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Gangsters, Orphans and a Very Big Cheese
"Trouble at Tiedtke's"
Original Dinner Theater Production
May 22, 23 & 24, 2015
Cass Road Baptist Church • 1400 Cass Road • Maumee, OH 43537
Serving at Every Performance
Red Wells Famous Roast Beef Sandwiches
Thick White Bread • Red Wells Roast Beef • Garlic Mashed Potatoes • Beef Gravy
All funds raised benefit W2Crew mission work through the Sam Jones Project and Brothers' Keeper.
Our fictional story was set in the Roaring 1920s at Toledo's Tiedtke's Department Store. Tiedtke's was a mainstay in downtown Toledo for over four decades. Through our story, you will be transported back to the days of jazz, Prohibition and the Tiedtke's giant wheel of cheese! The madcap fun and thrills include the origin of Red Wells Famous Roast Beef Sandwiches, a large woodchuck that was the first animal at the Walbridge Park Zoo (or was it a bear?) and more. Great fun is in store at our 2015 Dinner Theater show!
We had a wonderful response to the show and we thank everyone who made another mission trip possible!!!
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life,
what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.
Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns,
and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuable than they?”
Matthew 6:25-26 (NIV)
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Our local radio station 1370 WSPD plays a prominent role in “Trouble at Tiedtke’s.” We have taken a few liberties with the history, however.
WSPD began broadcasting in 1921 as “WTAL.” The call letters changed in 1928 when George B. Storer and his brother-in-law J. Harold Ryan purchased the station. The call letters came from the name “Speedene Oil,” a brand owned and marketed by the new station owners. For decades Toledoans will remember the moniker “Speedy 1370" which originally referred to the “Speedene” brand name.
In later years WSPD featured regular broadcasts from Tiedtke’s Department Store including Toledo icon Art Barrie’s “Summit Conference.” His show was broadcast directly from the Seaway Cafeteria in Tiedtke’s.
Though “Trouble at Tiedtke’s” is set in the mid 1920s, we incorporated an Art Barrie-style WSPD radio show into our play and set it in the Seaway Cafeteria, just as what became a Toledo tradition years later.
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Trouble at Tiedtke's features a lot of phrases and slang from the 1920s. Here's a glossary in case you're curious!
Abe's Cabe: five-dollar bill
Ankle - to leave, to walk as in "let's ankle"
Applesauce- an exclamation much like "horsefeathers" as in "Ah applesauce!"
Baby vamp - a popular female
Banana oil - that's doubtful
Baloney - nonsense!
Bearcat - a fiery girl
Beat one's gums - idle chatter
Bee's Knees - An extraordinary person, thing, or idea.
Our character Betty "Bee's Knee's" Crawford uses dozens of "animal anatomy" variations. Listen for how many you hear in our play: cat's pajamas, elephant's eyebrows, gnat's whistle, eel's hips, monkey's eyebrows, elephant’s adenoids, cat’s meow, ant’s pants, tiger’s spots, bullfrog’s beard, elephant’s instep, caterpillar’s kimono, turtle’s neck, duck’s quack, gnat’s elbows, cat's whiskers, oyster’s earrings, snake’s hips, kipper’s knickers, elephant’s manicure, clam’s garter, eel’s ankle, leopard’s stripes, sardine’s whiskers, canary’s tusks, pig’s wings, cuckoo’s chin and butterfly’s book.
Beeswax - business as in "mind your beeswax."
Berries - that which is attractive or pleasing; similar to bee's knees, As in "It's the berries."
Bird - general term for a man or woman usually meaning "odd" as in "What a funny old bird!"
Bluenose - An excessively puritanical person, a prude
Bootleg - illegal liquor
Breezer - an convertible car
Bug-eyed Betty - an unattractive girl; student
Bunny - a term of endearment applied to the lost or confused
Carry a Torch - to have a crush on someone
Cast a kitten - to have a fit
Choice bit of calico - attractive female
Copacetic - wonderful, fine, all right
Dame - a female
Dapper - a Flapper's dad
Darb - an excellent thing as in "that's Darb"
Di Mi! - my goodness!
Doll - an attractive woman
Dolled up - dressed up
Don't take any wooden nickels - don't do anything stupid
Dough - money
Drugstore Cowboy - a guy with a lot of girlfriends
Dry up - be quiet and get lost!
Ducky - very good
Dumb Dora - a stupid female
Fakeloo artist - con man
Fire extinguisher - a chaperone
Flapper - A stylish, brash, hedonistic young woman with short skirts & shorter hair
Fly boy - a glamorous term for an aviator
Four-flusher - a person who feigns wealth while mooching off others
Get a wiggle on - get a move on, get going
Giggle Water - An intoxicating beverage; alcohol
Glad rags - "going out on the town" fancy clothes
Go chase yourself - get lost, scram.
Grummy - depressed
Heebie-Jeebies - the jitters
Hen coop - beauty shop
Hit on all sixes - to perform 100 per cent; as "hitting on all six cyclinders"
Hooch - Bootleg liquor
Horsefeathers - an exclamation; same usage as applesauce
Hot sketch - a card or cut-up
Hotsy-Totsy - Pleasing
Ish kabibble - a retort meaning "I should care" from the name of a musician in the Kay Kayser Orchestra
Jack - money
Jake - Okay, as in , "Everything is Jake."
Jane - any female
Java - coffee
Jeepers creepers - exclamation of surprise
Joe - coffee
Kale - money
Keen - Attractive or appealing
Kiss - cash
Kiss now or kiss later? - are you going to give me the money now or later?
Know one's onions - to know one's business or what one is talking about
Lalapazaza - a good sport
Lens Louise - the person who steamrolls the conversation
Let's blouse - let's get out of here!
Level with me - be honest
Live wire - a lively and possibly nervous person
Lollygagger - an idle person
Mazuma - money
Mind your potatoes - mind your own business
Mrs. Grundy - A prudish or extremely tight-laced person
Mustard Plaster - someone who isn’t wanted but won’t leave
Nerts! - That’s awesome!
Nifty - great, excellent
Now you're on the trolley! - Now you've got it, now you're right!
Nobody Home - Describes some one who is dumb
Off one's nut - crazy
On the lam - fleeing from police
On the level - legitimate, honest
On the up and up - on the level
Orchid - a very expensive item
Palooka - a social outsider, from the comic strip character Joe Palooka
Phonus balonus - nonsense
Piffle - baloney
Prom-trotter - a young girl who attends a lot of social functions
Pull a Daniel Boone - to vomit
Punch the bag - small talk
Pinch - To arrest
Pipe down - stop talking
Reuben - an unsophisticated country bumpkin; also, "rube"
Says you - a reaction of disbelief
Scratch - money
Screaming meemies - the shakes
Screwy - crazy
Sheba - A girlfriend, an appealing woman (from the move Queen of Sheba)
Sheik - A boyfriend, an appealing man (from the Valentino movies)
Skirt - attractive female
Sockdollager - an action having a great impact
Stuck On - Having a crush on
Swanky - swell or ritzy
Swell - Wonderful. Also: a rich man
Tell ti Sweeney - tell it to someone who'll believe it
Togged to the bricks - dressed to the nines
Tomato - a female
Torpedo - A hired gun
Trip for biscuits - wild goose chase
Vicey Versey - backward
Voot - money
Wet Blanket - a solemn person, a killjoy
What's eating you? - What's wrong
Wurp - a wet blanket or buzzkill
You slay me - that's funny
You're all wet - absolutely ridiculous as in "she's all wet."
Zozzled - drunk