[Alumni-chat] Antiochiana! -- The location of the "68 Cafe!":in Yell

[dl bahr]

J. David:

Erbaugh and Johnson's that was it!  The house I mean was not the funeral home across Xenia AVE but the butterskotch one behind the gas station on Glen ST.  I am pretty sure that it was either Erbaugh's or Johnson's place. 

Mr. Calderon you were destined for limosines and  Republican connections.  

I enjoy your ancient memories.  Jazz at Ye Olde Trail?  Different vintage...actually maybe I did play Monk or Mood Indigo there...it was quite a mix on those juke boxes.

May our fond memories bring forth charity and hope.

I am still looking for the 501(k)3 mission and by-laws to be posted.
Has anyone seen them yet?

Lesley A. Pownall Bahr '83

> From: jdavid at coldren.net
> To: alumni-chat at w3.antioch.edu
> Subject: RE: [Alumni-chat] Antiochiana! -- The location of the "68	Cafe!":in	Yell
> Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 18:29:21 -0500
> 
> Lesley,
> 
> During my time at Antioch, the big house across from Erbaugh and Johnson's
> was owned by Kenneth Coffman and it was called Coffman's Funeral Home. To
> improve town-gown relations, he used to let me borrow his Cadillac limousine
> when I had to pick up some printing or run other errands for the College
> Republicans and YAF before I could afford my own car. Nice guy.
> 
> I know one of the guys making the eggs and bacon breakfasts on the grill at
> Dick and Tom's was called "Dick" so I always assumed -- but probably never
> thought to ask -- that Dick and Tom were co-owners. 
> 
> The Olde Trail Tavern was introduced to me by an Antiochian (who shall
> remain unnamed by me) who ghost-wrote and phoned-in Fulton Lewis, Jr.
> political columns from the bar. I didn't like beer and was too young for
> their watered-down "cocktails" so I drank a lot of Cokes in order to get my
> weekly fill of Dave Brubeck's "Take Five," "Blue Rondo ala Turk," and other
> tunes on that wonderful jukebox. 
> 
> When Phil Schaefer and I were running CG, Com's became the unofficial
> "court" where people would drop by after Comcil meetings to continue their
> arguments while we were enjoying Goldie's fried chicken and special salad
> dressings. 
> 
> To the best of my memory, the only way to partake of Gabby's chicken
> barbeque was in an aluminum foil take-out container so hot that I could get
> it back to South Hall and still have it steaming. 
> 
> I hope today's students will have equally pleasant reminisces of their
> interactions with the off-campus community when they become as ancient as I
> am.
> 
> 
> J. David Coldren '65
> 
> 
>  
> 


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