Bought my first car from there. It’s still open although I haven’t seen a soul moving around that area in years. Probably haunted.
May as well rep some good shit... Avis Pavilion. Harrodsburg Road?
Strange Lexington
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Those people should not throw stones.
Miller House off Todd’s Road.
Has been a landmark for years now.
Probably shouldn't do a few things in that house. Unless the Mrs is hot, then go for it.
The quaint little strip of shops at Harrodsburg and Lane Allen that used to House an old-time drug store, flower shop and bike shop is now this.
Liquor store
Nail shop
‘Smoking’ supplies
Empty
Tattoo parlor
Payday loan place
And still a bike shop. And whatever bubble tea is.
Liquor store
Nail shop
‘Smoking’ supplies
Empty
Tattoo parlor
Payday loan place
And still a bike shop. And whatever bubble tea is.
Does the castle on Versailles Rd. count? Technically located in Woodford Co. but that thing always amazed and mystified me as a kid when we would take that route to Lexington. As such, I always associated it with Lexington. So ima submit it here anyway. Deal with it.
Woodford County’s only good for driving through and Bojangles, so yeah, we’ll take the castle.
What happened to the white Ford Crown Vic that was always parked there?Does the castle on Versailles Rd. count? Technically located in Woodford Co. but that thing always amazed and mystified me as a kid when we would take that route to Lexington. As such, I always associated it with Lexington. So ima submit it here anyway. Deal with it.
The J. Peterman Co.’s first retail store, at 3090 Richmond Road in Lexington, on Sept. 15, 1993. Lexington-based J. Peterman started as a mail-order catalog company in 1987, and it eventually expanded into a line of 10 retail stores, including Lexington; Manchester, Vt.; New York; and Chattanooga. When this store opened on Dec. 12, 1992, it sold, among other items, jars of strawberry preserves for $6; a Chinese-made BMW-style motorcycle with sidecar, circa 1950, never used, $7,500; and a 38-pound silver bar from a 17th-century sunken Spanish ship, $16,900. The company enjoyed pop culture success from 1995 to 1998 thanks to the TV show Seinfeld. The show parodied the owner and the company with character Elaine Benes, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, working at the company under eccentric businessman and world traveler J. Peterman, played by John O’Hurley. The company’s fortunes soon reversed, though, and Paul Harris Stores Inc. bought J. Peterman at a bankruptcy auction in March 1999. That’s when Peterman departed the company. Peterman returned in 2001 with his signature Owner’s Manual catalog. This building in the The Village Shoppes now houses a Pizza Hut. In April, 2016, J. Peterman started using Kickstarter to introduce a whole new generation to items they might have thought existed solely in Seinfeld reruns, including an urban sombrero. Photo by Robin Tinay Sallie | Staff
You forgot bourbon.
I worked as a security guard, then sales, then asst mgr.
The J. Peterman Co.’s first retail store, at 3090 Richmond Road in Lexington, on Sept. 15, 1993. Lexington-based J. Peterman started as a mail-order catalog company in 1987, and it eventually expanded into a line of 10 retail stores, including Lexington; Manchester, Vt.; New York; and Chattanooga. When this store opened on Dec. 12, 1992, it sold, among other items, jars of strawberry preserves for $6; a Chinese-made BMW-style motorcycle with sidecar, circa 1950, never used, $7,500; and a 38-pound silver bar from a 17th-century sunken Spanish ship, $16,900. The company enjoyed pop culture success from 1995 to 1998 thanks to the TV show Seinfeld. The show parodied the owner and the company with character Elaine Benes, played by Julia Louis-Dreyfus, working at the company under eccentric businessman and world traveler J. Peterman, played by John O’Hurley. The company’s fortunes soon reversed, though, and Paul Harris Stores Inc. bought J. Peterman at a bankruptcy auction in March 1999. That’s when Peterman departed the company. Peterman returned in 2001 with his signature Owner’s Manual catalog. This building in the The Village Shoppes now houses a Pizza Hut. In April, 2016, J. Peterman started using Kickstarter to introduce a whole new generation to items they might have thought existed solely in Seinfeld reruns, including an urban sombrero. Photo by Robin Tinay Sallie | Staff
Place was awesome.
Well, that’s Bourbon’s fault now, isn’t it?
Can't believe no one has mentioned the Loudon House.
Mods, please delete.
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Thread got me thinking of this guy.
I remember seeing him campaigning by holding a sign on the side of the road, in the rain. Smiling, waving, and talking with people who rolled their window down. Growing up, I thought he was really strange. The older I get, the more I think he was just ahead of his time.
