#wapakoneta

[unteriors]

Middle Pike, Wapakoneta, Ohio.

[alleyesandears]

Apparently Abandoned Carryout

269 W. Main St. Wapakoneta Ohio

(This is nowhere near Wapakoneta, but apparently still has that address despite being in "New Hampshire" Ohio? Confusing.)

Photo by Dania Hurley

[prairiedeath]

“the broken chain of enslavement to self-centered, self-serving, bigoted beliefs.”

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

Is the place in your description the building or the space right outside it

For those who don't know, by description reads:

40.564°N 84.172°W Monday, April 8, 2024 19:10 UTC (3:10 EDT) Be there, or be square

These are the coordinates for the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapakoneta, Ohio, on the date of the next total solar eclipse that will cross the United States. It's special because Wapakoneta is Neil Armstrong's hometown, and by some great cosmic coincidence it just so happens to fall directly in the path of totality, so I thought it would be really cool to take a road trip up to Ohio and visit the museum dedicated to the first moonwalker at the same time as the moon itself passes directly overhead. Of course, the museum is planning its own an event that day, so I'd have to buy tickets in advance, I can't just show up and expect admission. Chances are I won't be able to go the day of, but maybe I can go the weekend before (if it's even open on weekends; I gotta do more research)

This is all tentative right now, we're still a long way out from the eclipse, so I haven't finalized any details yet. I need a plan; I missed the 2017 eclipse when I was in college because I didn't have a plan to get there. I didn't have a car, I was too young to rent one, I didn't have any money saved up to fly out there, and it was my first semester at a new university so I didn't feel comfortable cutting class (turns out nothing important happened that day, I could have skipped without consequence; c'est la vie)

In 2024, I'm watching the eclipse come hell or high water!

I've never been able to take an out of state vacation before, so this will be really nice. I'm saving up, I'm gonna ask for time off months in advance, and I'll fill out my itinerary sometime next year. It's a long drive to Ohio, so I'd like to visit some Civil War battlefields in Georgia, detour to the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee, maybe hit up King's Island in Ohio (though the park opens for the season in April, so it'll probably be SUPER busy that first week, especially if a ton of people fly in for the eclipse that Monday). If I'm REALLY in the mood, I'd even drive into Pennsylvania to check out the filming locations of Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead. I figure if I'm already up there I may as well take advantage of it. Who knows when I'll ever be in the rust belt again?

I'll figure everything out next year and send out invitations to a bunch of my friends (some of them live further away from Ohio than I do, so hopefully they'll be able to fly out). I dunno, there are a lot of hurdles, a lot of unknowns, maybe this won't work out as a group thing, but whether my friends can make it or not I'm still gonna go.

[photo-critter]

A hot cup of coffee sounds good right about now.

[caseybunnybookitty]

From ages (I think) 8-11, I lived in Wapakoneta, Ohio. We lived in a trailer park. It was a really nice place. It was called “The Four Seasons”. And we lived on Autumn Lane. I remember so much from living here.

It was my favorite place I had ever lived.

Where to start..

I guess I’ll start out with some of my favorite things.

The trailer park was right next to a busy highway. Now, you would think that it would be annoying and loud. But it wasn’t. It wasn’t close enough to be a problem, or far enough away where you couldn’t hear it. When I was laying in bed in the summer time, I would open my window in my bedroom, It was one of those windows that we on a school buss with the latches? And it had different notches for different heights for the window. And I would lay in there, watching my yellow curtains blow in the wind and just shut my eyes and listen. I could hear the cars hit the rumble strips on the sides of the road in the distance. It was just so calming and relaxing. It is one of the best memories I have from Wapakoneta.

Since it was a trailer park, the trailers themselves didn’t have mailboxes. There were mailboxes for all of them at the end of our road. They were metal and they always had really squeaky doors. I remember when middle school started, I was so happy because that meant I got to ride the bus. And the bus would stop at the entrance of our trailer park because a few kids lived there. And this boy and I, his name was Chase, we would sit under the mailboxes when it rained because that would keep the rain off of us. Even though we had umbrellas. It was just so fun.

I remember I loved going downtown to the river. There were steps to get down to the river for boats and such because there was a cement wall on the sides of the river. My family and I used to go fishing all the time. And I would catch bluegill with waxworms. My dad on the other hand was so good at fishing, he would catch so many fish. My mom would sit there and hold a rod and fish too. She didn’t like waiting for the fish to bite. But my dad, he could sit for hours and just listen to the water, and spot fish jumping and point them out to my mom and I. You could tell how much he enjoyed it.

It was someday near St. Patrick’s day, and on the other side of the river, there was a Lee’s Chicken place and my family and I had been fishing along the bike path by the river and we got hungry. So we went to get some chicken and cole slaw and green beans. But when we looked at the cole slaw, it was green! We came to the conclusion that it was because of St. Patrick’s day. It was still really good.

When we lived in Wapakoneta, we would drive up to Saint Mary’s, Ohio and go to Grand Lake when it had just rained. And we would drive around and pick up drift wood because my dad used to carve fish, and many other things out of the drift wood. There was a thrift store named Agapé and it was the best thrift store around. My parents took me there so many times. I loved knick knacks and they sold so many there. And I remember finding these 2 little white glass unicorns that were laying down. And I got them and they sat on my shelves for so long. I am not sure what happened to them. I miss those.

There are so many more things I remember. I have so many good memories. But I am very sleepy. I will post more tomorrow.

Thank you for reading

[plurdledgabbleblotchits]

2014-07-25 Wapakoneta Ohio P1010590 Hirsch (Jewelry Box), Distelrath Block (Zofkie) by Lisa Pasquinelli Rickey

[mudwerks]

Little Brown Jug