tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post116871059404592462..comments2020-04-11T03:30:02.282-05:00Gary R. Welshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comBlogger30125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1169178379370178302007-01-18T22:46:00.000-05:002007-01-18T22:46:00.000-05:00Let's not forget that the late, great Democratic stronghold, the Indianapolis Athletic Club did not admit jews, women or blacks unless they worked there. A private club is just that, a hideout for those who wish to conduct business, social activities, sex or dining in private. And the members pay $135 a month for that privilidge. Ask anyone who attended a party at the infamous 823 Club in the IAC...what went on there stays there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1169022089795656272007-01-17T03:21:00.000-05:002007-01-17T03:21:00.000-05:00Wilson is an idiot and desires attention anyway he can get it. Poor thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168979644491834522007-01-16T15:34:00.000-05:002007-01-16T15:34:00.000-05:00As a former member of the Club's managment staff I was neither "inattentive" nor "out of touch". What I was, however, I could not change and that was a young female trying to survive in an industry dominated by male managers and their testosterone. There are many of us who sat in the management offices of that club trying to bring a fresh perspective to the table, trying to have our voices heard. But at the end of the day if we couldn't sit there politely with our hands folded in our laps or involve ourselves in insidious flirtations with the higher-ups - our voices fell on deaf ears. So now we bring our fresh perspectives and attentiveness to other organizations who appreciate our hard work, efforts, and vision.<BR/><BR/>The fish stinks from the head down. Hopefully a new fish will breathe some life into such an important fixture in our great city.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168947543021082642007-01-16T06:39:00.000-05:002007-01-16T06:39:00.000-05:00Wilson, you are wrong again. You love to call her name, don't you. Once again, get a life!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168894088318047322007-01-15T15:48:00.000-05:002007-01-15T15:48:00.000-05:00Jocelyn: Deloris Taylor misinformed you - I was in the map room once this year researching some public property. Sorry to disappoint you and your snitch!Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168889764492517352007-01-15T14:36:00.000-05:002007-01-15T14:36:00.000-05:00Upadte:<BR/>Word has it your number one dumpster diver has spending a lot of time in the Center Township Assessor's office since the first of the new year searching property records on city-county Council candidates. I wonder who he plans to smear in the Primary this year. Does he get paid for the research?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168857933518384432007-01-15T05:45:00.000-05:002007-01-15T05:45:00.000-05:00Hail, that was kinda unnecessary<BR/><BR/>The question was legit<BR/><BR/>(waiting for an answer)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168831796479773282007-01-14T22:29:00.000-05:002007-01-14T22:29:00.000-05:00<I>42nd and Post, is that a new IMPD regional office?</I><BR/><BR/>Sure as hell isn't a congressional office for Julia Carson. She wants her office close to a bar. And a nice view of downtown.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168794753436736752007-01-14T12:12:00.000-05:002007-01-14T12:12:00.000-05:00(OK, I'll bite)<BR/><BR/>42nd and Post, is that a new IMPD regional office?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168792050891122632007-01-14T11:27:00.000-05:002007-01-14T11:27:00.000-05:00The Columbia Club, like any social institution has runs its course. Why the shrinking memberships in such organizations like the Shriners, or disappearing Jaycees. People have found that they were good for 'socializing in the name of community service.' Now everyone is busy trying to advance their career or driving their children to all the extra activities created. <BR/><BR/>Just like the dinosaurs disappeared with the ice age, so shall so organizations.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168789374853878292007-01-14T10:42:00.000-05:002007-01-14T10:42:00.000-05:00Perhaps some folk should spend more time at the new office at 42nd & Post to earn some money instead of trying to ban folk that expose phoneys...Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168788599451700282007-01-14T10:29:00.000-05:002007-01-14T10:29:00.000-05:00Perhaps everybody shoud just boycot Wilson's posts. Sort of a shunning. Might work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168786525039884902007-01-14T09:55:00.000-05:002007-01-14T09:55:00.000-05:00Blogger does not give me the capability of blocking an individual blogger. The only thing I can do is turn on the moderator feature, which requires me to screen every single comment. I did that for a brief period when someone kept spamming the site because of a disagreement they had with something I wrote about. It's very time-consuming and fills up my e-mail inbox. Wilson has upset several other bloggers, who've openly complained about him as well. Matt Tully complained about him awhile back. After he called me a racist, I told him to stop posting on this site until he apologized. He never apologized and the insults keep coming. I can delete his posts, and he'll just come back and post 20 more. Apparently, his life these days consists of trolling area blogs and posting comments for the sole purpose of getting under people's skin. In doing so, he's revealed himself to all in a less than favorable light and completely undermined his credibility.Gary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168784193454738772007-01-14T09:16:00.000-05:002007-01-14T09:16:00.000-05:00I belonged for a few years in the 90s because my company wanted me to join a downtown club, and I got to choose. I chose CC because of location and the restaurant was great and the service impeccable. BTW, their famous Chicken corn chowder is well-imitated by Campbell's Chunky in a Can these days.