Nobody But Me

September 30, 1968 – The Human Beinz, a garage band from Youngstown, find that their version of Nobody But Me, a cover of a 1963 Isley Brothers song, rips into the Billboard Top 10. The word “No” is spoken over 100 times and “Nobody” uttered 46 times.
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Jack Nicklaus

September 29, 1960 - Jack Nicklaus, 20, Upper Arlington, shoots 67 on the way to a 269 at the World Amateur Team Championship at Merion Golf Club near Philadelphia. His 66-67-68-68 remains a record as the U.S. team wins by 42 strokes. A junior in college and two months newlywed, Nicklaus remembered it as "one of the finest straight 72 holes I’ve played.” He won individual honors by 13 strokes.
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Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop

Some customers of The Maid-Rite Sandwich Shop in Greenville got a notion a few years back, or maybe longer, to dump their chewing gum before they dug into the restaurant’s tasty burgers. Hmmm, this wall looks like a good place to stick it. Today, two entire brick walls, the side and the front, at the shop are covered with gum globs. Ain’t that America?
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Benjamin Orzechowski

September 27, 2000 – Benjamin Orzechowski, a Lakewood and Parma resident as well as Valley Forge High School dropout, has his last performance in Anchorage, Alaska. Known as Ben Orr and a bassist, he was a founding member of The Cars after meeting Ric Ocasek in Columbus in the early 1970s. Orzechowski would die from pancreatic cancer six days after this show.
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The Isley Brothers

Sept. 25, 1971 - The Isley Brothers, a soul act from the Cincinnati neighborhoods of South Cumminsville and Lincoln Heights with Top 40 hits since 1959’s “Shout,” release a version of Neil Young’s “Ohio” – about the 1970 Kent State massacre – on their “Givin’ It Back” album. The powerful 9:12 minute version is coupled with Jimi Hendrix’s “Machine Gun.”
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Record 3.06 pound pink salmon

September 24, 2004 - Andy Janoski of Chagrin Falls hooks a state record 3.06 pound pink salmon that is 20 1/8 inches long from Conneaut Creek near Lake Erie.
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Layzie Bone

September 23, 1975 – Steven Howse is born, grows up in the Glenville neighborhood of Cleveland, changes his name to Layzie Bone and becomes a founding member of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Their ghetto-hip-hop goes all the way to Los Angeles to a Grammy award.

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Campbell Hill

Campbell Hill at 1,550 feet above sea level in tiny Bellefontaine is the highest spot between the Appalachian Mountains and the Mississippi River. Find the hill at The Hi Point Career Center east of Bellfontaine on Ohio 540.
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West Side Market

The best selection of fresh food anywhere in the state is at the West Side Market, 1995 W. 25th St., in Cleveland, where Old-World vendors sell foods that appeal to more than two dozen nationalities.
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Wild Cherry

September 20, 1976 - Advice given to Mingo Junction native Bob Parissi at a disco club in Pittsburgh – “Play that funky music, white boy” – becomes the hook for a song recorded in Cleveland by Parissi’s group, Wild Cherry. The song hits No. 1 on this autumn day. Parissi had written the lyrics on the back of a waitress’s order pad only months before, and now he has a song that will be played forever at suburban parties of Baby Boomers.
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Carew Tower

Take a trip to the top of the Carew Tower in Cincinnati for stunning views of Kentucky and the Ohio River basin.
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Peg Entwhistle

September 18, 1932 – Actress Peg Entwhistle, 24, ends it all by leaping from the H of the Hollywood sign in Los Angeles. Her ashes are near the grave of her father in Oak Hill Cemetery in Glendale, a suburb of Cincinnati. A letter from the Beverly Hills Playhouse mailed the day before she jumped and received the day after, offered her a lead role in a stage production. That character committed suicide.
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Terminal Tower

The view from the Terminal Tower in Cleveland is incredible. At 52 stories and with a clear day, expect to see more than 30 miles.
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Slovenian Sausage Festival

This date is a moving target in September but kielbasa lovers should not miss the Slovenian Sausage Festival, a benefit event for the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum. Favorite polka bands and sausage shops fill SNPJ Farm in Kirtland with eight hours of non-stop music and munching.
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VegiTerranean

