I’m 23 years old watching this in 2022, I am a history nut. I would do anything to have experienced the 70s and 80s, I feel like the sun shined different back then
That's a cool drive, I lived in Btown from '77 to '84, we moved there from Crawfordsville. I was a junior at South in 84, we moved to GA my senior year. I came back to live with my grandparents in Greene County in Nov. 85. I'm still at that location. I miss the icons that I remember back in the day, the Big Wheel restaurant, the Huddle across from College Mall, Rac N Que, A&W drivein just down the street from South, which turned into a Wee Willies before closing down. Sambo's just off the bypass. It's now a Denny's. I lived at Covenator Dr and Woodbine Ave in Windemere, that neighborhood was not all the way developed when we moved there in 77. There was an Ayr-Way by College Mall that turned into a target. The area south of that was pasture still with cows grazing on it. Dad was on the administration staff at the MCCSC vocational school, and worked on some fishing poles for Bobby Knight. Everything has changed so much around there!
I've lived here on the southside of Bloomington for 40 years now my family has been in the same house for about 70 years right off of south Rogers south of the old John's food mart
Wonderful little video! We need much more of these to preserve history. This is what people remember and identify with: a drive through town. I had been living in Bloomington since the end of 1983 and was not far from where this video begins: I lived in the Sherwood Oaks subdivision to the east and south.
'87 - I think that was when B'ton was about 2-3 years into her metamorphosis from a sleepy little backwater to the cosmopolitan city it is today. Great times!
Wow!! This is great. I graduated just 2 months prior to this video being shot. Living in South Carolina now, I was just searching for some memories from back home.
It’s weird seeing a seemingly random street and recognizing it... I thought I didn’t know what street you were on and then I saw one light post I recognized, no joke.
My mind has just been blown! You guys lived on the same street that I do now! The houses are the same, though a few new ones have been added where the evergreens were at 0:58, and there are new apartments were the road ends. This is so strange!
Wow I was born 83 lived in Bloomington my whole life! CUTTERS BABY! looks so plain when you was driving down by south high school no DQ or anything. I remembers gin N dinsles though
Hell yea brother I was born in 82 AR the old Bloomington hospital that they are tearing down. I've lived on the southside my whole life. Right on south rogers street down from the old John's food mart
Thanks for the share! Blast from the past. Next best thing to time travel machine! Looks like start out in winslow plaza area then down walnut street from around Bloomington High School South? Fountain square mall was getting a renovation.
does anyone remember the hair salon called New York New York.... I can never find out what happened to the guy who owned it.On Kirkwood near Nicks English Hut ..and all
My dad had a cabin that he never finished outside of the town in a beautiful area with winding roads next to a state forest. One landmark was a rich guyfrom Chicago that had a big white Mansion. He also was well known for founding the Shawnee S ummer Theatre. Is anyone familiar with that place?
Robert Pataconi-Rehner and his brother H. Adrian Rehner moved to rural Greene Co. near Owensburg and renovated an 1880 farm house that they named Valhalla. Should be around here: www.google.com/maps/@38.9560481,-86.7828762,490m/data=!3m1!1e3 There are pictures here, on starting on page 174: www.in.gov/indot/projects/files/I69/2011/02/Report_HP.pdf About a 30 minute drive from Bloomington. The State Forest you're probably think of is the Greene-Sullivan.
I grew up in Bloomfield in the 60's and 70's and I recall Shawnee Summer Theater when it was in an old barn and later in a new building on the south side of town. I also remember seeing Valhalla on drives out in the country.
This video started in a little subdivision off Walnut Street Pike just south of and up the hill from Winslow Road on the south side of Bloomington. Once the driver turns out of the subdivision he's on Walnut Street Pike going up toward a house on the right that has now been demolished and replaced with apartments. Downhill from the house are the Sherwood Green quadrahomes which existed even then. He goes to the left and down the hill where on the Echo (?) Apartments are now being built. One the right is now storage buildings. The car crosses Winslow Road with what is now the IU Credit Union on the left. It used to be Buehler's grocery store. He proceeds northward on Walnut which was still a two-lane street up to the square. I used to live in Sherwood Oaks not far from where this video began.
Citizen Cain You are very welcome! Even with my typos that I'm now seeing I'm glad the message got through. Note to myself: I need proofread my comments!
