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Basically, how things were done until 1930.

Has to be the state fairgrounds. The only other race track I can think of in Columbus from that time would be Driving Park but I think even that was closed by that time for housing development.

I hear about way more heart attacks on mountain bikes than road bikes.

More like an NES game than an RPG huh?

Buddy of mine says that they took the monkey off booze and cigarettes cold turkey and it went nuts.

Ohio Republicans managed to get Strickland branded as "The 2008 Guy" and it stuck. All those Rainy Day Fund ads.

I actually know him personally and for a while there was talk of State Rep or State Senator but at this point something bigger might be more appropriate, I think. It seems like the party people like him (including the Clintons -- you know how God-like they are with the party people) and are bullish on his future. We haven't seen him as much lately since they had kids. I might know more in a week or two.

Hmm yeah that is kind of a thing when you look at Ohio statewide elections. The last big city mayor was Voinovich as far as Senators and Governors go. Ohio seems to like its small town and suburban politicians for the big ones.

Bootstraps = private vice

It sounds like your prime directive is a zero failure rate.

Of course, nowadays overpaying like that for a house is almost normal to make sure you can get it at all.

I remember that. At they end of the day I filed it under "Those people overpaid because they thought it was cool that they were buying the mayor's house." Mayors' offices' often help out with people looking to start a business in town.

Economies of scale.

He's a good uniter and motivator and never comes across as slimy or untrustworthy (because he is neither). This is all in contrast to someone like Cranley. The only thing I didn't like about him was the closed-door City Council meeting policy under his watch which suspiciously ended right around the time Ginther (his chosen successor) went in. But people in Columbus barely think about that let alone people outside the city.

I'm getting a sense that these stock choices are nostalgia for an economy not dominated by FAANG.

The short contracts don't all expire at the same time so the funds that shorted them keep having to buy more shares. That makes this somewhat open-ended.

What if they transmit the virus?

I don't think they were as prolific in Columbus. I don't remember them at all in '87. Now 2004 in Washington D.C. that was out of hand!

Ooh, Coleman to the top for me as it stands right now.

Another reason not to trust chain pizza in Cincinnati. No wonder Domino's dominated there for so long.

Wow, it was a Schottenstein's for two years and then later Willis Music in the '80s. I only knew of Willis Music in Eastgate Mall. It almost looks like there was a stage and dance floor upstairs.

That's interesting since we are about the same age and I don't remember any of those in Columbus when I was a kid. By then they were all '70s or newer and at minimum 35-40,000 sq. ft. We almost never went north of Morse Rd. though. Maybe there was one of those oldies left in the Short North (across from where the Montecristo Cigar Lounge is now but even by '82 might have been gone) or Clintonville but we never went to those. Even the old Italian Village and Circleville Krogers weren't that old or small. Any Downtown Kroger was long gone. I suppose that in Cincinnati Kroger didn't have Big Bear to contend with that lead to all those arms races in Columbus, Lancaster, Chillicothe, Portsmouth and Huntington. Even the Krogers in those towns got upsized every 10-15 years in order to try and take on Big Bear with Big Bear firing back and making them add additional locations. Would those towns all have 2-3 big Krogers like they do if it wasn't for Big Bear? Nearly crapped my pants when I did start seeing tiny old Korgers in Appalachian Ohio in my 20s like Wellston (RIP), Blanchester and Nelsonville. Like the old Blanchester one was so small that it's now a regular-size AutoZone.

Wow an import beer selection in 1960? I didn't know that was a thing then. So this location only made it 10 years. Was it open concurrently to the Vine St. Kroger or did they move the party over there in 1970?

I didn't see it. I was watching it live at the time. Yahoo Finance's graph also does not show it.