote from: Ghost of Jaco on February 20, 2009, 02:55:36 PM
Well, then maybe there were four because my cousin worked at one on 53rd street.
Btw, I really disliked the sancho. But the cheese enchiladas I loved!
Hey! They are still alive, just not around: http://www.tacotico.com
I loved the Sanchos. :razz:
Quote from: Ma and Pa on February 25, 2009, 11:32:17 PM
I remember wasting a good deal of my time (and my teenaged allowance) shooting pool at the Golden Palms Cue Room, on Broadway. And there were a few games down at the Paramount Billiards, in the basement below the theater. Man, what a dive! Looked just like one of those pool halls in Paul Newman's old movie "The Hustler". Miss ya, Paul.
I also have tales about skipping school and hanging out at the Paramount Billiards. I loved those old guys. They taught me how to play pool and smoke cigars, but most of all they also taught me how to play snooker.
I used to hang out at the Palms after I came back to town. The Paramount billiards had closed, the guy died, and the Palms was the only place with a snooker table.
Used to also play out at the place just south of 53rd st. on S.R. 9. Big white building with apartments above. Used to sell lawn ornaments out of there before it became a pool hall, IIRC.
Quote from: Da Wham on March 08, 2009, 04:13:16 AM
I also have tales about skipping school and hanging out at the Paramount Billiards. I loved those old guys. They taught me how to play pool and smoke cigars, but most of all they also taught me how to play snooker.
I used to hang out at the Palms after I came back to town. The Paramount billiards had closed, the guy died, and the Palms was the only place with a snooker table.
Used to also play out at the place just south of 53rd st. on S.R. 9. Big white building with apartments above. Used to sell lawn ornaments out of there before it became a pool hall, IIRC.
Quote from: Da Wham on March 08, 2009, 03:58:57 AM
I may vaguely remember that band. :biggrin:
Ya think? :biggrin:
Wham: I'm sure you can still hear the call in your mind: "Rack 'em, Harry!" Harry was the old guy who ran the place; he kept possession of the triangular rack, so he set up the table for the next game. 25 cents for 8-ball and straight pool; I think 9-ball was cheaper. I wonder if Harry lived there!? BTW, my pal Danny Davis, an Anderson historian and mega-
collector of local memorabilia, wound up with that Coca-Cola Paramount Billiards sign that hung over the door. When Dan died, it was sold in the damndest 3-session estate auction I ever attended. I really miss him.
LOL!!!
That is soooo true about Chinese restaurants what Ma said. I don't trust them, either! Once, I had some orange chicken that was GREEN when you bit into it. They can hide a lot with that breading and those sauces. And, I can't tell you how often I have been eating in a Chinese restaurant when a cockroach would crawl across the table or up the wall.
We played pool at home, we three girls and my mom and dad. My dad had bought an old 1800s pool table with legs that weighed 400 pounds each, and who knows how heavy the upper part was? It took four or five men to move that table into the basement where we played on it, and my parents had parties around it. We even slept on it when there was a danger of bad storms. Man, did you hurt in the morning when you tried getting up from it. But, my dad, who grew up with tornadoes in Kansas, insisted. We all got to be very good at it, a lot of fun. When my parents sold the house, they let the pool table stay. When I visited the house a few years ago, the pool table was gone. I have come to find that it was probably worth a fortune. It was a beauty, with inlaid mother of pearl on top.
Hey GG. Any new stories to get this thread back moving again. Some of the best times I had was going DOWNTOWN on Saturday afternoons. My sis and I would get to do this after we had the house work done. Even wore "curlers" with a scarf when we had a big date that night. How awful we must have looked but we matched our friends. :lol:
We all probably subscribed to some fads that seemed cool at the time, but we hope there are no pictures of us out there today to incriminate us! At least I never walked around town in baggy-ass pants falling off my hips and boxer shorts pulled up towards my armpits! But I DO remember wearing jeans pegged so tight it was a struggle to get 'em on and get to the next class after gym.
I remember those. I think I even had a pair or two.... :biggrin:
Edited to correct a spelling error... :)
I remember maybe going to the Kmart in curlers and a scarf. I remember most people really dressed up to go downtown/uptown. I remember Saturday movies, some for 25 cents or 50 cents and meeting girlfriends there for lunch.
Remember the matching A-line skirts and sweaters we all wore then? With the hanging watches on chains for a necklace.
I had forgotten all about those hanging watches. I think I still have mine somewhere...lol
Whooz,
Yes, we'd call outselves white trash if we went to the store in curlers now! I wonder what stopped that? It used to be perfectly acceptable.
Those matching A-line skirts and sweaters. The kids from Edgewood wore the ones from Roths. Cheaper copies were found at the local Kmart. The colors were beautiful. I remember and wore those black patterned hose that were brought about by the fashions in England. I wore blacks and greys alot too to go with the hose. I wore those John Lennon caps. I WAS a Beatle in a talent show at school with Marcia Green, Landel Ellis and Ilona Marquand. I was George.
Wish we had THAT on You Tube! I'd pay to see it! ;D
It was fun! The audience threw jelly beans at us, we were pelted, just like the fans threw jelly beans at the real Beatles. Some kids also pretended to faint, one girl on the stairs, and she hurt herself. :)
Finally got around to getting that ran off onto the computer so I could take a clip from that band I referred to. The clip is from a place called the Hideway in Yorktown but they used to play at the Triangle and the Eagles with this band as well as others. http://s7.photobucket.com/albums/y286/deerladie/videos/?action=view¤t=ShesALadyCactusSpringsBand.flv
Nicely done, me; and a good old song I hadn't heard in ages. Who were the members of the Cactus Springs Band?
Randy Martin guitar, Pam Ashby guitar, Ron Donnelly bass, and Mike Hudson drums.
Hey! I know those guys! :biggrin:
Is that the same Pam who played in Leon Ooten's "Southern Rain" band back in the early 80's?
Quote from: Ma and Pa on April 03, 2009, 05:12:19 PM
Is that the same Pam who played in Leon Ooten's "Southern Rain" band back in the early 80's?
I didn't know her back then but hubby said he thinks she did.
We just got back from visiting our daughter in VA and found a little diner that we went to for breakfast every day. It looked like a railroad dining car, all stainless steel with red and silver upholstery. Was there one of those in Anderson? We thought maybe there was but neither of us could remember where or were even positive if there was one.
I know there was one in Muncie but I'm not sure about Anderson.
