Cricket West has been around a long time (1961, in fact) and somehow managed to survive a three-alarm fire on a cold December night in 1970 which destroyed much of the shopping center. The Coach House, at the venerable Cricket West Shopping Center on Central Ave. Not for me: I was most likely at Phil Donahue’s Eating Place, which, The Blade tells me, never reopened after a 1996 fire. Like most everything else within a mile of Toledo Hospital, it’s gone: the site has been consumed by Promedica (in this case, a sign)īiddy Mulligan’s, on Reynolds Road, where the music “is basically Irish,” if you can imagine that. The Midwood at Monroe at Midwood was the quiet, cheap type place I liked to patronize (and still do). I was disappointed to find the site is an empty lot now.Įven when I was old enough to drink legally I wasn’t exactly hitting the high spots. My recollection is that the ID laws were rarely enforced there. Of course there was one place you could always go if you were 17 and wanted to drink: Charlie’s Blind Pig at Westwood and Bancroft. A simple, yet effective ad for Charlie’s Blind Pig from The Collegian, the University of Toledo student newspaper, of October 1, 1984. But the highlight for me was all the old place names, but not necessarily memories, since I didn’t start hitting bars until I was 17 18, because in Ohio in 1981, you could definitely get yourself a pitcher of 3.2% beer. It was all part of an amusing set of stories about singles and dating in Toledo.
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The title from that day’s paper? Night life is alive in Toledo. But this is a great article worth sharing nevertheless. Listen, I’ll level with you all: I was sixteen years old on July 29, 1979, so “nightlife” to me at that time was hopefully a Coke bottle someone had filled with booze from their dad’s bar.