Driving in Columbus, Ohio and Walking the OSU Campus...Late 1986!
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- Опубликовано: 23 авг 2024
- From October of 1986, here is some footage I shot while driving down Morse Rd. and Cleveland Avenue, as well as walking High Street and the OSU Oval!
This makes me "homesick" for the 1980's. Little did we know in many ways we were living in peak times. People back then or even 20 years ago wouldn't believe this country now. Makes you wonder where it'll be in another 20-40 years.
scary thought to be sure.
Whats FUNNY is THE PEOPLE ALLOWED this shit i got my DD214 and i go out 2x a month and we get groceries and stay at home i work from home now and dont go with the FLOW like the MAJORITY DO thats the problem not many will STEP UP and stop the shit we all have to come together and stop whats going on as far as BAD STUFF and there is PLENTY OF IT....this video is way before my time but my bf is a bit older then me and said the mid 90s where not bad either.
Ohio was already rust belt in the 80s my parents lived in Akron during that time
@@usmcusmc6251 dude, what...?
@@jackdelahunty8969 Put ur democratic mask back on u will NEVER get it.
I showed this video to my aunt who is 70 years old . She smiled and chuckled the whole time. This really took her down memory lane.
My God, look at that lineup at the movie theater- Top Gun, Crocodile Dundee, Stand by Me, The Fly, Karate Kid 2...in 2019 it's hard to find a movie that will be memorable 3 months later, let alone 33 YEARS later. What an awesome time.
Very true. My favorite movies are the 80s at 40 yrs old.
Parasite
@@fromthehaven94 Dont think ive seen that one.
@@fromthehaven94 I've heard that movie get a lot of praise. Many movies get a lot of praise every single year. Most of them fade out of memory, except the exceptional ones. We'll see where Parasite is in 35 years....
@@Doomzdayxx Well, being the first foreign language movie to win the best picture oscar gives it a leg up. And if you've got hulu, make plans to watch it immediately. The less you know about it going in, the better.
Born/raised in Columbus, Was a teenager in 86 in Columbus remember going to Northland mall, ate the Flying Tomato on 15th and High, bought my books at Longs, as a Freshman at OSU took classes in Hayes Hall, left Columbus in 93, this is Columbus I remember. Thank you!
Yep!! I'm glad SO many people are enjoying this innocent video I shot so long ago!!!
Man, if you ever decide to part with this video, by all means let me know! I run a Columbus history site, and this is pure gold! You have really captured a treasure trove here.
I was there then, age 30. Now 64!!; glad to see my beloved memories. Hello OSU from Bangkok.
Absolutely incredible and invaluable historical record of everyday Columbus, circa 1986. Truly and utterly grateful to the forward-looking gentleman that filmed this gem. I could watch for 1000 hours!
I’m just looking up footage of my hometown from the past so I can feel like I travelled back in time 😂
It's all gone now....
Doing same!!
Ditto
Strong feeling right? :-( be careful doing that, it can cause massive sadness
I graduated just a few months before this. Ohio State and Columbus have changed so much; it’s so corporate and huge (both OSU and the city itself). I’m glad you captured this glorious time.
Yes!!! What happened to the mom and pop stores that used to line high street?!
I gotta say, videos like this were way ahead of their time. Great job!!!
This is so cool to see. I wasn't alive in the 80's but i love so much about the 80's. Its so cool to see what my hometown looked like 14 years before i was born.
Wow, it's like these two guys recorded this knowing they would post it to RUclips in 35 years!! Well done. This is just a great watch for any of us who knew Columbus through the years.
As someone who went to OSU from 2009-2011 it’s crazy to me that during my time there this area on high street looked more similar to this video than it does now in 2022. They’ve changed it so much and taken away most of the character it used to have sadly.
As someone who went from 1999-2003 I feel the same way.
I mostly remember it from the 90's. It's all been gentrified now, Sadly... 😢
The same with the Short North.
Very little character left. 😭
@@briansmith48 I graduated from OSU Summer of 1986. This would have been filmed just about a month after that.
Drove that same route a million times in the mid 80's. Miss those times
I worked at the GD Ritzys at Morse Center 1986, Went back 2 years ago after being gone for 30 years, Unreal how much its changed. Sharon Woods used to be a nice area..
I moved from Columbus 7 years ago. Getting hit hard with the nostalgia, especially the campus area before they started going corporate. It was quirky and seedy but still sort of safe in the 90s if you were careful.
