FB: Ohio Athletic Conference

[seventiesraider]

Zebrowski appears to have found out what an exciting place Whitewater Wi. is.

Yeah, 'cuz Alliance is bustling.

I'd prefer to avoid living in either one. But at least in Alliance Walmart and McDonalds stay open after dark.

[TheeBuffaloSabres]

Wal*Mart is not a place you want to walk into when its dark

[theaprof]

WalMart is not a place I ever want to walk into!

[skunks_sidekick]

My kid is doing baseball work-outs over in Alliance at the Pro Baseball Academy.  I had two hours to kill in Alliance on a SUNDAY night, so I mistakenly wandered into the Walmart.  That is some scary s&*t!!!!

Of course, I drove through Whitewater on my way to a print vendor back in October, and well........ummmm......

[Small but Slow]

I'm guessing WalMart has replaced the KMart in the Carnation Mall as the "cool" place to hang out for young folk in Alliance.  The big flea market on the east side of town was also a happening place for us on a weekend afternoon.  Culture is far overrated for college students.  I had a tough enough time focusing on classwork without great opportunities for social and cultural development.  The Pro Football Hall of Fame was the closest thing to enlightenment for many of us.

[seventiesraider]

I relied on Madsens, The Bier Haus and The Naborhood for social and cultural development. That of course got me a trip to South Viet Nam due to lack of academic development.

[Small but Slow]

The Bier Haus and Naborhood got us through the first three years in the Carnation city, along with the occasional road trips to Kent or Akron.  Senior year we discovered Mick's Drinks and the Silver Bullet, which provided us a more mature crowd for us to go behaving immaturely with. 

I have no idea how I ever graduated.

[HScoach]

And to think I looked at a trip to Alliance as traveling to the "big city" while growing up. 

It was after all, the nearest place to my hometown (15 miles) to actually buy a hamburger or pizza from a national franchise.  If not Alliance, then you were heading to Canton (20 miles). 

Ah, the good old days...........

[joelmama]

Zebrowski appears to have found out what an exciting place Whitewater Wi. is.

Yeah, 'cuz Alliance is bustling.

Well since he is considering a move to Wabash I think comparing Whitewater to Crawfordsville In. would make more sense and that is probably about the same as Alliance or Whitewater for that matter.

[joelmama]

The Bier Haus and Naborhood got us through the first three years in the Carnation city, along with the occasional road trips to Kent or Akron.  Senior year we discovered Mick's Drinks and the Silver Bullet, which provided us a more mature crowd for us to go behaving immaturely with. 

I have no idea how I ever graduated.

Went to school with Steve Mick of Mick's drinks and we had pretty much the same hangouts with the additon of Polinoris.

[TheeBuffaloSabres]

I have no idea how I ever graduated.

i echo that sentiment

[Kira & Jaxon's Dad]

I have no idea how I ever graduated.

i echo that sentiment

I resemble that statement. 

[seventiesraider]

I have no idea how I ever graduated.

i echo that sentiment

I resemble that statement. 

I'm trying to get a grip on the years between when I started at Mount ('66) and when I graduated ('02). My ex assures me I had a good time. I am the only guy from my freshman class who went to a Stagg Bowl his Senior Year.(with his son)

[TheeBuffaloSabres]

wow, i know the phrase laugh out loud is overused on the internet, but it applies to that. I think you should get some type of reward for that.

[JK]

And to think I looked at a trip to Alliance as traveling to the "big city" while growing up. 

It was after all, the nearest place to my hometown (15 miles) to actually buy a hamburger or pizza from a national franchise.  If not Alliance, then you were heading to Canton (20 miles). 

Ah, the good old days...........

Ditto on this, almost the same distances (except from a slightly different direction).

And people wonder why I left it all for Capital and the big city?   

Those of you who have spent any amount of time in Alliance have likely driven out through WB school district towards Salem, so you'll understand this next story:

I get to Cap and my roomate (from Toledo), the guy who would become my roomate for the rest of my time there (from Columbus) and his roomate (from Kent) go to lunch.  My roomate says "I haven't had cafeteria food in 3 years."  I look at him like he is crazy.  This launches a discussion about where these guys used to go for lunch on thier lunch breaks in HS.  I ask "You mean, you didn't have to eat in the school cafeteria?"  Their answer, "Not since, like freshman year."  Me: "What did you do?"  Them: "Whatever we wanted, McD's, BK, Arby's, etc..."  Me: Staring incredibly.  Them: "You mean YOU had to eat in the Cafeteria?"  Me: "Well, yeah."  Them: "Why, didn't your teachers and stuff trust you guys?"  Me: "Well, yeah, they did."  Them: "Then why did you have to eat at school?"  Me: "Because you had to drive 20 minutes to eat anything else."  Them: Staring incredibly 

Culture IS overrated.  An excuse I used when asked what Columbus had that Alliance didn't.  The only culture I saw in Columbus was the tranny hookers near the bars on High St. on South Campus, the "Artsy" types in the German Village near Murphy's Irish Pub and Hoster's Brewery, and the sophisticated suburbanites on the way to Club Dance out near Reynoldsburg (when you hooked up with the Urban Cowgirl-type, which differs from the real cowgirl type of West Branch  ).  Not once did I visit a Museum or gallery (although I did visit a parlor, tattoo type    ), never saw a musical or play or performance of an orchestra (did see a concert or two or 10), and never ate in a resturaunt where I had to wear a coat and tie or pay $100 for a bottle of wine (in fact, never even DRANK wine).

Don't let em fool ya, although I wouldn't trade it for the world.  I also agree with everybody who wonders how they graduated.  I sometimes wonder how I am still ALIVE from some of the crap I pulled.  The biggest difference between Alliance, Ada, Tiffin, New Concord, Marietta, and Wilmington and Columbus and Cleveland isn't culture, it's opportunities to get in trouble and do other assorted dumb stuff.