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Memories of... Kingsville, Leamington Memories of... and Wheatley Photos Kingsville, from Kingsville-GosfieldLeamington Heritage Society 1790-2000 A Stroll Through Time and Wheatley
Cedar Beach Drug Store, Wednesday, July 7, 2021 owned by Red Morris, Photo courtesy of the Kingsville Archives offered drugs, toiletries, china and souvenirs for sale as well as providing a luncheon menu. Speed boat rides were available Mark Ribble from the Cedar I grabbed two Pat Benatar albumsBeach Drug Store for 50 right off the bat with In the Heat of thecents a ride Night and Crimes of Passion. for summer I believe I also ordered Styx Grand Il-visitors renting lusion and Steve Miller Band’s Book ofa cabin or for Dreams, which I already had on vinyl. cottagers not owning a boat. I don’t remember the rest necessarily, The boats be 8taken through Class, the placid canal orBack out into theleft rougher waters of Lake Erie.Frank This 1944could Grade Graduation Kingsville. row, to right: William Wigle, but suffice to say I was able to get myphotograph of an unidentifiunknown, ed family, standing outside the Cull, CedarGeorge Beach Drug Store,Gilbert was taken in Havlich, unknown, John Ediger, Steve Dwerka?, Plancke, self some Simon and Garfunkel and Eathe late 1940s or earlyCharles 1950s. Broadwell, Don Bailey, Jack Wigle, Ralph Callaway**, Harley Bailey. John Graham,
Diary of a Columbia House member Imagine being a teenager or young adult and waiting for the mail every month, watching for that large Columbia House Record Club envelope to arrive. I felt like Ralphie from A Christmas Story anxiously awaiting his Little Orphan Annie Secret Circle letter to get my decoder message. Imagine the freedom and excitement of ordering 11 albums for free and getting the 12th for a penny. This was the life of being a Columbia House member. When I filled out my membership form and sent it away with my penny taped to it, I had no idea what future dealings with this company would hold. It was during the onset of cassette tapes as the most popular form of listening to music and I had just installed a cassette playing stereo into the dashboard of my brand new 1980 mustang. It was time to fill up on the likes of Steve Miller Band, Pat Benatar and The Beatles. Oh wait, the Beatles were nowhere to be found on the order form. What gives, Columbia House? After all, I was hoping to fill that little passenger compartment of my new car with the hot guitar licks of Revolution and Back in the USSR. No such luck, kid. Apparently, the Beatles had no deal with Columbia House and their actual albums were not available through the club, as far as I could tell. I combed over the lists as they arrived each month, hoping for a glimpse of Abbey Road. No Yesterday and Today. No Revolver, and certainly no White Album. But you could grab a greatest hits compilations album if you so desired, as long as you were ready to search for it. Needless to say I wasn’t a happy camper. I hoped against hope that Columbia House would eventually see the error of their ways and get the Beatles original albums under their umbrella. Perhaps they did after I excommunicated myself from their grasp. I could get all the Tony Bennett that I wanted, but his version of Eleanor Rigby just didn’t cut it for me. I filled out that first form, ripping the little stamps, licking them and attaching them to the order card.
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gles and eventually, a Beatles compilation that contained the German version of She Loves You, called Sie Liebt Dich. I rounded it out by getting a Village People album for my mom because she loved them and she was supplying the penny and the $1.85 shipping and handling cheque. So what could go wrong? All I had to do was buy eight more cassettes at regular price ($15) over the next three years. A piece of cake. What I didn’t realize is that good old Columbia House employed a negative option billing practice, which meant that every month they sent out a new envelope with the selection of the month. The catch was, that you had to remember to fill out a form if you didn’t want that selection. If you didn’t mail in the form saying you didn’t want it, they sent it to you and you had to belly up to the bar and pay for it. How quaint that I received the Best of Diana Ross and the Supremes and the Top Hits of Rickie Lee Jones, which was basically one song — Chuck E’s in Love. I didn’t want them but got them anyway and was forced to pay for them. So I got very diligent and started to make sure I filled out the monthly forms, rejecting album after album of acts I wasn’t into. I managed to fulfill my membership and got out of the Columbia House Record Club by purchasing another six cassettes on top of the two I didn’t want and the 12 that I got initially. I thought I was free of them until the Columbia House Book Club started sending me envelopes, but that’s a story for a different week. Jim Heyens PUBLISHER
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Front row, not necessarily in proper sequence: Geraldine Seward, Betty Moore, unknown, Mary Nelson, ? Wigle; ? Likens; Joan Sherman, Jean Sherman, Mary Edith Elliott, Eleanor A Look at ?,Leamington’ s unknown, Past courtesy ofCook. C. Scott Hollandreceived Covall, Dorothy unknown, ? Cull, Mary Grace **Ralph Callaway the “Nelson Shield” as top student.
Leamington’s Past courtesy of the C. Scott Holland Collection
July 6, 1993 - The Town of Leamington April 1973: andBuckingham Sandusky, Ohio sign documents Real Estate twinning the two edged Gulliver municipalities at a Insurance 2-1 to ceremony at the win the Midget Leamington Marina. In front (l-r) trophy. are: hockey Leamington At left is Mayor captain Bruce and KenCrozier Dick who Sandusky Mayor scored both Leroy Sizeore Jr. in goals with coach back (l-r) are Michael Randy Leamington Critchlow. Gallagher, Chamber of Commerce president, Chris Chopchik Chamber executive director, John Moldovan Sandusky Chamber executive director and Sandusky Chamber president John Feich.
Clippings from the Wheatley Journal, May 1989 Clippings from the Wheatley Journal
July 1991 - Last Friday, village residents were enticed to purchase thirst quenching refreshments from a darling quartet of sales people. It has yet to be decided whether their sales pitch, dimples or coquettish eyes won people over, but it was determined that the ladies did indeed secure a profit. Pictured above is the very enterprising team of Trisha Pulley, Submarine cycling - Ditches rose foot after foot following the Thursday evening rainfall Vanessa Jones, and these young lads wasted no time inventing a new game, “submarine cycling”. Erin Omstead and If nothing else, it’s a quick way to wash a ten-speed bicycle! Jennie St. John.
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