Wow! What a blast from the past! I used to live and work in Lima in the 1970s. Worked at WCIT radio on Cable Rd. Shopped at Clyde Evans for groceries. Had breakfast at Perkins almost every Saturday morning. Lima was a great place to live back then.
We listened to WCIT a lot and I used to live in a trailer Court near by and I shopped at Clyde’s all the time. Mom and dad loved taking us to Perkins, pecan waffle was my fave.
I never knew what lima looked like in 1980s now i see and its nice to see how much has changed since then. Im 22z was born in 2001, 14 years after this was Recorded. Wow!
Things have changed so much. I love it that my parents thought to do this. I have movies they took when I was only 3 years old from 1960. So much fun to watch.
Whoever shot this was way ahead of their time! I’m originally from Lima and a writer. I appreciate these old videos more than you know! Thanks for sharing these! ❤️✨
Great video! We had just moved from Allentown into Lost Creek. I remember eating at that Perkins. I learned how to drive stick and stalled out on that corner back in 1998. 92 zoo was so cool to a young kid back than. Thanks for the trip down memory lane
I love this video. I moved away from Lima the year this video was shot. It is a real time capsule for me. 92 Zoo, Lobster House, Perkins... they are not necessarily great places, but they are landmarks of a place and time that hold great memories. For 6 minutes, this vid stripped away 30+ years. That is a gift. So glad I found this.
Wow, what a blast from the past! It’s nice to see how Lima looked when I was young. I remember Cooks store, and before that it was Rinks. Things have changed so much since then. We moved to Sarasota, Fl a long time ago, but it’s nice to reminisce. Thanks for posting.
We had Rinks/Cooks in Toledo as well! The one I knew where my grandma lived became a "Food Town Plus" before that closed up for good in the early 2000's (now it's some charter school).
Thank you for this, that mini mall turned out a lot better than expected! Whole side of town looks looks different lol so cool to look back at this place before I was born 🤯🤯, I miss ponderosa a lot lol
Vlogging before youtube. People would record stuff like this and do "travelogs" of their own town/city then mail them off to relatives so they can see what their town looks like
Thank you for sharing this! My wife and I live in Dayton and saw the Western Sizzlin' in your video and had to visit last weekend as all of ours closed years ago (of course, we checked to make sure it was still there.) We went to the Mall and the Allen County Museum. Lima is a great town with lots of history.
Living in Lima in 2019 for many weeks, coming from Italy, this sad place is almost the same of 25 years ago 😁. The place is sad but the people and the workers of this smal town are good guys, I felt comfortable with them, they are nice and sociable people
Used to roost at Reed and Shawnee then pester qupie hamburger. Maby with Joe Eilerman I go to Milano club. Some times would wach the crowd around LCC. Then in fall we gather at the beer barel. Not to far from d co LIma ohio. Lived Lima on the week ends tks Fer video (retired) Sgt williams army.
@@Kierlana1 that drive in by the interstate. Was entertainment. And the frontier stake house. Along with the beer barel. Made the week ends some what tolerable. Except for some wanting the land that the theater stood on. a shame. Fair radio moved to the old lumber yard. But I blow through town and stop at qupie. Near the hospital. Memorial. Never miss that treat. De kv4li. 73
@@stephenwilliams5201 I live near Defiance now. A couple times a year I have to go back just to get a Kewpee burger. When I was in high school the Beer Barrel on Dixie was one of the popular places to go. Back then we were allowed beer at the age of 18. Also saw a lot of movies at that drive-in.
@@Kierlana1 at 69. It's a shame that a lot of my mentor's, and are passing. The Noland R faze center was good turf. (Tank plant) I was always kept busy between that and the tv factory. And famly in mcComb ohio. Leaving ohio. I landed in hickman co Tenn. Still think about jhon Davidson. Ant the nickle plate railroad. Old 25. Long time ago god bless
"They lived together for 10 years 'fore they ever got married. Her dad's got all kinda money. He pretty much threw her butt out, 'cause she was always horsin' around." ...PRICELESS!!! :D
I was 2 years old, and Toys R Us was just coming to Lima......fast forward 31 years and it’s bankrupt like cooks. I remember seeing a lot of these buildings as a kid.
I have a few of the Cups and plates they would use at Poderosa. My Grandparents, who always ate there, bought them as memory keepsakes right before they closed.
This was a private video sent to me and my mother. I suggest you make these private. I will be speaking with an attorney. You are sharing personal videos publicly. To everyone SOOOOO interested. These were my grandparents and they have since passed. This is no one else's business. These are family videos.