Welcome home, Anne! I've missed you; hope you had a great trip! I remember the "Hut" hamburger stand at 29th and Main, where Art's Pizza now stands. (Art's -- now there's ANOTHER thread!) The Hut combined a bus-like front dining area with a conventional building cooking/storage area. This was back in the 50's.
Thanks, we had a great time both in FL and VA. I don't remember the "Hut", just Arts. My mother made pizza for us. She got the recipe from my Aunt in Chicago in the early 50's and I remember we had to go to Indy for some of the ingredients, Can't remember what it was we went after though. There were certainly a lot of places to eat back then around Anderson, weren't there. Not many fast food places though.
I thought Art's had always been there. Shows ya what I know.
As well as I can remember, the first pizzaria in Anderson was Anello's, at Nichol and Madison Avenues -- connected to Scampy's Tavern. This was back in the early 50's, and pizza wasn't all that well-known across the country. I wonder if soldiers in Italy in WW2 came back with a taste for the stuff? Anyway, the original Art's pizza was always my favorite (their "secret ingredient" that made it special was fennel); the Art's at 29th and Main may still use that recipe, as does Third Generation Pizza at the edge of Chesterfield. The pizza at Art's on Broadway is NOT the same; I don't like it. >:(
Quote from: Ma and Pa on April 07, 2009, 04:52:30 PM
As well as I can remember, the first pizzaria in Anderson was Anello's, at Nichol and Madison Avenues -- connected to Scampy's Tavern. This was back in the early 50's, and pizza wasn't all that well-known across the country. I wonder if soldiers in Italy in WW2 came back with a taste for the stuff? Anyway, the original Art's pizza was always my favorite (their "secret ingredient" that made it special was fennel); the Art's at 29th and Main may still use that recipe, as does Third Generation Pizza at the edge of Chesterfield. The pizza at Art's on Broadway is NOT the same; I don't like it. >:(
Scampy's used to make a pretty mean Pizza!
speaking of pizza, if you ever venture to Markleville....you GOT to try STINNY'S Pizza....it is the BEST!
There was a place near here in southern Calif. that made pizza with fennel. I had to ask what that wonderful taste was because it reminded me of the pizzas we got from Scampy's, which used the fennel. People from 60 miles away would come for that special taste, but the place closed.
Henry: Hey, I wander down to Markleville at least once a month; that's where I get my hair cut! Well, I attend Markleville College every four weeks: the tuition is $7.00 per session, and I get edified, entertained, and have my ears set out to boot. You wouldn't believe the place; it's like a museum! And I've heard Jack Stinson's pizza praised different times there. I don't care all that much for pizza, tho; except as a good excuse to drink beer! But Ma's kinda partial to the stuff. Maybe I'll get her one for an anniversary present! :yes:
Quote from: Ma and Pa on April 07, 2009, 10:37:08 PM
Henry: Hey, I wander down to Markleville at least once a month; that's where I get my hair cut! Well, I attend Markleville College every four weeks: the tuition is $7.00 per session, and I get edified, entertained, and have my ears set out to boot. You wouldn't believe the place; it's like a museum! And I've heard Jack Stinson's pizza praised different times there. I don't care all that much for pizza, tho; except as a good excuse to drink beer! But Ma's kinda partial to the stuff. Maybe I'll get her one for an anniversary present! :yes:
I have wondered about that barber shop....I might have to give it a go sometime....and Stinny's is owned by Jacks son, John...and hey he has great sandwiches too....
Anne
Happy Easter to you and yours!
Happy Easter to all. :love3:
Happy Easter to all from me too. :love3:
Quote from: Gardengirl on April 11, 2009, 09:42:57 PM
Anne
Happy Easter to you and yours!
Thanks, GG. Hope you had a Happy Easter, too. Beautiful day here, I think spring may finally be on the way.
Anyone else remember when the "bypass" was only two lanes all the way to SR67? That was a good column in the Sunday Herald this morning.
I sure remember Don's Barbecue on the bypass just south of the 8th St. intersection. I especially remember "All-you-can-eat ribs" on Tuesday nights... for $1.25! And oh, yeah, were they good! :laugh:
I never ate at Don's BBQ but I heard it was good. I do remember Mace's that used to be where Harvest is now because that's where I did all my shopping when we moved to Anderson.
We went to Don's for the all you could eat ribs, too. They were great. Not a fancy place, remember the pigs painted on the walls? It was never as good after it tried to "fancy up".
When we lived across town I would drive all the way to Mace's to shop because they would always carry my groceries to the car. A very important thing for a very pregnant lady with a toddler in tow!
I remember when the bypass was two lanes all the way to SR67 and the traffic was terrible in the mornings and at quitting time. Actually it was still terrible at quitting time after it was four lanes. We lived about 1/3 mile from 67 and the cars would be backed up way past our house in the afternoons.I think they put in the other two lanes between 67 and Mounds all in one summer. That took a big chunk out of our front yard.
My husband, who grew up in Park Place in the 50's, was just telling me that Mace's was originally built by the man who owned the Park and Shop (?) down in 8th St in Park Place, but before it was done, Mace's came in and bought it from him. The little store in Park Place had great meat and the Mace's still has good meat. I miss the meat market that was on 29th St.
Hope all had a good holiday! The kids are back to school here, and they went back Monday and tomorrow they have a half day already! Can't keep those teachers behind a desk. <g> I know ehen I was a kid, we sure didn't have all these half days. I don't remember any, in fact. Just regular says off.
HI Anne! Hi Whooz her!
Hi GG, My grandkids are all back in school,too. Two of them spent their spring break here, that was great for us. I think they enjoyed it.
I don't remember half days either. I was in high school before we ever had a spring break and then it was just Good Friday. We were out for the summer though well before Memorial Day. We had nice long summer breaks, longer than the city schools.
Anne, I never knew that Madison Heights wasn't a city school for awhile and that we technically didn't live in Anderson?I sure didn't know our summers were longer, but after we bought the lake, mysummers were so hectic they felt short.
A short list of work at the lake: measuring for chemicals to kill the algae, selling tickets and food, picking up dead fish, digging forworms (bait), going to creeks to look for crawlers for bait, mowing 7acres, which was a constant. You'd get it all done and time to start over. Weighing the stringers of fish, dealing with vendors, walking to the stores for our mom, etc. It was busy.
GG: It doesn't sound like it was all a lot of fun; I'm sure some of it was hard work. But I'd wager you're the better person for it today. What do you think?
GG, You are enough younger than me that MHHS was a city school when you went. It was a township school until the summer of 1964. Even the name on the building read Anderson Township Junior and Senior High School. My husband (boyfriend) attended AHS and we had very different schedules. We both started school the day after labor day, but AHS had several more days off during the year then we did, I don't ever remember having spring break until 1962 and then we just had Good Friday off. I graduated on May 23 and school was out a day or two later for everyone one else. My husband didn't graduate until sometime in June.
