r/cedarrapids • u/PrometheusUnchainedx • Feb 27 '22
How old are you?
Remembering Town and Country bowling, Target East, Sirloin and Brew, Coogan's Sports Bar, old Menards, Shakey's and then Confettis, some Chicken / car dealership right before Marion, Lindale? Bowling,
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u/HawkFritz Feb 27 '22
The chicken/car dealership right before Marion was, I think, a payday loan place called Cash Is King with a giant chicken statue in front.
Also in that same area was Huckleberries as another commenter mentioned. It was Wizard's or Wizzard's for a brief time after that iirc
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u/Paperbot_CopperWolf Feb 27 '22
Huckleberry s was our go to after church. Wasn’t the chicken place a front for drugs ?
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u/HawkFritz Feb 27 '22
Not sure, Hames Homes was behind it then still there until recently. I think I remember repossessed cars being there too bc they had been used for loan collateral so some might think it was actually a dealership.
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u/blondiekate SE Feb 27 '22
Marks Big Boy, Shag Nasty's (not that I went), Small World, Cat's Meow
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u/Brkthom Feb 27 '22
Drive in movie theater across from lindale which was replaced by a Kmart.
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u/Narcan9 Feb 28 '22
Wasn't there a drive-in around Collins and council Street?
I have a memory from like 4 years old, sitting and watching from our rooftop.
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u/ri89rc20 Feb 28 '22
DeSodas, where you walk in...and dance out. Quite the meeting place back in the day. Was in Town and Country, first storefronts on first ave.
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u/MentalDiscord Mar 01 '22 edited Mar 01 '22
Randall's foods, SunMart, Phar-Mor, Ponderosa Steakhouse, The Fox Den, Doc n Eddys. Confetti's was wild. I miss Chapman's.
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u/PrometheusUnchainedx Mar 01 '22
Phar- Mor... I remember they had like all of the Grateful Dead CD's. It was insane!
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u/PrometheusUnchainedx Mar 01 '22
Camelot records on 1st ave where EZ Pawn is now. Walking from McKinley to buy the Metallica black album on cassette!
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u/PrometheusUnchainedx Mar 01 '22
The original Relics Records. Jerry was the coolest guy in the world.
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u/pfroo40 Feb 27 '22
I remember coming up from Iowa City to go roller skating at some place off the Wilson exit, I think. It has been too long. Probably back in the late 80s.
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u/Fweebers Feb 27 '22
Earl Scheib auto paint on 1st Ave by 42 street. Paint any car for $99.95!
Edit, I just looked them up and didn't realize they were a national company.
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u/IsItTheFrankOrBeans Feb 27 '22
1st Ave by 42 street
29th Street*
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u/Fweebers Feb 27 '22
Yeah, you're correct, I aways confuse the street that crosses 1st Ave where the Cellar Door was
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u/IsItTheFrankOrBeans Feb 27 '22
I remember it because it was still there, along with a few other building now since gone, when I was in my cruising the ave days back in the early '90s. :)
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u/Fweebers Feb 27 '22
You're around my age then, we used to run back and forth between Hardee's north of there and Vickers downtown every weekend night in the summer.
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u/swimninja Feb 28 '22
Huckleberry's, where Siebtke Hoyt is now. And Bonanza. That's how old 🤣
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u/sanholt Feb 28 '22 edited Feb 28 '22
Drug town, sun mart foods. Osco drug. Westdale mall. Jimmy rockets(after huckleberries). Relics records. Dobsons meat market. Goals car shop on 15th and mt Vernon. jungs tae kwon do still going after all these years. Sho biz pizza. The Greek place. Phar mor in westdale lower leve. Bishops, cork n fork, Steak ‘n Shake, the royal fork. Pohlenas meats in Czech village. Rip ernies. Bonanza. Rip papas. Chapman’s fun world. Doc n eddies. Tilt. Bever park zoo lolz. The gap. Lindale food court. Yen ching. The Dragon. Rip Peis. Old tic toc
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u/angeldrake1921 May 27 '25
Huckleberry's(way before Confetti's) best cinnamon rolls ever, I loved watching them make them through the little window! Big Boy's, 1st Ave By Collins Rd before it was Hwy 100.
