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^---- Notice that most of the piers end on the same line. There is an imaginary line called the "U.S. pier and bulkhead line" that presumably was set by the Army Corp of Engineers. Land owners are not allowed to build beyond that line because they would be infringing on the shipping channel.

^---- M. King Hubbert himself advocated a ration system. Trouble is that folks will sell the ration tickets, or otherwise find a way to work around the system.

I just got back from that meeting. It was open-house style, with lots of poster boards, and well attended. The art academy is a neat building, too. It was the first time I had been inside.

"City is one of the fastest growing suburbs." :roll:

"Four times the draw for riverfest would be 95% of the metro population." Maybe so, but don't forget visitors from other cities, especially Dayton, Columbus, Indianapolis, Lexington, etc.

Blaming the developers oversimplifies a very complex system.

I heard a bunch of people say that they wanted to go to Riverfest, but didn't want to endure the traffic, parking, crowds, etc. One woman wanted to go there at least once in her life. I have a feeling that if it were not for transportation hassles, that event would attract 3 or 4 times as many people.

I have to wonder what you do for work, if you do this stuff for fun. Thanks again.

The internet is fantastic. I discovered these old Popeye cartoons from 1938 through 1941 on Youtube. I suppose they show up occasionally on television, but I haven't seen these since I was three years old. I remember watching these with my grandfather. Of course, I didn't notice things that I see now. These old cartoons were made using a process where the foreground was drawn on a clear surface, placed over the background image, and photographed, one frame at a time. This process allowed the illustrators to focus on the action and not spend so much time on backgrounds, as well as to make the background match the frame before it. It would be neat to find the original background drawings. The background scenes are wonderful. Notice the perspective views, the street clutter, and the overall level of detail. I find myself watching the cartoons for the background images. The stories and music aren't bad either. I took screenshots of Youtube movies. This was the best quality that I could get. 1. Wires, water tower, smoke, shadows.<br> 2. <br> 3. <br> 4. <br> 5. <br> 6. Refrigerator, sink, washing tub, and stove (I think.) Vanishing point perspective view highlighted by tile floor. Furniture in foreground helps frame the view. <br> 7. <br> 8. I included this one because it has a tall highchair with wheels. Can you imagine?<br> 9. Circus tent<br> 10. Wooden fence with posters.<br> 11. Front porch, wooden siding, vanishing point perspective view.<br> 12. Worn picket fence.<br> 13. Steamship with 4 stacks and two masts<br> 14. Popeye pilots a ship down a street. Streetlamp, fire hydrant, curb, skyscraper with setbacks. Wooden country home doesn't match urban setting but was required for story line. <br> 15. Wires, water tower.<br> 16. Oil lamp.<br> 17. <br> 18. Hilarious scene where Olive Oyl dances with traffic cop. Cop is manually operating sign with "STOP" and "GO" boards on a rotating post. Cop gets tangled with Olive, rotates the sign, and make chaos of traffic. <br> 19. Shepard's hook streetlamp, corner sign.<br> 20. Art deco domed roller rink interior. <br> 21. Structural steel complete with rivets, fire hydrant, vanishing point perspective view.<br> 22. Box cab steam shovel with curved roof.<br> 23. <br> 24. <br> 25. Brick and stucco.<br> 26. Streetlamp, catch basin, manhole cover, shack, tool cart in the street.<br> 27. Garbage can, streetlight, manhole cover<br> 28. <br> 29. Wires, wooden pole, interior building angle.<br> 30. Long staircase, corridor, vanishing point perspective view<br> 31. Pyramid shaped roof, awning with a torn corner.<br> Hope you enjoyed!

^---"The more I learn about economics and politics, or 'how the world works', the more I wish I didn't." Good one.

I agree that some of the small towns are more urban than the big cities, in terms of the built environment. Sure, the larger cities have more skyscrapers, but they also have more parking lots. "Ohio is a dying state, and will start losing overall population around 2010-2020." The exact peak year is 2018, according to Census projections. This comes from the age-cohort method, which is based on birth and death rates. Much of the so-called growth is merely new development, which offsets decline elsewhere. Again, the raw percentage number doesn't show the whole picture. I suspect that the birth rate is higher among poor people. Here's one of my favorite quotes from a radio talk show: Caller: "During the Reagan years, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer." Host: "No, you're wrong. During the Reagan years, the rich got richer, the middle class got richer, and the poor got richer. But, the number of poor people increased because poor people had a lot of kids." "Ohio is far too suburbanized in my opinion to ever have its cities recover." I wonder if we have passed the point of no return. I tend to think we have.

