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I had no idea how pervasive the whole cladding thing got by the '70s. And we're still dealing with it today. It just goes to show what happens when people choose "new" without deciding if it's "better" or "worse".

Yes, it was snowing. No crumbs on the lens, at least that time.

Grit!

Where was the Stone & Thomas? Was it where Mack and Dave's is?

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Has anybody spotted Dave Mustiane on a MEGABUS? I think Megadeth could do something with this considering that the band was conceptualized during Mustiane's long bus ride from NY to LA after being kicked out of Metallica.

putting the Art in TARTA

That had to be done in the '70s or '80s.

Totally rad to the max! It's a shame that few Columbusites know about this part of town, or their attitude toward the same old New Albany/Grove City/Reynoldsburg/southern Delaware County shit might change.

What made Kenosha's so much cheaper than Tampa's or Portland'?

Columbus already has bus trolleys, or did until recently.

Just up the street is the combination body shop/grocery.

Oh no! Booze outside! My God, it might turn into someplace explosively violent! Like EUROPE!

Remember that decibels are on a logarithmic scale rather than a linear one, so a sound wall's 10db reduction vs. trees 4db reduction is actually four times quieter. 6db reduction = 1/4 the noise. Listen, I'm not advocating sound walls; I hate them. What I am saying is that as long as idiots want to build next to the freeway yet complain about the noise (I don't mind freeway sound, I think it's relaxing), sound walls will go up because there won't be any room for an effective amount of separation -- that would hopefully include trees. Separation is by far the most effective noise mitigator, while also being the most aesthetically pleasing.

Oh man, Wes Junion!

Trees are great, but a stand of trees 100 feet deep will only provide a 3-5db noise reduction, which is barely more than clear land.

I always get sarcastic when outdoor activities cease after Labor Day. It's going to be 96 today. We are not going to be under a foot of snow in two weeks.

Vegetation actually does very little to absorb or deflect sound. It's a trick... if people can't see the source of a sound, they don't complain as much.

I think the FUN ZONE used to be called SPLATZ!

Really, most of this stuff didn't go off of TV until the 1990 or so.

What I meant was that people would transfer to streetcars if they were going south on say High Street and hit campus. When the streetcar tracks begin, people wishing to stay on High would transfer to the streetcar while the bus would move to other southbound streets.

I thought I heard that once the streetcars were in place, bus travel on those roads would cease.

Someone on here mentioned that as you get older, you find out things that you wish you had never learned. What do you wish that you could "not know"? I'm thinking along the lines of knowledge rather than "I wish I didn't know that my ex-wife was seeing the junk man the entire time"

Yeah, where's all the hot dog vendors and shoe shine boys?

I guess we were either a) more savvy or b) big pussies, because we wore leather work gloves and long pants.