Lafayette Residents Reflect on Memories as City Celebrates Bicentennial

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00:00So, what I remember about Lafayette, Columbian Park and the big swimming pool.

00:06Barbara German was born in St. Elizabeth Hospital 85 years and two days ago.

00:11She misses the curly slide, the free-roaming elephant, and the infamous Monkey Island.

00:16The park's changed.

00:17The Constant is its place in local families' lives.

00:20I went there a lot in my life, and I'm still going.

00:24Lafayette's been home for Robert Dix his entire life, and his fondest memories are going downtown

00:29to buy records at Kresge.

00:30They had all sorts of dollar or whatever, two or fifty cent 45s, and I was always grabbing

00:36a bunch of them.

00:39I didn't know what they were, I didn't know who they were by, I didn't care.

00:42Kresge closed years ago.

00:44Robert now enjoys getting his music from the Josh Holman branch of the public library.

00:48Ellen Barker was born in Lafayette in 1945.

00:52She grew up at Columbian Park in Congress Street, Methodist, and raised her family there

00:56as well.

00:57And though she misses the small town she once knew, the city that stands in its place,

01:02she says, is pretty good too.

01:04People say I want to move to Chicago or Indianapolis, well we've got all those things, just more

01:08condensed.

01:10They go to Indianapolis to shop, we've got a lot of good shopping here.

01:15And I just think it's perfect.

01:18And as far as weather goes, we've got fires right now, we've got snow storms the other

01:23place, we've got hurricanes, we've got all kinds of bad things going on, but not in Lafayette.

01:30In 200 years, our Star City on the Wabash has grown, changed, and been home to so many

01:35of us.

01:36If you'd like to share your stories of Lafayette, you can head to StarCityTV.com to find out

01:40how.

01:41Emily Slater, Star City News, Lafayette.