The critiques contained herein are unsolicited and soley the opinion of Doc Whiz. Doc Whiz admits that he is particularly
impressed by businesses that have treated him and all other customers well. Doc Whiz also stands behind every word and
his recommendations of the following businesses........
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- Back in the 60's everyone, hippies, greasers, straights, bents etc., was buying government surplus clothing... at that
time WWII and Korean War vintage U.S. khaki green uniforms. For you that think a hippie in an individual with a gifted
posterior who enters rooms sideways, those are hippys.... not to be confused with hippos which are easily offended
animals. Anyway, at Armee des Nations you are not limited to khaki green or even to only U.S. surplus uniforms...
this place has uniforms from almost every service branch of many major nations. Some of the clothing has received
fashion treatment, viz. dyed and accessorized. Also other militaria (a word Doc Whiz has made up) is available...
badges, medals, ribbons, watches, and other gear. "Back in the 60's, I, Doc Whiz, used to wear clothing like this, when
I wore clothing. I must have been a hippie during the 60's, because I can't remember my college years. I do remember
this white rabbit and some chick named Alice..... Yeah.... Oh wow man...."(Doc Whiz, 1996) RATING: 5 bayonets out of 5.
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- A quirky, establishment that at various times allows Doc Whiz to use as an office. Known for it's Brady Roll,
Brady's blend coffee (similar to a hazelnut/frangelica flavor) and variety of home fries cooked in more different ways than
you can imagine. One of the few eateries where smoking is still permitted. Definitely a place for poets, artists, dead heads, academics, wiccans, free spirits, new agers, etc. Entertainment
almost nightly depending on time of year.... open mike night on Wednesdays, open poetry reading monthly on Friday, other
music (jazz, folk, traditional, reggae, rock) on other nights...check the Main St. window to see who is playing. Great place for
a cheap date, conversation, and rendezvous at the second floor tables. "Not the cleanest
place in town nor the fastest service, BUT HELL, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU WANT, YOU DON'T WANT THE BRADY!!!" (Doc Whiz,
1996) RATING: 4 cups out of 5.
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- This is a kind of sandwich shop's sandwich shop. A great variety of different sandwiches and the greatest
view of the corner of Main and Water Streets in Kent, you can find in Kent. As a matter of fact, Doc Whiz would venture
to say that no other location has this historic view. In the Franklin Square Deli there are a number of televisions that
always seem to have car races on screen. Also there are a number of fine drawings of race cars displayed. During
special downtown events, they make some of their sandwiches on the side walk outside. "This is an original local Kent
sandwich shop.... what you get here can only be gotten here. If you could get this menu anywhere else, Doc Whiz wouldn't
recommend it."(Doc Whiz, 1996) RATING: 5 pickles out of 5.
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- A GREAT Burger and 12 different flavors of wings and as many different types of appetizers. The only place in Kent Doc Whiz knows
to get Alligator Tail (it's on the menu and requires
two day notice and a deposit). Located at the corner of S.Willow and E. College, just a block west of Franklin Hall. The attention
to how the customer wants their burger prepared is worth a visit. Does sell beer....(YOU'D BETTER BE 21), Two cable TV's, a CD-Juke Box
Cigarette Machine and a Dart Arcade Game. Professional Dart equipment displayed and for sale on the premises. Party room
available. Various specials, but you have to come in to see what they are. Monday Special: Wings at $.20 each. "This is one of
those places you would expect college students to hang out in...... and they do." (Doc Whiz, 1996) RATING: 5 buns out of 5.
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- Current CD's and cassettes. Good source for alternative and local material. There's this blow up
doll or manequin of this greaser 50's dude that is in the store leaning against the wall and a 4 ft. diameter record.
Sometimes local deadheads come in and try to discuss politics with the manequin for hours on end... or maybe it
just seems like hours. "Always music playing in the store....sometimes you'll hear something you didn't know existed.
Doc Whiz bought several disks because he heard them playing in the store." (Doc Whiz, 1996) RATING: 5 mosh pits out of 5.
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- This is a real hardware store. You can by nails and screws one at a time if you like.
You can buy quality tools. Walking in to this place is like going into one of those
stores where you knew what they were selling, hardware not underwear, nor software, nor
munsingwear, nor copperware..... just screws, nails, hinges, wires, fuses, caulking compound, 2X4's,
doors, pipes, joints, screen, cement, switches, tools, chains, ropes, twine, and stuff.
