UAMemories


Please share your memories of growing up or living in UA! Email your "UA Memories", and they will be posted! Thank you!
NEWS FROM THE UA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
See Upper Arlington Historical Society web site Support the UA Historical Society! Your Historical Society membership will go a long way toward ensuring that our community’s vivid history is preserved and celebrated for generations to come. Download a membership form and join today. May 23, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.- Wall of Honor Ceremony at the Municipal Services Center, 3600 Tremont Road. Two plaques posthumously commemorating the contributions of Cindy Dyas (1955-2005) and Stefanie Spielman (1967-2009) will be dedicated during a Sunday, May 23, ceremony, marking their inclusion in the Upper Arlington Wall of Honor. The public is welcome but rsvp's are strongly encouraged. Please call 583-5444. The ceremony will be held at the Upper Arlington Municipal Services Center, 3600 Tremont Road.
Winter in UA! School children play in the snow near King Thompson's home, where the first Upper Arlington school began in 1917! See UA's newest web site that documents the history and memories of our beloved community since its founding! UA Archives is a co-venture between the UA Historical Society and the UA Public Library! *NEWS - UA High School Yearbooks (up to 1990) are now available online at uaarchives.org. A new yearbook will be added each year.*
UA MEMORIES FROM UASUPERSITE.COM

The late Dr. Robert "Dr. Bob" Murphy, M.D.
See Video Interview of Dr. Bob, taped in 2002. The late Dr. Robert "Dr. Bob" Murphy, M.D. Dr. Murphy who passed away on August 23, 2003 was a physician, WWII veteran, Ohio State University Team Physician, founding member of Vaud-Villities, Associate Director of First Community Village, distinguished community leader and devoted family man. Dr. Bob touched the lives of many with his energy, enthusiasm, love of family and esteem for friendship. He was a brilliant physician and a talented entertainer whose lasting impact on our community will not be forgotten.

From Joel Pettegrew - My twin brother Jon and I started in Kindergarten at the Barrington Road school in the room at the west end of the building. Ms. Stewart was a pretty redhead teacher. It was 1942 and we had been at war for only 10 months. Things got tougher, but all the mothers , and teachers rode above the tragedies starting then, and protected the kids from terror but not fact. First grade with Ms. Wooster had inkwells in the desk slots. I think I dunked Susie Humphrey's long braid into mine and got into trouble for it. In third grade, on the second floor of the building, the brown box speaker in the corner of the room announced President Roosevelt's death. The kids all knew about him, and rare solumn silence gripped the classroom at that time. Often during recress out in the spacious playground, B-17 Bombers from Lockheed AFB trained in the skies overhead. In fifth grade we moved from the Barrington Road sanctuary to the bigger High School Building facing city hall between Arlington Avenue and Guilford Road. In fifth grade we played softball in the tennis court areas, because no one could hit the ball any further than the surrounding fence. The " hangout" was the solid wall by the tennis courts that was used for practicing rebound shots. Three super drugstores nearly adjoined the school, plus and Isaly's Ice Cream store, ergo plenty of phosphates for 5 cents, cones for a dime, and sundaes for 20 or 25 cents. We grew up in a very pristine neighborhood of Andover Road north of Lane Avenue with tons of woods and fields to play in then. The best memories include the high school football games and all day Fourth of July activities with free good humor type goodies from any bicycle ice cream cart vendor you good find. The fireworks were sensational to any kid from 5 to 50 with super finalies of multiple air rockets and a closing display of a fireworks type red, white, and blue American flag at the end of the football field. Everyone burned with patriotism then. the late Joel Pettegrew UAHS class of 1955 (Joel Pettegrew submitted this memory to UASupersite.com on January 13, 2010 and passed away unexpectedly on February 11, 2010 in Texas.)
From Nancy Nosalik - I lived at 2175 Edgevale Road in UA from 1953 (when the house was built) until 1961 when we moved to California! Even though I am 56 years old, I am still completely home sick for Ohio...UA...the house I grew up in...Wickliffe School...Tremont Center...A& P Grocery Store/ Kroger Grocery Store...The Scioto River...everything! Having been born at the OSU University Hospital, we are all rabid OSU Buckeye Fans! I get so much pleasure out of reading the UA Supersite...I have so many questions, but I was wondering if Huffman's Market is the old Tom Tarpey's? My parents (long deceased) gave my sister and I a wonderful childhood there. Our block made a float for the 4th of July Parade called, "Backyard BBQ". My mom was one of the ladies on the float cooking hotdogs. During the parade, some of the other neighbors handed them out to the crowd (we didn't get one!) I have so many great memories...I could go on and on... I'd love to hear from anybody there. Please write back to me. Sincerely, Nancy Nosalik -njmmom8388@yahoo.com
From Joyce Rhinehart - Back in the late 1950's or early 1960's my Grandparents had a beautiful home my Grandfather built on Kenny Road (directly across from the Cranbrook sign). Somewhere there is a picture of me at around age 2 or 3 standing next to the Cranbrook sign. I used to love to cross the street to get the mail for my Grandma and I would always try and climb up on the sign. She would always wait by the driveway and yell "watch for the automobiles". Kenny Road was just a two lane road back then, quiet with very little traffic. They had a small little apple orchard on the land behind them (I believe it backed up to some houses off Westbury and London Drive). Their neighbors were the McCoys. As a little girl, my sisters and I loved going to visit Grandma and Grandpa because the McCoys had sheep and a border collie (I think named Tammy...not sure). Tammy loved to play ball and we never got tired of throwing the ball for Tammy to fetch. We had many, family picnics up at their Kenny Road house. Lots of Badminton games, croquet, tag, and just running and hiding from your cousins. My family lived in Hardesty Village (the first condo complex in Columbus I think). Sometime in the mid 1970's, my Grandparents (The Lechners) and their neighbors the McCoys were offered money for their land from a developer to build The Mansions Condominiums. I'm sure it was a terrific proposal for my Grandparents, but when they sold that property, it ended the fun family picnics. I am now in my 40's, and moved to Upper Arlington 3 years ago when I married my husband. He bought a great house near Kingsdale about 7 years ago and we absolutely love this community. We truly feel blessed to live here. We have a great yard (not as big as the acreage my Grandparents had) and we are now building our own wonderful memories. I can't drive down Kenny Road without looking at the Cranbrook sign. Directly across is the driveway to The Mansions condos and this is in the exact location of my grandparents driveway. It's almost as though nothing has changed until my eyes ponder up the driveway and then I see not my grandparent's beautiful home, but some very beautiful condos. I am proud when I look at these condos, because they do justice to a beautiful spot in my heart. Joyce Rhinehart