<BR/><BR/>State Rep. Marilyn Shultz (B-Bloomington) tried in vain for a couple years to enter one of the men-only facilities there. It made the news. Finally, they relented. I think it was the early 70s.<BR/><BR/>I used the health club facilities three or four times and got hit on each time, rather crudely, by older, married, rotund members who, as AI stated, routinely wandered the place. Otherwise known as cruising.<BR/><BR/>And a prominient wealthy arts supporter from northern Indiana, whose family company everyone should know if they look down at manhole and water line covers, used the CC as a young boys' meeting place for years.<BR/><BR/>I think he still does.<BR/><BR/>It's a relic of the past and like AI, if it dies, I won't cry. They ought to be able to survive on 2100 members.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168783190405626242007-01-14T08:59:00.000-05:002007-01-14T08:59:00.000-05:00Can Wilson be blocked? AI, it would help keep your otherwise excellent blog the preferred blog for me.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168779972055497252007-01-14T08:06:00.000-05:002007-01-14T08:06:00.000-05:00I love it, Wilson has no response to my post except for to correct me on the incorrect usage of "through" Sorry I made a typo, but when my post is so true you have nothing else to go on, you fling whatever you can back. Sucks to be called on the carpet and have no real response, doesn't it Wilson?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168775902157489482007-01-14T06:58:00.000-05:002007-01-14T06:58:00.000-05:00Wrong 8:32 PM Response:<BR/><BR/>Some bloggers need to do their history homework,<BR/><BR/>Atty. Harriet Bailey Conn, republican, deputy attorney general, Henri Gibson,(D) 9th district coucilwoman, 11th District National Committee Woman and other prominent African American Women, Mrs. Louise Terry Batties, educator and socialite<BR/>were on the scene way before any one knew who Carson was. Check it out.<BR/><BR/>As a guest maybe, not a member. Carson was not one of the first African Americans to be permitted in the Columbia Club.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168774874238065852007-01-14T06:41:00.000-05:002007-01-14T06:41:00.000-05:00Wilson 8:32 PM<BR/>Why don't you get your own blog so that you can promote all of the corruption of Democrat elected officials you support. You have one-sided comments and have attacked other bloggers who don't believe as you do regarding the leadership in this city. Get a life, you are not that informed or socially accepted. The only reason you want names are so you can further dumpster dive on them, and while you are at it take a bath.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168741217431447612007-01-13T21:20:00.000-05:002007-01-13T21:20:00.000-05:00"throw", not "through"<BR/><BR/>Homonyms are a bitch, aren't they?Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168740597721455172007-01-13T21:09:00.000-05:002007-01-13T21:09:00.000-05:00Yes it is about the Columbia Club, until you have to through your agenda into it. Leave it to you to turn the act of failing to fly a flag correctly on a given day into Watergate. You just don't get it and never will.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168738375912523682007-01-13T20:32:00.000-05:002007-01-13T20:32:00.000-05:00Folks: this post is about the Columbia Club - if you haters want to spew against me or other commenters, get your own blog. Anonymous namecalling is so juvenile and unproductive!<BR/><BR/>I make no comment about the internal activities ("lewd and lascivious") of a private club but about their sloppy and disrepectful external manifestations...<BR/><BR/>FWIW, Senator Julia Carson was one of the first African-American females to be permitted in the Columbia Club. It was long an all-white male bastion but with its meetings of legislators and lobbyists, Black lawmakers were allowed as guests...Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168736628291126282007-01-13T20:03:00.000-05:002007-01-13T20:03:00.000-05:00Leave it to Wilson to spew his left-wing b.s. on a topic that is so non-political. Damn fool, give it a rest for once please. Do the actions of the members of a private club really affect your pathetic life that much that you have to boo-hoo about it here. Seriously, you make me want to puke.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168719923063641332007-01-13T15:25:00.000-05:002007-01-13T15:25:00.000-05:00Your description of some of these CC members is dead-on AI. It always irritates me how special parking privileges on the Circle are afforded some of these members you speak of. You and I get our cars towed. These people park for free for hours.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168717337876515772007-01-13T14:42:00.000-05:002007-01-13T14:42:00.000-05:00AI, that was exactly my point: the staff and management simply was out of touch. It was just ironic that such a Republican crowd would fail such a simple civic duty.<BR/><BR/>hailstone, please save your invective for others than fellow commenters - cant you find a Mayor or President someplace to excoriate to vent your spleen?Wilson46201https://www.blogger.com/profile/06987859307032067229noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12703782.post-1168716938619394302007-01-13T14:35:00.000-05:002007-01-13T14:35:00.000-05:00For the non-believers, both the fight betweent he board candidates and the famous French Room party earned brief mentions in the Star's "Behind Closed Doors" columnGary R. Welshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15185079937305083438noreply@blogger.com