What lake did you go to in the summer? We spent a lot of time at Loon Lake where my in laws had a place. They are a lot of work and they didn't run a business like it sounds your family did.
Anne,
We owned Stottlemyer Lake in the early to late 1960s. It was a lot of work, but it did make me mature and responsible. The stories I could tell.
I graduated on June 7, I remember. I remember you could see the school, MHHS, being built from the back play yard of Roosevelt El.
Ma and Pa,
Working at that lake kept us off the streets. <g>
My dad bought the lake because I think he knew he was going to die, and he wanted a business my mom and we could run. My mom and dad were rabid fishermen, to Minn. in the summers and deep sea fishing in Florida in the winter. So, they bought the lake from Claude and Bessie Stottlemyer in 1959 and made it into a commercial fishing lake. We finally closed it in 1965, I believe, after we found out people were fishing out the lake at night while we slept. We sold it to Garnet Stottlemyer in 1967 and moved to California. My dad died in 1961.
Quote from: Anne on April 12, 2009, 10:47:12 PM
We went to Don's for the all you could eat ribs, too. They were great. Not a fancy place, remember the pigs painted on the walls? It was never as good after it tried to "fancy up".
When we lived across town I would drive all the way to Mace's to shop because they would always carry my groceries to the car. A very important thing for a very pregnant lady with a toddler in tow!
I remember when the bypass was two lanes all the way to SR67 and the traffic was terrible in the mornings and at quitting time. Actually it was still terrible at quitting time after it was four lanes. We lived about 1/3 mile from 67 and the cars would be backed up way past our house in the afternoons.I think they put in the other two lanes between 67 and Mounds all in one summer. That took a big chunk out of our front yard.
Used to eat at Don's and some of the places other incarnations.
IIRC, Mace's was the original local grocery store chain.
Back when the Scatterfield Road was two lane my dad used to take me with him down to the river on the east side of the bridge to wash the car there. It was a popular spot. You could drive right out into the river.
Quote from: Gardengirl on April 18, 2009, 10:21:17 PM
Anne,
We owned Stottlemyer Lake in the early to late 1960s. It was a lot of work, but it did make me mature and responsible. The stories I could tell.
I graduated on June 7, I remember. I remember you could see the school, MHHS, being built from the back play yard of Roosevelt El.
Wasn't that lake originally an old stone quarry?
Quote from: Anne on April 13, 2009, 07:43:05 PM
My husband, who grew up in Park Place in the 50's, was just telling me that Mace's was originally built by the man who owned the Park and Shop (?) down in 8th St in Park Place, but before it was done, Mace's came in and bought it from him. The little store in Park Place had great meat and the Mace's still has good meat. I miss the meat market that was on 29th St.
IIRC, that grocery on 8th St in PPlace was still in business up until 15 or 20 years ago. It's been a coffee shop and a dance studio and whatnot since then.
Where was the meat market on 29th? I don't recall it. I recall the one on 23rd out east by Pitt and the old one on the west side of the 1800 block of Columbus, but I can't dredge up one on 29th.
GG: We never went to pay lakes when I was a kid, but dad took us fishing in the gravel pits on Scatterfield where the Mounds Mall is today. Also in the Myers pits on Alexandria Pike south of Cross St., which is now Shadyside Lake, part of the park, until it was prohibited after Bobbie Price drowned there.
We used to get out of school no later than the first week of June and not go back until the first Monday after Labor Day. We either got a week or a long weekend for Thanksgiving and two weeks or so for Christmas and either a week or a long weekend for Lent/Good Friday/Easter. I don't recall any other particular days out at the moment.
Wham: Were you aware that the old market at the very north end of Columbus was originally the Buckeye Manufacturing Co., where John Lambert built cars and trucks in the years leading up to WW1? During the 50's, it was the home of Hank's (Holdren) Supermarket. When I was a kid, my dad worked there part time to supplement his income from Delco. We lived on Cincinnati Avenue, just across the tracks from the Golden Crust Bakery, home of the legendary donuts -- pretty well world famous around Anderson! ;D
Yup! Do you remember the old Hobo Castle back behind there? If we're roughly the same age we lived in basically the same neighborhood and I delivered papers there and all over central Anderson. I grew up on Noble right back behind the gas station on the corner of Ohio and Jefferson. Loved those chocolate yeast donuts!
Da Wham,
Yes, those were old gravel pits. My parents bought nine acres with a two-acre lake and we stocked it and opened it. We charged $1.50 for 5 hours of fishing, do you believe? There was no limit on the amount of fish someone could catch. If someone caught over a 3# fish, we lost money on the ticket. But, we had to compete with the other charge lakes and they also charged the same fee. We stocked catfish, bass and sunfish. Most of the fish cost 50 cents a pound to stock, and we were stocking twice a week all summer.
On holidays, like July 4, we would have 100-150 people fishing. Once, the FBI came down to look for a criminal who liked to fish.
Quote from: Da Wham on April 19, 2009, 01:59:29 PM
IIRC, that grocery on 8th St in PPlace was still in business up until 15 or 20 years ago. It's been a coffee shop and a dance studio and whatnot since then.
Where was the meat market on 29th? I don't recall it. I recall the one on 23rd out east by Pitt and the old one on the west side of the 1800 block of Columbus, but I can't dredge up one on 29th.
My husband says the grocery was Park N Shop. The meat market was Fentors and it was on 23rd, it has been a long time and my memeory is not what it used to be, sorry.
Park & Shop on 8th St. (in Park Place) was owned by the Breeden family.
Fenters' Meat Market became Heiney's Meats, and later a little hole-in-the-wall flea market (where I made a few really good finds). Not sure if it is still operating any more; I'm not down that way too often these days.
Anne: What year did you graduate MHHS?
The flea market still has signs out but I don't know if it still operates. I drive by there a couple times a month on the way to the mall, but it looks pretty empty. My sister used to go to Heiney's for bulk fruit when she canned fruit and made jelly and jam. Fenters had the best meat, bought a lot of steaks there.
I graduated in '64 from MHHS. When I started there in '58 the junior and senior high were in one building, the new junior high opened in '59 and we went to the eighth grade in the new building. Would have been nice if it had been finished before we started there :).
The flea market has been gone for about a year. We used to go there a lot and I went to some of the jams they had there.
