gabe's tower

So, I know, you may or may not (I don't) have all your Christmas shopping and shipping done. However, here is a gift that's not only a taste of nostalgia but they're like Cousin Eddie says in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, "That's the gift that keeps giving the whole year."

I love taking pictures. In 2020, with social distancing as a focus, I did a lot of exploring and have curated some of my favorite images from the past 12 months.

Alex Clark got some amazing shots of Gabe's Tower, giving us the kind of view only the birds ever get.

Crews are clearing hazardous material like glass out of what's left of Gabe's Tower, the iconic old Owensboro hotel that's been scheduled for demolition.

Okay, so Halloween is almost here and a couple of weeks ago I put out a feeler for ideas for Owensboro-inspired costumes. I love these and one is so out of the box, it's brilliant.

There's a new LED message on the side of Gabe's Tower, and this one seems very pointed. I wonder how close we are to an answer.

I drove out to the old Gabe's Shopping Center (I'm actually not sure WHAT it's called now) to see if the LED sign on the tower had changed.

When I was in New York City over the weekend, I stayed at the Millennium Broadway Hotel.  One evening, I turned on the television in our room and was quite surprised to see this photo on the home screen!

Click bait can either be good or really, really bad. I got my leg pulled pretty good over the weekend when I read this story.

At last - Gabe's Tower will re-open! The former Owensboro show place at 19th and Triplett has been closed for years. In this morning's Messenger-Inquirer, Bruce Jones of Professional Hospitality services held a news conference yesterday and announced their plans. It ...

Along with the Roosevelt House, it's one-half of the Owensboro skyline. (Well, one-third...Independence Bank's pretty tall.)

It truly is an Owensboro landmark.  But Gabe's Tower has been vacant for years and what to do with it has been the center of many heated debates.  And, oddly enough, the hotel was most recently offered for sale on Ebay.  Yet, there it sits.   A vacant, towering reminder of what Gabe's used to be to this town . . . a sort of cultural and social epicenter.  But, now, some folks who remember those gl