Talbott Street history 1930s-70s?

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Permalink Reply by DBJ on December 24, 2008 at 1:38am

After doing some more online searching, I'm realizing that this topic might be more readily found/discussed as the Herron-Morton area. Some very brief, official-ese histories online:

http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/indianapolis/herronmorton.html

http://www.herron-morton.org/about.html

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Permalink Reply by Marvin P. Goldstein on December 25, 2008 at 1:34pm

In the late seventies there was a short lived punk/new wave club called "2147" I believe, which was the address of the front room at Talbott St. There were shows there with early Bloomington/Indy bands. Some of which were Gizmos, Dow Jones, Your Parents, early Zero Boys, Last 4 Digits, etc. I have vague memories of these shows! I would appreciate any more details anyone has of when exactly this occurred in the history of Indy punk!

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Permalink Reply by DBJ on December 30, 2009 at 2:21pm

I've created a Facebook group devoted to Talbott Street, Herron-Morton, the Old Northside, and surrounding environs...it's open to anybody with an interest in the area. Hoping to accumulate stories, photos, etc. from the neighborhood's entire history, from 19th century up to present-day... In addition to the 1930s-70s, very interested in the 1980s-early 90s, when a # of posters here lived in the area. Here's the Facebook group link--would love to see some MFT folk there:

Herron-Morton/Talbott/Old Northside

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Permalink Reply by DBJ on December 30, 2009 at 5:40pm

Marvin, do you have any pictures of it during its Club 2147 heyday? I'd really like to upload a pic to the Facebook group site, if anybody here has a photo.

Marvin P. Goldstein said:

In the late seventies there was a short lived punk/new wave club called "2147" I believe, which was the address of the front room at Talbott St. There were shows there with early Bloomington/Indy bands. Some of which were Gizmos, Dow Jones, Your Parents, early Zero Boys, Last 4 Digits, etc. I have vague memories of these shows! I would appreciate any more details anyone has of when exactly this occurred in the history of Indy punk!

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Permalink Reply by Kevin D. McCollough on December 31, 2009 at 2:48pm

I had a few north Talbott street addresses from '85-'92. Umm...1635? 1645? Both? They are better ensconced in my memory under the nicknames my fellow Herron students gave them: the pink house, the lion house (1832 1/2), the old hotel (SE corner of Talbott and 17th), the yellow house, and the White House (which was actually kind of a bluish slate gray, right across from the school, 1627 maybe?).
You may've worked with one of my roommates from the yellow house. She worked at Mugwumps around the end of '89, start of '90...but I was thinking the name changed from "Mugwumps" to "Roy G. Biv's" during her employment there. Then again, trusting my memory is ALWAYS a pretty big leap of faith...

DBJ said:

I've created a Facebook group devoted to Talbott Street, Herron-Morton, the Old Northside, and surrounding environs...it's open to anybody with an interest in the area. Hoping to accumulate stories, photos, etc. from the neighborhood's entire history, from 19th century up to present-day... In addition to the 1930s-70s, very interested in the 1980s-early 90s, when a # of posters here lived in the area. Here's the Facebook group link--would love to see some MFT folk there:

Herron-Morton/Talbott/Old Northside

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Permalink Reply by DBJ on January 3, 2010 at 10:50am

Kevin, what was your roommate's name? I'm sure I did work with her, if she was there 1989-90.

I think I knew the white house you mention as the Blue House. (Or was that Jeff Sample/Jennifer Davis/Lee and numerous others' place on N. Delaware? My memory's going a bit on some of these things as well.)

Kevin D. McCollough said:

I had a few north Talbott street addresses from '85-'92. Umm...1635? 1645? Both? They are better ensconced in my memory under the nicknames my fellow Herron students gave them: the pink house, the lion house (1832 1/2), the old hotel (SE corner of Talbott and 17th), the yellow house, and the White House (which was actually kind of a bluish slate gray, right across from the school, 1627 maybe?).
You may've worked with one of my roommates from the yellow house. She worked at Mugwumps around the end of '89, start of '90...but I was thinking the name changed from "Mugwumps" to "Roy G. Biv's" during her employment there. Then again, trusting my memory is ALWAYS a pretty big leap of faith...

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Permalink Reply by Kevin D. McCollough on January 3, 2010 at 11:51am

Lora Clarkson (Couto, I think, now) worked there...a couple months, maybe? Maybe less?
I remember a place, a light blue house, a little ways north and across the street from what we called "the Annoyers/YaYas House" (even long after the Annoyers were no more, and Gym Stouffer lived there). I never did really keep track of who was living there, but I'm pretty sure Sample did, maybe McLellan, too, LonPaul at some point? McLellan lived downstairs from me at the White House when I was there, but I think I probably spent more nights away from "home" than I did in that apartment around that time.
My apologies for any spelling errors.

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Permalink Reply by DBJ on January 3, 2010 at 12:19pm

I remember Lora Clarkson--and yeah, I think LonPaul lived at that house on Delaware too, possibly Jeff McClellan at one point...a bunch of people passed through there during the early/mid Tin Lounge era. I looked for it on Google Street View--pretty sure this is the Delaware house:

N Delaware house

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