Well, I guess that's probably another building on a long list of those waiting to burn down and/or be demolished. :(
Who remembers going to Decker's the first week of September to pick up their school supplies for the upcoming year? Can you ever forget the smell of that new box of Crayola Crayons; the infinite promise of all the really great pictures you might draw with those pristine sticks of varicolored wax? Took the sting off the loss of summer's freedom like mamma's kiss on your skinned elbow. :)
I remember being drug all over downtown, while my mother bought new school clothes for me. "Hey, let's go look at the bicycles whle we are in Sears. NO! We are here to buy clothes." The clothes stunk from the dyes, were stiff as a board, and were not the most stylish as the other kids would be wearing. Yeah, that was a regular cornucopia of fun for me. :no:
you know pa, there WAS something special about those smells of crayons....I also used to love to run the old xerox machines....the smell of warm paper and carbon..... :smitten:......and the smell of those big ol pink erasers.... :yes:......
Quote from: Mr442 on April 30, 2009, 12:31:32 PM
I remember being drug all over downtown, while my mother bought new school clothes for me. "Hey, let's go look at the bicycles whle we are in Sears. NO! We are here to buy clothes." The clothes stunk from the dyes, were stiff as a board, and were not the most stylish as the other kids would be wearing. Yeah, that was a regular cornucopia of fun for me. :no:
Good old Sears.....Did they have one of those foot x-ray machines in this Sears like they did in Muncie? You could stick your foot in it and see the bones and it had a little pointer on it so the salesman could point stuff out.
The Sears in Anderson used to sell fresh roasted nuts..............and THAT is a smell that was awesom.....my Dad would ALWAYS by some roasted cashews.... :yes:
They still did when I moved over here and I really liked them too. Those cashew's were the best. :yes:
When I was in grade school, Franklin, (another township school) we went to Deckers and just had to tell them which school and what grade we were in and they had everything packaged up, books, workbooks, paper, crayons, paint, pencils and pens. There was always a very long line.
When we got to 7th grade we bought our books at the high school. My husband thinks all or most of his books were rented all through school but he went to city schools.
I don't remember the x-ray for your feet at Sears but Hoyt Wright had one. My sister and I would sneak over and play with it when our mother was buying her shoes. One of the few times we were out of her sight when we were little.
Anyone remember the chest x-ray truck that would come and park down by the old courthouse and you could go get a chest x-ray for TB without a doctor's order?
Those old X-ray machines in shoe stores supposedly disappeared because they leaked radiation, or some such urban legend. Personally, I think it was because mean girls sneaked away from their mothers and abused the devices, and were a nuisance to busy store employees! :o
I would say the devices being abused and a nuisance to the shoe salesmen is probably the most likely reason..... :biggrin:
Couldn't tell you about those un-licensed x-ray machines, we got our shoes from Mason Shoes, a mail order outfit. Dad was a "salesman" for them, just like anyone else could be, but he thought it was special.
I remember Sears having the large candy and nut counter. I believe it was at the bottom of the steps in the lower level.
If you went over to the Automotive section in a separate building, you could drool over the cool motorcycles. Italian built, with Allstate on them. All of small displacement. Those fueled many a dream of us Bronson wanna-be's.
I think the last time I was in the downtown Sears was 1979.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on April 30, 2009, 12:46:35 PM
....I also used to love to run the old xerox machines....the smell of warm paper and carbon..... :smitten:......
Wow, Henry, I thought I was the only one who liked that smell. Maybe that explains a lot about you 'n' me, lol!
442: I caught that motorcycle jones from one of those "Allstate" Vespas back in 1963. First time on two wheels and an engine. My buddy Phil Alexander had one; we were all over Madison Co. with it that summer. We thought we were some real bad dudes. Didn't even have learners' permits. We could go all day on 50 cents worth of gas!
Quote from: Ghost of Jaco on April 30, 2009, 10:37:36 PM
Quote from: Henry Hawk on April 30, 2009, 12:46:35 PM
....I also used to love to run the old xerox machines....the smell of warm paper and carbon..... :smitten:......
Wow, Henry, I thought I was the only one who liked that smell. Maybe that explains a lot about you 'n' me, lol!
;D Kind of scarey, huh?.. ;D
Pa,
What you wrote about the crayons reminds me of the author Jean Shepherd, who wrote A Christmas Story. I think someone could put into words what it was like growing up in Anderson after WWII into the 1970s when GM starting going down. I think you could do it.
GG: "A Christmas Story" is one of our family's favorites! Can't even guess how many times I've seen it, but it seems like every time, I spot some little detail I've never caught before. Jean Shepherd was an absolute master at telling stories which strum a chord within the reader. If you want to read the book the "Ralphie" stories came from, look around for a copy of "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash". My introduction to these great narratives came in the 60's, when some of them were offerred up in "Playboy". Ah, boobs and Ralphie; two of my favorite things.
Quote from: Ma and Pa on April 30, 2009, 04:59:27 PM
Those old X-ray machines in shoe stores supposedly disappeared because they leaked radiation, or some such urban legend. Personally, I think it was because mean girls sneaked away from their mothers and abused the devices, and were a nuisance to busy store employees! :o
You are probably right :), even though we were never banned from the store! I thought they were banned because of the radiation. I told my daughter who is/was an x-ray tech (they hate being called that) about those machines and the chest x-ray truck and she was absolutely appalled! All that unmonitored radiation!
I don't want to offend anyone, but does anyone who went to school in the 50's or early 60's remember any classmates who were Asian? I never had any classmates who were anything other than white except in high school there were sisters whose parents were from India. My husband, who attended city schools had many black classmates but cannot remember any Asian classmates. I am pretty sure there were people from China and Japan in Anderson at the time, where did their children go to school?
Good question, Anne. Other than some Europeans who emigrated after the war, (some fleeing Communist takeovers), I don't remember any minorities other than Blacks (back when they were Negroes). Any other races I ever encountered in the Anderson School System were foreign exchange students. How provincial we were! Exterminator would say inbred. :razz:
Hum, Muncie was the same so ya'll weren't unusual. I hadn't even thought about it.
I had forgotten about exchange students. The only one I remember was Marium from Brazil when we were seniors. Maybe that was the first year of the program?
I also don't remember religion being an issue when I was in school. We were a go to church family, so maybe it was just us. I had friends that were Catholic, Baptist, Church of God, Church of the Brethern and Jewish.
We had a family of Philipine origin at PHHS. The daughter was a hottie ;D, and as I remember, their dad was a doctor at the reformatory.
