Columbus' Claim to Fame

Columbus lays claim to a number of ‘firsts’ that include the first Junior High School (Indianola Junior High in 1909), the first kindergarten (1838 by German settlers), the first shopping center, the first filling station (Standard Oil of Ohio at Young and Oak streets in 1912), the first banana split (Foeller’s Drug Store on North High Street), the first Miss America (Mary Catherine Campbell, 1922), the first Wendy’s restaurant and the first gorilla born in captivity (Colo in 1956).


Now you can add another one to your list of Columbus trivia: The Madison Dance, purportedly invented by William “Bubbles” Holloway and the dancers at the LVA Club on Mt. Vernon Avenue in 1957.

The first Wendy's restaurant opened in my father's former club on Broad Street (Marty's La Mancha)...across from COSI and The Christopher Inn.  Does anyone have any pics of the La Mancha?  Many entertainers stopped by.....Frankie Avalon, George Carlin, Frank Sinatra, Jr.....to name a few.