Henry Cohen

First of all Happy New year to all of you, hope 2021 will be kinder to us all. Looking at country events I can only hope that we all will wake up to the things many of us already knew. Yesterday was a great start. Hopefuly someone will write a new best seller entitled: Orange is the New Orange, soon. 

Jerry Ochs

Two tweets --- Too true

We don't want the police to shoot them like they shoot us.

We just want the police to not shoot us like they don't shoot them.

Those people asking where the police were used to wonder where Miley was when Hannah was on stage.

Philip Spiess

Larry:  How do you get a square meal at a round restaurant?  (Ah, yes; king crab legs and a steak -- beef tenderloin with Bearnaise sauce -- is what we consider a superb meal; it was my mother's annual request for the New Year's feast we provided her with until she passed away in 2018).

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

Just want to remind folks that in addition to the revolving restaurant in Covington, that Larry has described, there was another located in downtown Cincinnati, atop Stouffer's Tower, the addition to the Stouffer's Hotel at 5th and Race.  Stouffer's eventually was renamed the Millennium Hotel.  These days, it is scheduled for the wrecking ball, along with the once popular, Terrace Plaza Hotel, which had its own round, spaceship looking (albeit stationary) Gourmet Room.  

Even though revolving restaurants were popular, I was not a particular fan, having a fine tuned inner ear, that was, and still is very receptive to motion.  
 

Judy Holtzer (Knopf)

Hi Jerry - who tweeted those tweets?

Paul Simons

When I got married back in about 1979 (divorced in 1989 - she shouldn’t have had to put up with me that long) it was at that Radisson revolving slop house in Covington. I never thought about it but water, plumbing, gas for stoves, electricity - all would have required fittings and contacts, armatures to operate. Maybe the serious stuff that ran through pipes of one kind or another was located in a central stationary hub. 

Philip Spiess

Paul:  That was probably the case.  I remember that you always had to watch your step getting off the elevator or coming back from the bathroom when you stepped off the stationary floor onto the moving one (particularly if you'd been having something to drink); it was sort of like getting on or off an escalator or moving walkway at an airport.  You also had to look for where your table had gotten to in the interval.

Paul Simons

Indeed Phil it’s very important when getting on or off a rotating platform to watch your step. Especially if the person running it is an irresponsible malevolent idiot. A person could suffer a stubbed toe, or something even worse.

Jerry Ochs

Judy (both were paraphrased from memory):

Top tweet: Davontae Harris   @wichkid

Bottom tweet: Beytwice   @lotoysrus

Philip Spiess

Paul:  You're a musician.  What kind of record fits on that size turntable?  The biggest records I've seen are the 78 r.p.m.'s that were about the same size as 33-1/3 r.p.m.'s.  If an irresponsible malevolent idiot is running it, his motive is loco!

Paul Simons

This would be one of them Phil. And speaking very generally, isn’t it something the way history - and you’re a historian - has a way of turning the tables on the high and mighty? Especially when they think they’re higher and mightier than they really are? Some of these characters get on the wrong track don’t they, but eventually they run out of track and hit the wall or fly off the unfinished bridge and find out that loco motives don’t fly. Like for example Osama bin Laden. He found out that you don’t mess with the USA or else, well, you become a train wreck.

Judy Holtzer (Knopf)

Thanks Jerry.

Margery Erhardt (Schrader)

Just saw this house...for anyone interested in an absolutely gorgeous Cincinnati home this is in E. Walnut Hills with "to-die-for" rooms. Love the Conservatory!!!! 

Margery Erhardt (Schrader)

MIght help if I sent the link!!!! 

https://www.captivatinghouses.com/2020/08/10/1900-historic-house-for-sale-in-cincinnati-ohio/?fbclid=IwAR2QmaVoy8rYSeAveeLgKcwF4slWXjogp5jECByv1yOHvLuhum2nAy2l-UQ

Steven Levinson

Margery, it looks just like my house.  Not.

Philip Spiess

Margery:  I know that house.  Even before I saw the address, I said, "That's on Keys Crescent in Hyde Park!"  (Specifically, on the western end of Keys Crescent, southeast corner, at Madison Road -- which is behind the house in the picture shown).  When we were in high school, a friend of Jeffrey Rosen's lived there (the friend did not go to WHHS), and I visited there with Jeffrey several times.  It is memorable to me because that is where I first heard the "Prelude" to Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander.

Margery Erhardt (Schrader)

When a friend posted this yesterday (she is a Florida decorator with no ties to Cincinnati) I just was in awe of this house. The Conservatory is beyond belief! Phil, I had a feeling you might know this house. But really, for the money, it is a steal (at least by CA or Austin standarads.) 

Philip Spiess

There was another great Cincinnati mansion -- a French chateau -- down around Keys Crescent toward the river, for sale a couple of years ago.

Dale Gieringer

  Like Philip, I recognized the house too - or thought I did.   We were both thinking of Geoffrey Highfield's house on Keys Crescent.  Geoff's parents used to host parties for his H.S. friends.  They were hospitable enough to provide beer for us teens (yes, a no-no today, but in keeping with Cincinnati's German tradition).  Their house was the first place where I ever saw, and drank from,  a beer keg.   I even stayed the night there once or twice.

  However, on closer examination, I think that's wrong.  Geoff's house was at the other end of Keys Crescent, at number 1812, next to Miss Doherty's.  Though quite sizable, it wasn't as huge as this mansion at the other end of the street.  Nonetheless, its image is engraved in my memory from all the times I drove by.  I may even have carolled there with the Highfields one Chrismas.     

Philip Spiess

Dale:  You bring back to mind the name of Jeff Rosen's friend.  You and I and Rosen were probably all there together at least once.  But I maintain that I am correct on the house and its location on Keys Crescent.  (If I recall, the plantings in the conservatory in those days were negligible.)

Becky Payne (Shockley)

Margery: Thanks for that amazing picture of the house on Keys Crescent. I am sure I saw it - at least from a distance - and I know that one of Mother's wealthy students, Margaret Kessing, lived near there. She was single (or divorced?) and elderly, and had 2 younger men staying there to take care of the place. That might have been her house but I really don't know. (An old Keyboard Club directory would list her address - most of them are on file in the Historical Society.)

Anyway, the photos are wonderful!!

Judy Holtzer (Knopf)

Margery: That beautiful, no, gorgeous house is definitely a steal by Israeli standards! Was the furniture included?

From the NYTimes (and note that these are apartments, with no grounds):

Margery Erhardt (Schrader)

Becky, you bring back such great memories of Jr. Keyboard Club. Betsy and I would attend together. Your mother was so very gracious and kind - she had to be to put up with me. 

Judy, property in Israel isn't cheap! I may be wrong but it seems that you were in the process of moving a year or two ago. I trust you are well settled!

Houses - the house in Rainman - where was that located? Anyone know? 

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Margery, Thanks for asking. 'Rainman' was filmed at my cousin's home at 5 Beechwood Lane in East Walnut HIlls. Tom Cruise was a total gentleman and was game to take "family photos". Unfortunately, I cannot find mine. Darn! 

Margery Erhardt (Schrader)

Gail, I am sorry to hear you don’t have your pictures. Rain Man was such an iconic film as was The Graduate. I love seeing the house each time I watch Rain Man as it depicts the gorgeous architecture Cincinnati has to offer.