PigBoy

Speaking of Dorothy Lane, do you know where that name comes from, Jeff? Anyway, excellent work here as always. You're right in that last statement... Kettering really is diverse in its style of suburbia, and your threads definitely prove it.

Cleveland is just a myth.

Hot... er, cold... off the presses from Madison: Behind those concrete things is Lake Mendota, which apparently is starting to freeze now. The ice is presumably from recent splashing lake water. The ground at the edge is also covered with ice. Left=lake; Right=not lake.

Northern Hospitality... that sounds interesting! I don't hear you complaining too loudly about cold weather, so I trust you're surviving well enough. By now you should probably have experienced a couple of January-ish days, so you can at least be comforted by the fact that it won't get a whole lot worse (just more prolonged, of course, with a few extra-freezing days thrown in). My family had a rough first winter when we moved back to Ohio, too. We came from Hawaii, where we were cold when the temperature fell much below 70. The weather for my Thanksgiving visit home was interesting... from too cold on Thursday to nice and warm on Sunday. Spring will be the same way, of course. My roommates in the past several years, who were from mild South Asian climates, always complained about the wild changes in weather in the spring. Such a joy to watch them suffer! :evil: Hmm... I need to get my sister to come back here and respond to you. I don't think she has good answers for you, but I'll remind her to return anyway.

Well, the four billion of us here with that same Fuji camera can't be wrong. It's ColDayMan approved, so it must be good! :-)

Go ahead, do your worst! :shoot:

So many "Moderate-Liberal" responses... looks like we are in denial about being extremely liberal and out of touch with mainstream America. :wink:

A high school one, eh? Does that automatically invalidate the coolness of the facebook for college students? I have little to no interest in the facebook, but what the hell... if anyone wants to be friends with a Pig Boy, search for Woodruff at Ohio Wesleyan.

Heh... the finger in that picture was the first thing I noticed, too.

Time for another miscellaneous poll of the UrbanOhio population. Rate yourself in the spectrum of American politics. I know political ideology is not a one-dimensional thing, so I apologize to Libertarians and such, but I'm just going with the simple left-right scale here. It seems obvious that the preponderance of this forum leans left, but let's see what the poll shows.

The world's largest dragline... one of my geography profs at Ohio Wesleyan was interested in coal mining (among many other things) and showed a lot of slides of coal mining in eastern Ohio in a couple of my classes, I think with a couple pictures of that dragline included. He also gave us an interesting pair of numbers: coal mining employed something like 700,000 people in Ohio thirty-something years ago (before the Clean Air Act, basically); today it is only a few thousand.

It would appear to have been a good year for photos! Wonderful collection, including your other shots that aren't posted in this thread.

Interesting... my grandparents and I were just wondering about this the other day. Thanks for the timely post, RV!

:-o I had no idea a Super Wal Mart was in the works. I guess that means another regular Wal Mart will be vacated.

Curses! Beaten to the punch on creating a winter pictures thread! I've got nothing to show for this winter yet (which is a good thing), so I'll start off with a couple pictures from last year's record-setting storm. This was sometime during the day on December 22. The car on the right in back (behind the flag) is mine. And this was the next day--my birthday! For my birthday I got to help shovel not only the driveway, but half the freakin' street! (Long story.) Yay!

With this post, my post count is 1666, and I've come to this thread to drag you all to the fiery depths of Hell. :evil: Or maybe the icy depths, as in Dante's Inferno. Whatever floats your boat.

Excellent work! I didn't realize so many of Dayton's luminaries had their estates sort of clustered like that. It really is an interesting area. As I've mentioned before, that area (in particular, within the boundaries you gave near the end of the post) is an area with which I became quite familiar in the summer of last year. That Ridgeway Road picture toward the end even features a manhole on which I'm sure I stood, trying to receive a good GPS signal through all the trees. What fun.

^ Approximately coinciding with the sudden onset of winter in the midwest, it seems. At least when the cold weather rolled in the other day, it came with a bit of snow. Snow makes cold weather tolerable for me.

Maybe Ohio should take by force the portion of the bridge over its territory, then paint that section with those silly Bengals stripes so that there can be a ridiculous-looking bridge with one third painted one way and two thirds painted another way. Of course, that might prompt Kentucky to invade Ohio, starting a conflict which would eventually escalate into the second Civil War. On the plus side, in another hundred years the suspension bridge would be a nationally famous historical site, drawing thousands of tourists. Yay!

Is there anything facing the sidewalks on 5th or Central besides giant blank walls?

Very interesting.

^ At least it was probably better than the mother-effing 14 degrees it was in Madison this morning when I walked to school.

Suited up in pink “pig” outfits, complete with wings, the Cl!mbers will soar high above the race. This is offensive to my people.

Wait a second, you can't talk about the view of someone who has visited but not lived there but at the same time say I-95 instead of 128! :wink:

When comparing highways and LRT, don't forget that regardless of how many people are fitting on those highways, there are still going to be a helluva lot more vehicles that are funneling in from various roads and being disgorged onto other roads. Actually, I guess that's just the congestion argument, so I suppose it's already been talked about here.