Code,911067
Subject,Richard Turbow
Date,6/18/2011
Interviewer,Mark Souther
Abstract,"Richard Turbow, resident of Coventry for 40 years, discusses the many changes that the area has gone through. Turbow paints a picture that chronicles Coventry's shift from Hippies to Punks to College Students. He mentions many restaurants, shops, and hangout places including Irv's, Tommy's, and Seesaw. He also makes mention of the Coventry Street fair. He points out that the changes in housing in University Circle caused more and more students to move to Coventry, which accounts for the predominance of students today."
Tags,"Coventry, Irv's Deli, Coventry Street fair, rentals, hippies, college students, punks, Hell's Angels, Seesaw, Coventry Beverage, streaking, Rock Court, Tommy's, Chester's, tourists, Cleveland Heights, Haight-Ashbury, housing,"
Special Notes,Another man is consulted and often intejects but is unnamed in this interview
0,"Introductions; Calls the northern end of Coventry the ""Dead End"" people never went further than Irv's deli; mentions stores that many had forgotten"
1,Continues to list shops and stores that were on Coventry that do not exist anymore and that people do not remember; He worked in the leathershop; Remembers the Street fairs
2,Landlords thought it was gold mine and raised prices on people; The street has changed to trendy shops and sports bars; Lived on Hampshire for 40 years went from hippies to college students
3,Came in the early 1970s; Recalls Hell's Angels being there while he was and before-they would hang out at Seesaw - he worked at a leathershop that had Hell's Angels as a client
4,after the leathershop closed the hell's angels would come directly to his house; Describes Seesaw and how it was a problem spot with shootings and stabbings its all in the area where the Panini's is now
5,Coventry beverage was a place where one could get a pizza at any time of day; Recalls when a cop caught a streaker who was running down Coventry
6,Recalls picking up a puppy that was abandoned and needed a vet and the shops all around coventry near the leather shop pitched in and raised money to pay the vet; He then took care of it for the next 11 years
7,Nothing was unusual because with the hippies anythhing unusual was normal; but he says its a shame now because its too commercialized
8,"Remembers back in the 1970s very few restaurants: Tommy's, Irv's, and Chesters; Says that Irv's just went out of business"
9,Says he's seen the hardware store go through three owners; Recalls Rock Court and some old men that livedthere
10,Says Rock Court was torn down to create more parking; Says there were parties there but it wasn't that big
11,"Doesn't remember much about the first Coventry Street fair, but he does remember setting up a booth at many of the streetfairs;"
12,"He said that the streetfairs were fun, usually pretty quiet maybe some scuffles but nothing big;"
13,(another man talks) Mentions that after the first five years the streetfair got rowdier; Said people who came to see the hippie culture were called tourists even if they lived in a different part of Cleveland Heights
14,"in the 1980s the crowd changed from hippies to punk, he then says it changed to troublemakers; He heard stories of people comparing coventry to Haight-Ashbury"
15,Says that Lolly the Trolley would make tourists stops on Coventry; Says that the police had trouble because many kids were smoking marijuana
16,"Says that now the college kids are the group in Coventry, because the housing situations changed which caused more students to move up to Coventry"
17,Continues to talk about how many of the houses by him are rentals but they changed and now they are rented to college students; very few houses there are owner-occupied
18,"lists the top hippie hangouts: the Saloon, Tommy's, Irv's; never really hung out at stores-only restaurants"
19,Doesn't think that the Coventryard area was a big hangout spot until the punks supplanted the hippies
20,Thanks and End of Interview
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,
,