87 cents a gallon for gas? I mean that's possibly what it was (my memory isn't what it used to be), just trying to remember when the various abrupt price jumps happened.
@@Buckeye_4_Life_ I was joshing you a bit. They knew because the owners of the property complex announced through a press release that, in turn, the local news ran a small blurb about. Make sense now?
Wow, this sure brought back some memories, thanks for sharing this.. Do you remember what month in '87 that this footage was taken?.. I had completely forgotten that LPD's patrol cars used to be blue-n-white.. I had also forgot just how much open land there was on both Cable and Elida Rd. back then, there's been so businesses crammed in over the years that you eventually just start becoming numb to the development processes I guess..
Wow, Im 13 but I know Lima like the back of my hand, and that was weird seeing that Bob Evan's wasnt there, or toys are us. And that pondarosa was still there.....crazy. Was Ihop there still, and meyers? thanks, also, do you still live in lima?
I think Meijer was built somewhere between '93/'96, but I can't remember exactly.. I'm pretty sure the Elida Rd. Ihop didn't open until much later, sometime during the early-mid 2000's I think.. I do remember that Wal-mart started building the Cable Rd. store sometime in '88 because I knew a guy that helped stock the product after the building was finished.. That was during the winter of '88/'89 which would've been my Junior year at the old Lima Sr. High School..
Wow, moved to Lima 2022. Difficult to see they were looking forward to what it it is now. It is interesting.
It's changed so much
Yes it has
Wow! What a blast from the past! I used to live and work in Lima in the 1970s. Worked at WCIT radio on Cable Rd. Shopped at Clyde Evans for groceries. Had breakfast at Perkins almost every Saturday morning. Lima was a great place to live back then.
We listened to WCIT a lot and I used to live in a trailer Court near by and I shopped at Clyde’s all the time. Mom and dad loved taking us to Perkins, pecan waffle was my fave.
You are welcome for the memories!
This is how I remember Lima right before I moved away. So glad to have this captured on film.
You are welcome!
I never knew what lima looked like in 1980s now i see and its nice to see how much has changed since then. Im 22z was born in 2001, 14 years after this was Recorded. Wow!
Things have changed so much. I love it that my parents thought to do this. I have movies they took when I was only 3 years old from 1960. So much fun to watch.
@@Kierlana1oh woww
Very cool flashback! Thank you
You are welcome!
I started going to UNOH in Lima a couple of months ago, this is so cool to see what the town looked like back when
Wow! Thanks for the video, it looks so different now.
Welcome!
Whoever shot this was way ahead of their time! I’m originally from Lima and a writer. I appreciate these old videos more than you know! Thanks for sharing these! ❤️✨
You are welcome
Great video . I love to watch and remember! Thanks for sharing
You are welcome!
Great video! We had just moved from Allentown into Lost Creek. I remember eating at that Perkins. I learned how to drive stick and stalled out on that corner back in 1998. 92 zoo was so cool to a young kid back than. Thanks for the trip down memory lane
You are welcome. That would have been a bad corner to stall at. We listened to the Zoo a lot back in the day, I'm happy you enjoyed the video
Looks so familiar, yet so different
I love this video.
I moved away from Lima the year this video was shot. It is a real time capsule for me.
92 Zoo, Lobster House, Perkins... they are not necessarily great places, but they are landmarks of a place and time that hold great memories. For 6 minutes, this vid stripped away 30+ years. That is a gift.
So glad I found this.
So happy you enjoyed reliving the past. That is why I posted it.
Family always talks about how this town used to look and I couldn't visualize it but now I can!
Happy I could help!
Wow, what a blast from the past! It’s nice to see how Lima looked when I was young. I remember Cooks store, and before that it was Rinks. Things have changed so much since then. We moved to Sarasota, Fl a long time ago, but it’s nice to reminisce. Thanks for posting.
We had Rinks/Cooks in Toledo as well! The one I knew where my grandma lived became a "Food Town Plus" before that closed up for good in the early 2000's (now it's some charter school).
You are welcome
Thank you for this, that mini mall turned out a lot better than expected! Whole side of town looks looks different lol so cool to look back at this place before I was born 🤯🤯, I miss ponderosa a lot lol
Glad you enjoyed it!
1:10 wow! that old ghostbusters style cadillac ambulance! rare sight for '87!
2:54 a gremlin!
