Are you a true West Sider??

MyNameIsDoug? said:
but there's probably not nearly as many young families in Delhi as there was back then. Coupled with the rise of technology and kids being glued to phones/iPads/tablets, I can see why it petered out. It's surprising that places like Scene 75 are able to survive, but, admittedly, never been.
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I think it closed long before those factors would have killed it off.
 
You would think indoor batting cages alone would keep it open. They were quite nice. With as many select baseball teams that are around these days, indoor cages would make a ton.
 
ogealbhain said:
I thought baseball participation was trending way down?
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It is quite a bit. But most of the teams out there are all select teams. It's nearly impossible to find find a rec baseball team. And these select teams practice year round. There's not any indoor batting cages anywhere on the west side that Im aware of.
 
yj_runfan said:
Imagine what it’s like for those of us that grew up in Delhi in the 60s. 😮
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For those who did:

Remember:

1) Going to Hunnefeld's farm where K-Mart/Biggs/Remke's/bigazz apartment complex now being built to buy produce/Christmas trees and punkins
2) The "bike trail" behind UDF (where the phone store and KFC is now located) which went from Greenwell to the Park entrance. That area was once known as Green's Woods and was a picnic grove. The concrete slab that was their picnic shelter and dance floor was still there next to the trail.
3) Stallman's horse farm where Emshoff Park is now.
4) Mt. Alverno Boy's Home
5) Ice skating at Trio Lakes/Witterstaters/Clearview/Rapid Run or even the intentionally flooded basketball court at Delhi Park.
6) Going to Fautless Bakery just as it opened while the rolls and donuts were still warm and the glaze or icing still wet.
7) Going to Grote's Produce
8) Eating at the lunch counter at SS Kresge
9) Old Town Ice Cream (ok, that was the early 70's.
10) Almost everything being sold from delivery trucks (Mister Softee, the Indiana Egg guy, some produce trucks, milk trucks)
11) Maas Brothers Meats (before Dick and Jack split up and Jack opened Jack Maas' Meats and then JTM).
12) Fr. Rudy as a young priest at St. Dominic
13) Hitchhiking to Elder football games without giving it a second thought.
14) Listening to Calvary Bash (also maybe the early 70's)
 
Purplemojo said:
For those who did:

Remember:

1) Going to Hunnefeld's farm where K-Mart/Biggs/Remke's/bigazz apartment complex now being built to buy produce/Christmas trees and punkins
2) The "bike trail" behind UDF (where the phone store and KFC is now located) which went from Greenwell to the Park entrance. That area was once known as Green's Woods and was a picnic grove. The concrete slab that was their picnic shelter and dance floor was still there next to the trail.
3) Stallman's horse farm where Emshoff Park is now.
4) Mt. Alverno Boy's Home
5) Ice skating at Trio Lakes/Witterstaters/Clearview/Rapid Run or even the intentionally flooded basketball court at Delhi Park.
6) Going to Fautless Bakery just as it opened while the rolls and donuts were still warm and the glaze or icing still wet.
7) Going to Grote's Produce
8) Eating at the lunch counter at SS Kresge
9) Old Town Ice Cream (ok, that was the early 70's.
10) Almost everything being sold from delivery trucks (Mister Softee, the Indiana Egg guy, some produce trucks, milk trucks)
11) Maas Brothers Meats (before Dick and Jack split up and Jack opened Jack Maas' Meats and then JTM).
12) Fr. Rudy as a young priest at St. Dominic
13) Hitchhiking to Elder football games without giving it a second thought.
14) Listening to Calvary Bash (also maybe the early 70's)
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Indiana egg guy have really bad teeth and drive a station wagon?
 
cincifbfan said:
You would think indoor batting cages alone would keep it open. They were quite nice. With as many select baseball teams that are around these days, indoor cages would make a ton.
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I can't understand why batting cages aren't really a thing anymore. Hopefully, the place over on Blue Rock stays open. It just doesn't make sense with all the travel teams and such.
 
cincifbfan said:
It is quite a bit. But most of the teams out there are all select teams. It's nearly impossible to find find a rec baseball team. And these select teams practice year round. There's not any indoor batting cages anywhere on the west side that Im aware of.
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There are indoor batting cages in Miamitown. Dip Stiggys.
 
cincifbfan said:
It is quite a bit. But most of the teams out there are all select teams. It's nearly impossible to find find a rec baseball team. And these select teams practice year round. There's not any indoor batting cages anywhere on the west side that Im aware of.
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There would be plenty of rec baseball teams in the CWBC if people would sign their kids up and help out.