State of Ohio had a lower crime rate from 1960-2017
I could hear the Ohio State vs Illinois game on your radio, so I think this was filmed on October 4th, 1986.
Ohio State won 14-0 at Ohio Stadium.
The time/date stamp on the video itself says October 5th!
I heard Chris Spielman! Go BUCKS!!!!!
Me too:)
It was Sat and Sun. They walked the oval and high street Sun. the 5th
Used to eat at Rax a lot. Loved it.
You should come back and drive Morse Rd. today. A lot more has changed. Funny your comment about Rax vs. Arby's as the site of the Rax you shot on Morse Rd. is now occupied by an Arby's. Gold Circle was bought by Kohl's, and most of the site of Northland Mall is now a Menard's. Sun TV became H.H. Gregg, which itself is now defunct.
As a current (and long time) Columbus resident, thanks for the video.
You're very welcome! I may venture down to Columbus this Fall to visit some friends and family, and for sure I'll check out Morse Rd.!
cbehr91 2.0 the gold circle that was kohl’s is now a voting center
@MarkItAZero yea hh gregg was built on the site of the former parke hotel
Before Arby's and Rax, there was Jax!
Yeah Morse rd has become a ghetto trash heap.
Thank you for posting this! I cried. Morse Road and Northern Lights was where I grew up. I was 6 in 1986. Thank you for letting me see it again!
Ahh back then everything was so clean, safe and homogeneous.
I was 14 and have mixed feelings about this time because I had terrible parents but amazing friends that made life worth living, it was the best and worst of times.
This is some great footage from 86 Ray!
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
@@videoholicreturnsbuckle up!
@@videoholicreturns secuity cameras found
I had just scored my first apartment on City Park Avenue in German Village. Watching your video, I frequented a place on High Street called the Souvlaki Palace. George made the best gyros in the city. It was located just south of the Huntington Bank. So I think it’s the store with the blue awnings. Such a carefree time.
Thank you for this! I graduated 2 months after this was filmed. What a great way for me to show my OSU sophomore and future OSU, current HS junior what campus was like when I was there
I went to OSU from 1999-2003, and this reminds me more of when I was there than the same area does now. So many incredible memories.
Thanks for this video. Brings back many great memories.I lived on and near campus from '80 to '88. I was around Morse Road all the time too and remember nearly all these businesses. 0:23 I loved Sisters Chicken. Great tasting chicken and sides. Dave Thomas of Wendy's started Sisters. I wish I would have been able to make recordings like these but did not have a camcorder until '93.
The Ohio State football game versus Illinois playing on the car radio was played October 4th 1986 Saturday.
What pains me to say is, this video doesn't look like that long ago to me. There early in the video on Morse Road, on one side of the street is Northland. Once upon a time on the other side of the street was an airport, Columbus North Airport. As a little kid we would sit in the parking lot and watch planes fly in and out. In the summer of 1969, fresh out of high school, I was a laborer, building apartments on Rt 161 near Cleveland Avenue. For lunch, we had to drive to Morse Road to find a any eatery, even a hamburger joint. Rt 161 was still halfway out in the country. As for the University area, I worked there for decades, mostly west of the Olentangy River as a delivery person. In my late teens I was a regular visitor to a three story campus bar called The Castle which had live music. I also ventured into the South Heidelberg which I think was on the corner of 9th and High. Sometimes we would travel down to the Beir Stube which I believe is still there, 50 years later. And yes, they spell it that way.
I used to go drinking at the Beir Stube during my first year at OSU - 1968-69. My roommate and I lived at Holiday House apartments, at the corner of 8th and Neil, so the Stube was very close for us!!
Bier Stube IS STILL THERE! Surrounded by new development, but still there! Catfish Biff's, too!
I used to drink at the Beir Stube....in 1968!!!
@@videoholicreturns Just an update the Stube is still here in 2022!!! Thank goodness!
- I remember that airport.
I remember on Morse rd where the Toys R Us was... always somebody jaywalking around there. This is awesome, super nostalgic.
I’m loving the 1986 radio play. Love this little historic gem of my native Columbus Ohio. *Edit* Also, I haven’t seen or thought of Rax in over 20 years. I’m 35 btw.
glad you're enjoying it!
They still have Rax I believe in Lancaster an somewhere else I heard.
