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It passed. Tarbell & Crowley spoke and voted against it. Bortz & Berding spoke in favor of it.

How much influence does Shell have on the plans ?

^I don't know. I thought it had been demolished. It was a veteran's memorial sorta place. Home of the Spfld Symphony. Great acoustics if you were facing the stage - horible if you were sitting to the side. 9 million nooks and crannies that a kid would love. Big ceramoc urinals. Made a guy proud to pee standing up. The historical society used to have a place in the building. The neighborhood inhibited attendance like Music Hall in Cincinnati. The symphony later moved to North High but I guess plays at Kuss now. The really massive building is the Crowell Collier building I think. Ask your grandma about Collier magazine. Criminy, Ink, I left that town before you were born. I recognize the buildings but have a real hard time placing them.

God Bless bootlegging

BioWheels moved out to Milford or something. They had $200 - 300 bikes After that there is always Schwinn. There is also the Queen City Bicycle co-op which appears to have a dead website. They are in the West End I believe.

When I first saw this post I wasn't sure if you were talking about London, OH. I would be very interested in hearing about where you stay.

oh, your neighbors must love you

sweet heaven Double their fees ? What for ? I understand the desire to have the vendors there on Sunday. People like to shop on Sundays and a majority of retailers are open seven days a week while the market is still pretty much a five day a week affair. In the discussion of getting a streetcar running up to the market from downtown, has there been any discussion of frequency of trips on Sundays or would it be like the crappy truncated service Metro currently offers ? The insurance companies are ruining the world.

"Caucasian (largely of Swiss decent)" Glad you parents were not Swiss porn stars. German Scottish here but American dating back to the 1600s, too.

I showed this post to a friend of mine and she said the same thing. Hey, Ink, have you looked at Harry Laybourne's Images of America books on Spfld ? I have only been able to get my hands on the second one.

The Elderly United building used to house "the market" and Mattie Guthrie's diner. This is serious way back stuff, tho. The old city building tried making it as a retail place which was kinda cool at first but petered out. Now it is the Clark County Historical society ?

Why the city would want to compete with Clifton restaurants is beyond me. Park plan includes restaurants BY JANE PRENDERGAST | [email protected] A century after the first master plan for Cincinnati parks, designers are marking that 100th anniversary with a new plan – an inches-thick wish list of amenities and policies that sets the tone and direction for all the greenspace throughout the city for decades to come. In the works 18 months, the Centennial Plan will be unveiled Wednesday. Among the ideas:Restaurants; Better amenities. And among the goals for the next generation of parks: increased nature education and better accessibility. Read full article here: http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070319/NEWS01/303190066

^ But cats like fish .....

Those guys deserve Batmobiles.

Dewine said "It costs about $57.00 a bed night to operate our own jail spaces. We are renting spaces in Butler County for about $55.00 a bed night." here: http://www.cincinnatibeacon.com/index.php/content/comments/costly_august_special_election_is_the_wrong_way_to_fund_jail_expansion/

Well, not all kids get the attention that Marcus Feisel got, either.

Any opinions on Trek v Giant ? I am currently looking at the Trek 1000 & the Giant OCR 3

Seriously, you guys all look the same

The newer old buses have the digital display. My biggest complaint is that they seem to care about a very few number of seriously incapacitated disabled people but not the greater number of infirm people. From the pics I have seen of you, you look pretty healthy Well, physically.

^ How do you do that when it is hanging off your face ?

^I wonder how many times that article has been sent to Miss Cochrane

rant time While the old cards were not exactly things of beauty, they were very useful. The new ones with reduced contrast and narrower fonts will be harder to read for people with reduced vision. If you are completely blind, of course, it would not matter. This seems to be the logic of Metro. The new buses flat out have fewer seats. What seats exist are scrunched in tighter and are lower. While there are not the 2 steps to get into the bus, the first step is about the same & the mot treacherous. The dark narrow steep steps to get to the upper deck are virtually impossible to use for elderly people or people with mobility impairments. Almost half the seats are, thus, rendered unusable in a bus that has fewer sets anyway. And as I mentioned, the seats are harder to navigate. I recently had to help an elderly guy out of his seat because it was too low. I am about 6'2" and I cannot sit with my knees straight in front of me in these new buses. With the old buses, one had a continuous overhead handrail running rhe length of the bus. In the new buses, one must continually search for hand holds that are placed all over he place. One of my favorite features, here, is the overhead hand rail on the driver side. It does not reach all the way to the last seat. The overhead handrail for the upper deck does extend out past the upper deck & over he last seat of he lower deck. A professional basketball player might be able to use the thing but that is about it. One thing that is not really a design problem per se but is still a real problem that should have been addressed is that teenagers like to stand between the wheelwells. It seems to be some kind of social thing. This makes boarding the bus a real PITA especially considering the obesity of so many teens. Further, the "flat" floor is not flat, it dips just after the wheelwells which is disconcerting to visually impaired people who are expecting a truly flat loor as they grasp about for hand holds here and there about the *@^$ bus. I have not met anyone who likes these buses oh wait, I forgot about the sense of claustrophobia from sittiing in the low seats while the windows are all up above your head...... they do seem to run better, tho.

oh man, you don't even go near a cat making sounds like that It didn't look like a slap to me - kinda looked like she might have gotten some claws to the neck that hurts Most of the calicos I have known were pretty nice weel, to me, the birds & mice they met might have had different opinions

Ain’t It Strange? By PATTI SMITH Published: March 12, 2007 On a cold morning in 1955, walking to Sunday school, I was drawn to the voice of Little Richard wailing “Tutti Frutti” from the interior of a local boy’s makeshift clubhouse. So powerful was the connection that I let go of my mother’s hand. Rock ’n’ roll. It drew me from my path to a sea of possibilities. It sheltered and shattered me, from the end of childhood through a painful adolescence. I had my first altercation with my father when the Rolling Stones made their debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show.” Rock ’n’ roll was mine to defend. It strengthened my hand and gave me a sense of tribe as I boarded a bus from South Jersey to freedom in 1967. ... http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/12/opinion/12smith.html?_r=1&n=Top%2fOpinion%2fEditorials%20and%20Op%2dEd%2fOp%2dEd%2fContributors&oref=slogin

Cinti Findlay Market after dark Well, ok, before light part of my photo chronicles of going to work and I'm cheating with two shots but since this thread has been kinda inactive for a while ...... http://home.fuse.net/christol/GTW/GTW001.html