It's hard to get people to coach and help put the teams together. I've coached for a number of years and about half my team has been there just for me to babysit, although about 8 of the 12 I had last year at 11u were really into baseball by the end of the year.

Another problem is we get to this point, I think 11u or so, and the kids who really want to compete and have fun get discouraged by their school buddies who don't care that much, and move on to select.
 
Purplemojo said:
For those who did:

Remember:

1) Going to Hunnefeld's farm where K-Mart/Biggs/Remke's/bigazz apartment complex now being built to buy produce/Christmas trees and punkins
2) The "bike trail" behind UDF (where the phone store and KFC is now located) which went from Greenwell to the Park entrance. That area was once known as Green's Woods and was a picnic grove. The concrete slab that was their picnic shelter and dance floor was still there next to the trail.
3) Stallman's horse farm where Emshoff Park is now.
4) Mt. Alverno Boy's Home
5) Ice skating at Trio Lakes/Witterstaters/Clearview/Rapid Run or even the intentionally flooded basketball court at Delhi Park.
6) Going to Fautless Bakery just as it opened while the rolls and donuts were still warm and the glaze or icing still wet.
7) Going to Grote's Produce
8) Eating at the lunch counter at SS Kresge
9) Old Town Ice Cream (ok, that was the early 70's.
10) Almost everything being sold from delivery trucks (Mister Softee, the Indiana Egg guy, some produce trucks, milk trucks)
11) Maas Brothers Meats (before Dick and Jack split up and Jack opened Jack Maas' Meats and then JTM).
12) Fr. Rudy as a young priest at St. Dominic
13) Hitchhiking to Elder football games without giving it a second thought.
14) Listening to Calvary Bash (also maybe the early 70's)
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That’s what I’m talking about. 👍🏽
We went to Hunnefelds every weekend.
We knew the spot on the trail thru Greens woods where the older boys stashed their Playboy mags.
I went to school with one of the Stallmans. He wore his horsesh*t covered boots to school.
My school bus dropped off some kids at Mt Alverno. They had a long walk up that driveway.
I lived for the cookies that Faultless made for holidays.
The Kressge lunch counter had balloons hanging on a string. When you popped one a discount coupon was inside.
The Mass store had a flash fire from solvents while cleaning the floor. One of the boys was burned pretty bad.
Calvery Bash practiced next door to our house.
 
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I grew up near the Covedale Cinema. My only interaction with Delhi was our yearly trips to Chinatown in August to buy purple Converse for school gym class. As a teenager we were afraid of the Delhi police and never went there except for one time after a basketball game going to McDonald's. I remember the cop there telling us "you're done eating, go home". We ran around mostly on Buffalo Ridge, Delhi probably would have been a lot safer.
 
Purplemojo said:
For those who did:

Remember:

1) Going to Hunnefeld's farm where K-Mart/Biggs/Remke's/bigazz apartment complex now being built to buy produce/Christmas trees and punkins
2) The "bike trail" behind UDF (where the phone store and KFC is now located) which went from Greenwell to the Park entrance. That area was once known as Green's Woods and was a picnic grove. The concrete slab that was their picnic shelter and dance floor was still there next to the trail.
3) Stallman's horse farm where Emshoff Park is now.
4) Mt. Alverno Boy's Home
5) Ice skating at Trio Lakes/Witterstaters/Clearview/Rapid Run or even the intentionally flooded basketball court at Delhi Park.
6) Going to Fautless Bakery just as it opened while the rolls and donuts were still warm and the glaze or icing still wet.
7) Going to Grote's Produce
8) Eating at the lunch counter at SS Kresge
9) Old Town Ice Cream (ok, that was the early 70's.
10) Almost everything being sold from delivery trucks (Mister Softee, the Indiana Egg guy, some produce trucks, milk trucks)
11) Maas Brothers Meats (before Dick and Jack split up and Jack opened Jack Maas' Meats and then JTM).
12) Fr. Rudy as a young priest at St. Dominic
13) Hitchhiking to Elder football games without giving it a second thought.
14) Listening to Calvary Bash (also maybe the early 70's)
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Can you remember the name of the bakery near Foley and Anderson Ferry in the strip mall? It was next to Christensen's butcher shop.
 
ccelder82 said:
Can you remember the name of the bakery near Foley and Anderson Ferry in the strip mall? It was next to Christensen's butcher shop.
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I used to ride my bike to that bakery when I was a kid when my parents decided we would have doughnuts on a Saturday morning! I’m not 100% sure but I think it may have been a second Faultless location. I was constantly riding my bike to that strip mall and the Convenient Food Mart across the street when I was a kid. Our family only had one car when I was in grade school and when my Mom needed something she was missing for dinner I would hop on my bike to go get it for her. Between the Convenient, Christensen’s, the bakery and UDF (also located in that strip mall) everything you needed was just a quick bike ride away. There was a barber shop in that strip mall too that I think Mr Lanzillotta may have owned (in addition to Delfair barbershop), not 100% sure of the ownership of the barbershop.
 
