Remember that? Readers share random memories of Akron
The Georgian Room, the Singing Bridge, Peoples Drug Store, Lyn Theater, Egg Castle, the Wildwood and Cheap Thrills are among the places we recall.
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The Georgian Room, the Singing Bridge, Peoples Drug Store, Lyn Theater, Egg Castle, the Wildwood and Cheap Thrills are among the places we recall.
The following short articles appeared in the June 4, 1896, edition of the RANGELEY LAKES newspaper. In our last installment, we shared how the 1896 New York Sporting Exposition had concluded and Miss Cornelia Fly Rod Crosby, who was in charge of the Maine booth there, had blackballed the RANGELEY LAKES Outing Edition (10,000 extra […]
Youtube On February 28, 1996, WAKC-TV was sold and newscasts immediately ceased, ending four decades of serving Summit County viewers. On the 25th anniversary of the end of WAKC, an encore presentation of a staff reunion from 2016 Twenty-five years ago, Akron lost its only local TV newsroom. After four decades of struggling to compete with Cleveland's TV stations — including fellow ABC affiliate, WEWS — WAKC-TV was bought by Paxson Communications, which quickly dropped its local programming. In 2016, Channel 23 alumni gathered at Akron's Spaghetti Warehouse to look back at what was for ma...