Alberta (Bertie Edwards) Whitman: I was in the class of '56 & when I was in the 5th grade or 6th, I can't quite remember, I was convinced that I should have a boyfriend and I couldn't think of anyone to like. There was a kid by the name of Sam Moffett. He & I used to walk home from Barrington, occasionally, so I could get home to Kensington Rd. & he could go home to his house (wherever that was!) Well, I decided to tell people that on the way home, just before Westover Rd., he grabbed me & kissed me, much to my total surprise. NOBODY believed me & I was very embarrassed, but I really didn't like boys yet & I thought I HAD to do something!
Response from Sam Moffett: When I recently discovered this website, I was surprised to find a posting by Alberta (Bertie Edwards) Whitman, my classmate in the class of '56. She recounted that in the 5th or 6th grade, she had circulated a story that I had suddenly kissed her during a walk home from Barrington Elementary School. I recall that Bertie and I did, in fact, occasionally walk home from school together. However, those walks probably occurred in the 4th grade, because, before 5th grade classes began, my family moved from Arlington Avenue (the area in Bertie's account) to Westmont Boulevard, which was then a street dead-ending into farmland two blocks north of the intersection with Lane Avenue (where the Lane Avenue Shopping Center was still a site plan, and Salzgaber's farm operated just to the east). Regarding Bertie's specific recollections, I have no comment. Whatever happened in Upper Arlington, stays in Upper Arlington. However, Bertie, thanks for the memory of those great childhood years.

Beth Wroe Womack sent us this photo of the Devon Road pool, taken in the 1930's. She has fond childhood memories of the summers she spent there ... "That pool was my whole life in the summer when I was a kid. We got there when it opened ( after lessons ) and hardly ever left until family hour at 5:00. All my childhood summer memories revolve around that pool and all the fun and crazy people that went there on a regular basis. Did you go to that pool too? Do you remember Charlie Harvey, the guy that would do cannonballs in the diving pool at rest period to splash us kids gathered around the sides of the diving pool? It was so much fun. I could go on and on and name you tons of kids that were there everyday and about half the lifeguards that worked there. :) Remember Mr Cavins saying after rest period, "Walk to the edge of the pool please, walk" then sometimes to be funny he would say, " Jump only on your friends" . Everywhere you'd look at the pool you could find at least one Eberly, one Applegate, one O'Brien kid or one Harper, considering they all had 12 plus kids in the families. It was really really cool the day Flippo the clown came to visit in his cool clown car. I still have a light blue plastic pool card from when I was 13, I weighed 70 lbs! In the summer you could look over at Jones and see those big windows open because the janitors or painters or whoever were in there getting the rooms ready for the next school year. I live in AZ now, but my heart is always in UA."

Those of us who grew up in Upper Arlington remember the way things were ... back when The Mallway and Lane Avenue were just about the only places to shop. Remember Colley's Pharmacy, Mr. Flick's IGA store, Miss Cates' Dance Studio on the Mallway by Jones Junior High School? How about the wonderful stores that were populated by the after-school and summertime crowds at Lane Avenue: Culter's Drug Store, Wiseman's Hardware, The Isaly Ice Cream Shop and G.C. Murphy? The aerial photo below was taken circa 1950 and pictures the Mallway area. Does this look familiar? Click to enlarge for detail. Photo courtesy of The Arlington Bank.

Look forward to more historic photographs of Upper Arlington as we reminisce and share our Memories.


Those of us who grew up in Upper Arlington remember the friendly corner grocer, Mr. Ned Flick, who owned and operated Flick's IGA Store at the corner of Arlington Avenue and South Mallway. Mr. Flick passed away on July 16, 2003, leaving us warm memories of his helpful manner and genuine smile. We'll miss Mr. Flick! Flick's IGA ... photo courtesy of the Flick Family.