I also remeber in the early days of school, the Catholic kids got to eat fish on Friday's, while the rest of us were stuck with something inedible, like baked chicken. Should of told them I was Catholic. :wink:
Should have told them you were a Kroc-aterian. Maybe they'd have fed you burgers and fries from McDonalds. ;D
At MHHS about 1965, a Cuban boy who'd escaped from Cuba came to our school for awhile. We had a Swedish exchange student I remember, or Danish maybe. I really don't think it "hurt" anyone not having other cultures when growing up, because once you go to college or out in the real world, they are there, and you have no problems getting to know them. I had had NO interaction with black people other than my mom's two ladies that helped her with us when we were little, but when I came to California, ALL my friends in college were black.
I wish I could remember more about growing up in Anderson. We didn't go out a lot since my mom didn't drive. We never went anywhere unless my dad drove us. My mom didn't learn to drive until after my dad died. He didn't really want to her to learn. Once, he "tried" to teach her, but made it so miserable, she didn't ask again.
So, there are parts of Anderson I've never seen! I remember the good old Free Fair and the kewpie dolls on sticks covered with sparkles and feathers. I loved those and wish I'd made a collection of them. When my mom moved us to California, we had to throw out all our Beatles baseball cards (what would have been $5000-$10,000 dollars worth) and all those magazines that featured them. I did go to three of their concerts, the first in Indy and two more in Chicago. One was at Wrigley Field. They were all so much fun.
We were visiting friends in Anderson, when Porky's came out. The four of us went to the Mounds Mall theater to see it, along with at least half of Anderson. It was literally standing room only. We laughed so hard, we missed a good portion of the dialogue. The scene in the principals office, right after the shower scene, had the whole place in tears from laughing so hard.
"Can we just call it a tally-whacker?" :biggrin:
Andersonians must love movies. I remember standing room only at every Jerry Lewis movie in the 1960s.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on May 30, 2011, 08:44:33 PM
blah, blah, blah..........Never anything of value to say.......just, blah, blah, blah.....
try contributing something worth while, ONCE in a while will ya? ALWAYS the same ol BS.
Henery, Henery :smile: what you just said sound just like you were talking about yourself.
Oh, one more thing Henery I thought about you Monday. The wife and I stop at a drive up and bought to chocolate malts. I said this is good, but it's nothing like what Linders put out. A extra thick malt. Then I thought, I wonder if old Henery would like to have another real Linders malt. I'll bet you sure could have made yourself a "REAL THICK" malt when you were working there. :biggrin:
Quote from: The Troll on May 31, 2011, 07:08:58 AM
Henery, Henery :smile: what you just said sound just like you were talking about yourself.
Oh, one more thing Henery I thought about you Monday. The wife and I stop at a drive up and bought to chocolate malts. I said this is good, but it's nothing like what Linders put out. A extra thick malt. Then I thought, I wonder if old Henery would like to have another real Linders malt. I'll bet you sure could have made yourself a "REAL THICK" malt when you were working there. :biggrin:
Actually it was Bert T. Ownes on Columbus Ave....and YES! I sure did make me an awesome malt a time or two...that was some GREAT Ice Cream....I have never tasted one that even came close to the ones we used to make there.....
Quote from: Henry Hawk on May 31, 2011, 02:33:39 PM
Actually it was Bert T. Ownes on Columbus Ave....and YES! I sure did make me an awesome malt a time or two...that was some GREAT Ice Cream....I have never tasted one that even came close to the ones we used to make there.....
Had a brain fart on the name Bert T. Owens. As a kid I took care of Linder's On The Point's yard. It wasn't too bad except for the paper and cups and the beer cans in the grass along highway 67. :smile:
I loved Owens ice cream. My sister and I would walk there for choclate ice cream cones when we visited our aunt and uncle who lived on 27th street.
Quote from: Anne on May 31, 2011, 10:45:32 PM
I loved Owens ice cream. My sister and I would walk there for choclate ice cream cones when we visited our aunt and uncle who lived on 27th street.
I love it too. The only time I ate ice cream cone there was, when I couldn't scrap up the money for a Extra Thick Malt. :drool2:
Well if you was in there between 1978 and 1979.....we may have crossed paths.....I had a blast working there....made some great friends.
Troll, did you ever have one of the Roast Beef sandwiches?.....they were classic!!
Quote from: Henry Hawk on June 01, 2011, 04:47:06 PM
Well if you was in there between 1978 and 1979.....we may have crossed paths.....I had a blast working there....made some great friends.
Troll, did you ever have one of the Roast Beef sandwiches?.....they were classic!!
Sure do, they were tender and had just the right bite of spice to put it over the top. I often wondered what that spice was. The next best roast beefs was at Jimmy's in Pendleton, Art's roast beef with green pepper and Scampy's roast beef with green pepper.
Wasn't there a Owens over on what is now Martin Luther King road. Down from where the Pontiac dealership was.
You know I really feel bad when I talk about Anderson and all of the good places gone. I am afraid it will never and I mean never be what Anderson use to be. :cry:
Mmmmmm.... Arts Roast Beef and Sausage Sammiches. :biggrin:
Quote from: The Troll on June 01, 2011, 05:17:02 PM
. . . I am afraid it will never and I mean never be what Anderson use to be. :cry:
Why feel bad about it! One can only hope that it will never be what it once was. Clearly that was an unsustainable condition! :yes:
Quote from: Palehorse on June 01, 2011, 05:50:22 PM
Why feel bad about it! One can only hope that it will never be what it once was. Clearly that was an unsustainable condition! :yes:
I don't know when Anderson first meet General Motors, but for many years it was a good match. My dad came over the state line from Celina, Ohio. He had been working for Heinz pickles there and came over to Anderson to work for GM 1942.
The wages he made working for Heinz was pathetic compared to GM's. It sure change his life and his family's life.
Quote from: The Troll on June 01, 2011, 07:29:28 PM
I don't know when Anderson first meet General Motors, but for many years it was a good match. My dad came over the state line from Celina, Ohio. He had been working for Heinz pickles there and came over to Anderson to work for GM 1942.
The wages he made working for Heinz was pathetic compared to GM's. It sure change his life and his family's life.
I have no doubt that this was true for a LOT of people in the area; including my own father/brother in law and their families. But the reality is that when a city/town/municipality come to rely on the revenue stream(s) generated by big business, it creates a very false sense of security and "entitlement" when it comes to local governance and the populace; and that is a disaster waiting to happen, dependent upon the whims of business leadership.
The declines of municipalities nationwide should have demonstrated this, however America is also addicted to delusional thinking and repeating history it would seem. . . Anderson is just the local example of this. . .