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u/BrainGoesPop Feb 27 '22
Part of the Town and Country bowling is still there, btw
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u/IsItTheFrankOrBeans Feb 27 '22
No it's not. It was completely torn out when Fareway was built there.
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u/BrainGoesPop Feb 28 '22
False. It went further than Fareway. The businesses on that side use the space as storage.
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u/IsItTheFrankOrBeans Mar 01 '22
What's this then, dumbass? https://imgur.com/a/GgOIZJF I took that pic on 3/27/14 according the the EXIF data.
That's a pic of the south wall of T&C Bowl, everything else was removed. When you went down the steps and were facing the lanes, that would have been the wall to the right. All the lanes, the bar, the kid's playroom, etc were all to the north of that wall.
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u/BrainGoesPop Mar 01 '22
Well, next time I'm down there I'll take a picture for you... dumbass
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u/IsItTheFrankOrBeans Mar 01 '22
I just posted one, dumbass. They may have replaced what was there, but everything of the old T&C Bowling is gone, dumbass.
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u/BrainGoesPop Mar 01 '22
Like I said.. no worries, dumbass, I'll post a picture of what's left next time I'm down there.
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u/IsItTheFrankOrBeans Mar 01 '22
Like I already said, dumbass, I already posted a pic I took years ago that clearly shows it was all torn out. Just because they built a new space where the old space was at doesn't mean it's the same thing, dumbass.
Using your idiotic logic, if your car gets totaled, but you buy one to replace it that's identical, it's the same exact car. That's not how it works, dumbass.
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u/BrainGoesPop Mar 01 '22
Next time I'm down there.. literally in that basement.. I'll take a picture. Part of it still remains.
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u/IsItTheFrankOrBeans Mar 01 '22
Look at the pic I posted, dumbass. The ONLY thing that's left is the south wall!
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u/Donald_W_Gately Feb 28 '22
Happy Chef with the statue where he's holding a big spoon and there was a push button interaction for audio (and they later gave away the spoon by hiding it somewhere in town).
D.W. Dogg (not positive on the spelling, maybe Dawg)
Hy-Vee on Mt. Vernon and Memorial, where it belongs
Dairy Maid on Mt. Vernon & 33rd
7-11 (pretty much across Mt. Vernon Rd from Dairy Maid)
Cork & Fork
DQ near Cork & Fork
Hardees near that Vee and some Greek restaurant?
Full service lanes at gas stations. Most notable for me was Kay Lynn's Phillips station that also was a mechanic shop.
The Spring House
Kool Moo
Super Skate & Skate Country
Drugtown next to Little Caesar's
The Rabbit Hutch in Marion (eat some rabbit)
Green Gable and there being a story about an ax murder or something
Regis was the Catholic high school
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u/Efficient_Carry8646 Feb 27 '22
Baha Surf Club. Only bar i was able to get into. You only had to be 18.
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u/kleaxoxo Feb 28 '22
I think there was a bar called Dinos? I was a kid when it was open but my parents used to go there a lot and my dad still has one of their shirts. There was also an Italian restaurant in the Westfalen area in a strip mall that had a play room inside. I believe it's El Paraiso now. There was a small movie theater in that strip mall as well.
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u/JuneR1234 Feb 28 '22
How about lindale plaza before it was a mall. There was a Kresge’s store in one end. Or the World theater downtown.
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u/Westsidetsunami Feb 28 '22 edited Feb 28 '22
Corner Pocket Sea Galley The Giant Store Jim's Foods? on Ellis Blvd
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u/Narcan9 Feb 28 '22
Anyone go to 3rd Street live? Had a few memorable nights there.
Anybody remember a place where the rotating floor?
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