RiverViewer

Ah, nicely chosen...I should have gotten that! Alas...

Not as good as the Cincinnati Kid's pictures (I was just driving past), but in the 2nd shot, you can see they've filled it in a bit:

Gentlemen, we have demolition!

The main thing limiting me to Paddlefest is that I don't imagine there are many liveries (is that the word?) renting canoes for use on the Ohio...I don't have a canoe, and don't have any way to transport it if I did! How is kayaking compared with canoeing? Is it easier?

Indeed, you got both before and after...good show...your turn!

Ah - finally won one! What fun... OK, for this one, either tell us what used to be here or what's here now... http://maps.google.com/maps?&ll=39.113517,-84.499390&spn=0.004393,0.006207&t=k&hl=en

Ault Park?

If you're just judging it from my pictures, you should really swing out that way and see it in person. Those are some very bad pictures - I don't have anything framed, you really don't get a feel for the place. I only posted them to show some of the colors they're using. I'm actually digging the place more and more - it seems like it's a series of structures, all up on stilts, with some interesting walkways between them and some accessibility stuff on the ground level. It's definitely one of the most interesting looking schools I've seen. I don't know if I'd call it attractive yet, but it is definitely interesting. Plus, the students will have a view of the Ohio River, every day, year round - I can't imagine anything cooler than that. My view in school was a parking lot, if we were lucky. Here's the location of the school:

Very nice tour - looking forward to Part II...is that to be titled, "The Seedy Side of Galion"?

Actually, it is kinda funny, because grasscat did make a comment about someone looking gay in Northside just a week or so ago: Those guys were gay? Get outta here! ;) LOL...sorry, not really germane, but it was the perfect set-up...

No, Coney Island is further upstream, other side of the highway...that's the Little Miami, and it's just upstream from where Paddlefest began, but I have no idea what those two lakes are...

We definitely need some better pictures. It's a lot cooler than I'd thought it would be - definitely out on a limb. But I wonder what they do about tornado drills?

The "People People" Bridge - I like that! Post! Post! Post!

I think those were these things you can see here: http://maps.google.com/maps?&ll=39.097971,-84.438622&spn=0.004862,0.007308&t=k&hl=en What's an ice pier?

Some (crappy) pictures of Riverview East Academy - I drove past twice, but needed to stop and get out to get a decent shot. Instead, here's a series - they run east to west - they're painting them, apparently, which does a lot to lose the whole tractor-trailer feel:

What a fantastic event! Paddling down the Ohio River, from the Four Seasons Marina (up near Lunken), down to Public Landing...we registered late, so we were on the waiting list for a canoe rental ($20 registration/person, plus $35 to rent a canoe - kinda pricey, but it was definitely well worth it) - they don't release canoes to the waiting list until after 9:30, so we had to get a late start of it, which made things much warmer than they could have been. But once we got around the Dayton Kentucky Salient (so named by me just now), we got a nice breeze. Here's the route, courtesy of Google - the green arrow shows the starting spot, the red one where it ended: Some Kentucky houses (anyone know what those two stone things are?): Some Ohio industry: The I-275 bridge in the background, and our friends trying to figure out which end of the paddle goes in the river: Riverside, in Kentucky: My Big Three (St. James at the Park, the Edgecliff, and Edgecliff Point - soon to be four - The Overlook at Eden Park will fit in the gap): St. Rose: ...you can see the flood gauge in this shot: Here's the entrance... ...to this marina: All the new development discussed here (sorry for the crooked shot, but I was in a canoe, after all!): In the above-linked thread, Grasscat commented, "Honestly, it was only a matter of time." I've got to say the same thing about these places (on the right-hand side of this shot) - they're falling apart, and they're not really much lower than the new places just east on Eastern, and if they can mitigate flooding there, they sure can do it here... Queen City Riverboats (on the Kentucky side): Let the Bridges begin! Mt. Adams: Even if this weren't the coolest thing I've done in the city so far (well, aside from getting married and little things like that), this view of Eden Park's Upper Overlook just made it perfect - I've looked down at the river from this overlook so many times - getting a picture look up at it from the river is beyond cool: The Leaning Tower of Edgecliff: Twain's Point: The River Police! Here's the business end of that retaining wall we've been talking about: Another amazing view when you're looking down - it's so cool to see it from the other end: Mmm...ribs... During floods, this outcrop thing will be entirely under water. In fact, I think flood stage brings the water to around the top of the railing: "Restricted Area: Idle speed sunset to sunrise; Idle speed 100 feet of docks and ramps; no ski": L&N - I really dug this shot: Newport on the Levee: Bridges galore: On the Taylor-Southgate: One Lytle Place really could use a good once-over...what an ugly building...anyway, that plus the Serpentine Wall, with the P&G Towers over to the left: Taylor-Southgate, AKA The Shademaker: Covington: PNC! ...anyway, what a fantastic day. A little warm, but gorgeous weather, and a lot of fun. I highly recommend it - just register early if you're going to rent a canoe!

Yeah, that's pretty funny...

I drove by here over lunch, and got two pictures. Here's the first, more of a display at Blossom and Larchview: You can't read the sign on this one, but just after taking this shot my batteries died, so I couldn't get a better one. But this is what the signs look like - the text of many of them is something like, "Please don't ruin our neighborhood with a strip mall" - this from a bit further west on Larchview:

A quick and simple answer would be, a beautiful state with lots variety, from countryside to cosmopolitan cities...

Aren't we just Mr. Demo today?

Fantastic pictures! But that's gotta be hard to watch...

The Ohio River?

An update from this evening:

600 to 1250 units? Really? I had no idea it was that big...

We have a Mayoral primary on September 13th - if the candidates can come to be identified with their support of or opposition to getting the Banks going, that's the second most powerful venue we have for making our voices heard. The most powerful venue, of course, is on November 8th, when we choose the mayor and council members... Of course, I'll never vote for Alicia Reese again, regardless of her stance on the Banks - but since she decided whining was the order of the day, that makes that decision easier!