GM moved out of Anderson a long time ago, well before the cutting edge of the sword impacted the nation. One would assume that it would have prepared its citizens for the business end of the national decline, and enabled us to better weather the brunt of the storm; however, this is clearly not the case. Instead the populace engaged, (and to a large degree STILL engage), in playing the victim card, constantly picking at the scab on the gaping wound GM inflicted upon the community, and refusing to let it heal.
Yes, I am sure the glory days of General Motors were indeed plentiful, and while sad to realize they are over, the only cure for it is to suck it up, face reality, and stop wallowing in our collective sorrows!
Our local leadership over the last decade or so, has "banked" on obtaining that "replacement entity" to fill the gaping hole; often basing their political campaigns on that very promise. We would have been better served to have bitten the bullet, and engaged in adjusting our municipal operations and budget toward existence within actual and current revenue generation figures, instead of raping the population in order to conduct business as usual. . . Again, delusional thinking. . .
Figures released today document the fact that average property values in the area have declined an additional 6% over last years valuations; yet our local tax bills reflect a 10% increase (on average) of accessed valuation!? :mad:
And some in this community dare to ask why there are so many "empty" homes around? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
I'm not sure when GM became a big employer in Anderson, but my Grandfather and some uncles worked at Delco in the 30s. Guide was here then too. They made machine guns and a single shot throwaway gun that they shipped to France during WWII.
Quote from: Palehorse on June 01, 2011, 07:51:28 PM
I have no doubt that this was true for a LOT of people in the area; including my own father/brother in law and their families. But the reality is that when a city/town/municipality come to rely on the revenue stream(s) generated by big business, it creates a very false sense of security and "entitlement" when it comes to local governance and the populace; and that is a disaster waiting to happen, dependent upon the whims of business leadership.
The declines of municipalities nationwide should have demonstrated this, however America is also addicted to delusional thinking and repeating history it would seem. . . Anderson is just the local example of this. . .
GM moved out of Anderson a long time ago, well before the cutting edge of the sword impacted the nation. One would assume that it would have prepared its citizens for the business end of the national decline, and enabled us to better weather the brunt of the storm; however, this is clearly not the case. Instead the populace engaged, (and to a large degree STILL engage), in playing the victim card, constantly picking at the scab on the gaping wound GM inflicted upon the community, and refusing to let it heal.
Yes, I am sure the glory days of General Motors were indeed plentiful, and while sad to realize they are over, the only cure for it is to suck it up, face reality, and stop wallowing in our collective sorrows!
Our local leadership over the last decade or so, has "banked" on obtaining that "replacement entity" to fill the gaping hole; often basing their political campaigns on that very promise. We would have been better served to have bitten the bullet, and engaged in adjusting our municipal operations and budget toward existence within actual and current revenue generation figures, instead of raping the population in order to conduct business as usual. . . Again, delusional thinking. . .
Figures released today document the fact that average property values in the area have declined an additional 6% over last years valuations; yet our local tax bills reflect a 10% increase (on average) of accessed valuation!? :mad:
And some in this community dare to ask why there are so many "empty" homes around? :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Your right about banking your life of big business. I remember TV show where they went out into the central area of the country and showed little towns empty. Gas stations, banks, elevators, tractor and farm supply stores, grocery stores and everything closed down. Because the banks and the super rich and large corporations own all of the land. Putting the life of these towns, the small farmer out of business. With acres and acres of ground laying fallow. The greed of the super rich is unending. :mad: :mad: :mad:
Quote from: Anne on May 31, 2011, 10:45:32 PM
I loved Owens ice cream. My sister and I would walk there for choclate ice cream cones when we visited our aunt and uncle who lived on 27th street.
Who were they and where on 27th did they live. My grandparents lived on 26th across from National Tile and owned a house on 27th which I bought from them and lived in for years.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on June 01, 2011, 04:47:06 PM
Well if you was in there between 1978 and 1979.....we may have crossed paths.....I had a blast working there....made some great friends.
Troll, did you ever have one of the Roast Beef sandwiches?.....they were classic!!
Dropped in quite often since I didn't live far from there and would also take my grandparents there on occasion. G-ma was diabetic and really wasn't supposed to have their wares.
Quote from: The Troll on June 01, 2011, 05:17:02 PM
Sure do, they were tender and had just the right bite of spice to put it over the top. I often wondered what that spice was. The next best roast beefs was at Jimmy's in Pendleton, Art's roast beef with green pepper and Scampy's roast beef with green pepper.
Wasn't there a Owens over on what is now Martin Luther King road. Down from where the Pontiac dealership was.
You know I really feel bad when I talk about Anderson and all of the good places gone. I am afraid it will never and I mean never be what Anderson use to be. :cry:
Jimmy's has fantastic BBQ sammys!
The BT Owens you're talking about was on Pendleton Ave. and Lincoln. I used to stop there a lot because the evening paper routes - the Anderson Bulletin and the Indianapolis News - finished up close to there.
I'm sad too about Anderson. It will never be what it was when I was growing up and before.
Quote from: Nighthawk on June 01, 2011, 05:47:08 PM
Mmmmmm.... Arts Roast Beef and Sausage Sammiches. :biggrin:
When I had a business north of Art's on Broadway I used to lunch on those a lot - preferably the Italian sausage. :biggrin:
Quote from: Palehorse on June 01, 2011, 07:51:28 PM
I have no doubt that this was true for a LOT of people in the area; including my own father/brother in law and their families. But the reality is that when a city/town/municipality come to rely on the revenue stream(s) generated by big business, it creates a very false sense of security and "entitlement" when it comes to local governance and the populace; and that is a disaster waiting to happen, dependent upon the whims of business leadership...
Most of Anderson's problems have usually been of their own making. Anderson wasted much of the natural gas resources it had which created the first big boom. During the second boom, Anderson decided to put all of it's eggs in the GM basket and basically turned it's back on the other myriad industries in town. After an early 70's (IIRC on the timeframe off the top of my head) strike in Anderson which shut down GM nationwide, GM decided they were not ever going to let that happen again and started the process of moving out (it took them 30 years but they succeeded). By that time most, if not all, of the other neglected industries had moved on so there was nothing left for Anderson to fall back on.
Now, anyone with any real prospects has left for greener pastures (if there's really any to be found in this business culture and economic climate) which leaves the bottom of the local social strata and others with no foreseeable viable options for relocation, and they're the ones keeping what's left of Anderson afloat. If you think Anderson looks like a war zone now, just wait till that group gains the option to flee.
