Rightupinthere wrote:I think Walden Books is going away as a business. It can't compete with Borders, et al.
Walden Books is part of the Borders Group.
Walden's biggest mistake (or should I say Borders) was getting rid of the "Preferred Reader" program that gave you 10% off anything and then sent you certificates for money off (usually $5) future purchases. When they dumped that program, I just didn't go there as often. Books a Million has the 10% card and I go to Levis every two weeks (gotta keep the nails looking good, you know! ), so I found myself buying from B-a-M more and more. It really made me sad when Walden changed the program and now look what happened.
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Falcon Fanatic wrote:Walden's biggest mistake (or should I say Borders) was getting rid of the "Preferred Reader" program that gave you 10% off anything and then sent you certificates for money off (usually $5) future purchases. When they dumped that program, I just didn't go there as often. Books a Million has the 10% card and I go to Levis every two weeks (gotta keep the nails looking good, you know! ), so I found myself buying from B-a-M more and more. It really made me sad when Walden changed the program and now look what happened.
I think the bigger issue is that, in many cases (as RUIT said), traditional shopping malls are on their death bed.
jacojdm wrote:I think the bigger issue is that, in many cases (as RUIT said), traditional shopping malls are on their death bed.
In that case, the question may be, could or would BG support a Levis Commons/Easton type mall? Maybe not completely to the same scale as Levis, but something that would attract the "non-Toledo" part of Wood and surrounding counties? Levis is only 15 minutes up the road, but if you're coming from Findlay or Fremont or Tiffin, etc., thats a half hour off your roundtrip.
Probably would never happen, I'd guess, but it's a thought if Woodland Mall finally goes.
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-1955 BG Assistant Bo Schembechler
Warthog wrote:Ebony's BBQ is now gone. That place is now Nite Flite Pizza.
Just what BG needs, another pizza place.
Anybody remember T.O.'s Campus Corner? It was in the brick building that FalCuts is attached to on Wooster. I met the lady who's husband used to own it (Garnett Ohns). She scaled it back to one of those side buildings after her husband died (who went by T.O. but I don't know what the T stood for) and called it T.O.'s Too or something like that. She was a sweetheart of a lady.
SaxyIrishTenor wrote:Yes! I knew that - I can't remember what is going in there. Lemme look and see.
*EDIT* There is a bar going in there, Whiskey Dick's (formerly Checkers, down by South Side 6) which is owned by the guy who owns Kami's and Long's Cleaners.
there is some other bar in there now. not whiskey dick's. can't remember the name. maybe owned by the same person?
Here's what i can remember from the mid-90s. I haven't seen any on-campus memories on here, but Amani Down Under (in the basement of the Commons cafeteria) had the best peanut butter milkshakes. Buying beer with your meal card at the Union's bowling lanes was always fun. Off campus, I remember Club 21 (next to where the current Sterling station is). They had some good bands there. The Shed and a Shed-type store in the old Huntington bank building on Wooser that they have recently added a second floor onto and made, I believe, a realty office. A couple video stores -- one near Cosmos that had delivery and the other a couple streets south that had nearly every movie ever made. I also recall the short-lived Rhythm & Brews coffee house on S. Main. Sorry I don't have all the details, but some of my memories are a little foggy.
SaxyIrishTenor wrote:Yes! I knew that - I can't remember what is going in there. Lemme look and see.
*EDIT* There is a bar going in there, Whiskey Dick's (formerly Checkers, down by South Side 6) which is owned by the guy who owns Kami's and Long's Cleaners.
there is some other bar in there now. not whiskey dick's. can't remember the name. maybe owned by the same person?
The new bar is called 1 4 9 or something like that. It's owned by the same guy as Whiskey Dick's. Apparently every Tuesday(?) is VIP night and drinks are only a dollar.
The Long Branch Saloon.
The 1984 Falcon Hockey season!!!
Meeting at 7am at Anderson Arena mid week... just to be able to get tickets to the weekend hockey games.
The REAL Freddie and Freida costumes! Bring 'em back.
The BEE GEE Bookstore.
The Yellow foam building/ice cream parlor behind McD's.
The "Original" McD's.
Marks Pizza... man what a place... and plenty of icy cold PBR with your pie.
The pond behind Harshman Quad... when did they fill it in?
Stacy Mitchart.
Ken and Stacy.
The MidAm Room.
The Strawberry Patch.
The unfortunate plane crash just off campus in 1983.
The Beta 500. Do they still have it?
The HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE python in the Sigma Nu house.
California Bowl champion football team.
1982 Mac Champion Basketball team.
THE painted rock behind Harshman Quad.
Ronnie's whistle stop visit to campus.
Forward Falcons......
MajorFalcon wrote:The HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE python in the Sigma Nu house.
When the chapter had its charter pulled in the early 90s, a brother took Ruby with him. If there is ever again a Sigma Nu house (the chapter has been reinstated), there won't be a python.
MajorFalcon wrote:Thanx for the SN update. Wasn't aware they lost their charter during the '90's. They had a good organization during the 80's.
Long live Ruby!
I thought it was around 2000-2001 that they lost there charter. Perhaps I am thinking of someone else. It looks like they got their charter back last year.
Forgot to note in my initial thread... the plane crash I referred to actually occurred while the Beta 500 was going on. Thank goodness no person/s were home when the plane slammed into the apartment building. Good chance the students who lived there were attending the Beta races that same day.
), so I found myself buying from B-a-M more and more. It really made me sad when Walden changed the program and now look what happened.
