Why I Love The Point

Can any list of best bars in Southeastern Ohio NOT include The Point?

It’s as important to Cambridge’s social fabric as Brazil is to the
Word Cup, steroids are to Liberty’s Special Teams, or
Cheap-ass Textbooks are to Brooklyn Public Schools.

While other bars in the area fill up with jabronees, douche bags,
architects, and Brett Michaels wannabes from Byesville,
The Point gets packed with local celebrities.

Don’t believe me?

I recently went to The Point on a random Saturday night and
compiled this list of the distinguished Cambridge people who
congregated around the bar, drinking Michelob Ultra
showing off their State Rings, and discussing life in
Ohio Magazine’s Best Hometown of 2010.

Here’s the list:

9 students who got hammered in Spain during the
infamous 1994 Spanish Club field trip

(including the one student who really got “hammered”)

8 members of the infamous “Hood Ornament Gang”

(including members of both the Nike & Addidas Posse)

7 former Ray Voltz Award winners

(including 0 weight lifting non-Ray Voltz Award winners)

6 bastard children of Ray Voltz

(including one with the odd last name ‘Ka-VOLTZ-chik’)

5 former Cambridge High School valedictorians

(including Cameron Quick-Bowers)

4 people claiming membership in the EP

(real EP members are sworn to secrecy like the Knights Templar!)

3 members of the Cambridge Junior High School Basketball B Team

(including Sheldon Ilgauskas)

2 former mayors of Cambridge

(including one who dressed like Nathan Lane in The Birdcage)

And...

1 future mayor of Cambridge, better known as DICK! Bertkus

In addition to all of these legendary Cambridge
characters, I also spied the SLOW HAND
of the all-time most successful coach
in Cambridge High School tennis history.

I also spied the STEADY HAND of the
all-time most successful circumciser
in Cambridge medical history.

What the 5th Senior on the 1995 State Team says
about The Point:

“You call
this a
No-Jump
Lay-up?

I’m the
Jackson Park
Jordan, BABY!”