Vlogging before youtube. People would record stuff like this and do "travelogs" of their own town/city then mail them off to relatives so they can see what their town looks like
This one was made for my sister who had moved away and was homesick
@@Kierlana1 Ah I see, yeah my family did similar but with Super8 film.
Lima was so nice back in the 80s.. I want to go back..
@Vladimir lenin not that bad Vlad
Wow, as someone who is going to UNOH for school, it is interesting to see what this road used to look like compared to what it is today.
Happy to hear you liked it
Sooo much changed! 😅
You did a good job steady with the camera everything pretty much still looks the same to this day
Thanks, my mom filmed it. She used to have so much fun taking movies.
I was a child when this was filmed. We would come down Cable on our way into Lima. I grew up in Delphos and had a ton of family there.
Wow im in lima for school and it looks so different especially the mall the plant is still the same and Wendy's.
It has definitely changed a lot since this was filmed
Im from Ada. Wow this brings me lots of memories. My dad worked at Perkins from 1987 to 1993. Crazy crazy.
My mom and dad loved Perkins
Thank you for sharing this! My wife and I live in Dayton and saw the Western Sizzlin' in your video and had to visit last weekend as all of ours closed years ago (of course, we checked to make sure it was still there.) We went to the Mall and the Allen County Museum. Lima is a great town with lots of history.
That is so awesome. My parents filmed this and Western Sizzlin was one of their favorite restaurants
Aww, I used to listen to 92 zoq! Even got a mug to prove it!
We used to listen to it too
Living in Lima in 2019 for many weeks, coming from Italy, this sad place is almost the same of 25 years ago 😁. The place is sad but the people and the workers of this smal town are good guys, I felt comfortable with them, they are nice and sociable people
i rode my bike. Before 1977.
Nothing is CERTAIN.
It will be ugly to me living there with all that snow in the winter time. I cant stand snow every week.
We haven’t really had much snow the past few years and at times it can be very beautiful!
The mall is still there but much sadder and the fast food restaurants are all still there but almost everything else has changed. Come and gone.
I like it that Spencer Gifts is still there and Penneys
Wow, how times have changed! I can remember 90% of this as a kid. Thanks for the trip!
You are welcome!
I was born in 87 in lima lol ...
Well now you know how things looked when you were born, lol
This is great! Thanks for sharing!!
welcome
So long ago....Good ol dayz yo
Used to roost at Reed and Shawnee then pester qupie hamburger. Maby with Joe Eilerman I go to Milano club. Some times would wach the crowd around LCC. Then in fall we gather at the beer barel. Not to far from d co LIma ohio. Lived Lima on the week ends tks Fer video (retired) Sgt williams army.
You are welcome. I grew up in the Shawnee area
@@Kierlana1 that drive in by the interstate. Was entertainment. And the frontier stake house. Along with the beer barel. Made the week ends some what tolerable. Except for some wanting the land that the theater stood on. a shame. Fair radio moved to the old lumber yard. But I blow through town and stop at qupie. Near the hospital. Memorial. Never miss that treat. De kv4li. 73
@@stephenwilliams5201 I live near Defiance now. A couple times a year I have to go back just to get a Kewpee burger. When I was in high school the Beer Barrel on Dixie was one of the popular places to go. Back then we were allowed beer at the age of 18. Also saw a lot of movies at that drive-in.
@@Kierlana1 at 69. It's a shame that a lot of my mentor's, and are passing. The Noland R faze center was good turf. (Tank plant) I was always kept busy between that and the tv factory. And famly in mcComb ohio. Leaving ohio. I landed in hickman co Tenn. Still think about jhon Davidson. Ant the nickle plate railroad. Old 25. Long time ago god bless
What are they recording with?
It was a camcorder
8mm
wow, this looks very diffrent from today
Yes, it has changed a lot
"They lived together for 10 years 'fore they ever got married. Her dad's got all kinda money. He pretty much threw her butt out, 'cause she was always horsin' around."
...PRICELESS!!! :D
dad knew all the gossip!
I was 2 years old, and Toys R Us was just coming to Lima......fast forward 31 years and it’s bankrupt like cooks. I remember seeing a lot of these buildings as a kid.
Loved this...just wish it was longer!! Thanks for the post!
welcome!
Living in Lima in 2019 is alright, except Ponderosa isn't around anymore.
Nor Chuck E. Cheese’s.
@@nickwerner7983 rip toys r us
I have a few of the Cups and plates they would use at Poderosa. My Grandparents, who always ate there, bought them as memory keepsakes right before they closed.
