Strange Lexington

[funKYcat75]

Just a thread to celebrate some weird parts of Lexington.

Can't go a few days without passing by the "Tiny Pool" house on Lane Allen, so eloquently and obessively detailed in this thread from days past. https://scout.com/college/kentucky/Board/103995/Contents/The-Little-Pool-I-am-SO-Excited-53944372

 

[funKYcat75]

Sweet Evening Breeze - probably the first (and only for a while) cross-dressing, openly gay man in the 50s - 70s. My mom would run into him from time to time while going to and from work. Said that he always smelled amazing.

https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2391

 

[Mashburned]

Good lord, I didn't remember Tiny Pool thread being 29 pages. That's glorious. My day is planned.

 

[Mashburned]

 

[funKYcat75]

Another fun house on Wilson Downing. Either the owner died or the neighborhood won. Either way, it's not bright pink anymore.

 

[cricket3]

 

[Tskware]

Another fun house on Wilson Downing. Either the owner died or the neighborhood one. Either way, it's not bright pink anymore.

rode past this house on the way to Southern Middle School for three years, it was pink forever, did they change it?

 

[funKYcat75]

The Tower/Silo on The Lane. I never got too close to it as a young'n but did drive near it when I first got my license. According to southwest Lexington lore, it was either a place for satanic rituals and/or just bangin' chicks. Either way, I didn't try to go in. It's private property now.

 

[cricket3]

It's been painted for at least 4 or 5 years now.

Link

 

[UpstateNYCat]

Another fun house on Wilson Downing. Either the owner died or the neighborhood one. Either way, it's not bright pink anymore.

“one”? Really?

Lived just around the corner on Lansdowne, walked past that house every day going to school at Southern Elem. or JHS.

 

[-Mav-]

https://nkaa.uky.edu/nkaa/items/show/2391

Yeeeeah, I'd beth thath's Courvoisier he'th sthippin.

 

[funKYcat75]

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Kid is pretty good, but he's super annoying. Has no off button.

 

[funKYcat75]

It's been painted for at least 4 or 5 years now.

Link

It's kind of sad

 

[funKYcat75]

Needs no introduction
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/henry-earl-setting-record-straight

 

[CatGotMyTongue]

Needs no introduction
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/henry-earl-setting-record-straight

 

[CatGotMyTongue]

Yocum’s

 

[thabigbluenation]

i believe the owner of the pink house was single and a take your job way too serious "professional" avon distributor lady or something like that.

does anyone remember that on that same street was someone who owned a Scooby Doo Mystery Machine van. don't think it ran, just sat there in the driveway.

 

[Kooky Kats]

Congrats on the strange.

 

[CatGotMyTongue]

i believe the owner of the pink house was single and a take your job way too serious "professional" avon distributor lady or something like that.

does anyone remember that on that same street was someone who owned a Scooby Doo Mystery Machine van. don't think it ran, just sat there in the driveway.

That lady work in Frankfort ?

 

[thabigbluenation]

^^not sure, just heard that from my wife and have to admit I wasn't really paying attention when she was talking.

 

[cawoodsct]

Why are there parts of Wilson Downing Road still without sidewalks?

 

[UnfrozenCatfanLawyer]

does anyone remember that on that same street was someone who owned a Scooby Doo Mystery Machine van. don't think it ran, just sat there in the driveway.

I saw that thing out on the road every once in a while. Very exciting.

 

[bcw1029]

The Tower/Silo on The Lane. I never got too close to it as a young'n but did drive near it when I first got my license. According to southwest Lexington lore, it was either a place for satanic rituals and/or just bangin' chicks. Either way, I didn't try to go in. It's private property now.

I lived right across Mason-Headley from this silo and it always freaked me out when I used to take bide rides past it. Always heard it was a meetup place for devil worshippers and crackheads.

 

[funKYcat75]

I lived right across Mason-Headley from this silo and it always freaked me out when I used to take bide rides past it. Always heard it was a meetup place for devil worshippers and crackheads.

I bet @HymanKaplan has been in there. Not for crack or the devil, though.

 

[Elbridge]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Faulkner

Henry Faulkner.

 

[UKGrad93]

I got good lemonade, ah, dixie cups

 

[Get Bucket$]

I saw that thing out on the road every once in a while. Very exciting.

Better than seeing the Champs roller skate car driving around?

 

[JCatfan77]

This house on Mt Tabor I always thought looked weird.

 

[Get Bucket$]

This house on Mt Tabor I always thought looked the weird.

Beat me to it. Always intrigued by that house as a kid.

 

[qwesley]

Another fun house on Wilson Downing. Either the owner died or the neighborhood one. Either way, it's not bright pink anymore.

Got referred to the old lady that lived there for alterations. Weird vibe, word was she had a pretty active lifestyle.

What happened to the guy that wandered downtown with the penis looking knot on his head?

 

[funKYcat75]

Got referred to the old lady that lived there for alterations. Weird vibe, word was she had a pretty active lifestyle.

What happened to the guy that wandered downtown with the penis looking knot on his head?

That dude ... He didn’t freak me out personally, but the thought of how that would feel on your head or if you got a cut or something on it ... hives me the chills.

 

[funKYcat75]

Beat me to it. Always intrigued by that house as a kid.

It was for sale in the past few years and saw some pictures of the inside. Very odd setup inside, as you might imagine.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/430-Mount-Tabor-Rd-Lexington-KY-40517/77560118_zpid/

 

[Kooky Kats]

May as well rep some good shit... Avis Pavilion. Harrodsburg Road?

 

[Kooky Kats]

Miller House off Todd’s Road.

 

[AustinTXCat]

Miller House off Todd’s Road.

Shut FT up! You must know how much I so love that shit. Not registering right now, because I'm drunk, but nevertheless............

 

[Kooky Kats]

Lets get hammered one day...

 

[TriangleUKCat]

This house on Mt Tabor I always thought looked weird.

The wonkiness of the street sign kills me

 

[Kybluedude]

When in Lex I always looked for and liked the pharmacy that looked like a big rx mixing bowl on Versailles Rd? My memory is going

 

[cricket3]

It’s a liquor store now.

 

[funKYcat75]

It’s a liquor store now.

Brilliant re-purposing of a building. I wouldn’t go in there, but it’s cool to look at.