steeber

Nice love expressed here, in Gem City fashion. I particularly enjoyed the entrance to 255 North Main Street where I once resided at the venerable Newcomb Manor. Some now call it the Insco Apartments - named for Charles Insco, architect. Love-ly...

It certainly shows the touch of an experienced professional photographer, showing the magic that is there.

True, NorthAndre, and remarkable things can still be built from scratch, as here in New York, but will they just opt for the easy way out? "Aww... it's already have destroyed, just let 'er go; What's the diff?". That's what I fear. People really need to get angry and vocal. I have seen many comments of outrage on this posted to Facebook and the Daily News site. It's a start. Otherwise, preserving this as a partial ruin (with the remainder being glass and steel) might make a fine comment on preservation and the stupidity surrounding its undoing.

What an idiocy. How much more of this can we take?

Absolutely... a wonderful concept realized.

Just grab a martini and visit St. Anne's Hill. You'll feel better.

I agree with you. Just the same, I wish there had been some public movement to at least protest this and look at alternatives to simply razing as the easiest thing.

Here's the entrance to the building in 2011. There had been hopes of renovating and saving. Hope some of the terra cotta elements were saved.

Most frustrating

'Fraid she's terminal. But she appreciated the visit. Many thanks!

Myself included!

Recently, I made an obliging trip to Dayton in order to visit an aunt, who is sadly ailing there - in her home town. The changes in Ohio have been generally alarming, over the last 15 years. Dayton had held out against the worst of it for some time, but even Dayton seemed to be giving up some of its former luster. It was heartening, just the same, to drive through Dayton View Triangle (where I once lived and walked to school) to find that some of the neighborhood elegance was still preserved. I had very little time and shot most from the car. Can't say that the occasion was all that fun, so my attention was diverted. Just the same, my visit was capped off with a trek to Marion's Pizza - surely one of the best such places in the States. Upon catching my plane back to NYC, I paused to capture a scene at the airport which I found particularly up-lifting. Carillon Park is doing wonderfully! The new(ish) Kettering Family Education Center, along with many new additions, simply deserves to be known widely and well. I lived only a block from this corner, for about a year. The dark, tree-lined neighborhood looks much the same. Sadly, the 1948 Cornell Heights has just been razed. It seems to happen, and I can only hope the turf is well-used. I'm told it was a victory garden, prior to the school rising up there. I included this picture because of the immaculate primping this house and its property are enjoying. I loved the built-in sprinklers in the neighborhood as a kid. What power to be able to send showers everywhere, with a twist of a spigot. One of the nations' best-guarded secrets. Dayton should become a magnet for home owners looking to renovate and live in style. Years of living there, and never once... This was an experience, and the pizza was first-rate. One of the most welcoming airport entrances I know. It always was - even when the giant NCR globe was right about there.

http://fav.me/d50tc76 <== Of course, I always want to stress the beauty of the place, and few cities I know have such natural beauty as Dayton.

Paul Melia, it turns out, did the bicentennial issue. That one was signed. But I'm hunting others. I'll surely scan when found.

Wonderful. I got the issues (some of them) when they were new. The ones from the 60's may have come through my aunt, who worked at the ad agency Oppenheim Herminghausen Clarke. She knew I loved this stuff and had a lot of sources. The Dragon's Lair used to be good for this, too. I'm glad he's still working. As soon as I can, I'll uncover my two missing Dayton USA's. I do have a nice bicentennial celebration issue, which was unusually colorful. Did he do that one?