Good Night John Boy nostalgia restaurant headed to OSU-area Gateway (2024)

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Good Night John Boy nostalgia restaurant headed to OSU-area Gateway? ›

Good Night John Boy, a concept developed by Forward Hospitality Group, which also owns the Flipside at Easton, will take over one of the vacant restaurant locations at the Gateway. Ugly Tuna Saloona and Mad Mex left the campus area development this year.

Pete by Cleveland-based Forward Hospitality Group, which owns and operates ten restaurant and bar concepts around Ohio, including Good Night John Boy which opened in Cleveland in 2021.

The nightclub's name, Good Night John Boy, is a tribute to The Waltons, one of the most popular shows on TV in the early 1970s. At the end of each episode, the family would say goodnight to one another before falling asleep.

In addition to the now four Good Night John Boy locations operating across the country, Martin said the restaurant-bar is planning on expanding into other cities in the next few years.

Overall, the show and various side businesses account for nearly $8 million in revenue annually, employing 20.

The cast includes Marcelle Le Blanc as Mary Ellen Walton; Christian Finlayson as Jason Walton; Tatum Matthew as Erin Walton; Samuel Goergen as Jim Bob Walton; Callaway Corrick as Elizabeth Walton; Rebecca Koon as Grandma Walton; Alpha Trivette as Grandpa Walton; Marilyn McCoo as Sister Harriet and Billy Davis Jr.

Since then, crews have been hard at work converting the 4,000-square-foot space into Goodnight John Boy, a Studio 54-style club where disco and dance are the main attractions. Rutter, who proudly claims to be “high on disco,” says that the whole '70s craze is one of the hottest things going right now.

next to and above J.P. Graziano, will exclusively play '70s, '80s and disco music with the goal to get people up and moving, said Dante Deiana, chief marketing officer of Forward Hospitality. “Going back to this era, one, it's familiar. Even if you're in your 20s you hear these songs …

As such, the phrase "I'll be John Brown" means that the speaker is involved in a problematic situation that will cause his or her death (notably, the phrase is tongue-in-cheek and speakers likely do not mean they will actually be killed for their actions).

What ever became of John Boy from the Waltons? As a character, John-Boy's life is chronicled after the series in the 6 TV movies released in the years since the end of the show. After the war, he moved back to New York, where he worked as an editor and TV anchor.

Who is the original John-Boy? ›

Richard Thomas(I)

Richard Earl Thomas is an American actor. He is best known for his leading role as budding author John-Boy Walton in the CBS drama series The Waltons for which he won an Emmy Award from two nominations and received two Golden Globe Award nominations.

As the oldest son of Olivia and John Walton, John-Boy was an integral part of the Depression-era family drama. But after spending much of his early 20s portraying the bookish would-be writer, Thomas felt it was time to do something different. “In the infinite wisdom of a 26-year-old I decided it was time to move on,...

This is just a taste — the opening is happening in phases, says co-owner Michael Schwartz.

In a desperate attempt to make a loan payment on his printing press John-Boy sells his 10 acre meadow on Waltons Mountain, deeply upsetting Grandpa.

The Waltons was produced by Lorimar Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution in syndication. The show's end sequence featured the family saying goodnight to one another before going to bed for the night.

The setting of “The Waltons,” from which “Good night, John-Boy” derived fame, belongs to “The Greatest Generation.” The television series was set in the Depression, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia, just below the “taller ridges … rimmed with a fading autumn silver,” as Earl Hamner Jr.