I was one when this video came out. I graduated from OSU first in 2008. I have seen it change so much since then. I cam back for my master's degree in 2011 and I was saddened at how much was different. The main library (where I was a work study employee) was completely renovated. The Ohio Union had changed. There were a ton of new residence halls.
It took me nearly 2 hours to watch this 46:49 Video because I couldn't stop rewinding and looking at everything. I was only 3 years old when this video was made But nearly everything I see reminds me of something it's like going in a time machine I absolutely love it . Whoever posted this I just wanna say thank you.
Thank you very very much for your comments!! I lived in this area in the 70s for a few years, and thought it would be fun to revisit it in the 80s and see what's changed!
Wow. That takes me back. Thanks for posting this to RUclips!! I went to OSU in the early-to-late 1980s and then lived off of Morse Road near the Northland Shopping Center (and even worked 2 years at SunTV!!) in the early 1990s. I remember it well!!
WOW! I graduated in 86. Thanks for the great footage, so fun!!!!
If i may ask what was it like back then vs today
Ohio State 14 - Illinois 0 --- Thank you for sharing the GREAT video!
It's odd how much it's still recognizable today but so different at the same time. At least the beginning part on Morse. Most of the businesses are different but the buildings are largely the same. The Wendy's is still a Wendy's, but the Sisters next to it is one of the few remaining Mark Pi express locations around (I work right off SInclair so now I want that for lunch lol). The area near the 70/71 split looks the same now except downtown had fewer buildings in 1986. Campus looks extremely different now, but when I was a student 1995-99 looked pretty much the same as 86. Cool vid.
North Side Morse Rd, I seen Sun TV. Northland Mall old hangout spot in high school , Damn I was 15 back then those were the best years in Columbus .
Buzzards Nest Records, Camelot, Waves, Zantigos (taco bell now), Chi-Chi's, The Ground Round, Ponderosa steak house, Showbiz, Flakey Jakes, Fud Ruckers, Big Bear, Cub foods, Children's Palace, Laser One. Isley Shoppe, Friendly's, Roller Chalet. There was a big Ice Cream restaurant in Graceland in the eighties too, forget the name, had a b day party there. I'm sure I'm forgetting heaps of other places, but yeah good trip down memory lane sir, thanks : )
Farrell's Ice Cream.
Yes! Thank you!
I never went in those places we were to poor
I felt every word in this post. I truly miss the 80's. I had parties at showbiz and grew up on the Northside ❤ so this is very special to me
That's awesome that you guys did this. Thanks for sharing
Wow. I graduated from OSU in 1986. So much fun to see it again as it was. Fun but kinda sad, too.
Miss all this 😢 things where just evolving an people where still doing things with there life's
I love how this video was recorded to see what has changed in Columbus from the way it was remembered in the past, and now I'm here to see what has changed in Columbus from the way I remembered it in the past.
Jim karsatos to chris Carter....tupa back to punt. Chris spielman with the tackle....loved those radio guys... now karsatos is a radio guy!
So wild. Children's Palace right down the road.
The better toy store. Peter Panda RULES!
Awesome footage. Being born in 90s it's real cool to see how it looked.
Thank you for the upload. Thanks to
The guys for not only recording, but narrating. I loved Northland mall, I wish it had stayed. The interior for how small it was, was THE MALL. All these “marble” looking center pieces. I feel Tuttle Mall tried to steal some of the design.
Sp many memories from my youth. This is fantastic!
The north side of Columbus!! I grew up in that area, loved gd ritzys. Spent a lot of time in northland mall.
Back when people had more conversations in the car with great music playing on the radio and little to no road rage..
I was a senior at Westerville South when this was taken. I worked at the Holiday Inn on the Lane in 1989. In 1994 I worked as a temp at OSU Stores on the gas cylinder truck.
That's exactly how Morse Road was-on my mom's 36th birthday.
This is my birthday Oct 4 81 good old days give anything to go back in time
Great footage. I miss Rax and Sisters Chicken and Biscuits.
Plant Utopia hi
Sebastian 0113 hello!
I really miss Sisters. The chicken and sides and biscuits all tasted wonderful. Rax was good too. There is still a Rax operating in the east side of Lancaster, Ohio near the hospital.
Zoetropeification is the Rax good? I was planning to drive down there to go to hocking hills and was going to check it out. Sisters mashed potatoes and gravy was the best.
