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DSC_7921-1 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Licking Riverside, Covington Kentucky (Cincinnati).

DSC_7794 by kennyb2b, on Flickr Licking Riverside, Covington Kentucky (Cincinnati).

Cincinnati In Pictures 009 by GGG BBB, on Flickr

DSC_7262 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Downtown Cincinnati.

DSC_7162-2 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Downtown, Cincinnati.

DSC_7063 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Downtown Cincinnati.

DSC_8493-1 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Licking Riverside, Covington Kentucky (Cincinnati).

DSC_8417-1 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Licking Riverside, Covington Kentucky (Cincinnati).

DSC_7725-1 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Licking Riverside, Covington Kentucky (Cincinnati).

DSC_7533-2 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Downtown, Cincinnati.

DSC_8071 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Licking Riverside, Covington Kentucky (Cincinnati).

DSC_7111_01-2 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Downtown, Cincinnati.

DSC_8047-6 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Licking Riverside, Covington Kentucky (Cincinnati).

DSC_6964 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Downtown, Cincinnati.

The stuff afterwards were concentrated either on the Riverboats or places poorly integrated with the urban core as not to be of any benefit as whole to the local economy. Main Street OTR now is what Monmouth street Newport was before the the 1960's. I guess you can say Mount Adams experienced the same economic ill effects on its local businesses when the college crowd deserted Mount Adams as the party place in favor of Main Street OTR.

Over reliance on bars, nightclubs, and entertainment venues as the base to drive its local economy was one of the main reasons that Newport's urban economic health went into a long term downward spiral in the 60's and beyond after a law and order Sheriff was elected and closed down all the gambling spots and associated nightclubs. Combine this with the mass exodus of the middle class to the newer housing in the suburbs was a one - two punch that sent Newport's urban economic vitality into a long term decline in which Newport on The Levee was going to rectify . Even Jane Jacobs said NKY was unhealthily unbalanced as a party destination for Cincinnatians in her 1961 book "The Death and Life of Great American Cities".

This is Monmouth street just below of 7th street. You can see ( if you original size this pic you can clearly see the Barnes and Noble Logo lettering) on Newport on the Levee at the end of the street. DSC_3657 by GGG BBB

When my mother migrated from small town Georgia to Cincinnati as a teen in the 1950's Mount Adams was a predominantly black neighborhood . She said Cincinnati was a big city compared to Atlanta back then lol. That was before the interstates were built and the West End was still intact. She remembers the other kids laughing at her when she was frightened by the sparks coming from the streetcar wires when the streetcar was approaching. Newport was the destination nightlife spot where everyone went to for a night out on town because all the fancy high end night clubs were there. The nightclubs in Newport were also racially intergrated real well where black and white people comingled freely in the same fancy nightclubs, unusually progressive for its time in 1950's America.

In the 50's and 60's Mount Adams was a working class neighborhood with a more age diverse populace and a good amount of school age children. Supermarkets wasnt the big thing it is now so all you needed was a butcher shop and a bakery in Mount Adams to satisfy your everyday food needs. A co worker of mine that was born there whose family owned property on a prominent corner in the business district during that era told me marveling of how much it changed to the present day that " could you believe that the neighborhood was considered a dump back then" so his family fled to the suburb of Reading.

DSC_8400 (2) by GGG BBB, on Flickr Mount Auburn, Cincinnati.

DSC_4288 (2) by GGG BBB, on Flick Over The Rhine, Cincinnati.

DSC_5395 (3) by GGG BBB, on Flickr Over The Rhine, Cincinnati.

DSC_4945 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Over The Rhine, Cincinnati.

DSC_0575 by GGG BBB, on FlickrDSC_4945 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Over The Rhine, Cincinnati.

DSC_8762 by GGG BBB, on Flickr Mainstrasse, Covington KY (Cincinnati).