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I wonder who wrote that editorial? Could it have been Bill Butler ....maybe?

As for the odd-game holes I can't figure Cali, but as for Texas maybe it has something to do with the Titans being the former Oilers?

the water treatment plant in California?

Is that the one in Indian Hill? You can see it off of Miami rd.?

All this optimism is refreshing isn't it?This town really needs some fervent boosters to sell all this positive energy so the city,it's media and residents will simply have to sit up and take notice.

I'm an idiot.I mean west of PPB as the banquet center is obviously west of it.

Yeah,the Edge will have to update their view to the south won't they? Perhaps they can market these units to people watchers.Yk,of the "rear window" variety. :lol: Hopefully these 2 exciting projects will work together and not against each other.Does anyone know if the 2 towers of One River Plaza will sit on opposite sides of the PPB or are they both to the east of it?

Cool! I think this is much more appealing.Somehow this project just seems so much more viable now. There seems to be a fresh spark,a groundswell of optimism building in Cincy lately.Exciting stuff!!

Thanks RiverViewer. Yes, Sadly I'm photoless and a slow responder as well. No idea where that awesome tree is tho. If I was to hazard a guess I'd say Hyde Park?

That was a tough one dfly. I was actually thinking any number of other hoods until your most excellent clue tipped me off. Sorry guys, here I go with the sad refrain "I have no photos", please,please,please don't exclude me from playing tho. Post away gentlemen.

Aye laddie, would ye be lookin fer O'bryonville then?

Beautiful photo. St. Boniface church on chase.

Someone feel free to go next. I'm another one who doesn't have any photos,but I love playing this game. What a great idea for a thread.

That has to be Bellevue hill park . With the baseball field in the background.

What a great find. I don't think I've ever seen that perspective of The Cincinnati Hospital before. The canal looks lovely :wink: But what really caught my eye was in the 6th pic down the "map of the area of congested population of Cincinnati",and the corresponding key to the right showing persons per acre. Not surprisingly otr is the most dense,and the westend holds its own, but look at the other area around Lytle Park,and downtown itself, as well as the area east of Sycamore to the base of Mt. Adams (is this bucktown?) and the uber dense area between 8th and 5th. Very cool find all the way around. THANK YOU !!!

I think the date on JMECKS website may be correct- the 1950s.There was no mass destruction of buildings after the 37 flood-probably only Cumminsville/Northside where the fires were. There is a photo of the westend (almost a companion to the photo at the top of this thread) it is of Laurel Homes pjs.It begins sort of where Manorborn suggested LH should be-just across Linn from Washburn.The photo is on the LOCs American Memory"Built in America" site. Type in Laurel Homes.If you save it then magnify it you can clearly see the area around Crosley is much much more intact even than in the original photo posted on this thread,so JMECKS photo is obviosly at the very least from the 40's and probably in the 50's as there appears to have been some significant demo around Crosley. But what is really cool (in the magnified photo) you can see Brighton Bridge,Harrison ave and Western Hills viaducts,and the eastern portions of the Westend (mohawk etc.) I think you'll really be blown away. The density of the basin is almost impossible for us to comprehend today.Did anyone catch the article in last weeks CIN WEEKLY about the 125th anniversary of the Art Museum? They printed a timeline and under the heading of "LATE 1880's" it says "Cincinnati has the densest population in the US, with 300,000 citizens packed in at 37,000 per square mile". AMAZING! SIMPLY AMAZING!!

Great news concerning the Kaufmann Brewery Bldg. Hopefully this will be the catalyst needed to get development started up Vine. I hadn't heard anything for so long I assumed the old girl was going to be lost for good.

The figure of 37,000 per square mile and the claim of densest city in america comes from Ohio history central web site.(sorry, i'm new to computers and don't know how to post a link.yes i'm a complete idiot I know)

I was simply trying to point out that becuz Cincy still retains some of its historically dense character this leads to the perception that most of the city remains intact. This couldn't be farther from the truth.

too true.

Cool! Thanx for leg-work.

I'm talking about historical density,before both cities were 70 square miles or so. Cincy's residents were literally packed into the basin area,with the hills surrounding it acting as a veritable fortress on all sides.The city was about 10 square miles with a population at 370,000.

3 in the top 100 for Cincy seems pretty impressive. I wonder- do they have a list of top performing cities?

I don't wanna make this into a pissing contest or anything but it seems to me that becuz Cleveland lost so much of its historical architecture,core buildings,neighborhoods etc(and becuz Cincinnati has the nearly intact over-the-rhine and a few areas downtown) that it has become fashionable to say without question that Cleveland lost the most.Many people don't realize that nearly the entire basin area of Cincinnati was built up and occupied. And not only that but the entire riverfront as well.In the 1880's Cincinnati was the densist city in America with over 300,000 people all of them crammed/packed into this comparatively tiny area for a whopping 37,143 people per square mile. Then the migration up the hills began and also the diffusion of the populace into those areas,and then the cities land area increased as well. So as far as historical density goes, top that.Btw, nearly all of these residences are gone and only portions of it remain. Thank GOD we still have that tho.

Firstly, let me wish Nick and Alchemize nothing but the best.Hopefully you'll prosper and see nothing but good returns in your new location.If we are truly to think regionally, then we have to wish Covington,Newport,all of NKY,Westchester,Mason,Blue Ash and every other city/suburb well.Hopefully their sucess (or the city's) doesn't come at the expense of the other.Cincinnati and her defenders (the stalwarts on this board) cannot continue to bury their heads in the sand and pretend there are no problems.This city could be so much more,so very much more than it is. We all know this.Will we continue the blame game,pointing our fingers at the businesses and residents leaving the city.It seems customary on these boards to do just that.BAH!! Who needs em',you'll get what you deserve, WTF. Lets stop with the petty schoolyard bs. It seems apparent to me that Nick did almost everything he could do to make it a go in otr and the city did absolutely nothing in regards to his continued pleas... until it was TOO LATE!! Is that to be the city's epithet? I don't think so,I pray not,but if things don't change it may in fact be too little too late.Hopefully this tale is far from told tho,and it turns out that it is much like this very thread."THE DEATH OF MAIN STREET?FOUNTAIN SQUARE, ETC." a little bit exaggeration, and a whole hellofa lot premature.