Hey isn't that something, a hardware store that sells....the stuff you expect! "When I
need to get wired or plastered, or need a screw I think of just one place in Kent, A place
where I can fill my tool belt so heavy, that my posterior cleavage screams building trade union."
(Doc Whiz, 1996) 5 hammers out of 5.
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- A jewelry store just like you'd find at a Grateful Dead concert. Beads, sterling silver jewelry,
clothing, religious tokens, fetishes and neat stuff. You can select you own beads and make
you own necklaces. Great collection of african bronze charms and far eastern fetishes.
"This store has a great selection of fertility fetishes from Asia and Africa. Thank goodness
Planned Parenthood is just a few doors down for the inadvertently fecund who accidently fondle
the phallus fertility fetishes. Doc Whiz won't even look at a female for a week after touching
one of them"(Doc Whiz, 1996) 5 Shiva phalluses out of 5.
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- A clean laundrymat with TV's all over the place, a pool table, serves beer (YOU'D BETTER BE 21), coffee, and snack items.... This place is good enough
to go to on a date. Specials .... movie nights, day time wash specials. Great T-shirts. "This is what doing laundry was meant to be, I
can watch TV or other people's gotkes depending on the mood I'm in. Remember clean clothes smell nice and don't stand by
themselves.....Doc Whiz would rather smell like a laundry detergent than an arm pit." (Doc Whiz, 1996) RATING: 5 dryers out of 5.
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Mike's Place.....
- A restaurant having one of the most extensive offerings of funny named sandwiches and entrees in Kent. Large portions served
providing great value for the money. Definitely for the informal diner...... the place is so popular that there may be a wait at the
dinner hour, but that's what you would expect.... You can wait in the bus if you like (Mike built a bar around a bus.) or read the
signage which Doc Whiz admits is pretty humorous. Mike has all sorts of weird things (he thinks they're antiques) hanging on
the walls. Be sure to bring a pen to do the word search on Mike's place mats which are advertisements for some health food
garbage (Doc Whiz bets that Mike got a great deal on these place mats...He must be being paid to use them.). "If your
parents accused you of having EYES TOO BIG FOR YOUR STOMACH, this is a restaurant for you. By the way, if you
have eyes too big for your stomach, explain what this means to Mike." (Doc Whiz, 1996) RATING: 5 plates out of 5.
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- Here's an eatery that takes not only almost any credit card but it takes ATM's. Although this place has
two full bars (you better be 21), three pool tables, foosball and an electronic dart game......it has the best overstuffed
sandwich Doc Whiz has ever had on June 13, 1996. This was a cheese steak sandwich that had the sides in the
sandwich and not on the side. The normal sides that come with the overstuffed sandwich are slaw and fries which
aren't sides to this sandwich...but actually insides to the sandwich rather than side sides. This actually makes eating
a sandwich and two sides much less stressful at lunchtime.... for example...normally you take a bite of a sandwich... then
you have to choose whether you are going to have a fry, or a bit of slaw, or another bite of the sandwich...and you have to
make this decision over and over. With the sides inside, you just eat this gigantic sandwich and don't worry about outside
sides or sides on the side because every side is inside or between two big slices of bread and you don't have to decide.
And if this wasn't enough, tomato and cheese is added to the sandwich inside with the other sides.."This is one mnnnmnfth
bnnnonfffnf sammich!!"(Doc Whiz, 1996) RATING: 5 napkins out of 5.
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- An institution in Kent. For years students at Kent have been frequenting Ray's... at lunch time,
faculty and staff often come by... late afternoons... students. Wednesday and Thursday nights almost
every greek student of legal age goes through this place.... or so it seems. The moose is a sacred icon here.
During the day time, this place is known for its burgers and chili..... a nice place to come to dine.... the second
floor great for a student dinner date... good food reasonably priced. Ray's t-shirts, sweat shirts, boxers, mugs,
and other souvenirs often proudly displayed or worn old-timers returning to relive their glory days. For those
from the 60's , they don't remember those glory days.... so the come to listen to other people's stories. Around
homecoming in the fall and Holloween, this place is a must stop for alums. Whenever there are downtown events,
families come to dine. "Doc Whiz remembers when Mother's was on the second floor above Ray's.... and this
was the one and only time he was asked for I.D.in Kent. The person at the door then apologized and said I
didn't look old enough to be as old as I was, but I certainly was old enough to be old. ..... This was a very astute
coed.... must have barely passed propositional calculus."(Doc Whiz, 1996) 5 antlers out of 5.
