When were the good old days? An exhaustive (yeah, sure) survey of Cincinnati news media for the past decade indicates that more than 65 percent of recent uses of the phrase, “good old days” involve sports and refer to that long ago time when your team had a winning season. But it depends on whom you ask.
In 1997, for instance, Enquirer columnist and editorial writer Pete Bronson longed for the good old days when Cincinnati’s corporate oligarchs made all the decisions and votes didn’t matter because, as Pete said [November 9, 1997]:
“There is no problem in Cincinnati that cannot be made worse by voters . . . It’s enough to make me long for the good old days when Cincinnati was run by and for corporate CEOs. Bring back the Cincinnati Business Committee – or something like it.”…