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Purplemojo said:
For those who did:

Remember:

1) Going to Hunnefeld's farm where K-Mart/Biggs/Remke's/bigazz apartment complex now being built to buy produce/Christmas trees and punkins
2) The "bike trail" behind UDF (where the phone store and KFC is now located) which went from Greenwell to the Park entrance. That area was once known as Green's Woods and was a picnic grove. The concrete slab that was their picnic shelter and dance floor was still there next to the trail.
3) Stallman's horse farm where Emshoff Park is now.
4) Mt. Alverno Boy's Home
5) Ice skating at Trio Lakes/Witterstaters/Clearview/Rapid Run or even the intentionally flooded basketball court at Delhi Park.
6) Going to Fautless Bakery just as it opened while the rolls and donuts were still warm and the glaze or icing still wet.
7) Going to Grote's Produce
8) Eating at the lunch counter at SS Kresge
9) Old Town Ice Cream (ok, that was the early 70's.
10) Almost everything being sold from delivery trucks (Mister Softee, the Indiana Egg guy, some produce trucks, milk trucks)
11) Maas Brothers Meats (before Dick and Jack split up and Jack opened Jack Maas' Meats and then JTM).
12) Fr. Rudy as a young priest at St. Dominic
13) Hitchhiking to Elder football games without giving it a second thought.
14) Listening to Calvary Bash (also maybe the early 70's)
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1, 12, 13 and 14 I have little or no memory of. I remember an aggressive owl that nested in the woods that bike trail went through. It amazes me how often the lakes and ponds would freeze so we could ice skate in the 70’s. I have great memories of ice skating back then, it seems like every neighborhood had a pond nearby they could use for ice skating. I feel like that rarely happens now. Sled riding in Delhi Park was also a staple of those winters in the 70’s. Winter is so boring now.
 
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PantherVOR said:
I think it’s mostly parents deciding that…
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Another big issue that baseball has is it doesn't appeal to most kids. I can understand why it doesn't. As a kid, 8-11 or so, the games are horrendously boring as pitchers rarely get the ball over the plate. Your games turn into 2 hour snooze fests. You may get a ball hit to your position once or twice a game.

It's just not appealing to kids.

And with more options available to kids, it's not surprising.
 
Don't forget the horse shoe pits, Busy every night during the warm weather. All lit up at night. Probably in the area where Taco Bell is now.
 
PantherVOR said:
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I half agree with you. The kids who are playing select at the foolish age of 8-9 probably had their parents decide. I think it's less so once they get older.

I kept my kid in school ball where he wanted to be through last year, his final in 11u, and then he asked to try out. It was a weird experience but here we are in the SWOL world.
 
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1965 Panther said:
Anyone else remember the original UDF on Mt Allverno near Delhi Pike.
How about Greenwell baseball field now part of the cemetery.
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That wasn't a UDF. That was Duebber's Dairy. Part of the building was still there until Max moved his plumbing business there. I can remember their bull getting loose one Monday and I was unable to get to my school bus because it was running up and down the my street. At one time they had a store on Delhi Avenue in Sedamsville. I believe that this is the family of Al Duebber.
 
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yj_runfan said:
It’s hard to imagine but Delhi Pike between Greenwell and Delfair was like a tree lined country lane. That one row of homes on the left, Tunnefelds barn and then a few greenhouses on the right.
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Going west on the Pike after the park entrance on the right hand side you had an old farm house where McDonalds now is, Kramer's greenhouses where Krogers is located, then a marine repair lot where some big leisure boats would be stored. Then you would see the Cabinet Surpreme Savings where all of those women were murdered back in 1969 and then Frisches, Delhi Garden Center and finally Sohmer's Sohio at the corner Delhi and Anderson Ferry. On the left hand side you had Hunnefeld's farm, then a row of single family homes, including that of Bob Sanker's family and then the Delf-fair Shopping center.

By the way, Frisches had carhops when it first opened, My first meal there was in the ruble seat of our 1964 Vista Cruiser. Dad had promised us Frisches on the first day it was opened and I had a cold so that I was bundled up in the way, way back so that we could go and Dad could keep his promise to the rest of the family,
 
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