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Post by Max on Apr 21, 2005 7:36:43 GMT -5
Does anyone recall that the Courier-Journal & Times printed a centerfold page of a cartoon map of Louisville around 1974 or maybe 1975? It was, I believe, in celebration of the 100th Kentucky Derby. Apparently it was sponsored, because there were storefronts of places like Bob Hook Chevrolet, several restaurants, numberous advertisements for WAKY, from billboards, to vans, to the actual station. I believe WDRB-TV was an advertiser too, as they had several, though not as many, mentions. They even had the Bell of Louisville and Churchill Downs. I've been trying to track one down. I used to have it on my bedroom wall as a kid, but I don't know whatever happened to it. But it's not hard to find WAKY on that map. The Moby Dick on Southside Drive near the Naval Reserve Center has something very similiar on their wall over the condement stand.
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Post by Max on Apr 21, 2005 8:34:47 GMT -5
The reason I know the one at Moby Dick is not the same one is the one I remember even had a little streaker running up the street (bare bottom and all!). The reason I'm not sure which year it was printed is from the standpoint of the streaker...if it was 1974 it could have only been because that was the year of Ray Stevens' 'The Streak' and everyone was doing it...if it was 1975 it would have been in recognition of the 1974 streaker who climbed the infield flagpole, because Derby Day didn't happen, obviously, until after that particular issue came out. A former co-worker of mine told me that map came out in the Louisville Times, but I don't think so. I never saw the weekly paper, as my dad only bought the Sunday paper, which was a joint issue of the two.
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Post by Travis on Apr 21, 2005 14:36:08 GMT -5
1974 sounds right to me as well. I believe that was the year a streaker climbed the flagpole in the infield at the Kentucky Derby. I also believe that was the year when a streaker ran through the crowd at a free WAKY picnic at Iroquois Park. The streaker was a woman (YES! YES!) but unfortunately, she had a body that should have never been seen (*uGh* *sHuDDeR*). As I recall, my free hotdogs and free Pepsi did not go down very well after witnessing that sight.  |
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Post by Max on May 5, 2006 17:24:00 GMT -5
...still on the quest for that issue of the CJ/Louisville Times with the aforementioned gatefold of Louisville in the form of a cartoonish map. Ran across a Louisville collector's shop who said they come and go all the time awhile back.
I would settle, for now, to get a copy of the similar one hanging at Moby Dick on Southside Drive.
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