GCrites

Sounds like the damn dam is on its way out. I'm going to miss the damn dam.

Plus, you get to tell people you live at Valhalla if you say it in a German accent!

I want to go around to open forums where Crowley speaks and begin every question with "Miiiiiiiiister Crowley,"

What, no shot of the abandoned K-Mart that replaced the courthouse? I've noticed lots of other buildings in Southern Ohio that have the wooden stairwells on the outside of old brick buildings like the one Seicer highlighted. A Portsmouth trick!

I know that I would have more job opportunities in the South, Charlotte and Atlanta especially, but I was afraid of that very issue (not liking it and being stuck). I'm glad I stayed.

Jeff Lynne was in Electric Light Orchestra and the Traveling Wilburys

East Liverpool

Doesn't that belong to the elementary school? Also, I gotta say that it would be shitty to go to elementary school without a playground or at least some grass. The lots listed above don't really "divide" campus though.

UC has very little in the way of surface lottage.

oh god, i totally forgot about some of the ol' BBS, if I had to ballpark....uh....1994 at the latest too, somewhere around the age when you just gotta have the anarchist's cookbook. I still go to misc.transport.road. Also, a co-worker and I were just talking about the Anarchist's Cookbook yesterday; weird.

Yeah, I was telling my folks that one day malls might close and be replaced with cornfields because the cornfield will generate more revenue.

That's pretty good for a cell phone!

Was Roscoe's car actually slower than the General? A definite beatdown would have to happen if another kid tried to make me be Roscoe. The trucking one was a dumb idea. I remember seeing that one at Children's Palace, Service Merchandise and Gold Circle. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

1995 on USENET: misc.transport.road, the Metallica one, the Black Sabbath one and alt.autos.camaro.firebird or something.

Were those drinking fountains off or on?

The only dumb question is the one not asked. Therefore, there should be nothing in this thread. In before the lock!

Yes, I lived in NOVA for a while and there were quite a few big box meltdown areas and dying malls (Landmark Mall comes to mind), which is kind of strange because land is much more expensive there.

Cincinnati's system definitely makes it more difficult to be an informed voter that is familiar with all the candidates' platforms.

Sounds like KOOW hasn't been to a forum full of 16-24 year olds in a while. Boards like that are like emo songs.

I don't agree with Columbus' ranking at all. Many, many neighborhoods in Franklin County aren't appreciating, with some depreciating. In fact, sprawl and white flight are so rampant that I wouldn't invest in real estate in most areas close to, or outside of, 270 except up north. Far East Side, West Side, Southwest Side, South Side, Grove City, Hillard, Whitehall, Obetz, Gahanna and Reynoldsburg are going nowhere fast and some of those areas are even depreciating. Everybody from those areas are moving to new developments in Pickerington, Ashville, Commercial Point, Lancaster and random unincorporated areas. So many of those types of people buy brand new houses every five years further and further away from civilization (unless you call houses strung along county roads every three acres civilization). They have no loyalty to their location and have no clue that their all vinyl/cheap trim/painted drywall/no tile/garage in your face/immature tree houses are in bad taste. On the commercial side, look at how many strip malls/big box areas that were brand new 12 years ago are in horrible shape. Look at the enclosed malls in 1995 vs. 2007. Look at what has happened to office space in that time. I want to go out on a limb and say that besides the central city, parts of the North Side and inner-ring burbs, Columbus' real estate market is AWFUL. That is, unless you are a new home builder.

What was at Marburg Square before?

You can put a front door in the garage door. You'd probably need beefier mounts and a stronger opener.

Sandy Beaver?

Nintendo. It's a cereal now. Nintendo. It's a cereal, wow!

This didn't happen here in the 'Nati, but in Pickaway County -- "Columbus is taking over. It's already in Delaware County, Licking County, Fairfield County, Pickaway County and Mansfield County!" Followed up with: "They're talking about bringing COTA down here. You know what that means!"