Winter, 1988: The Continent & French Market (Stabilized)
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Travel back with us to December, 1988 as a trio of twenty-somethings traipse from the parking lot, through the streets of the Continent and ultimately end up in the food court of The French Market at the height of the lucrative holiday season. This was before Easton Town Center and New Market Mall lured customers to other destinations. We can see that already, in this video, the sign reads "CONTINEN", perhaps foretelling the decline of the shopping center in years to come. The vintage video was shot amateurishly on vintage equipment (by twenty-somethings), so please forgive the lack of professional treatment.
In the early 80's my mom had three stores there, "The Outlet", "Signature" and "Always Christmas". I loved it there. One of my happiest memories was Christmas 1983 my friends and I caroled there in exchange for movie tickets. In 1987 I swept the floors of the French Market as a job. The first video game I ever played was Space Invaders in the French Market. I LOVED the arcade by the movie theater. Thanks for this!
I miss this place so much.. I remember my grandpa had one of the apartments that you could climb over the first floor balcony railing and be right in the shops near the toy box. I loved the arcade too. I still remember the smell of the pizza like it was yesterday. Now Im 39 and deliver ice for home city ice and pass by the continent often and its really sad to see it in the state its in today. I would have never imagined.
The Continent/French Market was a magically magnificent place & I've said it before but it was too "high concept' when it was built but if it were created now, it would be the yardstick by which all other shopping places would be measured.
When I was little in the 70's, 1st thing I'd get was a ham croissant with brown mustard & cranberry relish, then we'd go to the Beefeater for special meats.
The Toy Box was the BEST. Where else could you buy a metal toy canon that fired ball bearings ??? In 1985 I ended up in the hospital after eating a bad egg role & seeing The Last Dragon. IN 1991, my fiance broke up with me @ the great little Italian restaurant by the theater. So many memories.
Yeah brought back memories for me to. I was a little kid but I remember visiting my brother in the late 80s when he worked at steak escape
I’m sad I missed that version of The French Quarters 😏
I was a teenager in 1988 and remember thinking "I want to live here!" It was just sooo cool! Everything was there. Fast forward 15+ years and I did live there right after grad school. By that time, the Continent was long past its glorious prime. The French Market was nothing but a rubble pile. Most of the shops were gone and there were a few restaurants hanging on. When I left, there was only the movie theater and the post office that was left. When I went back to visit a few years ago, I saw Pitbulls running around on the French Quarter balconies. Not a single shop to be seen. I wish something could come of it still....but with malls dying and millennials doing all their shopping on their phone.....this is unlikely.
I agree for the sake of what it was, give us something like the past
Nothing good in this world for the most part seems to last...it ages and dies with time! Forgotten and thrown away like yesterdays news. a shame we can't keep all of the best things from the decades (social, fashion, music, t.v., radio, movies,our favorite spots..etc..etc) together. I guess the only way to relive some of the good ole days as it truly was is through these randon innocent recorded time capsules. Silly to record these things then, priceless now to us who long to recapture a fleeding glimpse.
Same here. When I lived there it was just the old theater and post office but they seemed to get rid of the post office overnight.
Used to live On Rue D'Atlantique with my girlfriend back in 1978 while attending OSU. I used to walk all the way to the southbound I-71 onramp to hitch hike to campus and on my way back I would stop in this market to rest and do some studying before I walk on home.
In early nineties I used to bring my then 3 year old daughter to eat and play in the arcade. I actually made a video of this place in 1990 while my brother was visiting, I cannot find that old VHS tape, I would post it if I ever find it.
I gre up there. lol I must say the continent raised me because back then you can leave your house and your parents wouldn't worry about anything we had a blast there everything we did there were so innocent great memories good times
My goodness. I always wondered what the area looked like in its prime. A far cry from when I lived over there in 2009 🤓
For a moment I thought we were at 94th Aero Squadron. :)
I was born and raised in Worthington and in the late 70s to mid 80s this was place was the best. Qfm96 had their studio there with parties in the summer. Bands, food everywhere, bars of all different types. One place had nickel a beer night on Wednesdays (I don't recall the name) yea it was crappy Falstaff beer but we didn't care....it was a NICKEL!!! What a shame to see what it has become. Very sad. So many memories. 😞