Well, the weekend is finally here! Time to relax; maybe go out for dinner or stop for a drink (or snort if you prefer).
Fifty years ago today – on January 30, 1976 – you would have had an incredible amount of entertainment choices: restaurants, nightclubs, hotel lounges, delis, private social clubs, you name it. And they're all there on the two entertainment pages from the Journal that day.
We also see ads for Huron's Showboat; Elberta Inn; Tropicana Restaurant; The Mark; Holiday Inn; Emerald Valley; Oberlin Inn; Dewey Road Inn; The Note; Presti's; and many others.
There are a few that I'm not familiar with: dj's country roads; Casino Lounge; Silver Dollar Restaurant & Lounge (previously known as Roman Villa)
I was only 17 at that time, so I wasn't hitting the nightclubs yet. But I recognize several places that I played at around that time as a member of The Four Links, such as Emerald Valley and Chef Henri's (although most of our gigs were for private functions, including parties for groups such as Parents Without Partners).
Perhaps you'll recognize one of your favorite nightclubs or bars. If so, be sure to leave a comment!
Being east-siders, our family picked up pizzas at the Colony Bar and Tropicana. I remember in 5th grade, going with my mom to in to Tropicana, me in my pajamas (NOT a thing then) and my eyes popped out - it was packed with people dancing, couldn’t wait to get old enough…My dad took me to The Mark for drinks after work for my 21st birthday (the outcome is too embarrassing to relate); my husband took me to the Showboat in Huron for a date, and I went to my (first) retirement party at Presti’s in 1977 (was rehired, worked until 2019, when some of the oldies said - “you already got one retirement dinner”).
ReplyDeleteOnly the Oberlin Inn and Presti's for me. The Inn's food was "meh" when I went there. The new hotel... overspiced - can't even taste what it's on. Always enjoyed Presti's garlic mashed potatoes. My son and I used to go there for steak when the ladies were otherwise occupied. Good food, not so great service.
ReplyDeleteReading the article about the family whose gas was shut off, I saw a familiar name, Ken Sullivan, a family friend and fellow social activist. Ken died at the young age of forty -two, leaving a wife and five children. He would be eighty years old now, were he around.
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