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Was the lady a huge cul-de-sac herself?

Is that used video game store (the one that used to be a Game City 360) still there?

I can definitely see a Scandinavian influence.

'80s rockers Kix are from there!

^ He has the ability to manipulate the market. After stocks are on his show, enough people follow his advice to affect the stock for a couple of weeks. That's how people are able to clone his moves and claim success.

If you only do a small amount of business (under 100K/year on plastic), credit card processing companies charge up to $1 per swipe and 4% of the transaction cost. A big box store that does millions and in sales may only be charged 15 cents per swipe and <2% fees.

All Mayor's Courts should technically be completely illegal, because they combine the Executive and Judicial Branches.

Looks like my post got the "Pedo Bear Seal of Approval".

^ with a Duplo size headline.

Were any of them hot?

You know, lot of those townhouses and colonials could be turned into shops -- much more gently than that '70s apartment complex in Montgomery that got turned into offices, shops and bars (which is still kind of cool).

The serpentine bridge's maintenance costs and potential for liability were the apparent killers.

^ Like a hospital, not like an old bowling alley.

^ That's an interesting concept. What do you think it is that may make somebody from Cincy or maybe just not from Cleveland dig D.C. more? I'm from Columbus, and have lived in both Cincy and D.C. (well, Alexandria, but I would have lived in D.C. if I could have -- I worked on I St.). I loved D.C.

I think OSU is a fine university and I live the football team. With that said, besides the fact that I am from Columbus and wanted to see what other cities were like, I felt that even in 1998-2003 (when I was in college) that the OSU area was too sterile. When it was time for grad school (first Master's was from '03 to '05 and second was in '06-07) I ended up going to Marshall and then UC. Why? I think a big part of it was that Columbus had no Downtown Huntington bar strip, or a Short Vine or the rough 'n cheap bars/businesses I was used to from going to college at Shawnee State in Portsmouth. Different strokes for different folks, though. Some people like the Athenses and Morgantowns of the world, others like the Easton-like experiences and yet others want something in the middle, like I did.

It seems like Germany, though in a recession as well, is gaining a lot of market share with it's high quality products and that they as a country seem to have a lot of spending power. Many more products have German instructions and have writing on the boxes in German than did ten years ago. You'd think that in the States, products sent here from all over the world would have Spanish and French on them, but it seems like almost as many products have German on them than Spanish (I'm not referring to things like laundry detergent and TVs, but things like hobby products and other specialized items). Not only that, it seems like German firms are having a lot of products made with German engineering, design, tolerances and overall quality produced at competitive prices by the Chinese. Why would people (especially outside the U.S.) buy the poorly designed product from a U.S. firm made in China when a German-engineered product made in China is the same low price?

^ Right, I didn't mean alleys or other narrow streets. And engineering costs real money, even if it is just repainting lines and re-timing signals.

No shots of the 0.2% of this city that was built before 1999? Come to think of it, they might have bulldozed it.

I don't think there should be any one-way streets over one lane in Downtown by this point. Columbus' streets have such wide lanes (and a lot of them) that one-ways aren't necessary.

This kind of corner-cutting attitude is why the American auto industry is bankrupt, while German manufacturers continue to flourish even under a dismal world economy. Some people want everything at the Wal*Mart price, and then wonder why there are no jobs in this country -- we can't make stuff here at the price the "cheapskate majority" demands. And few of our products are demanded in first-world nations because they are so budget-oriented.

Oops.

Plus out of town attendees and exhibitors will get a better look at our city with the glass in place.

^ Their endowment must be tiny if the whole school sold for $6 million.

^ Fake. Way too many of the same silver car at the bottom. Almost no semis. Too many of the black car on the lower left. Same white van twice at center.

I've been to a lot of the shops in this thread. I remember that guitar shop really well. They had a bunch of guitars stacked up sitting in cases that you would just dig through to see if something struck your fancy. I remember being like "Oh this is the case section... no, there's guitars in each one!"