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GCrites

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  1. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Urbanbar
    They probably took it off for being too hokey for today's proclivities
  2. TOD naturally developed before zoning existed. The interurbans led to TOD in tons of places people wouldn't expect. Sometimes you'll see a bunch of older buildings clustered together for seemingly no reason since the interurban ROW is no longer visible.
  3. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Urbanbar
    I remember never, ever hearing "Last Christmas" by Wham! in the '80s or '90s. The only '80s Christmas song you'd hear was "Grandma Got Ran Over by a Reindeer". "Last Christmas" didn't get hot until about 2012.
  4. GCrites replied to seicer's post in a topic in General Transportation
    Had the same amount of effort went into electric cars as did ICE cars in those 100 years who knows how far they would have gone? In R/C, both developed at about the same pace (though the ICE ones had the benefit of being two-strokes running on a brew of methanol and nitromethane, a combination wholly unfit for road use) starting in the 1970s. Beginning around 2006 though the electrics went berserk through the combination of brushless motors and lithium-mix batteries. But then progress stopped again around 2012 and electric R/C hasn't changed much since. The thing is that ICE got such a huge jump in development back in the 1910s since it was the easy button and gains came very quickly from 1910-WWII. Here is a brief history of Dr. Porsche's involvement with electric cars going back to 1898: https://newsroom.porsche.com/en/products/taycan/history-18563.html
  5. GCrites replied to seicer's post in a topic in General Transportation
    They probably sold a few sometime last year to people who really knew what they were doing. If they parked them and don't drive them the few $35K ones will be worth a lot of money in 50 years.
  6. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Urbanbar
    Christmas records in general flood used media stores. People are always trying to sell you Firestone Christmas 1959. "But it's OLD! It HAS to be worth money!!!!!!" they yell and scream. No, because they sent Firestone Christmas to every single person that bought tires in 1959 and since tires only lasted a year back then that means everyone that owned a car got one.
  7. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Urbanbar
    I think a lot of pop CDs got discarded after only a couple years. Or they wound up in car CD wallets and forgotten about in the trunk.
  8. Is that last shot Portsmouth? Looks like somewhere else.
  9. I'm sure everyone will save a lot of money by getting virus-related medical bills.
  10. That's better than the 2018 renderings that mostly obscured the house behind new buildings. The Bush mansion got almost completely obscured when it was redeveloped.
  11. I used to have a store that opened at noon on weekdays and was open Saturdays, which meant no help from the radio or TV regarding traffic reports. Instead I walked outside and listened to I-70. If it was quiet that meant traffic was stopped or very slow. In that case I used city streets to get to work instead.
  12. That's Tyson saying that though.
  13. So this was taken as Spring and Front?
  14. That's an essentially fake retronym brought on by people who want you to buy nuggets.
  15. I haven't heard anything. That building is reviled here on UO for sure. I don't know if the community doesn't like it; when I lived and worked in the area nobody brought it up. I don't know if people in the vicinity are all that savvy about that kind of stuff, unlike UO users or developers.
  16. That's why the wait staff always pushes them. And they're less subject to market volatility than actual wings.
  17. GCrites replied to a post in a topic in Ohio Politics
    Hopefully WLW has started to forget about the streetcar so they can talk about the Reds more.
  18. That's because he didn't know. You should have asked him which sophomores should get more playing time at LaSalle.
  19. That's how things are going to be during-, and most likely, post-pandemic.
  20. GCrites replied to taestell's post in a topic in City Photos - Ohio
    Ron's El Camino looks like something out of Stroker Ace.
  21. I mean if the TV people were picking the teams they certainly got their way this year.
  22. Remember when there were twice as many tire shops in the vicinity?
  23. Oh good, Keating and Cranston, err Cranley