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The Eastland Mall fountains only lasted about 10 years. It opened with the drips-on-lit-wires fountain (which I am too young to have seen) in 1969 then that was gone and they moved onto the big monsters from maybe 1978 to 1989. River Valley Mall's made it from 1987 to maybe around 2006 when they had to shut them off.

Wait, how many Pearl Alleys do we have?

$33/sq. ft. 15 years ago chased bars out of Gateway

It was a good day yesterday, I got to put the Icy Hot away

I've seen that first pic many times and wondered, "Is that a go-kart track next to it?" If you want to see some interior shots of Kowloon watch the movie Bloodsport. It didn't look like a particularly pleasant place to live either. It's quite an extreme example.

^Copyright 1953 General Motors Corporation

Which means it's a staffing issue.

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It's kind of ridiculous that the "Portsmouth" train station is in South Shore KY considering how low the population is on that side of the river as compared to the Ohio side. I'm sure there's reasons for it. Portsmouth has a university while Maysville doesn't so that should factor in. I remember having to drive people to all kinds of places to get them where they needed to go such as the Greyhound station, the Kentucky Amtrak station and even places like Athens in the ridiculous Dodge Ram I had in college. All these Democrat girls and international students without cars couldn't believe the truck despite it being considered almost mandatory when taking into account social norms in rural Ohio at the time (probably even moreso today). You can only imagine the comments I got living in Washington DC with the thing.

Everywhere in the state will be. So will our minds and the media. They advertise more than pills.

I never even heard of that specific streetcar plan though OSU-DT has always been in the conversation in some way.

I wonder if it also had to do with taxes, sorta like how Metallica did most of their good records in Denmark for tax purposes.

Part of the skyline always reminds me of this movie with Tom Selleck and Jerry Reed from 1981 where they drive around town in a Corvette and solve a murder while doing stunts in the car. It is literally 50-50 Smokey and the Bandit and Magnum P.I.

how would you kids like a crickets and cattails burger

In China they are talking a near future of "4-2-1" which is 4 grandparents, 2 parents and 1 kid that has to take care of all 6. Soon.

Even "bars" aren't even bars anymore. The proverbial "meat market" is pretty much over. It's all taprooms where everyone shows up with their couples group and maybe 1-2 single friends. And most hobbies are so gender-segregated anymore it's unbelievable.

It will probably still fill up right away. There's not much motivation to "do better" when that's the case. Typical pattern for greenfield multifamily around town for decades.

^That's kind of old-fashioned. Post-2008, in non-technical fields you have to be networked within the city in which you want to live. A degree can't take you everywhere like it used to. People even discount you as eccentric if you go to the idyllic towns. Not Miami or OU (at least within the region) since those schools are big enough to have large alumni networks but rather the sub 6-8K ones. If you frame the only way to be a "real adult" is to drive a bunch and eat outerbelt food and that people only enjoy walkability in order to shirk responsibility you're patting yourself on the back too much for doing those things.

Rickenbacker content goes in the dedicated Rickenbacker thread: In the within the city limits news (rather than the Rickenbacker JEDD, which Groveport is a member of), both Delaney's Diner and the new Little Italy are now open!

Also a small controversy erupted when a photo surfaced of Alex Skolnik from Testament wearing unreleased sample Nikes on stage in 1988. How did he get them?

Armored Saint had a Nike deal. Megadeth had to be getting at least free Nikes in the late '80s considering how many pairs they had vs. how much money they made vs. how much they were spending on drugs.

I always think about trailer parks. Most of them are located in places where nobody can walk to anything. Or even bike.

WFH is going to make things even worse. People need to meet organically -- not just on apps. The nature of apps rely entirely too much on people being outgoing and of secure attachment style. You're not going to meet someone sitting at home on your computer all day. 1984 called that one.

Shared bedrooms have really fallen out of fashion.

Most people don't want "idyllic college towns" anymore anyway since the towns don't have enough jobs. How many of those schools does it take to match the enrollment of our urban schools in Ohio?