UPDATE 6/6/2010: New longer version now up at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEH1IDs2Mgk
This is camcorder footage shot in 1988 driving south from Lane Avenue on the Ohio State University campus all the way to Schiller Park in German Village. This is the edited version. If requested, I will uploaded the raw footage. Most of the bars in south campus were razed to make way for the South Campus Gateway. Here are some of the structures I can identify. Feel free to add to the list in comments (please note the order and timer) and I'll add it to the description.
[ APOLOGIES IN ADVANCE FOR THE CRAPTASTIC CAMERA WORK: This was shot by my girlfriend while I drove. ]
Buckeye Donuts,
Long's Book Store,
Student Union,
Skyline Chili,
Street Scene,
Newport Music Hall (formerly The Agora),
Hair Express,
Singin' Dog's Records,
Cross Country Cycle & Ski Shop,
Supercuts,
Savage Tan,
Kinko's,
Strutters,
BW3 Gyros,
Silver Ball,
Mean Mister Mustards,
Mother Fletchers,
Odd Ark,
Park Alley,
Spring Break,
Crazy Mama's
South Heidelberg
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Ohio Center Mall,
Clock Restaurant,
Ohio Statehouse,
Ohio Theater,
Woolworth's,
Lazarus,
City Center (under development as Capital South),
The Centrum skating rink (being torn down),
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Stewart Traditional School,
Schiller Park.
@gijoyojo1 Came here to go to OSU in 1994. Never left.
fiverhoo 2 weeks ago
@willDANCEforPENNIES How is the area around southwest square mall and southland malls?I'm going to be staying in Obetz and was gonna park one of these places and take a taxi downtown from there for an event.Is south high street between german village and I 270 a bad area?
gijoyojo1 2 weeks ago
@fiverhoo Are you from Columbus?
gijoyojo1 2 weeks ago
Thank you for posting this video. Really brings back memories.
fiverhoo 4 months ago
Did I just see a Rax? Wow, I miss that place.
Cbusslayer 4 months ago
Lot's of memories....sad to see the old south campus...we all miss it...the new south campus has all the personality and character of an operating room.
Jkeller1964 7 months ago
@itskafka The demise of City Center is truly a sad thing for me to experience. That mall was a huge part of my later teen years. I moved out of the area in '96, and came back for a visit in '06. I was shocked to see the dead mall that it had become, and how dead the downtown area was. Polaris just is not the same to me.
BlackieGirl 8 months ago