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Nixon Sandwich History Party Topics
Sullivan — Steve Jenne will introduce Richard Nixon at the Moultrie County History Center at 1303 Hamilton Street in Sullivan on Thursday, September 15 at 7 p.m. (Richard Nixon) The story of the day he spoke to thousands at Sullivan’s Buffalo Celebration during the 1960 presidential campaign.
Jenny of Springfield, formerly of Sullivan, was a Boy Scout and served as a security guard during one of the biggest events in Sullivan’s history. He picked up Nixon’s half-eaten sandwich, took it home and put it in the refrigerator. Many years later, Jenny and Sandwich appeared on New York’s “The Tonight Show” and “I Have a Secret” among other venues. A book from Scotland England, The Sandwich That Changed My Life, will be published.
The public is invited to attend.
Personal assistant training will be held
TOLEDO — SAIL, Soyland Access to Independent Living, will be hosting a personal assistant training at the Cumberland County Living Center, 507 East Ave., Toledo, on Thursday, September 22, from 1-4pm.
Those who successfully complete the training will be placed on the state registry of personal assistants. People with disabilities who live independently and wish to hire a personal assistant can apply for a referral list to identify potential employees.
Anyone over the age of 18 who is interested in working as a personal assistant is welcome to attend this training. Social distancing will be practiced and mask wearing will be optional.
For more information and to register for classes, please contact Brenda at 217-345-7245 or email bingle@decatursail.com.
My Town: Coles County Memories from the Archives by Clint Walker
cosmic blue comics
From the Journal Gazette, November 22, 1992, this photo of Cosmic Blue Comics in Mattoon; I’ve been there almost every Saturday afternoon for about two years. That little back room you see on the right side of the Coca-Cola logo is where they keep a lot of, I mean a lot of long boxes of back issues. I still have the bagged copy of the first issue of “The Story of the Bean World” that I found there. Sadly, this location is now just a “green space”.
Marton Arcade
Pictured on June 2, 1982, Journal Gazette’s Bob Murray of Shelbyville demonstrates his dominance of the TRON arcade game at the “Merry-go-round” arcade at the Cross County Mall Latin castles, not long after that, ceased to be a thing. I spend almost every Saturday in that arcade, maybe with the exact same hairstyle. But no work clothes. I’m more of a “Pacific” kid.
Icenogle
The Journal Gazette, a grocery store in Icenogle, is pictured on November 28, 1988. Coming from Cooks Mills, we don’t shop at Icenogle’s very often…but when we did, even as kids, I knew it was the way grocery stores should be in a perfect world, and it wasn’t just because they had wood floors, magazine racks There are comic books, or a lot, I mean a lot, trading cards in a wax pack.
Cook Mills
I had long since left Cooks Mills when the Journal Gazette ran the Showcase project on Adam’s Groceries on June 13, 1998, but I was probably one of the kids in that picture for a while; because if it’s summer, you have a Bike, you live in Cooks Mills, then there you are. In the final report, they still had the Tab in the Pepsi-branded cooler. I’m seriously considering asking my money people if I can afford to reopen this place.
mr music
Pictured is the July 16, 1987 “Journal Gazette,” an ad for Mister Music, formerly at the Cross County Mall. I didn’t buy records at that age, but I would eventually, and that’s where it all failed. If you don’t think it doesn’t sound “cool” to hang out with your friends at the record store on a Friday night with a hot driver’s license in your wallet, you’d be right. But it’s the best thing a geek like me can do. Wherever you are today, Mister Music owner, please know that the Minutemen album I found in your cheap dumpster changed my life.
sound source guitar throw
April 18, 1994, Journal Gazette, Portrait of the author as a young man about to throw his guitar through the target in that year’s Sound Source Music Guitar Throwing Contest. Check out my grunge era hoodies, yes… look closely, these are the Air Jordans you see on my feet. Addendum: No matter what the tangent says, I haven’t won a guitar.
Image, taken from online archives JG-TC.comphoto via April 18, 1994, winner of the Journal Gazette’s Sound Source Music Guitar Throwing Contest, and current JG-TC staff writer Clint Walker.
Werther’s
Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, Werther’s Youth Club, June 20, 1991, Magazine Gazette. I’m not “cool” enough to hang out in the back of Werther in “heyday”, and “cool enough” means “not skilled enough at parking lot fights”. If only I could hack it now.
future generation
FutureGen: The end of the beginning, the end, the beginning of the end, from December 19, 2007, JG-TC. I wish I had paid more attention at the time. I should probably have been reading the newspaper.
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