KJP- These seemingly dry numbers represent a lot of despair, hopelessness, broken lives, drugs, violent crimes and even deaths. If these numbers were high in just one city, or even a just a few, then we might blame the city's leaders. Instead, these should be a source of shame to every elected state official in Ohio who served in office for the past 60 years. These numbers didn't just happen overnight. They are the culmination of anti-urban policies that have only been getting more anti-urban in recent decades. I hope our state's leaders are proud of their accomplishment. The feds have a lot to do with this, too.

^---- If I'm not mistaken, the Constitution calls for a census but does not specify the method. A few years back, the Democrats pushed for more statistical sampling methods, but the Republicans opposed it. The statistical sampling was supposed to count more poor. No surprise there. I have been following the stats from a suburban school district near Cincinnati. They use a different word for "poor." They say "students who qualify for reduced-price lunches." Anyway, the number of students who qualify for reduced-price lunches is 27% across the district, which matches what the Census says for percent poor. Even the people who live in the school district were shocked to hear that stat. That's almost one in three! I have to wonder if the poor just aren't as noticeable as we expect them to be.

Neat and orderly you like? Enjoy! 11. <br> 12. <br> 13. <br> 14. <br> 15. <br> 16. <br> 17. <br>

Bacharach, Germany 1. <br> 2. <br> 3. <br> 4. <br> 5. <br> 6. <br> 7. <br> 8. <br> 9. <br> 10. <br> 11. <br> 12. <br>

St. Goar, Germany retains most of its medieval street layout. It's now principally a resort town. 1. <br> 2. <br> 3. <br> 4. <br> 5. <br> 6. <br> 7. <br> 8. <br> 9. <br> 10. <br> 11. <br> 12. <br>

Reims, France. 1. <br> 2. <br> 3. <br> 4. <br> 5. <br> 6. <br>

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Potsdam, Germany. Enjoy! 1. <br> 2. <br> 3. <br> 4. <br> 5. <br> 6. <br> 7. <br> 8. <br> 9. <br>

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^----- Because nobody has a spare hundred million dollars laying around.

I just remembered another one. I was employed by an company based in Columbus. We had a work crew travel to Detroit. It was my first time to Detroit. We got off the highway and the first thing we saw was a man with one leg standing in the middle of the street with a big clear plastic bag full of green leaves making his way to cars stopped in traffic and trying to sell. Not a good introduction to Detroit... We drove through bombed-out neighborhoods. We found bullets laying on the ground. We walked in areas with rats scurrying around our feet. We stopped for lunch at a Burger King with bulletproof glass between the customers and the employees. All of this was too much for my crew chief. He couldn't wait to get home. I was taking it all in, in amazement. I didn't feel particularly unsafe, but my crew chief clearly did. Finally, my crew chief said to me, "You must be used to this stuff. You're from Cincinnati." Granted, we do have some bulletproof glass in fast food chains in Cincinnati. Doesn't every city?

^-- "Is there a physical reason for the counterclockwise twist? If it were a drill bit or a screw, the twist would run in the opposite direction. That thing is left-handed." It's to give the advantage to a right-handed swordsman defending his position from the top of a spiral staircase. Facing downstairs, his right hand is on the outside of the circle, where he has room to swing. His opponent, coming upstairs, has his right hand crowded along the inside wall. Oh, wait, I was thinking of castles. :-D

Fill all of the parking lots with 4 story buildings first.

I found another fun projection from the past. Enjoy! "The four bridges across the Ohio provide vehicular lanes as follows: 1. The C&O bridge, two lanes 2. The L&N bridge, two lanes 3. The Central bridge, two lanes 4. The Suspension bridge, three (!) traffic lanes including two car tracks This gives a total of nine traffic lanes in both directions. As four of these lanes are encumbered by car tracks, their effectiveness would be cut in halves, therefore the 9 traffic lanes are reduced to seven actually. These seven traffic lanes are capable of carrying 600 to 1000 automobiles per hour or a total of 4200 to 7000 for all four bridges. Actual traffic counts show that today the normal use is only 900 vehicles. Even at the time of the Latonia Derby this has rarely exceeded 1500 vehicles per hour. With the probable increase in the use of automobiles goin to and from Kentucky and with the increased ownership of automobiles on the Kentucky side even after ample allowance is made for the growth of the Kentucky communities, it is hardly conceiveable that during the next 50 years the maximum use of the bridges would exceed three or at most, four times the present use. Three times the present use would give 2700 vehicles and four times 3600 vehicles per maximum hour. No increase in vehicular traffic lanes across the Ohio River is likely to be needed for fifty years to come." - The Official Plan of the City of Cincinnati, 1925 :-o