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It sounded as if a train were rumbling through Venice in the predawn hours of St. Patrickâs Day 1985.
Trains still came occasionally to Venice then. Most people who heard the sound that morning simply rolled over and went back to sleep.Â
What sounded like a train that morning turned out to be a tornado.
It left two people dead and 41 injured. It destroyed 55 homes and 15 businesses. More than 300 additional homes and businesses in its path had extensive damage from what remains the worst natural disaster in the history of Venice.
County commissioners surveying the damage from helicopters that morning compared it to a war zone.
A raucously sarcastic take on the game show genre,
Remote Control burst onto MTV in 1987. Part of the cable channel’s first wave of non-video-centric shows,
Remote Control skewered vintage pop culture with its “mom’s basement” style set, cigarette smoking commentators, and questions about everything from physics to
The Brady Bunch or a combination thereof. Contestants slouched in brightly colored Barcaloungers, were pelted with snacks between questions, and got pulled backward through breakaway walls upon elimination. Host Ken Ober (who died in 2009) held court with an everyman sneer alongside announcer Colin Quinn, while comedians like Adam Sandler and Denis Leary popped in to ask questions in guises such as “Stud Boy” or legendary animal trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams. It made both no sense and total sense.
James Cox, founder of AC zoo, dies
James Cox, the founder of the Little Ponderosa Zoo and Rescue in Clinton died on Tuesday.
According to a late January post on the nonprofit organization’s Facebook page, Cox had been in the hospital after having pneumonia and problems with a weak heart. At that time he was facing heart surgery, the post stated.
“Our office is deeply saddened by the the news of James Cox, owner of the Little Ponderosa Zoo s, passing. Please remember his family in your thoughts as well as the zoo staff during this difficult time,” stated a Tuesday post on the Facebook page of Dave Clark, district attorney general for Anderson County.
Restored Ringling Bros. circus sleeper car moved to Venice Historic Train Depot
VENICE – A restored sleeping car that once belonged to Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus was moved last week to the 1927 Historic Venice Train Depot, joining a restored caboose and statue of Gunther Gebel-Williams as part of a campus that pays homage to the city’s connection with the fabled circus.
To ensure safety, the move was not publicized and volunteers helped detour cyclists on the Legacy Trail to create a clear path as it made the half-mile trip from Uni-Glide Trailer Co. on Seaboard Avenue north and then west in the eastbound lane of the East Venice Avenue access road, underneath the Venice Avenue Bridge, then north through the Venice Marine Park parking lot and onto the tracks at 303 E. Venice Avenue.