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Is Cudell really scary?

Happy 203, Ohio!

One of my favorite pop songs from last summer: Ohio (Come back to Texas) even though it tries to rhyme Cleveland and Leland... by Bowling for Soup

"concluding a few terms with a couple of steel firms when they left fully loaded for Cleveland" Gordon Lightfoot "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald"

Akron?

Whoa! Did I make a wrong turn and end up on Detroityes.com?

I was born in Cleveland, grew up in Michigan, and have lived all over the United States. I know Cleveland, Toledo, and Columbus very well, but have only viewed Cincinnati and Dayton from I-75. Before I joined this forum, I knew next to nothing about those cities, and never associated them with my home state. How provincial we can be!

Maryanne, the heroine of the "Tales of the City" series moved to San Francisco from Cleveland. Scooter moves to Cleveland in "Muppets Take Manhattan" Cincinnati skyline was used behind credits in old soap opera "Edge of Night" (produced by P and G -- literally a soap opera!)

I wish somebody had stopped I- 90 before it flattened West Blvd. and Lorain on the West Side.

When my family moved to Avon Lake, we were still West Siders. (West Side, two words, not one), My cousins, who grew up in Parma Hts. (off W. 130th St.) were also West Siders. Now that my cousins have moved to Grafton, they still consider themselves West Siders. I guess it's a state of mind thing ... I, like the Pope, am too lazy even to do a seaech. Is there a good East vs. West Cincinnati thread, or is it time to start one?

I'm a third generation OhioCity/West Side native. We went to the East Side for culture, but everything else was available to us the West Side. I always heard the boundary between the East and the Midwest ran through Public Square ...

I think you may be too close to Hamilton, and a local person's perspective/bias to see how wonderful this neighborhood looks to an outsider. No disclaimer needed. Thanks for showing me around a city I formerly knew as just a name on the map.

Road Work next 50 miles.

Damn. I know who Guy Lombardo is too ...

I have many happy chidhood memories from the park across the street fom my cousin's house on Big Creek Pkwy. in Parma Hts. Dead Man's Cave supposedly has noxious fumes that would kill you if you went in too deep(!), and the big vines were wonderfully placed to swing from bluff to bluff... 8-)

The backwards Southern state I live in has a speed trap law. If any town receives over a certain percentage of its income from traffic tickets, they lose the right to patrol the highway. In an adjoining state, a city must have three freeway exits in order to patrol the interstate. It seems to me that Linndale was originally a settlement for African American railroad workers. In the 60s, it was rare to see Black people on the West Side, so I suspect racism may have had something to do with it not being annexed by Cleveland or Brooklyn. Just a guess ...

Dayton has an aviation heritage? I thought the Wright Brothers were from Dearborn ...

My image of Dayton improved greatly through Jeff's photo essays. They need to hire you, Jeff.

Is it pronounced "Ore-gun" like the state, or "Ore-gahn" like the Toledo suburb? Beautiful pictures on a beautiful day! When is New Orleans Lady going to see a real Ohio winter?

your life is good Rob, it's your avatar that sucks ...

Anything happening in Cuddell?

Dang. I was hoping this was one of Jeff's photo essays ...

I am a third generation Ohio City Native, born at Lutheran Hospital (West Side Cleveland) way back in the mid twentieth century. But I claimed Michigan, because I grew up there. Have spent most of my adult life in California, but the years In Arkansas are adding up ...

Welcome Lamichelle! Glad you don't go by piggirl ...

Geeks? Dorks? Nerds? Looks like my kind of folk ...