Ray's Place, Kent Ohio.

Taking you down a road, paved by cobble stones, visited by many famous and infamous. This memory lane tells a tale of how Ray's came to be and how you might have remembered it.

1900
Ray's building early 1900's when Ray's space was a drug store & upstairs was
the Central Hotel. W.C.Fields stayed there.

1937
Inside Ray's Place

1950
Ray's building early 1950's

Signs above door Ray's and Mother's Junction Mother's being a (band bar) from approx 1977 to 1992. Mother's opened upstairs in 1976 or 1977, I bought Ray's in Dec 1978
and in 1979 I changed Mother's to Mother's Junction. (A railroad theme)

Ray's (downstairs)

Mothers Junction (upstairs)

1992-2007

Present