Gail Weintraub (Stern)

Thinking about our 70th Birthday Bash Reunion on June 17-19, 2016.....

Check out this website: www.hipgreenscene.com/2015/11/cincinnati  (copy and paste) 

The article showcases Cincinnati today, and it ain't anything like it was in 1964!! I hear rumors that a city tour may be part of our reunion weekend activites. Stay tuned.......

Jeff Daum

Thanks for posting Gail.  Really looking forward to it! 

Laura Reid (Pease)

great idea Gai for a Queen City tour!!!  I'm in!

Larry Klein

Well, Laura, we ARE on the committee, so I guess we have TWO votes for the tour.  Who drives the BUS?

Becky Payne (Shockley)

Thanks, Gail. This stuff looks great, and John and I would love a city tour!!

Becky

Jeff Daum

Count me in as well please 

Laura Reid (Pease)

It would be great to get a feel for how many would be interested in a Queen City tour.  Even for those who live in town, there is so much going on downtown on the riverfront and also Over the Rhine.  It is very excting to be a part of it all....and we would love to show you!!.

Steven Levinson

Cathy and I definitely would be interested.  We're in!

Dale Gieringer

I'm up for a Queen City tour too!

Gene Stern

What a great idea!  The City has changed alot in the past 50 years!

Gail Weintraub (Stern)

I'm in!

Philip Spiess

Add two Spiesses to the tour.  (And Dale:  Do you think we should add a fly down Richter Avenue to the tour?)

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

I'm on the committee too, count me in.  Even though I worked downtown for thirty years, I retired fifteen years ago, just before many of the changes took place.  I haven't seen it all myself, and I'm a local.  So much has changed in Downtown, from the river north to and including Over-The Rhine, it is hard to describe.  Just seeing The Aronoff Center, Great American Ball Park and Paul Brown Stadium, The Banks and Smale Park at the Roebling Suspension Bridge will give you a small sampling of the change.  Throw in Over-The-Rhine and Pendleton, from Washington Park, mind-blowing.  Look forward to it.

Also, Paul Simons threw out an idea to Facebook friends about getting a group of musicians back on stage for a jam session.  Paul frequently returns to play gigs in Hyde Park.  Dave Buchholz is interested. I recall some of our class members took over the stage while the paid band was on break at one of our earlier reunions and were great.

Ira Goldberg

A tour sounds good. I would also like to see the old and the new as part of this reunion experience. For example, revive the band that Simons, Buchholz, Katona, Schneider, etc. had. Maybe ask them to play some music of "our" time - rock and roll - add in more contemporary pieces, at one of the reunion venues - and dance our butts off again!!

David Buchholz

Ira, Paul and I remember all the songs, from "Volare" to "Dominique" to Shirley Ellis and "The Name Game", and of course, the "Surfin' Bird"....Jadyne and I are planning to come on the bus tour, too.  Will there be a bar?

Gene Stern

I'm in...me, myself and my shadow,,is that three?

Sandy Steele (Bauman)

I figured we could discuss the City tour at our 12/1 meeting, but it does sound like a good idea.

Richard Murdock

One more Yes vote for a city tour while we are all there for the reunion.   I have been away from Cincinnati for a long time.  A tour sounds great !

Paul Simons

Re: Ann Shepard Rueve and Dave Buchholz' comments - it would be fun to play some tunes. Let you all see/hear what's still there 40 odd years later. And dance to it. Logistics would take planning. I bring my equipment along every summer to jam with Stan Hertzman who usually has a gig at a coffee/wine bar on Hyde Park Square, David Schneider has been known to get into it at times as well, but I don't know if that's on this year or not. More later.

Ann Shepard (Rueve)

I want to see Ira shake his booty!  That'll be worth it!!

Philip Spiess

Yes, Ann and Ira, unfortunately I danced my butt off years ago, which is why I'm only half-assed (like Collett -- see Forum months ago).  I regret that I can no longer dance the Russian Kazatski (Jeff Rosen has seen me do it many times over the years), and my Charleston has slowed down (ask Mike Hunting about my performance therewith, along with his singing, at the Hanover College 25th Reunion in 1993).  But I can still do two forms of the Polka (hey!  any of you accordion players out there?), the Goose Step / Cake Walk (a la Scott Joplin's Treemonisha), and a mean Viennese Waltz (which, Nelson, brings us back to our discussion of Der Rosenkavalier).

Chuck Cole

Count me in on the tour as well, and I'll probably have Liz, my wife, with me.  And if we are going to the Over The Rhine district, perhaps we can arrange some tastings at some of the Queen City's breweries.  Fortunately (very), the current Cincinnati beers are almost infinitely better than Burger, Schoenling, Bavarian, Hudepohl, and Wiedemann were in the 1960s.  I remember (and some of you may remember as well) that we'd go and buy beer (wonderful 3.2?) in those days.  I seems to recall that Cincinnati beers were 3 or 4 quarts for $1 then, and we'd buy 3 or 4 quarts, go to one of Cincinnati's wonderful parks, and spend the evening.  

Mary Vore (Iwamoto)

Count Ed and me in for the Cincinnati tour as well!  The website is great, and enough to keep us eating/drinking in Cincinnati for years to come... 

Philip Spiess

Chuck:  I haven't seen it lately, but in the 1980s you used to be able to find Cincinnati's Christian Moerlein beer, which was quite good.  It was the revival of a pre-Prohibition Cincinnati label, at least -- I could never find out if they'd revived the 19th-century brewing formula as well -- but it was worth searching for.  As to good times in the '60s and '70s, I'd take out-of-town friends in summer to the beer garden on top of the Wiedemann's Brewery (yes?) in Newport, Kentucky, or to Mecklenberg's Gardens (Bierstube und Garten, before they went all Hippie and vegetarian there for awhile) in Corryville.  As you say, good times!

Jonathan Marks

I've been back enough to know that I'd enjoy a tour too.

To Phil and all other Treemonisha fans: I learned the real Slow Drag from Alcide "Slow Drag" Pavageau -- the New Orleans champion -- but I'm afraid I'm a bit rusty.