Thank you for uploading this. This is great to see. I forgot about some of those old stores till now.
welcome
This is wild I moved here for school in 2016 and it’s crazy how some things are the same but at the same time way different
This was a private video sent to me and my mother. I suggest you make these private. I will be speaking with an attorney. You are sharing personal videos publicly. To everyone SOOOOO interested. These were my grandparents and they have since passed. This is no one else's business. These are family videos.
Thank you for uploading this!
just saw this...you are welcome
Very cool to see lima in 87 , the year i was born 🤣
Almost forgot about clyde evans being there...but always remembered how fun it was going to ponderosa and westagate as a kid.
I had forgotten about Clydes too. I loved Ponderosa when I was young.
Lima still hasnt even changed much even to this day...
Turn left to the Kewpee
Yep, some things sure haven't changes like the 2 cop cars parked together, probably exchanging donuts. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is wild i was born in 85 lived in Cincinnati for 4 years so I knw all about big boy crazy the bean town doesn't have one.
What the hell where you saying retard 😂
87 cents a gallon for gas? I mean that's possibly what it was (my memory isn't what it used to be), just trying to remember when the various abrupt price jumps happened.
How did they know way back then Toys r Us was going in on the corner there..? It didn't come till way later.
Tarot. Or... newspaper announcements.
@@slofty ??
@@Buckeye_4_Life_ I was joshing you a bit.
They knew because the owners of the property complex announced through a press release that, in turn, the local news ran a small blurb about. Make sense now?
@@slofty But way back then..?
@@Buckeye_4_Life_ What other rational possibilities do you suggest then?
Now look at Lima today. Full of drugs, crime, abandoned business. I actually hate it in Lima
I still like the mall area
This is so cool to see because i work at that toys r us and live down the road from bob evens 👍🏻
happy you enjoyed it
I worked at the Western Sizzler that year.
that was one of my mom and dad"s favorite places to eat at back then
Awesome! Cable rd is a mess now with traffic!
Remind not to move there.
It has certainly built up a lot more, but I can vaguely remember Cook's and when this is what Cable and Elida Road looked like. I was just a kid...
It has definitely changed
It has definitely changed
No Lacherada...Neat. I also live RIGHT BY BOTH ROADS cable road is a couple minutes down the road and Elida road is Right by my Street!
WOW Talk about memories
I feel old
Me too!
Wow, this sure brought back some memories, thanks for sharing this.. Do you remember what month in '87 that this footage was taken?.. I had completely forgotten that LPD's patrol cars used to be blue-n-white.. I had also forgot just how much open land there was on both Cable and Elida Rd. back then, there's been so businesses crammed in over the years that you eventually just start becoming numb to the development processes I guess..
It was probably around September when it was filmed
Do you still have the Ponderosa there
No, the Ponderosa building has a different business in it now
ty
wow... talk about a walk down memory lane
Wow, Im 13 but I know Lima like the back of my hand, and that was weird seeing that Bob Evan's wasnt there, or toys are us. And that pondarosa was still there.....crazy. Was Ihop there still, and meyers? thanks, also, do you still live in lima?
I livein the Defiance area now but I visit Lima often
I think Meijer was built somewhere between '93/'96, but I can't remember exactly.. I'm pretty sure the Elida Rd. Ihop didn't open until much later, sometime during the early-mid 2000's I think.. I do remember that Wal-mart started building the Cable Rd. store sometime in '88 because I knew a guy that helped stock the product after the building was finished.. That was during the winter of '88/'89 which would've been my Junior year at the old Lima Sr. High School..
Meyer opened in January or Febuary of 1993
Damn I think rax was gone by then did not see it.
i don't remember Rax
No it was there I didn't see it in the video but I didn't see walmart either and Rax was across the street.
@@johnhadley2179 Rax was actually where Fazolis is now.
The people in this video still alive?
No, my mom died in 2002, we lost dad in 2006
@@Kierlana1 im very sorry to hear this. Loved their video brought back memories
@@Kierlana1 if you dont mind me asking how old was they in this video?
@@vector150 thank you, my parents were awesome, today is Mom's birthday
@@vector150 they were in their late 50’s
What year was this Linda?? 87?
yes
Let's make a then / now video! I can help
Dave - you've got to do this. If there's anything I can do to help make this happen please let me know.
that is above my skills
Linda, I'd love to attempt this video of then/now. I'd need the original digital from you if possible?
I don't have an original digital...I put it online straight from a VHC video camera
I can rip the video from RUclips if you need
Thanks a million for this video!!! It created a flood of memories. Love it!!!
welcome!