I was raised in Bloomington, Indiana I remember paying for my first speeding ticket in the old Police station downtown. I thinks it's some sort of Art Museum now. Too bad things have to grow and change so much. The University has taken over and nothing is the same. It's a metropolis now. I was raised on Dunlap Rd. off of Hwy 45 going toward Green County.
Yea it's definitely changed alot. I've been on south rogers street for 40 years now. It has its ups and downs but I'll always love this place. It sucks that they are building so many new huge apartment buildings everywhere
This was my senior year at IU. Of course, we won the NCAA Championship in basketball. I thought the football games were more fun, though. Mallory had some good teams back then. There use to be some strip bar on south Walnut we would go to some times. ha. There was also one on Third Street near campus but we never went there because we thought we might be seen by someone. ha
I’m 23 years old watching this in 2022, I am a history nut. I would do anything to have experienced the 70s and 80s, I feel like the sun shined different back then
*Because it did - It was Natural*
*This by far was the best year of my life*
That's a cool drive, I lived in Btown from '77 to '84, we moved there from Crawfordsville. I was a junior at South in 84, we moved to GA my senior year. I came back to live with my grandparents in Greene County in Nov. 85. I'm still at that location. I miss the icons that I remember back in the day, the Big Wheel restaurant, the Huddle across from College Mall, Rac N Que, A&W drivein just down the street from South, which turned into a Wee Willies before closing down. Sambo's just off the bypass. It's now a Denny's. I lived at Covenator Dr and Woodbine Ave in Windemere, that neighborhood was not all the way developed when we moved there in 77. There was an Ayr-Way by College Mall that turned into a target. The area south of that was pasture still with cows grazing on it. Dad was on the administration staff at the MCCSC vocational school, and worked on some fishing poles for Bobby Knight. Everything has changed so much around there!
This is cool. It's kinda blowing my mind to see how much things have changed in Bloomington since then. Thanks for sharing!
I've lived here on the southside of Bloomington for 40 years now my family has been in the same house for about 70 years right off of south Rogers south of the old John's food mart
I lived on Ralston for quite some time. We had the wood Trucks and Chippers
@@acgillespie oh yea that's cool, I've live across from his and hers hairstyle. It used to b a laundromat when I was little
@@chadatkins9053 .I used to carry all the Newspapers to the area back in the 80s-90s. It's amazing how much has changed
I was 10 when I moved here in 1987. I enjoyed this vid, recognized a lot of things
Thanks for sharing.. the moment your father pulled off of Sunny Slopes onto Henderson, I knew I was back home
So quiet. Homeland of mighty super band MX-80, wich is anything but quiet! Thanks for thi video.
Wonderful little video! We need much more of these to preserve history. This is what people remember and identify with: a drive through town. I had been living in Bloomington since the end of 1983 and was not far from where this video begins: I lived in the Sherwood Oaks subdivision to the east and south.
They pulled out of sunny slopes right?
@@simonbrown8533 I think that's exactly the street.
It goes without saying, this is awesome. How things have changed. I'd love to see this route and the current time route in a side by side video.
'87 - I think that was when B'ton was about 2-3 years into her metamorphosis from a sleepy little backwater to the cosmopolitan city it is today. Great times!
That first truck is Dave Richardsons.
Great video down memory lane! Thanks man!
I keep waiting for Moocher, Cyril, Mike & Dave to come driving past !
Wow!! This is great. I graduated just 2 months prior to this video being shot.
Living in South Carolina now, I was just searching for some memories from back home.
It’s weird seeing a seemingly random street and recognizing it... I thought I didn’t know what street you were on and then I saw one light post I recognized, no joke.
You can't miss walnut street pike
Very cool to see how much has changed and how much is the same!
My mind has just been blown! You guys lived on the same street that I do now! The houses are the same, though a few new ones have been added where the evergreens were at 0:58, and there are new apartments were the road ends. This is so strange!
