This one was a big improvement. A photo of a man walking before it with an umbrella won an award in Columbus Monthly. When the lawyers guild was active, the Tenants Union was strong, the Columbus Community Food Coop was real, the Free Press published always, the Northend Community Center still stood, and like things from folks like we'uns. Community Union had a Diaspora effect. Good things sprang from such seed as was scattered around.
Business is brisk inside the campus area's former countercultural headquarters.
I buy a sterling silver ring engraved with, Wyman informs me, a Native American fertility symbol. The store's motif and merchandise seems like the product of a business merger of Garcia, Hoffman and Guevera. That's Jerry, Abbie and Che, for identification purposes. On July 15, Tradewinds' last Saturday, unrepentant yippies mingled easily amongst the tie-dye with a new generation of retro, neo and nouveau hippies and freaks. Scott Solomon, Wyman's landlord, recently gave her a three-day eviction notice.