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grandmaR Says: The Oberlin College Conservatory of Music is housed in a complex of soundproof and air-conditioned buildings designed by Minoru Yamasaki. It is constructed on the former locations of Sturges Hall and Wright Zoo Lab. There are small concert halls in some of the Conservatory...
grandmaR Says: Mudd Center houses the majority of the 2 million items in Oberlin's library collection (separate science, art, and music libraries are scattered across campus). It was built in between Wilder (Men's Building) and Dascomb in what used to be a big open space.The size, breadth...
grandmaR Says: The Science Center was just completed in the last few years. There was a tour scheduled for the alumni, and my roommate had expressed an intention to take this tour. When she didn't turn up (I found out later, she toured the Lewis Center for Environmental Studies which...
4 Reviews and 44 Opinions If you visit Oberlin College, the Conservatory or Art Museum, you cannot beat the Oberlin Inn. It is...
The Feve: A Must Try in Oberlin
iamjacksgoat Says: A great casual place to get a bite to eat, or have a beer. The Feve is a great spot to hang out as well. There are two floors, both which offer food and drinks. The upstairs is more casual, while the downstairs has table service and a more traditional restaurant experience....
The Black River Cafe: Great Food, though Not So Great Service..
iamjacksgoat Says: The Black River Cafe has really good food. I must say that first. The food was so good, it saved me from giving this place a bad review. Usually, there is a long wait, though my group was lucky to have zero wait time. However, the service was horrible. The waitress forgot us...
flipapetto Says: You must have the sweet cream donut. They are by far the best pastry that I have ever had. I have had family from out of town demand that I order a few dozen whenever I am going to visit. You have to get there early because they go fast. If you call a day or two in advance...
Apollo Theatre: Oberlin's Only Movie Theatre
grandmaR Says: Oberlin’s best loved historic commercial structure is the 1913 Apollo Theatre. It has housed Oberlin’s first 300-seat theatre and in 1928, the talkies were introduced to Oberlin here. The building was built by Mr. Hobbs, who operated the eastern storefront as the...
Freshman Come and Seniors Leave by Car
grandmaR Says: Given the lack of air or rail transport to Oberlin, 45 years ago our parents usually drove us to school when we came as freshman and picked up all our stuff when we graduated. My mom gave me her old steamer trunk to take all my stuff to college in. It was packed and stored...
grandmaR Says: I rode my mom's old bike from the 30s most of the time when there wasn't snow and ice on the roads. It was a thin tire bike but with a coaster brake instead of hand brakes, and it didn't have any gears. Most bikes of that era were either balloon tires with coaster brakes or...
Bead Paradise at the Sudio on the Park: Downtown shop
grandmaR Says: When I was here, Oberlin was a kind of hippy liberal place in spite of the restrictions put on the women. So I took a picture of this store as it seemed to capture the ambience of Oberlin 45 years ago. Art/Design, Clothing, Gifts, Jewelers
Gibson's Food Mart & Bakery: For a Sweet Tooth
grandmaR Says: This three-story building is the only structure in town that has had the same owner and the same first floor business since it was built. The Gibson brothers had a candy and peanut stand on a sidewalk lot on South Main until 1901 when they were forced to close it. They then...
grandmaR Says: When I attended Oberlin I had my big Biology lecture in Hall Auditorium, and labs and smaller classes were in Wright Zoo Lab or the Botany Building. Senior year, classes being held in a temporary annex to the gym. By 1961, science classes were in Kettering Hall, and that's...
yooperprof Says: Oberlin is one of those classic small American towns that retains diagonal parking downtown. This is one of the features of Oberlin that makes it precious in my mind. Diagonal parking helped make the United States the great country that it is today. Truly, we would be a...
grandmaR Says: Oberlin is in northern Ohio near Lake Erie. It is cold with the wind sweeping down from the lake, and it snows a lot there. Think Lake Effect. The Oberlin Fire Department has a Storm-Sentry storm tracking feature that allows them to track heavy snow, freezing rain, severe...
Aluminum Statue to an Aluminum Millionaire
grandmaR Says: Charles Martin Hall was born December 6, 1863 in Thompson, Ohio. He was son of Rev. Heman Bassett Hall (1823-1910, A.B. 1847, B.D. 1850, A.M. 1866) and Sophronia H. Brooks Hall (1827-1885, Class of 1850, Lit. Course). In 1873 the Hall family moved to Oberlin, Ohio, where...
grandmaR Says: An asphalt walkway extends along the south bank of Plum Creek, between the front yard of the Shurtleff House and Wright Park. I was out with my camera one overcast day in the fall of 1958 to take pictures of the areas of the campus that I almost never went to and practiced...
grandmaR Says: When I went to Oberlin, we had an unbroken record in football of consecutive losses that was so long that the seniors had last experienced winning a game in their freshman year. The URL below is a very funny essay on Oberlin sports. The picture was taken this year when we...
grandmaR Says: I didn't have much to do with Warner because it was the men's gym and women weren't really welcome there. We had our own gym on the north end of campus.Ground was broken for Warner Gymnasium in August, 1900. It was named in honor of its donors, Dr. and Mrs. Lucien C. Warner,...
yooperprof Says: This is one of many fine venues where Obies (i.e. Oberlin Conservatory Students) play and listen to music. It's on Professor Street, where else?Finney Chapel - and several other Oberlin structures - was designed by Cass Gilbert, one of the greatest American architects...
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A Small, Liberal, Liberal Arts Town (& College)
Did I see Andy Hardy just pop out of the corner drug store? And was that Jimmy Steward canoodling down the street with Donna Reed? Oberlin is a throw-back in time and atmosphere, to a kindler, gentler...
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College Days - 45 years ago and Today
I graduated from Oberlin College with a degree in Zoology. The photo is one my dad took of me and my new husband of three days. I have a lot of photos that I took when I was a senior (1958-1959) in...
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Why honeymoon in Oberlin? If you live in Cleveland and don't have a car, Oberlin's not that far from the rental car places at Cleveland Hopkins Airport. Also the place I found was wicked cheap.
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Oberlin: My First College Town
Oberlin is a small town in Ohio, close to Cleveland. It's known for housing Oberlin College, a top liberal arts school. I attended Oberlin College from August 2009 - January 2010. I lived in Oberlin...
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