The Original COSI

Here are a couple videos that I found with a tour of the original COSI building and a look inside the first Wendy’s restaurant:

 

I posted this a couple of years ago when my page was up before. Seeing how my host “lost” all of my old posts…I’ll just put it up again (side-eye). One of my favorite places to go as a child was the Center of Science and Industry affectionately known to us as COSI. I’m not going to front…I still like to go, and don’t get me wrong, I like the new one but…nothing compares to the old one on E. Broad St. in the old Memorial Hall building. The memories of going on filed trips with my class or just going there on the weekend with my family…it was a good time. Certain areas did spook me out though…I’m not going to lie, but I’m a scary ass when it comes to old buildings and stuff…just sayin. My two favorite places to go inside of there was of course the planetarium and the ‘Town of Yester-Year.’ Remember the old movie theatre in there…I love stuff like that. The traveling exhibits that came were cool too. Jaws, the Alien from the movie, the Delorean from ‘Back to the Future’ and the dinosaurs. There were so many things to do there.

I worked at the new COSI part-time (for two weeks, no shade…it just wasn’t for me) back in 2007 in the security office. One day a security guard took us to the warehouse on the west side of town…not far from the new building where they keep the stuff from the old building. His ass told me to go get this box and bring it to him. So I go pick up the box, bring it to him and open it…inside of this damn box was one of the president’s head from that damn president exhibit. You know that shit freaked me out. After I got done cussing him out for setting me up…I was having a ball looking at all of that stuff. It definitely brought back a lot of memories. Some years back while being nosey online, I found this website that gives a virtual tour of the old COSI and makes you feel that you are back inside of the old COSI. I hope you enjoy…Old COSI