September 15, 2007 – Founder of the Pretenders Chrissie Hynde and Adam Seymour, lead guitarist for the group, perform three songs to celebrate the opening of her Akron vegan restaurant VegiTerranean.
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Middlefield Cheese House

Spend a day among the Amish of northern Ohio and sample the Swiss Cheese manufactured at Middlefield Cheese House (800-32-SWISS) where a 20-minute movie will fill you in on why the Amish manufacture Swiss cheese in such quantities.
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Tim “Ripper” Owens

September 13, 1967 – Tim “Ripper” Owens is born in Akron. Owens is a heavy metal blaster who would draw on the angst of his Akron roots to become lead singer for Judas Priest.
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Bizzy Bone

September 12, 1976 – Bryon Anthony McCane II is born in Columbus. His high-pitched voice sets the flava of Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. McCane assumes the name Bizzy Bone.
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Pete Rose

DAILY DOUBLE September 11, 1985 – Cincinnati native son Pete Rose comes to bat in Riverfront Stadium and gets his 4,193th hit to move past Ty Cobb on baseball’s all-time hit list. September 11 – Doug Cherry’s ashes are interned at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in his home town of Terrace Park, where he was a champion prep swimmer. Cherry died in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Steamship Gen. Anthony Wayne

September 10, 2006 – Auto parts supplier Tom Kowalczk of Lakeside spends a 12-hour day searching for the side-wheel steamship Gen. Anthony Wayne, which went down April 27, 1850, north of Vermilion. He sees the wheelhouse on his last pass of the day. The ship, according to legend, was carrying millions of dollars in gold coins but Kowalszk doesn’t believe the story, and anyhow, wrecks in Lake Erie are owned by the State of Ohio.
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Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder

September 9, 1919 – The late Jimmy “The Greek” Snyder is born in Steubenville. A television commentator, he was fired in 1988 when he said slave owners bred big black women to big black men to get big black kids and that’s why blacks were better athletes. He claimed to have bet $10,000 at 17-to-one odds that Truman would beat Dewey in 1948. He was born Dimetrios Georgios Synodinos and is buried in Union Cemetery in Steubenville.
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Billy “Thunder” Mason

September 8, 2004 - Already at the top of the charts, Tim McGraw’s Live Like You Were Dying features the drumming of Fairborne native Billy “Thunder” Mason.
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The Pretenders

September 7, 1951 - Pretenders founder Chrissie Hynde is born in Akron where she graduated from Firestone High School before becoming an international icon of rock and roll.
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Big Muskie Bucket

Check out the Big Muskie Bucket. Once the world’s largest earthmoving bucket, all that remains of that giant machine is the gaping maw. Find it in Reinersville at Miner’s Memorial Park west on Ohio Route 78 off I-77 at the Caldwell exit.
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Russell Colley

September 5, 1935 – Inventor Russell Colley of Akron watches the pressurized suit he created for test pilot Wally Post reach an altitude of 40,000 feet. He used his wife’s sewing machine to make it. Later, space suits he designed – a tomato worm was the inspiration - were worn by NASA’s Mercury astronauts.
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Goodyear's Air Dock Hanger

September 4 – At 22 stories high, the Goodyear Air Dock Hanger in Akron was the largest building without interior supports until the Houston Astrodome was built. Find it at 1201 East Market St. in Akron.
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U.S.S. Shenandoah

September 3, 1925 – The dirigible U.S.S. Shenandoah was colossal at 680 feet long and 93 feet high. It was on a tour of Noble County when it encountered a violent updraft, which tore it apart. Fourteen people died but 29 survived after a harrowing few miles as the nose bumped along at treetop level. A monument and trailer/museum is in Ava with a marker four miles west of I-77 at exit 25 on Ohio 78.
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Ronald Isley

September 2, 2006 – Iconic rock singer Ronald Isley, born in Cincinnati, is sentenced to three years and a day in prison for tax evasion. Isley, 66, suffered a stroke prior to his incarceration and developed kidney cancer.
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Wayne Hayes

September 1, 1976 – Democrat Congressman Wayne Hayes, the former mayor of Bancock, resigns after Elizabeth Ray told the Washington Post that she was his mistress and had been hired by Hayes as a secretary even though she “couldn’t type, file or answer the phone.”
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