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Just a few of my earliest memories of downtown Jeff and surrounding area (which was small then) as the city limits ended around Springdale Dr. going out Hwy. 62...
Anyone remember the Brown Derby Restaurant circa 1960 ??? I believe it stood where First Federal S&L sits today on Court Ave.....It burned down around 1960 which was a big event in old Jeff...across the street on Court and Wall was Murphy and Cloyd's drugstore with an old time ice cream and soda bar...Further down was the old Citizens'Trust Bank bldg. corner of Court and Spring (which still stands) and across the street which later came Clark Co. bank was Leist's drugstore...
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Spring St. late 50's early 60's had the LeRose movie theater, of course Schimpf's candy, a J.C. Penneys, Ehringer's Appliances a pool hall (name ???) Country Cottage restaurant (where Ann's on the River is now) Third Base Tavern (the original) and several other small bars..House of James beauty college,.and of course the famous Trolley Inn facing the river off Spring across the street from the Trolley was a flea bag motel (name ??? may have been Riverside Hotel)... The water and electric co.s had buildings on Spring as well....and there was a fire station on a the corner of Spring and Court ...
Other memories of downtown a taxi cab station (yellow Cab) on that little island on Court just down from Spring...The A&P Grocery where Old Towne Grocery is today a bus station on Court just down from the courthouse ...a much smaller quaint old courthouse and jail...Jeffersonville High school was downtown until the late 60's I believe and the Jeff Fieldhouse was always packed on basketball game night to watch the Red Devils play The Jeff fieldhouse hosted many large sectionals in the 50's and 60's as well....
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Youngstown shopping center was probably the earliest dedicated shopping area in this area. Early on it included Krogers, Taylor's drugstore, Woolworth's, Bacon's, Everfresh Bakery and a National food store ....later on it would include Cotton Wood's sporting goods, Keith's clothing a S&H green stamp store a bowling alley Youngstown lanes (where New Washington Bank is today.)
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Looking forward to any contributions from other old timers like RiverFox and other readers...
Ahh yes, the old timers. Holding up progress for 60 plus years.
ReplyDeleteActually have no problem with progress...Jeff has progressed very nicely of late. Merely pointing out the differences between then and now...
DeleteMy suggestion still stands to Anon. though concerning the duck...
Kind of hard on anonymous ain't ya there ht lol.
DeleteSeems harder on the duck.
DeleteI think Anon. is one of Galligan's worshipers who considered flowing sewer water through the city as progress...
DeleteNice write up on your early days in Jeffersonville.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I lived in Clarksville, I recall much of what you wrote about, abut the Brown Derby on Court Avenue, my aunt started working there in early 1945 and met her husband there, he was a customer and I guess he took a liking to my aunt. She was 21 at the time.
I don’t recall the name of the pool hall on Spring St. but a friend of mine and I used to shoot pool there in the late 1950s, early 1960s. We would drive there in his old 1940 Buick. In the late 1940s, early 1950s I remember there used to be a lot of gambling on Spring Street, in the back rooms of some of those buildings around the pool hall, my dad took me to them a couple of times when i was just kid. I also wish I could recall the name of the pool hall.
I also remember the Trolley Inn, the Riverside Hotel and the taxi station you mentioned. At Schimpff's I think there was a hobby shop there also (or am I thinking about another store close to Schimpff's?), I remember we kids used to buy boondoggle there, boondoggle was that flat extruded plastic lace that we made keychains out of; like we had any keys to start with.
That photo you have Jeffersonville High School, I believe that is the photo made during the fire, but I don’t recall the exact year, early 1950s I think.
Anyone remember the year of the JHS fire ???
DeleteI have one source that gives 1953.
DeleteThat looks about right but I'm not totally sure.
Thanks for your input Lowell...yeah my parents took us kids to the Brown Derby on many occasions one side was a bar the other side family friendly...it was a big deal the night it burnt down...
ReplyDeleteThe gambling was more prevalent downtown in earlier years 30's and 40's Jeff was a hot bed of gambling early on... but slowly it was shut down... but never completely LOL
Another store I remember was Weinstein's (mens clothing) it's in one of the pictures I have...
Nice post HT, a little before my time but the old pictures and your memories lets us younger folks in on a little Jeff history. Looking forward to more installments.
ReplyDeleteGot a lot more pictures and memories to share Anon...stay tuned.
