The wave of nostalgia continues
The wave of nostalgia continues
Ed. Note: In our last issue, we published two letters inspired by “Last Call” (Cornelliana, November/December 2011) and noted that many readers had posted comments to the online version of the article at the CAM website. They’ve continued to pour in, and there are now more than fifty. Herewith a sample:
The Haunt, the Royal Palm, but especially the Rongovian Embassy [in Trumansburg]. I had one nice night at the Chanticleer when I lived above Moosewood at the former high school. Anyone remember Tweetman’s Halfway House? Not a college bar, but seriously fun and fairly dangerous. Cheers!
Great memories! Freshman year the Chapter House. Met all the hipsters at the Salty Dog. Blew my mind watching Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band at the Warehouse. Got rock-and-roll religion seeing Chuck Berry at the North Forty. Grooved with the Paul Butterfield Blues Band and the Ithaca College coeds at their student union!
Cabbagetown Cafe, formerly on Eddy Street, was a favorite of mine in the 1980s. The superlative cashew chili was the best way to get warm on a winter eve in Ithaca.
My roommates and I would go to Joe’s for an Italian dinner and promise to drink only one bottle of wine because we had to study. After Joe sent over a fifth bottle free, we did not study much that night. The steamed clams dipped in butter were wonderful.
Loved Noyes Lodge, where I ate my first bagel and would go for Dusty Miller sundaes, ice cream with chocolate sauce and powdered malt on top. I also remember that when I lived on the fifth floor in Risley (many, many steps to climb, but how cool to be up in the tower) there was a mobile unit that parked across the street where I would go for milk and molasses cookies at 11:00 at night. Anyone remember the name?
Best memory of Johnny’s was the night one of the townies asked the barkeep, young Johnny, for the phone (cell phones hadn’t been invented) to call a cab. We all watched when he instructed the cabbie to take him to the Palms: a cab ride consisting entirely of a U-turn!
Correction— March/April 2012
R&D, page 12: We stated: “An antimicrobial compound in honey could offer a natural preservative, finds food microbiologist Randy Worobo. In sunflower honey from South Dakota, he discovered a strain of Bacillus thuringiensis, which is effective against food-borne pathogens such as Listeria.” We should have made it clear that the compound in question is produced by the bacterium. Thanks to Jonathan Turetsky ’77 for pointing out the error.