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Finally got to skim this one. I like how the shot of the Fusian location is of the one in Grandview rather than Oakley. Of course, Grandview is Columbus' Oakley.

Cincinnati blue bloods are why all the downtown department stores were all so far away from each other instead of clustered within a 2-3 block stretch of High St. like they were in Columbus.

I wonder what finally did it in.

That was a real mess for a while. 5th was a nightmare.

A buddy of mine still gets pissed when he sees an older movie star in commercials. "He sold out. I can't believe it!" And I'm always like, "Yeah, but he just paid for all his grandkids to go to college." Actors are not punk bands!

Hey guys, GCrites80s here with another episode of Urban OHIO. This time around it is my Top 4 ways the Cincinnati neighborhood of Oakley is like Mario Kart, specifically Double Dash for the GameCube. Well, duh, it's for the GameCube since that's the only system people care about at all in 2019! Be sure to like and subscribe! Hit that bell!

Take a Bite Out of Crime

^actually, moreso. There's not much you can actually DO with a phone in your hand.

So instead of begging for money so much any more it's now land-begging.

Outside of hilly areas AWD is mostly for people who don't understand tires.

That's an endless cycle. It's not worth it to me to drive a barstool over a few specific situations, especially not because some other person decided to buy something tall. I can't rationalize nor create justifications for it.

I watched a lot of monster truck racing as a kid. The very early guys in the '70s and early '80s that got into the trucks were just regular guys that thought the trucks were neat. Then around '86 or '87 or so when racing really picked up and they were doing a lot of post-race interviews right next to the trucks I was thinking "man these announcers like Army Armstrong are huge guys" while they were interviewing the drivers. I didn't realize until I was an adult and went back and watched the VHS tapes I made of the races that the second wave of monster truck owners were a bunch of little guys and that the announcers were average size!

Trucks are expensive and a lot of people are spending money on them that could go to more worthwhile places. Real masculinity goes right past things like guns and trucks into deeper, more important pursuits and traits. Toxic masculinity can't.

They are not safer because they are bigger. Because they are bigger they crash more. Much more. The safest crash is one that never happened.

Running, driving trucks that aren't rusted to death have a "value floor" of about $1200-$1500. This is in contrast to SUVs which are worth less than stuff like Cavaliers and Sunfires when they are old. People who only have $800 to spend on a car cannot buy something that gets 12 mpg.

And they rust so horribly. In Columbus I'm seeing 2010s with rust-through already, let alone trucks that live north of U.S. 30.

I don't see how they can be that much of a status symbol when they are so common and commoditized, but they are. They're literally more abundant than Accords. If they are more than 2 years old or less than 25 years old nobody cares.

From 1920 to 2000 all the rest of of Ohio was secondary to Cleveland.

I wounder how much of this is due to banks not lending for speculative subdivision development? All that stopped by 2009 and hasn't returned. It used to be very fashionable to buy new houses every few years, like Buzz the Overpaid Boomer and family's first house would be a '70s split level in 1980, but then they'd go to Parade of Homes '88 and have to buy something new, then in 1996 another new one they finally the last new one in 2003 where they're parked now.

^The liquor store by itself probably made more money than the whole Giant Eagle, especially at such a small square footage.

Pickup trucks are 100% about Buzz the Overpaid Boomer. While I think the truck is kind of neat, my taste runs almost completely counter to Buzz's. Buzz likes trucks that look like the scary boiler in the basement of an old elementary school.

They've sold a lot of "records" (er, had a lot of spins, or whatever combination they use to determine success today) and sound good so I can see it.

Four dudes with a two-chair office in Crosley Tower sharing one computer

^Ah, I see. I thought DEPA might have been a small department at UC that I didn't know about ?

It's not common knowledge, but the Convention Center is already designed to be a train station with very little additional work. Hop off the platform, walk a few feet and you're in the food court/mini-mall.