DeleteLove this!!...I'd forgotten about the bus station on Court ( but do vaguely remember it now).
ReplyDeleteThere was a hardware store in Youngstown near Taylor's ( I can't remember the name but my granddad worked there p/t after he retired).
And I was there the night LBJ spoke...I wasn't in school yet but my parents took me.
And kids use to buy/rent their school books from one, or maybe both, of those downtown drug stores...They didn't hand them out at school...That's how my mom got her school books, not me...Lol
You're right Jules I think it was Keller's hardware and later was Money Penney I believe.. I was about 11 or 12 when LBJ was in town and right in the middle of the huge crowd on Spring, only president I've seen live...Didn't see RFK at Youngstown though but I remember his being there...
DeleteI think that bus station was were the bank is now on Court... Not sure the name of the bank though...
DeleteYes -- it was Keller's Hardware -- I remember it well. Besides hardware, they had lots of glassware and knickknacks (figurines etc.) Also, Gateway grocery store was across the street from Youngstown in Gateway Plaza -- in that strip was a drugstore, a laundromat, a barber shop, and the place I worked as a teenager -- good ole King Korn stamp store!! At the end of the strip (where the bar is now) was KFC.
ReplyDeleteThere was also, for a short time, a sort of museum where
Deletethe stamp store was. A Mr. Allen ran it. Almost got killed
by one of his king cobras.
Right Anon. it was Walgreens I believe and that was Bob Hill's barbershop who was still cutting hair there a couple a years ago...I didn't remember KFC there but Papa John got his start at that far end of the strip as well...
ReplyDeleteWasn't there a Bensingers store on Spring St.? Not sure what they sold.
ReplyDeleteYoungstown also had a S&H green stamp and Tap Value stamp store. Gateway gave out the stamps.
ReplyDeleteThe KFC on 10th used to be an ARCO gas station.
The drug store was County drugs, there was also a Marios' restaurant. That was good food !
I don't remember Mario's but was the name of the Italian place in the old Quadrangle ? And remember the Jug O Milk store the small funny shaped building that sold only dairy products.
ReplyDeleteOld Timer? Well ... yeah. ;)
ReplyDeleteI have left a few old photos in Wikimapia. (historic layer)
http://old.wikimapia.org/#lat=38.2818858&lon=-85.745845&z=15&l=0&m=b&tag=45694
Please feel free to reproduce anything that you find there.
If the location still exists, there are a few historic photos as well.
(just remove the "historic layer/disappeared object" filter.
Thanks for the awesome link RF... I had completely forgot about the Howard Johnsons on 10th St....
DeleteRan across this the other day.
Deletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3k0FNNJNKU
Lot's of memories from there.
Me too RF...lot's of time spent at Ewing Ln. pool and later on the dances at Ewing Ln.
Deletewhere they on Fri. or Sat nights ?? I recall Saturday...
Saturday I believe. Optimist Club was Friday.
DeleteI remember going to Howard Johnson's to eat fish on WEDNESDAY's as a child...I'm wondering if this was during Lent though...I was only 3 or 4 and I don't remember eating fish on Wednesday as being required as I got older...So maybe it was just during Lent????...Also remember the little milk place in Gateway Plaza...Does anyone remember the outdoor like fruit/vegetable market on 10th St...Probably not too far across from the Quadrangle ( that part of 10th anyway)...It was open to the outside but with a roof over part of it...They sold other things, but I mainly remember my parents stopping there for carton's of cokes...It was kind of dirty.
ReplyDeleteDixie Market?
DeleteYeah I think that's right ...it sat right up close to 10th St. with very little parking. Jules was being generous "kind of dirty" even as a kid it was pretty seedy !!!
DeleteJules do you remember not being able to eat meat on Friday's growing up ??? It seems like that rule or requirement for Catholics ended in early 60's, but I remember always eating fish on Fridays as a kid. I assume that's what precipitated all the church fish fries being on Friday...
DeleteYes, I remember...And perhaps it did end in the early 60's with Vatican II I suppose, but it held strong around here for much longer...Now it's just during Lent...( That said, my husband still never eats meat on Friday)...He's such a good Catholic boy. :)
DeleteBut there's something with Wednesday's...I know there was...I'm going to look it up...I remember we did it because my grandmother didn't want the house to smell like fish so we went to Howard Johnson's and everyone was eating fish.
During lent we still dont eat meat on Friday's, it has not ever changed.
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