Rusty Shackleford

What I posted is a "whois" record which lists all information about the person or business that registered the domain name. It sounds like the person named Seth is the person you're after. What I would probably do is send a registered letter to that person and address demanding fulfillment of the order, and state that you will inform the Ohio state attorney general of the matter if he doesn't pay up. Also (grasping at threads) if that address is in the city limits of Wilmington I would call the local PD and explain the matter.

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There is a new show called "Haulin' House" on HGTV that is about moving old homes to new sites. It's pretty tense stuff. They deal with 100+ year old houses that have to be lowered down from cliffs, houses that have to be loaded onto barges, etc.

Wild Bill's is a 65 mile round trip from fountain square And exactly who *lives* at Fountain Square? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati-Hamilton%2C_OH-KY-IN_Metropolitan_Statistical_Area Note that according to the article (and as reported here) Dayton and Cincinnati are in the process of becoming one big population smear for statistical purposes. Lebanon seems pretty central to all that.

Last I checked, there was no burgeoning Middle Eastern population in Warren County... :lol:

Ok, thanks for the comments about Ikea's furniture. I get the general idea. The mass market American particle board cabinet brands like Sauder try to do knockoffs of "real" wood furniture and it winds up looking pretty chintzy. Sauder type stuff almost seems to be one notch above mock ups that you'd use on a stage. :) It sounds like Ikea goes in a different direction entirely with unique designs. Our house is small, too - the idea of furniture that fits small spaces well is interesting.

My opinion: Lebanon isn't the middle of nowhere, but it's definitely pretty blue collar and not very amenable to the overpriced small plates that Wild Bill's was serving. When they reopened last year my wife and I tried it and the small plates seemed like nothing very special (green "ancho mashed potatoes" that didn't taste all that exotic, somewhat gristly bison or buffalo for meat.) Also the seating and the space in the place wasn't really very comfortable or private. No booths. Too much interaction and traffic from other tables. The original place in the location was called "Mighty Casey's" and had a baseball and sports theme (and a brewpub that quickly "went dark" and stopped custom brewing of beers.) The layout was more like a place where you go to play pool. They really needed a remodel. And Wild Bill's removed *all* "blue collar" friendly foods like fried pickles, ordinary sandwiches, etc. when they reopened. (I keep hammering on that blue collar thing, but Lebanon is truly a Bob Evans type of place.) I'd say the chef's professional vanity got the better of him. Too fancy, not special enough, and too expensive. I agree, it was authentic, but I never "got" it.

Just some questions to anyone who really knows. What would you compare Ikea furniture to that we around here in SW Ohio would have prior experience with, quality-wise? Is Ikea furniture anything like Sauder particle board furniture, or is it similar to maybe the near business grade furniture that is made for stores like Staples (like the "Bush" brand office furniture)? It sounds like it's going to be a fun store to investigate when it finally opens, but I wonder about the durability of assemble it yourself stuff. When I hear "DIY assembly", I then immediately think "particle board", then I think "stuff where the assembly pins break through the veneer surface when it is flexed the wrong way during transportation." And I also think of delicate plastic veneer finishes that you can't doctor if they get scratched.

http://www.western-star.com/search/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/03/03/ws030608wildbills.html

Kewl electrical transmission line whatchamacallit assemblies on the flatbed.

One sign says it all: WHISKY. I guess that's what you "do" when your town is this dead. :( The first sign of life along SR 725 when you travel west of Germantown is actually Liberty, Indiana, and it's Indiana Rt 44 there. There is a scenic old road (It's old US 127) that meanders south of Camden down into Butler County, that is a great bicycle trip.

Yellow Springs BoBos and the relationship with the local college scene - exactly and precisely! "Real" honest to God hippies, IMO, now wind up in isolated parts of the US where land is cheap enough to support living off of small scale farming, crafts, non corporate tourism, etc. And also where the local culture isn't outright hostile to non conformity. Places such as rural Arkansas, Pennsylvania, VT, upstate NY, many places in the mountain west, etc. And the problem with having a "critical mass" of truly countercultural people in an area is that the idiot Bobos come in with their absurd windfall profits from the sale of their homes from some distant urban center, and drive up the price of local real estate. They love the "non comformity" so much that they wind up destroying the local character by moving in. Real estate valuations are the enemy of colorful local culture in the US, IMO. Check this out, a guide to US hippie havens: http://www.hippy.com/havens.htm

