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I love these. People need to remember that one of those filled up with stuff should have brakes of its own.

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Awesome. But we don't need a law requiring businesses to have even one parking space. Leave that up to the free market.

Companies really wasted a lot of money relocating to the suburbs for 15 years. Upper management lived in the suburbs. So they moved the offices out there. Over the coming years they'll have to move back into the city to be close to their workers again. Just think what the companies could have spent that money on!

While it's a neat idea to get end users really fast internet at their homes, the servers at individual companies, routers, switches etc. all though the U.S. can be slow. When my rommate moved in, he wanted the fastste internet, so we upgraded from 4mbs to 15. Overall, I don't see much of a difference, though a few sites work faster and speed test sites definitely show the difference in speed. We're faster than most of the internet, like driving an 800hp car on a road full of lumbering semis.

^ All of those chains (except Giant Eagle) are closing a lot of locations company wide. That said, the slowest stores are closed first.

What an idiot! What is the point of going to Egypt is you aren't going to embrace the culture. She's married to an Egyptian? And he allowed that type of talk? It's not just Americans. A woman who works at my neighborhood laundromat is from India and one day she was going on and on about how many major American fast food chains are all over there now, like this was progress! But I guess to them places like Dunkin' Donuts seem exotic and new. Often, the quality of fast food overseas is much higher than what they sell us here.

Target's main appeal is that it's not Wal-Mart. I'd go to K-Mart if there was one close by. I don't like Meijer anymore; most of their Columbus area stores are out in BFE and they're plain white inside.

Oh my, up here in Columbus with no cable TV, I have been on a total blackout regarding UC football news. UC really does sounds screwed if things play out as predicted.

Credit is going to remain tight for a while. In the past, when the Federal Reserve would do what it does to lower rates, there would usually be a commensurate effect in easing lending. While making loans is technically the only way money is created, do we really want to continue with so much debt-making? The fact that rates are low, yet lending is tight, to me, indicates that there has been at least a temporary change in the way our economy works.

^I don't think we mind rural so much. It's shots of Applebee's we mind. A lot of those old Township Halls, Grange Halls and whatnot are pretty cool. Besides, in 50 years we might all be working at the grain elevator.

^ I've been trying to find Downtown Boardman for a while.

The name makes me think of the rappin', roller-skatin' Wordsworth from the Heathcliff cartoon show.

^ Yeeehha! Looks like EIFS is on it's way! That Ramada makes a lot of money as basically the only hotel in town.

Arggh, this school needs a garage badly.

I think II either represents the fact that the first one shut down and they opened II somewhere else, or it's simply the second location in the "chain".

Love the views in Eat 'n Park.

Hmm, these pix make me think of New Boston and parts of Portsmouth that are east of downtown but south of Gallia Street. You mention that a lot of bars were called "______'s Place". Were there also some bars that were "______ II"? There are a lot of bars in Appalachian Ohio, WV and KY that are called "something 2".

Wow, I was way off. haha

What exactly do you mean by shadow inventory? Is that old/obsolete/overstock inventory that's in warehouses that will have to be sold at a discount somehow?

^ That is by far the best way possible to explain the "Smales" pronunciation.

Just think, f it wasn't for overbearing Rapid propaganda, you'd never have learned all this interesting stuff about unattended parking lots!

I figured that I'd do a shameless plug for my new store in 5xNW here since it is technically on topic in this section. It opened up about 3 weeks ago. We buy sell and trade video games and movies. SUPER GAME TEAM is your source for preowned recent and vintage video games and movies. Located at the intersection of Northwest Boulevard and Chambers Road in Columbus, Ohio in the Fifth by Northwest (5xNW) neighborhood -- between Grandview and Upper Arlington --, SUPER GAME TEAM is your classic gaming source with an emphasis on video games and systems from the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. Super Game Team 1724 Northwest Blvd. Columbus, OH 43212 614-725-4987 I hope to see an UOer or two stop by!

There's nothing like penciling "Fun" in on your schedule.

What's interesting about the 1969 Arcade photos is that most of the customers pictured are older individuals. It seems that the generations who were accustomed to city life didn't give it up for the suburbs because they knew the advantages of walking and transit from growing up with them. Their children were the ones who had the sprawl lifestyle target marketed at them and bought in. Many of today's older folks are those hardcore suburbanites.