lopsidedfrock

Here's a link with a brief history of the Medical College of Ohio, minus any scandal. http://hsc.utoledo.edu/history/briefhistory.html Anyway, I'm sitting in the computer lounge at UTMC (its new name). I'm graduating next week, and will be fleeing to the cleve afterward. The university sucked me in and I stimulated Toledo's economy for a while.

i've seen some bands at the matinee. free admission!!! other: pat's in the flats (tremont)

re General Growth and Fallen Timbers: (toledo) it's just Northtowne 2.0, or Woodville 2.0. Unnecessary mall built in an area on the fringe that never built up. There's no surprise why Franklin Park is Toledo's mall. One aspect that might deter retail development at Southwyck is the public housing just north of the mall site across the street.

i saw "OBAMA" in chicago, didn't take pic

chances are I will be counted in Cleveland in 2010, definitely cuy co, job at metro moving from Toledo, uncounted

it comes as no surprise that the campus is new england-styled. the pre sprawl towns of NE ohio are modeled after connecticut, as the Western Reserve area was akin to a colony of CT. a lot of NEO townships have 'bizarro' CT locations (places with the same name).

the cleveland area has a 2-level target, in university hts

it is western reserve academy, a boarding school for rich kids

grove city and brunswick make the most sense as -tuckies since they are both SW burbs along 71, on the way to kentucky. taylor also, along 75 on the way to kentucky from detroit.

according to my mom that would be correct, palijandro. mom grew up on 169th until high school, following the yugoslav sprawl trajectory to lake county. add another divider: west of 152nd you'd find the appalachians and blacks.

lived in toledo for 4 years, probably won't be counted after graduation in june

the smileys and chat spellings hint at sarcasm

especially due to MI's peninsular nature, a toledo casino gives the rest of america the chance to gamble without driving that extra hour.

i'm having a hard time believing parma hts ever had anything as 'urban' as this

cedar-fairmount may be sleepier, but i've been to a good number of parties on grandview and bellfield.

toledo actually seems to have a lot of indie record stores: allied (the reynolds location as the hippest) ramalama culture clash that new one in uptown finders (if you care to include BG) compare to cleveland bent crayon shattered record revolution ultrasound my mind's eye hodad's (the status of any cle stores i'm unsure of, and i don't have money for music)

india garden

with such a large projection, there would have had to be more development on the relatively undeveloped east side.

haven't had bucci's pizza but their entrees are good. they have a birthday club where you sign up and get a $16.95 discount within a week of your birthday. i usually go only on birthdays.

take the bldgs completely out of context and the architecture seems a bit charming

the phrase "i love me some ..." it really seems to be taking off

i'd like to see plat maps of what never was

this one must be gehry's first

a lot of those neighborhoods seem artificially designated. who refers to Puritas-Longmead, Riverside, or Jefferson? That's all West Park. No one says, "hey let's go to Goodrich-Kirtland for some Chinese food." Aren't North and South Collinwood and Euclid Green all just Collinwood? That's what my mom would say, anything in the Collinwood High attendance zone (if that exists today).

do kids growing up in the exurbs think a place with sidewalks is "ghetto?" wickliffe person here. growing up i liked the inter-burb subdivision connectivity between wickliffe and euclid to the west. my area had 6 streets connecting the two. contrast this to wickliffe and willowick between adjacent subs where there is only one connecting intersection. it's cool that you can walk all the way from downtown cleveland to willoughby on nothing but sidewalks.