The hippie thing in Yellow Springs gets a little thick and full of itself (although after seeing the stuff in the news about Berkeley, CA trying to "drive out" the USMC recruiting station, maybe "full of itself" is a working definition of today's hippies.) For one thing, housing there in Yellow Springs has been pretty expensive for years, ever since YS was discovered by Dayton area professionals as a self consciously hip place to live. My point being, would a REAL hippie, someone living creatively at the margins of society, even be able to afford to live there alongside dweebs who work in civilian jobs at Wright Pat and high income "sellouts" who have standard corporate commuter arrangements in Dayton or Columbus? IE: could THESE guys settle in Yellow Springs? I got really cynical about this when the Trails Tavern charged me .50 for a slice of tomato on an already expensive sandwich that took 45 min to serve. Seems pretty hard core capitalistic to me. :evil: I personally think that the counterculture thing in Yellow Springs has played out and now it's mainly window dressing. But it's a fun place to shop and eat.

And don't forget Paintersville, New Jasper, booming Roxanna, Alpha....

The court house looks a little M. C. Escher.

Ok, what I see that is "interesting" - Double Cola!!! Served at the 'ar.

I don't even see dead people.

I need to find and scan a bunch of 35mm slides I took down there in the mid 1970s. Back then, painted signs for the war time RCA radio network were clearly readable on the shot tower. In the 70s the background of the signs was brown and I think the lettering was pale white or blue. There were some musical notes and maybe an old style announcer's microphone in the painted logos. I think these signs were painted on circular metal disks that covered the raised P's near the top. I'm looking at the Wikipedia article's pictures trying to decide where these logos were. At any rate, by the 90s they were so faded as to be unreadable. And now there is no evidence they ever existed. See below: A neighbor of ours here in Lebanon says he worked in that plant in the 1950s when RCA pressed records there.

Excellent work! Very pretty. The land that time forgot, and such. Not feeling very eloquent today...

I'm local. They had kind of an attitude at the Golden Lamb, the last time I tried them in the 90s. The waitress we got at our table basically told me what I'd get for desert :x like a schoolmarm. My dentist told me that he and his wife and some friends went there a few years ago and they were basically ignored for almost an hour so they got up and left. They went around the corner to the Best Cafe and had a good meal, I believe.

I think McConnellsville has an old school Kroger's like that one. Blanchester used to, but a replacement store was built a few years ago.

Some anecdotes: I was fascinated by that place when I was in high school (late 70s, Belmont area in Dayton.) I drove my Dad's blue 75 Nova down there one night with some friends to check it out. We pulled off the road on the shoulder of Grandin Road. Just as we were going to get out of the car, we heard this WHAM on the roof of the car, and in a panic I started the car and pulled out of there. Later the next morning back home I found a large and deep dent on the roof of the car. Apparently some white trash freak inside the Peters factory building had thrown a large rock at the car. To my dad I said "I dunno where it happened!" He saw right through me. :cry: A few years ago I looked at an "office/light industrial" space for rent in that building. Well, it WAS sort of office like... an office had been there once. Basically it was a sort of cave carved out of a large section of one floor. Drafty, damp, dirty, with Satanic spray painting writings on the walls, junk laying everywhere, water dripping randomly down from the ceiling, falling in puddles indoors, and just incredibly nasty. My wife told me to absolutely forget it, because she would worry about me going there even in the daytime. (Just to be clear, at the price it was a bargain, but it was basically factory or assembly area.) Oh, and on that trip I spoke with an old guy in a front office who (I think) was either the landlord or an employee. He takes care of the seventy dozen or so stray cats roaming around in the main courtyard area behind the gates. He told me some interesting facts about Peter's. Apparently, the foundation walls are 12+ feet deep and several feet thick - demolition is not even being considered at this time because of the expense. Some Halloween haunted houses operated there in the late 90s. There are tons of Flickr images about Peter's Powder Factory, lots of ghost story lore, and the factory has been a magnet for local freaks, druggies, teenagers, and vandals for decades. Maybe the Ohio Historical Society should acquire it as a historic park. :evil:

The Summit City. "The Fort". I spent three year's hard labor :sleep: at Magnavox on Lima Rd in 1984-87.

Pearson House is a good restaurant there. Home cookin.

Bump. Any recent news on Towne Mall? My wife and I checked it out last week. It's hanging on, but many small niche merchants like Walden Books have closed and are nowhere to be seen. We visited a pet supply shop that looked like someone bought up the stock of a flea market space and set up shop there. The mall and the stores have a very temporary feel to them, like everything is being rented week to week. It's pretty sad.