Although Orrville has one of the worst city names in the state, its a pretty decent little town. Orrville's claims to fame are Smuckers (still headquartered in the city!) and Bobby Knight (although he was originally from nearby Massillon).

 

I decided to make a detour for Orrville between Wooster and Massillon to get a look at the Orr Theater which Preservation Ohio reported is threated with demolition for a chain drug store. I thought I'd never find it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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And two blocks away from downtown...finally the Orr

cool, uncrustables rule

hmmm...

Been there, but it's been >20 years. Orrville is on the former PRR mainline and gets lots of freight traffic that moves through pretty fast. When I was there, they were working on the old depot to turn it into a museum. Neat building.

great work ink, i sorta like the orr.

 

i have a funny story about orrville hs football. for some reason our hs used to play them in preseason practice games. they had a funny looking coach who was under five feet tall and round as he was tall. he was a screamer too. big deal, typical coach right?

 

well here's the kicker.

 

everytime someone on their team made a mistake, this coach yelled "warm me ups!" and the game stopped while everyone on the team got in a line and ran at the poor "schmucker" and gave him a pop. our team and coaches stood there slack jawed watching this. do i have to tell you what happened next? we would be killing them like 40-0 or whatever and everytime we crushed someone on a play we would stand over them and yell "warm me ups!" and howl with laughter. thankfully, later in the game the coach finally got the message and stopped that.  :roll:

 

 

 

I'm suddenly hungry for an english muffin with strawberry jam.

 

Being an aficionado of hole-in-the-wall bars, I would like to have a beer at this joint.

I lived about 10 miles from there for 14 months yet never once visited.  I just never felt like making that detour off US30 between Wooster and Massillon.  Looks like I missed out on an interesting collection of restaurants (Mrs. J's).  With a name like Orrville, it's got to be good.