WCTU to carry assembly
MATTOON — Girl’s Christian Temperance Union men and women will meet at 10 a.m., Monday, April 4, at at Denny’s Restaurant in Mattoon.
Nationwide Studying Program data and literature shall be accessible. Members are additionally reminded to avoid wasting empty shoeboxes for the Samaritan Purse Christmas Youngsters mission. Guests are welcome.
For extra data, name 217-234-9827
Consolation for older adults assembly set
CHARLESTON — Wesley United Methodist Church of Charleston is welcoming the neighborhood to a Sunday Chat about security and luxury for older adults in residing and social areas at 6 p.m. Sunday, April 10.
April’s Sunday Chat presenter is Kathleen O’Rourke of Japanese Illinois College’s Division of Human Companies and Neighborhood Management. O’Rourke is graduate coordinator of the M.A. in Ageing Research program. She is going to lead the group in an examination of methods to advertise security and luxury for older adults in residing and social areas.
This system will function O’Rourke’s interactive evaluation software for studying in regards to the diploma of security and luxury for accommodating older adults –whether of their properties, social settings or buildings.
For extra data, go to charlestonwesley.org or name the church at 217-345-3917.
My City: Clint Walker’s reminiscences of Coles County as pulled from the archives
Cosmic Blue Comics
From the Nov. 22, 1992, Journal Gazette, this photograph of Cosmic Blue Comics in Mattoon; the place I spent nearly each Saturday afternoon for about two years. That small again room you see simply off to the precise of the Coca-Cola signal was the place they stored the various, and I imply many, long-boxes of again points. I nonetheless personal my bagged copy of “Tales of the Beanworld” situation No. 1 that I discovered again there. Sadly, this location is now only a “greenspace”.
Mattoon Arcade
Pictured, Shelbyville’s Bob Murray from the June 2, 1982, Journal Gazette, displaying his dominance over the TRON arcade recreation on the “Carousel Time” arcade on the Cross County Mall, later to be the Aladdin’s Citadel, quickly thereafter to be not a factor anymore. I spent nearly each Saturday at that arcade, maybe with that very same haircut. No overalls, although. I used to be extra of an “Ocean Pacific” type of child.
Icenogle’s
Pictured, from the Nov. 28, 1988, Journal Gazette, Icenogle’s grocery retailer. Being from Cooks Mills, we did not typically store at Icenogle’s…however once we did, at the same time as a child, I knew it was the best way a grocery retailer is meant to be in an ideal world, and that is not simply because that they had wood flooring, comedian books on the journal rack, or a lot, and I imply a lot, of buying and selling playing cards in wax packs.
Cooks Mills
I had lengthy since moved away from Cooks Mills by the point this Showcase merchandise about Adam’s Groceries ran within the June 13, 1998, Journal Gazette, however there was a time once I very effectively may have been a kind of children in that photograph; for if it was summer season, and also you had a motorcycle, and also you lived in Cooks Mills, that is the place you ended up. Ultimately report, they nonetheless had Tab within the Pepsi-branded cooler within the again. I am severely contemplating asking my cash man if I may afford to reopen this place.
Mister Music
Pictured, from the July 16, 1987, Journal Gazette, this advert for Mister Music, previously situated within the Cross County Mall. I wasn’t shopping for data at that age, however I’d ultimately, and that is the place all of it went down. In case you do not assume it sounds “cool” to hang around at a report retailer along with your buddies on a Friday evening, a piping-hot driver’s license recent in your pockets, you would be proper. But it surely’s the perfect a geek like me may do. Wherever you might be at present, house owners of Mister Music, please know {that a} Minutemen album I discovered in your low-cost bin modified my life.
Sound Supply Guitar Throw
Portrait of the creator as a younger man, about to throw a guitar by way of a goal at that yr’s Sound Supply Music Guitar Throwing Contest, from the April 18, 1994, Journal Gazette. Take a look at my grunge-era hoodie, and sure…look rigorously, these are Air Jordans you see on my toes. Addendum: regardless of what the cutline says, I didn’t win a guitar.
Pictured, clipped from the net archives at JG-TC.com, a photograph from the April 18, 1994, Journal Gazette of Sound Supply Music Guitar Throwing Contest winner, and present JG-TC workers author, Clint Walker.
Vette’s
Right here at present, gone tomorrow, Vette’s Teen Membership, from the June 20, 1991, Journal Gazette. I wasn’t “cool” sufficient to hang around at Vette’s again in it is “heyday,” and by “cool sufficient” I imply, “not proficient sufficient in parking zone fights.” If solely I may get a crack at it now.
FutureGen
FutureGen: The top of the start, and ultimately, the start of the top, from the Dec. 19, 2007, JG-TC. I want I had been paying extra consideration on the time. I most likely ought to have been studying the newspaper.
