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Newport Kentucky was the premier night life destination for Cincinnatians in that time period. That was where the classy upscale nightclubs and gambling casinos were until a Catholic reformist Sheriff chased them all out of town in the early 1960s. Newport's local economy never rovered to that high level it had when it was the unparralled number one night life destination spot for the Cincinnati region.
That sounds a lot like what happened to Kansas City in the 1930's. Probably the no. 1 Jazz town in America at the time the clubs were running hot 24/7. Count Basie, Big Joe Turner, Lester Young, famous tenor sax battles, etc. Then the bible thumpers took over the city. And, well, you know the rest. Newport must have been a fun town back in the day.
Trump speaking on Monday about his time in Ohio when he was younger. The quote:
"I won't tell you...but I on occasion would be known to sneak into Kentucky, because I liked Kentucky. I like Kentucky for all the wrong reasons, but I like Kentucky. I like it."
Are there any trump supporters here who can decipher this? Why would he have to "sneak into" Kentucky and what does "for all the wrong reasons" mean?
Did he go to Newport? Organized crime, hookers, strip clubs, and moonshine ...
I'm more curious about why he'd talk about Kentucky to a crowd in Cleveland. It's not like you can zip over the bridge to scratch your itch from 4 hours away ... Are we sure that dumbass knew which part of Ohio he was in?
Trump was running around frantically from rally to rally and I doubt if he knew exactly where he was from day to day. He probably thought he was in Cincinnati, right across the river from Newport, which did have quite a rep. for strip clubs, prostitution, gambling and other unsavory activities back in the day (it's cleaned up considerably now).
I think Trump had some sort of a building project in Cincinnati and lived there while he was first getting started with the grifting, didn't he? Yikes, I just realized I also lived in Cincy for a few years around what would likely have been the same time! Never encountered The Donald, though, thankfully.
Northern Kentucky is much more like Cincinnati socially and culturally than it is the rest of Kentucky - huge German Catholic influence still, plus lots of industry. It was settled later than much of Kentucky, too, in the 1840s, when there was a huge wave of German immigration into the Ohio Valley and the river towns became heavily industrial.
Go a couple of hours down the road to late-18th-century-founded Scots-Irish/English heritaged Lexington and the pastoral and manicured thoroughbred horse country of the Bluegrass, and you might as well be in another country in many ways. Of course, Trump managed to insult the entire state of Kentucky with his thoughtless words, which didn't reflect too well on Ohio, either, in the process.
Trump was running around frantically from rally to rally and I doubt if he knew exactly where he was from day to day. He probably thought he was in Cincinnati, right across the river from Newport, which did have quite a rep. for strip clubs, prostitution, gambling and other unsavory activities back in the day (it's cleaned up considerably now).
It's funny. In 1983 I was dating a girl from Cincy area and she commented how Newport, KY functioned as the vice district for the area. I remember her saying that the liquor laws were looser in KY.
But even for Trump, there would need to be a point to his joke.
He obviously thought his audience would get it- which those of us from the general area here certainly did - while others here at C-D were clueless and thought he was referring to fried chicken, race horses, or whiskey, since they are neither Kentuckians nor Cincinnatians.
Since Trump was in Cleveland, far to the north of Greater Cincinnati when he cracked his "joke", rather than in or near Cincinnati or Northern Kentucky where once-shady Newport is located, it probably fell flat and just baffled most of his audience (not that they'd care, they were there to see Trump, after all, and he could have recited the multiplication table or sung "Mary Had a Little Lamb" - and they'd still cheer and holler MAGA!!))
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