Unfortunately, with special interest groups like LEO's seemingly being the only ones able to be elected to run Anderson, I don't look for anything but a further downward spiral while Anderson waits to be fully engulfed as an Indianapolis bedroom community/suburb.
Quote from: Anne on June 01, 2011, 10:33:01 PM
I'm not sure when GM became a big employer in Anderson, but my Grandfather and some uncles worked at Delco in the 30s. Guide was here then too. They made machine guns and a single shot throwaway gun that they shipped to France during WWII.
GM really took off in the late 30's with the union and improvement in the economy during the 40's and of course with all the workers needed for the war effort. Then with the end of the war everyone needed and wanted a car through to the building of the Interstate system when we became a travel nation.
WHEN THE STARS OF THOSE DAYS WERE IN THE AREA!
THE WESTSIDE WAS THEIR PARTY TERRITORY!
YOU'D BE AMAZED AT THE ONES I HAVE SEEN AND MET FROM THOSE DAYS!
IN SOME OF THE VERY HOMES THAT STILL EXIST ON THE WESTSIDE!
Quote from: incognito on January 20, 2012, 12:01:54 PM
YOU'D BE AMAZED AT THE ONES I HAVE SEEN AND MET FROM THOSE DAYS!
IN SOME OF THE VERY HOMES THAT STILL EXIST ON THE WESTSIDE!
Please share....
Quote from: incognito on January 20, 2012, 12:00:25 PM
WHEN THE STARS OF THOSE DAYS WERE IN THE AREA!
THE WESTSIDE WAS THEIR PARTY TERRITORY!
Didn't a lot of them play that bar which sat on the Southwest corner of 16th and Madison? The Blue Note?
I NEVER REALIZED HOW WELL KNOWN THE BLUE NOTE WAS!
UNTIL I ENTERED THE MILITARY!
I NEVER REALIZED HOW WELL KNOWN THE WESTSIDE OF ANDERSON WAS UNTIL THAT TIME EITHER!
YES THE BLUE NOTE THE CEDAR LOUNGE AND THE SPACE CLUB!
AND THE SKATING RINK ON MOSS ISLAND ROAD!
WHEN THEY PERFORMED HERE!
THE WESTSIDE WAS THE ONLY PART OF TOWN THEY WERE ALLOWED IN!
Yeah, back when there was factory money in this town - even on the West Side.
I can't remember where the Cedar Lounge was, or I'm not associating the name with the location/building. The Space Club I don't think I've ever heard of, where was it? I remember the old Moss Island Road skating rink. It was a roadhouse back in the day.
I LEFT OUT TWO OF THE BEST KNOWN OF THE TIME!
LONG JOHNS AND THE ELKS CLUB!
THE CEDAR LOUNGE BECAME THE EL MOROCCO AND IS NOW SINBADS!
THE SPACE CLUB WAS ON 22ND STREET IN JACKSON PARK!
LONG JOHNS WAS ON 16TH STREET!
THE ELKS CLUB WAS ON CEDAR!
LONG JOHNS WAS ONE OF JOHN DILLINGERS OLD HANGOUTS!
MY HERITAGE IS ALL OLD ANDERSON STREET NIGGAS!
AMAZING SOME OF THE PEOPLE THEY KNEW!
I HAVE A PICTURE OF MY FATHERS SISTER EATING AND DRINKING WITH SATCHMO!
Quote from: incognito on January 20, 2012, 12:35:10 PM
THE CEDAR LOUNGE BECAME THE EL MOROCCO AND IS NOW SINBADS!
THE SPACE CLUB WAS ON 22ND STREET IN JACKSON PARK!
I should have remembered that, duh! I haven't been in there in years.
Did the Space Club then become the Wagon Wheel? I remember the place and have been in there too.
Quote from: incognito on January 20, 2012, 12:36:43 PM
LONG JOHNS WAS ON 16TH STREET!
THE ELKS CLUB WAS ON CEDAR!
Man, you're rollin' back! :biggrin:
Long Johns - girls and after hours/Sunday booze. :biggrin:
Is the West Side Elks still standing? That was back in the day when there were separate associations for blacks and whites - couldn't have them intermingling ya' know. :rolleyes:
Is the West Side Moose still standing on Nichol Ave.?
Don, do you remember the name of the after hours club on 19th St. just West of Madison Ave.? I used to go over there and hang out all night back in the day. :biggrin:
Quote from: Y on January 20, 2012, 12:52:06 PM
Don, do you remember the name of the after hours club on 19th St. just West of Madison Ave.? I used to go over there and hang out all night back in the day. :biggrin:
ARE YOU SPEAKING OF THE 500 BAR AND GRILL?
BY THE RAILROAD ON CEDAR!
OR THE SISTERS RESTAURANT BUILDING ON LOCUST?
IF IT WAS AN AFTER HOURS PLACE!
TRUST ME!
I WAS A VISITOR!
USED TO SPEND MOST OF MY AFTER HOUR TIME AT THE MOTORCYCLE CLUB ON MADISON BY THE RAIL ROAD!
THE BROTHERS OF THE WHEEL!
THAT'S WHERE DAYLIGHT FOUND ME EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY MORNING!
BEFORE I GOT MARRIED MY WIFE PUT ME ON DETENTION EVERY WEEK!
THOSE WERE IN THE DAYS SHE COULD STILL MOVE AROUND ON CRUTCHES AND SHE USED TO CHASE A NIGGA DOWN AND EMBARRASSE HIM IN PUBLIC!
JUST BECAUSE SHES HANDICAPPED DON'T LET HER FOOL YOU!
OTHERWISE SHE WOULD NEVER HAVE CORRALLED AND CALMED A NIGGA DOWN!
AND THIS NIGGA AIN'T EASY TO EMBARRASS!
OTHERWISE I WOULD STILL BE IN HIDING!
Quote from: incognito on January 20, 2012, 12:42:34 PM
I HAVE A PICTURE OF MY FATHERS SISTER EATING AND DRINKING WITH SATCHMO!
NOW THAT IS FREAKIN COOL!
PROBABLY THE REASON GOD CHOSE A NIGGA!
LIKE SAUL!
I WAS AN EMBARRASSMENT BEFORE GOD!
NIGGA HAD NO SHAME IN HIS GAME!
Quote from: incognito on January 20, 2012, 01:01:23 PM
ARE YOU SPEAKING OF THE 500 BAR AND GRILL?
BY THE RAILROAD ON CEDAR!
OR THE SISTERS RESTAURANT BUILDING ON LOCUST?
I remember the Three Sisters, though it was on corner of 22nd St. and Arrow Ave.. I used to get sweet potato pie there. Yum!
