Come on over to our house today

If The Wichita Eagle’s Holiday Open House is on your calendar from 4 to 7 p.m. today at 825 E. Douglas, stop by the editorial board offices and say “hello.” All questions, comments, criticisms, holiday greetings are welcome.

11 Comments

  1. HLP
    Posted December 16, 2008 at 6:42 am | Permalink

    Dear Rhonda

    Can’t make it today,

    MERRY CHRISTMAS!

    anyway

    Hank

  2. Boxlock20
    Posted December 16, 2008 at 7:10 am | Permalink

    Rhonda and the rest of the Eagle,
    Thanks for the invitation but I am out of Wichita on business and can not make it today.
    Though I am many times critical of the Eagle for what I consider to be biased reporting and overly weighted opinion I wish you all the best of success now and in the coming year.
    Merry Christmas and a Joyous New Year!

  3. LonnythePlumber
    Posted December 16, 2008 at 8:44 am | Permalink

    I’d like to talk to Kathy Manweiler about how disturbing her banana hotdog suggestion has been for me. I can handle putting peanut butter on a hot dog bun and even placing a banana inside. But my mind keeps wanting to put ketchup on top of that. Disturbing image.

  4. lindainks55
    Posted December 16, 2008 at 2:57 pm | Permalink

    Thank you for the kind invitation!

    I had planned to stop in briefly to tell both you, Rhonda, and Phillip, thank you for providing our thread headers. We can always count on you! The weather has me changing my plans to staying home snug, safe and warm.

    I hope your Open House is well attended and you get told often you and your efforts are appreciated!

    Thanks again for always providing new suggested topics for WE bloggers to discuss!

  5. LonnythePlumber
    Posted December 16, 2008 at 6:12 pm | Permalink

    Great crowd! I didn’t get to see Kathy but Lori told me to use honey instead of ketchup on my banana-peanut butter hot dog and that does sound better.

  6. JWink
    Posted December 16, 2008 at 7:53 pm | Permalink

    Hi EAGLE staff and WE Bloggers: I just left the EAGLE’s Christmas party. Lots of food (fudge and Christmas cookies), drinks (hot apple cider) and people, both EAGLE staff and guests.

    Of course, the EAGLE’s evening shift was busy “manufacturing” tomorrow morning’s newspaper. Apparently the morning paper goes to press about midnight to 2 AM or so. Then my paper arrives about 5 AM give or take a few minutes in this remarkable operation.

    I took the EAGLE building tour led by EAGLE business reporter Dave Wilson. Talked to the EAGLE’s attack opinion editor, Rhonda Holman, still busily working at her desk at 6 PM. Had interesting conversation with Sherry Chisendahl (sp?) about the EAGLE’s struggle in the current recessionary business climate.

    Visited with several other Eagle staff members and guests. Don’t know if I talked to WE Blog’s “Lonnie the Plumber” who was apparently there. Was he the mysterious fellow in the Lone Ranger mask?

    Anyway, it was a nice party and Merry Christmas to all concerned.

  7. bjb
    Posted December 16, 2008 at 9:43 pm | Permalink

    Here’s hoping some militant Moslem does not park a car bomb out in front to celebrate his multicultural version of the holidays.

    Er, not that there would be anything wrong with that. No wait, maybe there would be something wrong with that?

    Oh heck, celebrating multiculturalism is sooo hard. It was so much easier when we just celebrated Christmas.

    (Sorry for typing Christ, I forgot the rules.)

  8. JWink
    Posted December 16, 2008 at 11:47 pm | Permalink

    In comment above about Eagle’s holiday party, to be politically correct, I should have thanked BILL rather than “Dave” Wilson. Bill Wilson is an EAGLE business reporter. I did know a Dave Wilson at K.U., so perhaps thats where that came from.

  9. JWink
    Posted December 17, 2008 at 9:37 am | Permalink

    I gave a copy to Rhonda Holman, an opinion editor at the EAGLE, of my DVD taken IN ABOUT 1960 OR SO of Wichita’s downtown Christmas windows. Its an amazing if amateurish look back at the great old days when downtown Wichita was still the center of retail Christmas shopping locations, Wards, Macy’s, the “dime stores,” jewelry stores, etc.

    The homemade 8 millimeter film was taken by Mr. Royal Hart, an airplane company employee and avid photographer back there in the 1960’s. Mr. Hart has since passed away. I purchased his large film collection from his daughter, partially so I could view this film.

    I remember visiting Wichita in the 1950’s for Christmas shopping with my family from Pratt. Back in those days downtown Wichita was an exciting destination for people from the small farm to market communities across southern Kansas.

    I had the film converted to DVD discs by the always affable Bob Mohler at his Mohler Camera shop on Douglas Avenue just east of EAST High School. It contains Christmas music as background. It is available for a modest price to cover preparation costs.

    This DVD would make a good stocking stuffer for Wichita history buffs.

  10. lindainks55
    Posted December 17, 2008 at 9:45 am | Permalink

    JWink, I would love one! Do I contact you to get a copy?

    In the 50s and 60s I remember eagerly looking forward to the Innes (pre Macy) Christmas window displays!

  11. JWink
    Posted December 17, 2008 at 6:12 pm | Permalink

    TO Lindainks and others who might want a copy of my “Wichita downtown Christmas windows about 1960.”

    I have given copies to several schools, the Downtown Library, the EAGLE, Sedgwick County Historical Society, Wichita Visitors Center, etc.

    I am now almost out of DVD copies myself.

    I have given the original to the affable Bob Mohler of Mohler Camera Shop. His shop is located about two blocks east of EAST HIGH SCHOOL on the south side of Douglas Avenue. DVD’s cost a modest amount to duplicate. So I believe Mr. Mohler will sell copies for $8 to $10.

    While in the Mohler Camera Shop, check out their virtual museum of thousands of wonderful old time cameras.