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Picture 2012
Picture 2012
I visited there and took this pic out my car window as I was headin' back to CO, but stopped there for a memorial gathering when Tex/Dennis Gieske died. He loved in his later years playing/trapping people on CJ's 10 footer 1996....always looking for one pocket action ONLY on that table. That pic of the cornered room, it was the room I was in during the Kent State riots/gas/state police and national guard situation.
During the riots;
Across the street and down hill was the pool room Crazy Horse Billiards/garden level we got tear gassed while playing....it leaked in thru the doors. Toby Sweet stopped in there one time, we thought it/he was just another hippie, and Fats used to come in there once or twice a year looking for soft money, go figure.
An couple doors down from the pool room...........
At the Moo and Cackle/coffee shop one day, all of a sudden middle of the day this black dude in sandals and a long robe, started singing Freedom impromptu and in the parking lot right across the street....It was Richie Havens, what a time. And one day I walked into a bar down town where I gambled once with Cole Dixon....on his way to Janscos with his copartner/forgot his name/he died young, violent man I think....and there with this good looking Tall Black Guy in a Nehru suit and a BIG Gold medallion hanging off his neck centered in the middle of his chest....way outta place then....that was the great BB player Walt Frazier....who graduated a couple years or so before I got there. Those were quite the times I'd say. One more thing, I got back from Xmas break to find a hole in my room floor, the local Thief dropped thru and robbed the high dollar womans clothing stores Cloths. This creep dressed sharp and we all knew he did it, no one could prove it.
Picture 2012
Bill, I love that picture! And I'd have loved to live there during the Hippie era. I take it that the pic was taken in recent times, since no one was wearing those idiotic ball caps then that are commonplace now.
I don't know if we'll get comments from Keith or not. He doesn't seem to check in very often.
~Doc
I visited there and took this pic out my car window as I was headin' back to CO, but stopped there for a memorial gathering when Tex/Dennis Gieske died. He loved in his later years playing/trapping people on CJ's 10 footer 1996....always looking for one pocket action ONLY on that table. That pic of the cornered room, it was the room I was in during the Kent State riots/gas/state police and national guard situation.
During the riots;
Across the street and down hill was the pool room Crazy Horse Billiards/garden level we got tear gassed while playing....it leaked in thru the doors. Toby Sweet stopped in there one time, we thought it/he was just another hippie, and Fats used to come in there once or twice a year looking for soft money, go figure.
An couple doors down from the pool room...........
At the Moo and Cackle/coffee shop one day, all of a sudden middle of the day this black dude in sandals and a long robe, started singing Freedom impromptu and in the parking lot right across the street....It was Richie Havens, what a time. And one day I walked into a bar down town where I gambled once with Cole Dixon....on his way to Janscos with his copartner/forgot his name/he died young, violent man I think....and there with this good looking Tall Black Guy in a Nehru suit and a BIG Gold medallion hanging off his neck centered in the middle of his chest....way outta place then....that was the great BB player Walt Frazier....who graduated a couple years or so before I got there. Those were quite the times I'd say. One more thing, I got back from Xmas break to find a hole in my room floor, the local Thief dropped thru and robbed the high dollar womans clothing stores Cloths. This creep dressed sharp and we all knew he did it, no one could prove it.
