tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post4839105858278724931..comments2023-09-05T03:42:45.586-04:00Comments on Queen City Discovery: Big Macs by the Big MacRonny Salernohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09028420637930256541noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-26437617279641570942014-02-09T19:02:10.104-05:002014-02-09T19:02:10.104-05:00I remember as a Miami(Ohio) University student in ...I remember as a Miami(Ohio) University student in the mid seventies venturing south to get away from the staid, Oxford "Mother Miami atmosphere to enjoy an evening of Newports wild and crazy riverfront night life scene. It was great with a couple of converted barges masquerading as floating "yacht clubs". The New Tri City and Newport Yacht clubs were more bar-like than clubs, but both stayed open late and had lots of cheap Wiedemann beer featuring music and dancing with accomodating women and corn fed girls. Those were the nights I rememberAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-74363811454036508412013-11-28T07:34:58.003-05:002013-11-28T07:34:58.003-05:00Haha, I didn't. I totally wrote that out with ...Haha, I didn't. I totally wrote that out with the intention to go in and change it then forgot. It's changed now. <br /><br /><br />...for real.Ronny Salernohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028420637930256541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-58491905947816545462013-11-25T10:35:03.220-05:002013-11-25T10:35:03.220-05:00no you didn't hahano you didn't hahaUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05771067596696098703noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-67424215556395779492013-11-14T10:39:42.930-05:002013-11-14T10:39:42.930-05:00Rereading Jeff Gutsell's Enquirer-bylined clip...Rereading Jeff Gutsell's Enquirer-bylined clipping triggered more that you might be interested in. The Chuck E. Cheese franchise, proposed by the Bernsteins, wound up, where it is today, in Florence. This all happened around the same time as Mansion Hill's legal action against the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet regarding the proposed intrusion of the I-471 ramps into the neighborhood. Environment impact statements - written by Congress not long before - were used in countering Kentucky's designs. [In a larger context, the whole experience can be viewed as another of the freeway revolts that prevented the Colerain Expressway or the long-cancelled, and stubbed-off, ramps for I-71 at Victory Parkway. By the way, on SB 471, just south of the bridge, you can still see the stub of the unbuilt on-ramp from Nelson Pl./Fifth St. (The corresponding stub for the NB off-ramp, then proposed for Fourth St., was incorporated into the current ramp to Dave Cowens Drive.)] I leave it to you to decide if this was just happenstance that this occurred because of the Mansion Hill neighborhood's ramp actions. <br /><br />In any case try to remember what Newport's riverfront looked like. Besides the long abandoned bordello, there was one occupied mobile home just east of the DCB brdige. West of the then-active railroad L&N Bridge (Purple People Bridge) there was the Newport Yacht Club (LKA Barleycorns) and west of the old Central Bridge was WNOP and the "Captain's Table" with another boat dock.<br /><br />South of the flood wall were: four bars, one liquor store, two car dealers, one Cabooze, one swimming pool dealer, an abandoned Gulf station, one palmist and even a number of rundown residences scattered around. Not only that but, at the "Port of Entry," Cowens Drive also hosted a 20-30 home trailer park on the site of the current office building.<br /><br />A lot has changed. Readers are encouraged to challenge my memory, fill the the blanks, and correct the record. I'll check in again tomorrow. There's certainly a lot more involved. But that's the way I prefer to remember it.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-8616066511579965712013-11-13T21:46:28.926-05:002013-11-13T21:46:28.926-05:00Wow. Thanks for sharing all that! I moved to KY in...Wow. Thanks for sharing all that! I moved to KY in 2009 and originally lived in Highland Heights before moving to Fort Thomas. I'm right up the road from Newport so I spend a lot of time down in Bellevue and Dayton. It's hard to imagine what the riverfront there was like before 471 and the Big Mac. I have never heard about the floating Chuck E Cheese, I wonder what ever happened to it? Ronny Salernohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028420637930256541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-28901607975920054552013-11-13T21:43:49.136-05:002013-11-13T21:43:49.136-05:00St. Rt. 562!St. Rt. 562!Ronny Salernohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028420637930256541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-37151517011544943482013-11-13T21:43:32.853-05:002013-11-13T21:43:32.853-05:00Whoops! My bad, thanks! I've noted it.Whoops! My bad, thanks! I've noted it.Ronny Salernohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028420637930256541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-63286211210122874132013-11-13T20:24:26.768-05:002013-11-13T20:24:26.768-05:00It may be hard to imagine now but, at the time, Ri...It may be hard to imagine now but, at the time, Riverboat Row was little more than an unnamed bumpy narrow roadway accessed from Bellevue that, in part, once served a half-sinking bordello which had to be cleared to allow anything to be built (or floated, for that matter). It may also worthy of note that the notion of a Chuck E. Cheese franchise was floated as well before the non-franchised pink "Islands" was docked there. In any case, access to the riverfront from I-475 was indeed a problem for several years because of neighborhood opposition to ramps that would have funneled onto Fourth St. and Nelson Pl./Fifth St. Neighbors, especially in Newport's Mansion Hill neighborhood, foresaw Newport's rebirth, not in a kind of urban removal but rather, on its riverfront. At the time Newport was still dealing with some 17 strip joints on and around Monmouth St. How times have changed and how quickly we forget! I know. I was there. Thank you, QCD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-34210714933858142282013-11-13T11:30:26.173-05:002013-11-13T11:30:26.173-05:00Reminds me of The Norwood Lateral in that even tho...Reminds me of The Norwood Lateral in that even though I spent my 1st 18 years in Cincy, I still have no idea what that exit is REALLY called (st. Rt. something or other).Digital Davehttp://columbusparkspics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7812116909571848352.post-78828074291562264722013-11-13T10:34:47.374-05:002013-11-13T10:34:47.374-05:00I just want to make a correction.The McDonald'...I just want to make a correction.The McDonald's is in Bellevue, not Dayton.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com