Downtown Stroll
Printed From: MiddletownUSA.com
Category: Middletown City Government
Forum Name: Community Revitalization
Forum Description: Middletown Community Revitalization News
URL: http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2842
Printed Date: Nov 22 2024 at 12:41pm
Topic: Downtown Stroll
Posted By: SupportMiddletown
Subject: Downtown Stroll
Date Posted: Mar 22 2010 at 11:00pm
First Baptist Church, designed by Frank Mills Andrews ( http://www.middletownlibrary.org:8080/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Crout&CISOPTR=1499%29 - http://www.middletownlibrary.org:8080/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Crout&CISOPTR=1499)
    Sorg Opera House, built in 1891 ( http://www.middletownlibrary.org:8080/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Crout&CISOPTR=5310&CISOMODE=grid - http://www.middletownlibrary.org:8080/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Crout&CISOPTR=5310&CISOMODE=grid )
 Sorg Paper Mill ( http://www.middletownlibrary.org:8080/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Crout&CISOPTR=134&CISOMODE=grid - http://www.middletownlibrary.org:8080/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Crout&CISOPTR=134&CISOMODE=grid )
 Middletown Cabinet, ready for the land swap
 Studio/Strand Theatre ( http://www.middletownlibrary.org:8080/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Crout&CISOPTR=2999 - http://www.middletownlibrary.org:8080/cgi-bin/viewer.exe?CISOROOT=/Crout&CISOPTR=2999 )
 Adjacent demolition
  Will they keep going?
 The end.
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Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Mar 23 2010 at 6:58am
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OK...help me out, some of you old-timers!! Now that I see the Midd-Town Cabinet building...didn't it once house the Top Value stamps redemtion center???? They were the yellow stamps. (S&H stamps, the green ones, had a redemption center over on Central in the 1400 block, I think.) ------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Posted By: Bocephus
Date Posted: Mar 23 2010 at 7:13am
| You are correct in that they used to redeem trading stamps although which ones they traded in I'm not sure of my memory fails me.I can tell you that they moved to this location from Crawford St. by the old Elites store. |
Posted By: spiderjohn
Date Posted: Mar 23 2010 at 7:40am
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wow--the photos speak loudly.
So much for econ development, historical property and booming business downtown.
And the old hobby shop is the Vail piece valued as equal to 1607 Central for a land swap + moving expenses(at public expense)?
Not quite as lop-sided as the Duncan land swap, but selective business welfare at the expense of the citizens.
Perfectly rationalizes why the city should not be involved in these processes(at least not the way chosen).
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Posted By: Smartman
Date Posted: Mar 23 2010 at 9:33pm
Wow,,,,I grew up at First Baptist and have great memories at that old church. It is truly sad that a building that beautiful has gone to ruins. These pics paint the true picture of Middletown. Yes folks we are a growing and classy community. 
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Posted By: 409
Date Posted: Mar 23 2010 at 10:47pm
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Mike_Presta wrote:Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Mar 24 2010 at 7:19am
| Remember grandma collecting S&H Green Stamps (at the grocery I believe), bringing sheets of them home and handing them to me to lick the back of those stamps( before we got smart and used a wet dish rag, of course) to paste into the books. What a great job... Then, as she accumulated several books, grandpa, grandma and I would go down to the old redemption store and get a toaster or something they needed. Didn't collect Top Value Stamps as much. Different grocery stores offered different stamps, didn't they? Grandpa smoked unfiltered Lucky Stikes or Camels back then. Didn't buy Raleighs for the coupons, by I do remember them. |
Posted By: Hermes
Date Posted: Mar 24 2010 at 12:40pm
Vet -  didn't you realize ole granny was just using you as a "stamp licker " ?
We all loved and cared for our grandparents a great deal but it's funny how it took us years to realize we were "used" for all kinds of goofy stuff.
I bet you couldn't pay a kid good money today to lick 10 sheets of stamps. ------------- No more democrats no more republicans,vote Constitution Party !! |
Posted By: TudorBrown
Date Posted: Jun 15 2012 at 3:48am
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All of the valuable, original stained glass windows purchased by a Sorg descendant were removed from the former First Baptist Church on South Main Street around a week ago. Where did they go? Who took them?  |
Posted By: Vivian Moon
Date Posted: Jun 15 2012 at 4:08am
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TudorBrown
Where were they located?
I went down Main Street late yesterday and the ones in the front area were still there.
It is my understanding that the South Main Street crowd complained and this building is going to be demoed very soon. Maybe the owners of the property sold the stained glass windows to the Mooreman's before the demo. What a shame this was such a beautiful church. |
Posted By: Middletown29
Date Posted: Jun 15 2012 at 6:02am
| If the church was so beautiful why didn't one of you Middletown USA complainers take ownership of it and fix it up. |
Posted By: VietVet
Date Posted: Jun 15 2012 at 6:28am
Why? 1. No disposable income for most of us to tackle a project like this. 2. Costly asbestos issues perhaps and EPA involvement? Who needs that? 3. Most wouldn't have the time to devote to a project like this nor the resources. 4. What would one do with the building once it was rehabbed? 5. Cost prohibitive for most budgets. Probably no grants or low interest loans available to average citizens to finance the rehab. Just a guess. No one is blaming your buddies at city hall Middletown 29 for the slow death of the church. Most are just making a comment that it was once a beautiful structure, now fallen into disrepair due to a lack of attention. Kinda like the city itself. Once a fine city, fallen into disrepair in the last 30 years due to a lack of attention from past and current leadership. |
Posted By: Mike_Presta
Date Posted: Jun 15 2012 at 6:45am
Oops...wait...they didn't buy the opera house, did they??? They just stuck the cash in their pockets!!
------------- “Mulligan said he ... doesn’t believe they necessarily make the return on investment necessary to keep funding them.” …The Middletown Journal, January 30, 2012 |
Posted By: spiderjohn
Date Posted: Jun 15 2012 at 8:14am
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M29--isn't this the core purpose of MMF, and why they were given funding? Why have they not used the $$ they so urgently requested? Why isn't the city ?ing their lack of action? If they are doing something why don't the citizens know about it? Especially after reading the confusing article about the necessity of public support. Will anything ever be attempted outside of the former downtown area and the first few blocks of S Main St(where the Mayor, his family and Mr.Koehler live)?
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Posted By: Vivian Moon
Date Posted: Jun 15 2012 at 9:42am
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Middletown Moving Forward Account |
Posted By: Bill
Date Posted: Jun 15 2012 at 9:58am
| If people from other towns read about MMF and the hopes that they will serve as a development arm of the city and then see that this account holds a WHOPPING $83,000 they would start laughing. What a pathetic, broke town we must have. |
Posted By: acclaro
Date Posted: Jun 15 2012 at 9:59am
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Wait a dag-gone minute! This isn't Middletown! Someone Photoshopped these images. These are taken from Syria and Libya. This cannot be downtown Middletown, the illustrative home to Cincinnati State with its 50% retention rate. Tell me it ain't so Yogi. ------------- 'An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.' - Winston Churchill |