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- Records, stereo LP's.......you know... vinyl...... 45 and 33 rpm's.... you have this thing called a
turntable or a record player. And you took this thing called a tone arm and placed it over the edge
of the record and then let it down onto the spinning surface. You either scratched the hell out of it so
it would skip.... it would skip........ it would skip........ it would skip........ it would skip....This place has a large
collection of used records, cassettes, cd's as well as new releases. Great collection of posters and
other things, but special attention to music. "When I want 8-tracks I go to flea markets...... when I want
Bobby Darren, Fats Domino, Elvis, and the artist once known as Prince who is now some symbol for
a unisex john, rock and roll of the 50's and 60's.....Doc Whiz checks out this place first."(Doc Whiz, 1996)
RATING: 5 golden oldies out of 5.
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- Hey... this is the Kent State University Bookstore.... one of two places in Kent to buy your text books... that is a
necessary evil.....But this place has a lot of other stuff..... and I mean STUFF. You can get art supplies, ice cream,
black light posters, cd's, computer stuff, greeting cards, origami paper, cough drops, logo ware, magazines, books
on tape, titanium Cross pens, jewelry, caculators, and recycled stuff too. And don't think that just because Doc Whiz
is a faculty member and he gets a discount that he is plugging this place. NO WAY!!!! This place is always having
something on sale or something new to check out..... Doc Whiz is so cheap that sometimes he only buys sale items
whether he needs them or not. (That is why he is plugging this place... to get more sales!!) "Whenever Doc Whiz is
in the mood to see a lot of STUFF in one place, he checks
out the KSU bookstore."(Doc Whiz, 1996) RATING: 5 thumb tacks out of 5.
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- From the same folks that bring you Laundry 101. HEY....THESE FOLKS DELIVER VIDEO TAPES TO YOUR RESIDENCE....
So catch this...... You invite someone over.....you know a significant person.... someone you just want to be with.... alone.... you
just want to stay in.... so you order a pizza for nourishment.... and it's too early.... so you.. so you.... call VIDEO 101 for a movie to
get you in that mood for entertainment. Open very late for the apres bar crowd. Don't miss PeeWee's Playhouse.... one need not
be a pervert, but you do have to be over 18. "When I was in college, there were no video tapes. We had to take our dates to the
theaters and rush home afterwards praying that the mood wouldn't change by the time we made it through the front door. I sure
could have used a Video 101 when I was in school." (Doc Whiz, 1996) RATING: 5 tapes out of 5.
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- This is a musician's instrument store.... if you play it, you can get it here. Not just guitars, drums,
keyboards, cymbals, chimes, recorders, sound boards, recording equipment..... Woodsey's provides
sound engineering services for many area concert programs and special events like the Kent State Folk
Festival. If you don't play an instrument, many musicians give lessons upstairs at Woodsey's. Not only that,
Doc Whiz bought some stuff called Gorilla Snot there.... this stuff is the ultimate tacky grippy stuff that you
put on your finger tips so that things don't slip through or past your fingers. "If you beat it, blow it, finger it, flail it,
rub it, or tickle it to some rhythm, you can get it at Woodsey's." (Doc Whiz, 1996) RATING: 5 tambourines out of 5.
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- Oh my god, I've died and gone to veggie heaven. A restaurant with vegan view..... meat eaters
welcome but don't expect to be served anything that walked around on two or four legs. Wonderful
breads and patato pancakes to die for..... Not your true latke... but then my bubbie doesn't fry
here or anyplace else for that matter. Good portions for the money. Definitely a place for
womyn, new agers, the health conscious, folkies, spiritualists, artist types, artistic types,
neo-pagens, wiccans and environmentalists. "When I have a taste for eatin' green, I find the
Zephyr serves everything I hated when I was 4. When I was 4, I went to a restaurant at a place
called the House of David. I can remember the trauma of being served nothing but vegetables,
many of which I didn't recognize. I recognize all the vegetables the Zephyr serves." (Doc Whiz,
1996) 5 mushrooms out of 5.
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