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GCrites

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  1. Other than that it looks like the Hampton Inn in Grove City.
  2. You're forgetting Hanford: https://columbuslandmarks.org/hanford-village-national-register-nomination/ None of the sources I saw had a date when it was dissolved and annexed into Columbus but I think it was late '50s or the '60s.
  3. Why are these other towns still so bad? WFH?
  4. If the house is forclosed on they can first refi at possibly a better rate (good luck with that in 2008) and then there will be people and institutions lined up to pay the full price on the house -- unlike in 2008 where there will be maybe 1 investor show up to offer 40%. Also think about all the empty, move-in-ready houses on the market back then.
  5. Cable TV's popularity has been declining for a while now. Do you still subscribe to traditional cable TV service? This includes satellite TV.
  6. Which is a symptom of still not enough rail transit.
  7. In an economy addicted to ZIRP that had to spend two years on the wagon of course Wall Street is going to rave when it feels there aren't going to be any more rate increases.
  8. Maybe they want people to be able to drive their cars into the pool when it's closed.
  9. Perhaps the current maps would work during Republicans' favorite time -- the distant past -- when there were still some Republicans inside beltways and Appalachian districts could still be won by Democrats.
  10. "Money density" is an important concept to think about and is a reason why things like toilet paper and toilets are still made here. It is also why pop doesn't travel far and why local brands of potato chips can still compete against Frito-Lay. The more space something takes up and the less it sells for helps local companies win. Think about how many $1200 iPhones you can fit on a skid. Now think about how few cases of Natti you can. This is why taprooms clobbered NASCAR bars.
  11. More on this. I know TONS of guys like this (and they are all guys). They don't mind abortion, aren't against weed at all (many use it often), don't like religion, most have at least tried other recreational drugs, have had double-digit sexual partners, like to rock and some even graduated college. They just hate liberals. A key, key, tenet is that the system always worked for them except maybe in their early 20s. No hangups, no hitches, no unfunded droughts, no hitting rock bottom for more than a couple weeks a time or two ever -- though they all claim otherwise.
  12. GCrites replied to seicer's post in a topic in General Transportation
    No love for South Central Ohio again. Chillicothe has 3 then SSU then I think you have to go all the way to Marshall or Benjy's Harley-Davidson in Huntington. Maybe OU-Ironton?
  13. ^^The "Owning the Libs" faction
  14. Well if politicians only hang around nondenominational Appalachia churches all day their sample isn't going to be representative.
  15. They're trying to hitch guns to it somehow.
  16. Eastland Mall has tons of loading docks
  17. Sort of like how once the fashion infrastructure got built around jeans rather than more formal clothing that changed each season, jeans are always front and center and have been for over 25 years now. People can wear 25 year old clothes now and no one notices. Try that in 1976.
  18. Yes and also having "delivery hour" between 9:30-10:30 am where all deliveries take place at the same time with clear passages.
  19. Cheap stuff doesn't sell all that well in walkable areas. I learned this first-hand with one of my video game stores. They only wanted my best stuff and the low-end stuff people kept selling me that was super easy to get rid of in the malls sat forever at my city store.
  20. This would all be incredibly expensive.
  21. There's also talk of extending that to US-33 in Fairfield County.
  22. Bud Light Crusade
  23. Besides the internet, this country has done all it can to make it nearly impossible for anything but big box stores to make it. Setbacks, sign rules, horse fencing, high speed roads, confusing traffic patterns, too few units per development, big box stores being standalone, locating developments way too far away from residential, not having retail space on both sides of the street, more.
  24. Inflation is now at or below historic average.
  25. GCrites replied to seicer's post in a topic in General Transportation
    So people walking, living closer to work, school and shopping and using transit like they did in the '60s is "going backward"? Forward is even more sitting behind windshields? Awesome, sign me up.