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Dinos Pizza- great place for post hockey adventures, became MArks- Now WG grinders...no beers.
The Ross Hotel- oh boy burned down
Rodgers Drugs, now Brewsters Brew Pub
Roy Rodgers- now the site Ziggy Zoombas
Stadium theaters, now home to the license breau and Soil and water.
the Clock Resturant, became Tripple AAA is now ?
Racketiers is now part of Myles Flower Shop.
The parrot and peacock is now easy Street.
The sundace is now tux junction.
Kaufmans is now Samb's
Samb's is now Bennets
Sambs' prior to that is now Quarters
Peewee park is now Apartments
Wilsons Shoes became The Brass Rail pool hall...sits empty now.
The little old music shop is now a tatoo parlor.

What am I missing...

Oh yes...the original student Union sits in down town Portage as the VFW hall. The second student union is now the new student union.
the power plant is now a parking lot.
the lovely open sespool sanitiation station is now a parking lot and the new stink pit is across 75 by the golf course.

Racketeers - used to get a "six-pack" of Boone's Farm Kountry Kwencher. Worst. Hangovers. Ever.

Dino's/Marks - most organized Dine & Dash response in BG.

The North Main SamB's is now beckett's, not "bennets." If I'm not mistaken, it's the same ownership. Best happy hour in town, IMO.

The power plant is still there, it was just upgraded and the new, smaller, more efficient building is in essentially the same location.

LOMS still operates (on a much smaller scale) out of the owner's garage, I think.

You forgot the major South Main facelift of about four years ago. The former Stage department store is now Panera Bread and a jewelry store.

I was a fan of The Aztec, the Mexican restaurant that is ot Jed's.

transfer2BGSU wrote:I thought the theatre was where BCI is currently located.

Saw the "Color of Money" at that theatre with Jane T.....

No, he's right, the BCII (Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investation) is located where Great Scot used to be.

Mark's had the BEST garlic cheese bread...ever!! And had the best party after the team returned from Lake Placid with that National Championship trophy!! We all closed the place......then I had to get up and teach the next morning....feeling "slightly" hungover, but man was it worth it!!

Sundance used to SOP (Some Other Place) and was a GREAT party bar!!!

Sam B's and Becketts are owned by the same people. Both are named after Samuel Beckett.

Falcon Fanatic wrote:Mark's had the BEST garlic cheese bread...ever!! And had the best party after the team returned from Lake Placid with that National Championship trophy!! We all closed the place......then I had to get up and teach the next morning....feeling "slightly" hungover, but man was it worth it!!

No doubt, it was the place to be after any hockey game, but the most fun after a win!

jacojdm wrote:You forgot the major South Main facelift of about four years ago. The former Stage department store is now Panera Bread and a jewelry store.

The former Stage used to be Uhlmans. Wasn't there a Penney's downtown at one time too?

Isn't Kroger where Hart's used to be?

I think it might take up too much bandwidth if we tried to get all the former businesses that were in the current locations of BW-3, Nate & Wallys, and the spa that burned a week after opening.

Warthog wrote:

jacojdm wrote:You forgot the major South Main facelift of about four years ago. The former Stage department store is now Panera Bread and a jewelry store.

The former Stage used to be Uhlmans. Wasn't there a Penney's downtown at one time too?

Isn't Kroger where Hart's used to be?

I think it might take up too much bandwidth if we tried to get all the former businesses that were in the current locations of BW-3, Nate & Wallys, and the spa that burned a week after opening.

Yeah, I forgot about Harts! I really liked that store too...that was quite a long time ago....I remember buying baby stuff in there when my 16 year old son was an infant!

And I think you are right about Penney's!! Was it where Uhlmans was? Was Uhlman's ever an Elder Beerman????

Rinks??? hmmm...that doesn't even sound familiar. What kind of store was it?

Rink's Bargain City was never where Hart's/Kroger is, that I can remember. But it does seem to me there was another store in there in between Harts and Kroger.

And the current Pharm used to be Foodtown and the defunct Foodtown used to be an Ames department store. And yet another FoodTown used to be in the plaza where Big Lots is now.

Warthog wrote:Rink's Bargain City was never where Hart's/Kroger is, that I can remember. But it does seem to me there was another store in there in between Harts and Kroger.

And the current Pharm used to be Foodtown and the defunct Foodtown used to be an Ames department store. And yet another FoodTown used to be in the plaza where Big Lots is now.

Remember when A & P used to be where Churchill's was?

Falcon Fanatic wrote:Remember when A & P used to be where Churchill's was?

the library?

Warthog wrote:

jacojdm wrote:You forgot the major South Main facelift of about four years ago. The former Stage department store is now Panera Bread and a jewelry store.

The former Stage used to be Uhlmans. Wasn't there a Penney's downtown at one time too?

Isn't Kroger where Hart's used to be?

I think it might take up too much bandwidth if we tried to get all the former businesses that were in the current locations of BW-3, Nate & Wallys, and the spa that burned a week after opening.

wow...Kroger was in 76 where MArcos pizza is...they then moved over to where the Pharm is now and Foodtown was where MArcos is, then Kroger built a new store where MAncions and Joann fabrics is then moved into there current location,
Footwon moved to the south side of town in part of what was Murphy MArt and the Now Staples.
Pogemeyer photo is where the LAdy bug clothing store was
Downtown bar used to be the pheniox resturante
The bakery across from spots is gone I think
My neighbor owns Sambs and Beckets...sory about geting that wrong.
Chcihcis was College Station is now vacant space...screaming to become the touchdown club.
Ahahaha remember that comedy club where the Tobys party oasis is now in stadiumk view plaza...what a joke that was

....and the state liquire store next to the system seven salona nd Warzys and the yum yum tree where the tool warehouse is next the kroger.

by power station I making reference to the stack ...should have been more specific

the creepy trailer park across from Off towers is gone to....


anyone remember the name of the short lived strip club on Main street?

Rax roast beef where Big Boy is now on North Main and Poe.

Sohio on the corner of Poe and North Main where Rally's is now.

Penny's used to be where the Ace Hardware is now before they moved to the sMall.

Hart's is where we got our first microwave in '86 or '87

Remember when Howard's was where the current Wood County library is?






I don't ... bu tI bet some of you all do.