I remember seeing him campaigning by holding a sign on the side of the road, in the rain. Smiling, waving, and talking with people who rolled their window down. Growing up, I thought he was really strange. The older I get, the more I think he was just ahead of his time.
He was a gentleman’s gentleman. The last of an old school breed of pure classThread got me thinking of this guy.
I remember seeing him campaigning by holding a sign on the side of the road, in the rain. Smiling, waving, and talking with people who rolled their window down. Growing up, I thought he was really strange. The older I get, the more I think he was just ahead of his time.
Jim Varney "Ernest P. Worrell", Lexington's finest. (RIP)
Saw him in a Lexington gas station once as a kid. Have always regretted not saying hi and telling him what a big fan I was.
He was probably buying cigarettes.
Saw him in a Lexington gas station once as a kid. Have always regretted not saying hi and telling him what a big fan I was.
He was probably buying cigarettes.
I always heard that she was Mrs Downing, her father developed the neighborhood and she just lived off the wealth he created. I saw her out a few times, and she was decked out in pink, complete with hot pink lipstick.Got referred to the old lady that lived there for alterations. Weird vibe, word was she had a pretty active lifestyle.Another fun house on Wilson Downing. Either the owner died or the neighborhood one. Either way, it's not bright pink anymore.
What happened to the guy that wandered downtown with the penis looking knot on his head?
On more than one occasion I walked into Mr Goodcents, saw that lump of head growth, and walked out with no food.
I hope someone got him a hat.
Lafayette Club still around? Was on Top floor of Central Bank, IIRC. Mom was a bookkeeper for them, pops called it the "Lick-a-dick-a-day" club. Because, you know, they employed the gheys.
Damn fine lawyer, and yes, very gentlemanly.
We loved it when he came to our little town(s) south of Lex . . . . hell, I ended up voting for him once or twice near the end of his life.
Had a time travel kind of day so far.
Hit up the Garden Springs barber shop with my dad this morning. The place is like a time capsule. Still $10 haircuts according to the sign on the wall that has a date of 2002.
Then went to Detroit’s Famous Coney Island on Lane Allen which some of us older folks will remember as ...
Terrible food but a nice blast from the past.
Also, the little pool house has had new siding put up and some fixing up done. I bet it’s about to go on the market. If the timing lines up ......
Hit up the Garden Springs barber shop with my dad this morning. The place is like a time capsule. Still $10 haircuts according to the sign on the wall that has a date of 2002.
Then went to Detroit’s Famous Coney Island on Lane Allen which some of us older folks will remember as ...
Terrible food but a nice blast from the past.
Also, the little pool house has had new siding put up and some fixing up done. I bet it’s about to go on the market. If the timing lines up ......
You better buy that little house Funk.Had a time travel kind of day so far.
Hit up the Garden Springs barber shop with my dad this morning. The place is like a time capsule. Still $10 haircuts according to the sign on the wall that has a date of 2002.
Then went to Detroit’s Famous Coney Island on Lane Allen which some of us older folks will remember as ...
Terrible food but a nice blast from the past.
Also, the little pool house has had new siding put up and some fixing up done. I bet it’s about to go on the market. If the timing lines up ......
I used to go to some old barber shop near Harrodsbug and Clays Mill. I don't see it on google maps. Dude charged $5 in 1994.
Looks like Carolyn Downing sold the house in 2014:
http://qpublic9.qpublic.net/ky_fayette_display.php?county=ky_fayette&KEY=21109200
Qwesley- this the woman?
https://m.facebook.com/downingleigh.downingleigh?fref=fc_search&ref=bookmarks
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Another fun house on Wilson Downing. Either the owner died or the neighborhood one. Either way, it's not bright pink anymore.
Just drove by and it’s been painted pink again.
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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
Have not thought about that thread in years.....good grief it was unreal in real time. When it went up for sale it thought it may put Hort over the edge of sanity.
I checked that thread an *unhealthy* amount.
Another fun house on Wilson Downing. Either the owner died or the neighborhood one. Either way, it's not bright pink anymore.
Heard the story behind that was the neighbors pissed the owners off about something trivial so they painted the house pink.
Ain't that America home of the free
The city planners are pathetic and we see the results. Does Lexington even have cross city expressways or limited access highways other than I 75 and I 64 that are both far from downtown?
They talked years back about an I-275 connector between I 75 Below the southern split and I 64 near midway. Basically it would have cut through Jessamine Co. preservationists said “no” (from what I recall).
Other than that, you have Circle 4 which is a Northside cluster— k