Wow I was born 83 lived in Bloomington my whole life! CUTTERS BABY! looks so plain when you was driving down by south high school no DQ or anything. I remembers gin N dinsles though
Hell yea brother I was born in 82 AR the old Bloomington hospital that they are tearing down. I've lived on the southside my whole life. Right on south rogers street down from the old John's food mart
Thanks for the share! Blast from the past. Next best thing to time travel machine! Looks like start out in winslow plaza area then down walnut street from around Bloomington High School South? Fountain square mall was getting a renovation.
walnut street pike walnut street goes past royal chevy
love the old videos!!! thanks
Omg and I grew up in that neighbor hood. Right next to Ms. Wilbur, on Brookeside or sunny slopes.. small world
does anyone remember the hair salon called New York New York.... I can never find out what happened to the guy who owned it.On Kirkwood near Nicks English Hut ..and all
My dad had a cabin that he never finished outside of the town in a beautiful area with winding roads next to a state forest. One landmark was a rich guyfrom Chicago that had a big white Mansion. He also was well known for founding the Shawnee S
ummer Theatre. Is anyone familiar with that place?
Robert Pataconi-Rehner and his brother H. Adrian Rehner moved to rural Greene Co. near Owensburg and renovated an 1880 farm house that they named Valhalla.
Should be around here: www.google.com/maps/@38.9560481,-86.7828762,490m/data=!3m1!1e3
There are pictures here, on starting on page 174: www.in.gov/indot/projects/files/I69/2011/02/Report_HP.pdf
About a 30 minute drive from Bloomington. The State Forest you're probably think of is the Greene-Sullivan.
I grew up in Bloomfield in the 60's and 70's and I recall Shawnee Summer Theater when it was in an old barn and later in a new building on the south side of town. I also remember seeing Valhalla on drives out in the country.
Me and my friends would like you to post the route this drive was. We were trying to identify roads and having some debate!
This video started in a little subdivision off Walnut Street Pike just south of and up the hill from Winslow Road on the south side of Bloomington. Once the driver turns out of the subdivision he's on Walnut Street Pike going up toward a house on the right that has now been demolished and replaced with apartments. Downhill from the house are the Sherwood Green quadrahomes which existed even then. He goes to the left and down the hill where on the Echo (?) Apartments are now being built. One the right is now storage buildings. The car crosses Winslow Road with what is now the IU Credit Union on the left. It used to be Buehler's grocery store. He proceeds northward on Walnut which was still a two-lane street up to the square. I used to live in Sherwood Oaks not far from where this video began.
Thank you! I live not far from there now! What a great historical context of how the city has evolved! S. Walnut Street has changed a lot!
Citizen Cain You are very welcome! Even with my typos that I'm now seeing I'm glad the message got through. Note to myself: I need proofread my comments!
Appears he leaves Sunny Slopes and heads north, turns at “Dr Eads” , past Winslow and north on Walnut.
I was raised in Bloomington, Indiana I remember paying for my first speeding ticket in the old Police station downtown. I thinks it's some sort of Art Museum now. Too bad things have to grow and change so much. The University has taken over and nothing is the same. It's a metropolis now. I was raised on Dunlap Rd. off of Hwy 45 going toward Green County.
Yea it's definitely changed alot. I've been on south rogers street for 40 years now. It has its ups and downs but I'll always love this place. It sucks that they are building so many new huge apartment buildings everywhere
I like old cars
Born & raised in Blgtn! 68yrs old now! Nice vid. A part of history. Have you submitted to the MCHS?
P.S.
I once owned a Chevy Greenbriar!
Wow it looks so much different now
Sunny slopes to walnut!
Walnut St!!!!!!!
* Small Town plays in distance
This was my senior year at IU. Of course, we won the NCAA Championship in basketball. I thought the football games were more fun, though. Mallory had some good teams back then. There use to be some strip bar on south Walnut we would go to some times. ha. There was also one on Third Street near campus but we never went there because we thought we might be seen by someone. ha
I used to live there I remember some details but the most is our flat at campus view block
We used to live in campus view also.
@@amulyabisaria4708 Where r u from pls??
What a year this was.
I actually remember alot of it. I was 5 I'm 40 now and still living in the same house. Bloomington is my home and always will b
1987, Just like the title says.
Wade Sherifick...cooking with Wade Bradford Woods.
Dude thank you so much for uploading this video.
*jt319881, I think that might be the funniest comment ever, with the love.
City hall!
i remember you! played pony league together. your dad coached! am i right?
Yes! You are correct! The Giants. I'll be honest, your name isn't ringing a bell but I bet I have a picture of us together stored away somewhere.
Uh, he may have been asking model year of the car?
Back befor there was plueges of homless druggies everwere
*Liberalism has destroyed Bloomington*