I just checked Google maps and the building is still there though I see the old Delco Midwest plant has been torn down. The building I'm talking about is on the North side of 19th St. almost on the corner of Locust.
Quote from: incognito on January 20, 2012, 01:04:59 PM
IF IT WAS AN AFTER HOURS PLACE!
TRUST ME!
I WAS A VISITOR!
USED TO SPEND MOST OF MY AFTER HOUR TIME AT THE MOTORCYCLE CLUB ON MADISON BY THE RAIL ROAD!
THE BROTHERS OF THE WHEEL!
Isn't that torn down now? Was Rosey a member of that club or was it another one?
What was that youth center or club that was North on the side street the Wagon Wheel sat on up by the railroad tracks on the west side of the street? I seem to remember a junk yard or something like that across the street from it.
Quote from: Y on January 20, 2012, 01:27:35 PM
Isn't that torn down now? Was Rosey a member of that club or was it another one?
What was that youth center or club that was North on the side street the Wagon Wheel sat on up by the railroad tracks on the west side of the street? I seem to remember a junk yard or something like that across the street from it.
THE BATTLE STAR!
FIRST TIME I EVER MET THE NEW MAYOR KEVIN SMITH!
HE HAD THIS KID HANDCUFFED AND WAS MAKING FUN OF HIM BY SPINNING HIS HAT AROUND ON HIS HEAD!
AND I CHALLENGED HIM!
AND HE THREATENED TO PLACE ME UNDER ARREST ALSO!
I WAS FUCKED UP!
BUT REMEMBER TELLING HIM I DIDN'T GIVE A FUCK!!
THAT WAS WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE CIGAR SMOKING COCKEY BLOND HEAD SON OF A BITCH!
AND OH YEAH ROSIE WAS A MAJOR PART OF THAT CLUB AND IT IS TORN DOWN!
Quote from: incognito on January 20, 2012, 03:14:18 PM
THE BATTLE STAR!
I didn't remember the name of it. Poking around Google maps showed me it's also gone.
Believe it or not, I remember Rosie....I used to work at Stricklers Hardware....back in the early 80's. I bet I knew you to Don.
I was a skinny kid working there, but I bet we crossed paths.
Quote from: incognito on January 20, 2012, 03:17:54 PM
FIRST TIME I EVER MET THE NEW MAYOR KEVIN SMITH!
HE HAD THIS KID HANDCUFFED AND WAS MAKING FUN OF HIM BY SPINNING HIS HAT AROUND ON HIS HEAD!
AND I CHALLENGED HIM!
AND HE THREATENED TO PLACE ME UNDER ARREST ALSO!
I WAS FUCKED UP!
BUT REMEMBER TELLING HIM I DIDN'T GIVE A FUCK!!
THAT WAS WHEN HE WAS A LITTLE CIGAR SMOKING COCKEY BLOND HEAD SON OF A BITCH!
Don't get me started on him and his little man syndrome. I can't believe the people of Anderson reelected him. Of course I shouldn't have been too surprised, Rodney was also reelected first. :no:
Quote from: incognito on January 20, 2012, 03:18:54 PM
AND OH YEAH ROSIE WAS A MAJOR PART OF THAT CLUB AND IT IS TORN DOWN!
How long has he been gone now? He and I used to run into each other now and again. He'd usually be on that Gold Wing with a zillion lights on it. :smile:
I used to go see him out at the Patio back in the day.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on January 20, 2012, 03:22:45 PM
Believe it or not, I remember Rosie....I used to work at Stricklers Hardware....back in the early 80's. I bet I knew you to Don.
I was a skinny kid working there, but I bet we crossed paths.
Did you ever hear Rosey sing?
Quote from: Y on January 20, 2012, 03:28:18 PM
Did you ever hear Rosey sing?
Nah, but he was ALWAYS very nice to me. I always liked him. Didn't know he could sing.
Quote from: Henry Hawk on January 20, 2012, 03:29:14 PM
Nah, but he was ALWAYS very nice to me. I always liked him. Didn't know he could sing.
Great guy. He was a hell of a singer and entertainer back in the day. Roosevelt Johnson and the Seven C's. IIRC he stopped doing that sometime in the 70's.
Quote from: Y on January 20, 2012, 03:32:08 PM
Great guy. He was a hell of a singer and entertainer back in the day. Roosevelt Johnson and the Seven C's. IIRC he stopped doing that sometime in the 70's.
I think he just had some major heart surgery when I first met him. He was always working on someting though.
IF YOU WORKED AT STRICKLER'S WE MET MANY MORE TIMES THAN ONCE!
IT WAS MY MAIN SUPPLY STATION!
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN WILHOITS GROCERY WAS ON THE CORNER ACROSS FROM SCAMPY'S?
THIS HAS BEEN MY NEIGHBORHOOD FOR THE MAJORITY OF MY LIFE!
ROSIE WAS THE BIGGEST SCARIEST NICE GUY I EVER MET!
WE WERE THE BEST OF FRIENDS LIKE FAMILY!
HAPPIEST I EVER SAW HIM WAS WHEN HE STARTED TRUCK DRIVING!
Quote from: incognito on January 20, 2012, 03:35:17 PM
IF YOU WORKED AT STRICKLER'S WE MET MANY MORE TIMES THAN ONCE!
IT WAS MY MAIN SUPPLY STATION!
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN WILHOITS GROCERY WAS ON THE CORNER ACROSS FROM SCAMPY'S?
THIS HAS BEEN MY NEIGHBORHOOD FOR THE MAJORITY OF MY LIFE!
I remember Scampys, Jacks Sweeper was there, and the gas station across from Stricklers. I had a great time working there. I met a lot of awesome people, and learned a whole lot about how to fix things.....Rip Caldwell was the owner and was a great guy.
Heck if you worked at Strickler's in the 80's I've probably met you too. I used to go in there a lot in the early to mid 80's. Used to go to Jack's sweeper shop a lot too. Sure do miss him.
NO NEED TO MISS JACK!
THEY HAVE A SHOP ON THE BYPASS AND ON 53RD!
I STILL GET SWEEPER SUPPLIES THERE!
Quote from: incognito on January 22, 2012, 03:49:27 PM
NO NEED TO MISS JACK!
THEY HAVE A SHOP ON THE BYPASS AND ON 53RD!
I STILL GET SWEEPER SUPPLIES THERE!
I miss Jack himself. I do go to the shop still but I was in Jacks so much I kind of got to know him. I have a Rainbow Cleaner, well I had two at the time, and if I needed a part or to have it worked on that's where I always went.