@@ThePlantUtopia You should certainly eat a meal at Rax. The menu offerings are nearly all the same items as from 30 years ago. BBC, Mushroom melt, Philly melt, Rax Deluxe, twisty fries, shakes, salads and more. No salad bar like back in the day but that is to be expected. I live about 35 miles away and because of that onIy eat there about 3 or 4 times a year. But the service has always been good and the food prepared well. Worth checking out for sure. I loved Sister's mashed potatoes. Even the rice at Sister's was great.
I've lived in Columbus since 2009 but born in the late 90s. I'm a youngester lol. This feels like I traveled through time exploring.
Also shocked to see some stores still here on Morse Road but with just remodeling.
The Flying Tomato at 25:34 was a great place. There’s a good chance I was sitting in there eating pizza and drinking beer when you filmed this. 😊
10:02 That's the first ever Arthur Treachers location! I have been looking for a photo so I could confirm that the Pawn Shop at that location today is the same building. Thanks for posting this!
I thought the first Arthur treachers was on west 5th Ave. In Grandview????
@@rawzpfeiffer5521 an article about company hiring mentioned this location. It could be wrong, but I haven't seen anything about it. I'll search the Grandview one and see if I find anything.
This brings back so many memories. I was born and raised in Columbus). When you filmed that, I was living across from the Wendy's (right behind the KFC). I used to go to that Sun Tv all of the time. I moved to Seattle in 2012 and haven't been back since.
OMG!! I definitely miss these days!! I was 15 now I’m 50😄 Suns TV, northland mall, all of Morse rd and I’m going to ask my mom who is now 80 does she remember Rax😄 Yes!! Definitely the OSU campus!!!
#backdownmemorylane
Lancaster and Circleville still have a Rax...lol
What you thought was Derby Hall was Hughes Hall. It was used as the music building when I was there. Thank you so much for posting this. This is a time capsule for me.
I actually show the Derby Hall sign outside!
Great video. Graduated 03/86 but stayed to work at flying tomato ! Great friends/great experiences!!!
This is bringing back many memories for me. I grew up in that area. Thanks for the time capsule.
Oh man, I miss this. you had to be listening to Oldies B97.1!!!
Really don't remember!
I can't tell the old cars from new ones.We kept them alot longer because they were easier to fix.
McDonald's has moved locations at least two times on Morse Rd. I work at the Department of Taxation and my desk is in the old Northland Lazarus store. Ritzy's is now a gyro shop. They built a new strip mall in front of Northland mall by the fire department and the McDonald's is on the other side of the strip mall.
This video is Great. What a trip down memory lane.
I was an art student and would steal plastic cutlery from the High Street
McDonald’s all the time to mix paint and use on clay hahaha. Back when tuition was 700 dollars a quarter, but remember, minimum wage was 3.85.
Ha! Try this now. High has been under construction for what seems like 30 years now. I grew up short north and I remember it being under construction when I was little little. I'm 34 now and it's even worse! I honestly can't remember going through the short north or campus area WITHOUT construction everywhere. I avoid High St as much as I possibly can. Along with trashy Northern Lights and Morse Rd.
That's awesome! Takes me back..if i saw the date right: Oct 86. I was 12yrs old. Growing up in Worthington, Morse Rd had the best stores and mall offered on the North side town! GoldCircle rocked! Childrens Palace toys. Look how may cars don't even have a 3rd breaklight! Wasn't mandated until 86. Love seening vintage local footage, just to see if my memories are accurate 😊
I came across your video without reading what it was about. I kept looking saying that looks familiar. Then someone says its Columbus. Then i realized that i was 11 years ols then and you were not far from where i lived in worthington. Then the date on the video was my brother's birthday.
That's very cool! Glad you enjoyed the video!
This is amazing! My Grandparents lived off Northtown Blvd, I grew up in this area!
This is the best,
It's almost 36 years later now in August 2022. times sure have changed, businesses come and go, signs come and go. I can only imagine what will become of this country many years down the road. Who knows.
The General Cinema Marquee:
Top Gun
Stand By Me
Avenging Force
Crocodile Dundee
Karate Kid 2
Extremities
Mona Lisa
The Fly
Morse Rd was a major commerce hub at that time. I was hoping the camera would pan over to the Patio Shoppe on Karl Rd. there was a place there called Sonny's Guitar Shop. I spent a lot of time there in 86-88.
