GCrites

It's more convoluted than the Columbus 500 track!

I remember it took a long time for the dry cleaners near me to open up again even though they were allowed to by June. If I remember right they didn't open until September or October -- maybe later. Perhaps it wasn't worth the bother.

Apparel was totally rocked in a way that most other retail wasn't. People didn't want to be all dressed up with nowhere to go. Most other retail is actually fine since the emphasis went back to stuff as opposed to experiences. Plus people figured out how insanely dull their dwellings were under minimalism when they had to spend non-Netflix time in them.

I remember at PTL there was a cafeteria in a fake train station for their little train.

Oooh, do the Lancaster one next! It's a lot smaller though.

It's tough when a lot of times the camera points straight at the river. At least Cincinnati doesn't get the steam off the river that smells like come like Portsmouth does.

^I had an interview with them in 2007 for an analyst position and all people did when I told them about how I talked to them was crap on them. I was like, "I work in a carpet warehouse right now, this would be 1000X better" but I guess other people didn't understand my predicament.

Sounds more like a bunch of Harley Guys from Washington C.H. or something

Not the exact circumstance you're talking about, but a buddy of mine and his wife sold their house last year because a really troublesome hillbilly/junkie neighbor moved in and started feuding with them (I'm not going to say "what do you expect if you insist on staying in Appalachian Ohio" especially since the wife's office is in Columbus). They sold it right after "lockdown" ended so houses had gone up some but not outrageously so as they have now. They wound up making $30K on the sale after everything was said and done. They didn't really have a place to buy so they started renting from a friend. They took that profit and used it to buy some land even further out. They started going in and cutting brush at the new place to get an idea of what they were going to do as far as building a new house on that land when another hillbilly neighbor turned up and said that a strip of land next to the road was still his because they realigned the state route in the '60s or something and never transferred the now free-of-roadway to the old owner of the land. The guy then accused my buddy of being a condo developer (in the sticks... in an area with no jobs... right...). Now before they can build the guy wants $10K for the strip of land and they can't build. And now that materials costs are outrageous -- if obtainable by an individual builder at all -- they are going to try to get the whole thing erased by the title insurance since somebody over the course of the past 60 years should have caught that. So they are probably going to have to keep renting for a while and punt. Maybe they'll have to for a few years to let the market and/or materials prices to chill out. Or just give up and pay a bloated price for something move-in ready or one that needs light reno. Since you aren't talking about building I'd say that makes it easier, but I feel like it's almost dangerous to sell now without a sure-fire situation in place. Unless you don't mind renting for a while. And do not build now. If you've got M/I or Tolle Brothers or somebody like that building maybe it's better but you are going to pay. Not just some GC you know -- they might not be able to get anything that's not at Lowe's (and overpriced).

No pissoirs or pee curls -- only full restrooms.

Weird that their fist location is at Budd Dairy but the second is Liberty Center.

Oyster bars were really sleazy by the 1920s so maybe that's where they're going with it.

^The irony is that lifting the regulation that forbid buildings over 3 stories being built from wood certainly had to exacerbate the lumber situation!

I used to joke that the blue bricks wound up on the inside of Hoof Hearted Brewing on 4th St. but of course the Macy's hadn't been torn down yet.

Aren't commodities or at least precious metals like that already though?

Because there are few pics of that demo.

^Weird that something like that would have privacy on.

Wouldn't "Pics or it didn't happen" be nice when it comes to Downtown in the '60s and '70s?

In reference to the small-town bypasses I meant highway bypasses. I should have been more clear. The Hellcat vs. minivan quip was more rhetorical in this case vis a vis comparing practicality and speed. Sort of like how Glorious PC Gaming Master Race people cannot fathom how someone would buy a Nintendo Switch.

The State of Emergency might be on a different timetable than the health orders.

Indeed, people tend to solve the issue a lot quicker when more than 4 people get out of a vehicle in the same spot multiple times a day.

Why would someone buy a minivan when a Hellcat is available? Yet people still buy minivans.

I always wind up behind a bunch of semis and other commercial traffic micropassing each other on 71.

If you want to challenge yourself to get from Cincinnati to Cleveland in 4 hours every time, fine. Sounds like a single man's game.

This train vs. car business always assumes that everyone is from a demographic that drives. We had this discussion on here many times last time around.