I love seeing these little snippets of the past. There's just something fascinating about history especially between the 60s to now. well even a bit before then too but im less interested in the 50s, though those were some interesting times as well. things have developed so fast over those recent decades. even being born in 1990 I've seen so many changes in technology especially. I'm kinda sad about the decline of physical retail stores and malls in rural communities especially. there are far less out of house social areas around these days. at least in smaller areas.
October of '86 -- my senior year at Ohio State.
thank you for sharing
Wow! Great trip down memory lane. Thanks!
When this video starts you see Sun TV, and across the street is RAX. I lived on that street. Northtown Blvd. I lived in the second house from Northland High's football stadium fence. My parents bought the house for something crazy like $10k in '70. The highway shots dated October 5, 1986 is filmed on my sister's 20th birthday. At that same time I had just started my senior year at crappy Westerville North. I remember Flying Tomato too. That place use to be very popular. In the summer you could walk past it and it was like spring break. Everyone on the patio drinking beer, listening to the music, and just being silly.
Man this brings back memories!!!
Singing dogs was my spot!!!
The good old days how far we have fallen. But at least we have the good old days.
OMG. My childhood...
That strip is bare now!! No more Northland.
Yep. Brand new Kroger on that side of Morse too, and lots of new businesses. It was vacant for a few years after Northland Mall was closed and bulldozed but the area is making a comeback.@MarkItAZero
This is great! I have a favor to ask...Can you please make a playlist of all you old Columbus videos? Thanks!
I lived in Columbus for the first seventeen years of my life. I know that McDonald’s but I don’t think the upstairs part is there anymore. I was actually telling my parents how the current design for McDonald’s buildings is crap and looks like a prison, to which my dad said he unbelievably never noticed. Nice throwbacks on your radio though. Bruce is still the boss 100%.
And now they're completely rebuilding that part of I-70 and I-71. It's changing alright
I lived in Delaware from 72 to 97 and when I was in high school we used to bring our cars down to 161 and Morse Road and cruise and race late at night on the weekends.
I'm the beginning of the video you are looking off to the right(Rax, Sisters chicken) if you would have looked off to the left you would have seen the Amos flea market where I worked in my dad's booth.
I would take off on my bike in the morning to go hustle on the campus as an 8-10 year old. There were always tons of people walking around, so I would let the air out of one of my tires and ask everyone I saw for a quarter to call my mom to pick me up. I made a killing. Then I'd stop and air my tire up, hit the castles(White and Aladdin's) and head home.
Yes, in the 80s ten year olds could take off in the morning alone, explore miles of a large metropolitan city, feed and take care of themselves.
I worked at Sister's Fried Chicken. The part that blows my brain is that I can actually tell you it was sparse pea gravel over a tar macadam. I was there when Northland was built ("always 72 degrees," I sold ice cream, washed trays, sold shoes, lived across a field, went to the library, ate fish and chips with malt beer and malt vinegar, fell in love +times, ate at about 15 historic fast food joints. Ate at Wendy's when there was only one Wendy's in the world.
thanks for posting. this was a nice trip down memory lane...
At the start, liked "Where did our Love Go?" coming over the car radio.
Charleys at 45:07 is the same Charley's Steaks in nearly every mall in America. That was their first restaurant. When I was at OSU in the early 90's it was a little further down on High St. Many of the places here were there when I came to Campus in '92.
Hayes Hall was not new in 1986. Maybe 1886.
I live near Morse center today, insane seeing this footage. I wouldn't have been around but my parents would have. Wonder what they were doing when this was filmed
Crazy how much campus has changed from when this was recorded
Good old memories, spent a lot of time on campus from 1975 till 1990.
I was 2 yrs old. 80s were great in Columbus
The only thing missing are all the people on the intersections bumming for money
Cleveland and Elmore is a high drug neighborhood now. Need antibiotics to live there now
Yeah it's disgusting. But hey..."strength in diversity!!"
Heard Spielman making a lot of tackles on the radio while ya'll were driving around. Hahahaha. Normal fall Saturday
Thanks for the memories, my wife was a junior at OSU then
+1
I was growing up out there at the time age 8 years old to be exact a Child 🙂on the west part Under Dublin at the outskirts Of Columbus city Limits itself brings back some memories! keep The peace out There From SoCal ✌ where I now reside!👌
Northland mall is now Job and Family Services 2020
I was 17.
Thank you. I remember the city like this.
#WhatWeLost
Have lived in Cbus for 9 years. Only place I recognized is Morse Road - the plaza where there's currently a Guitar Center and that same Wendy's is still there.