RiverViewer

The long-term plans would be to get every single road in the entire city, plus Norwood, NKY, Elmwood Place, etc., etc...but it's a pretty involved process, so things will come slowly. I'd imagine I'll probably fill out Mt. Adams and OTR next, if I had to guess, and then probably work up the hill to CUF/Clifton, and there's so much great stuff in Walnut Hills that I want to document before it's gone...but it'll probably end up being a little-by-little type thing...

As long as Ink and I both stay the hell away from GABP! I was 0-5, I think, and Ink was what, 1-20 or something crazy?

...I heard them using that on WLW on Tuesday, so you'd better file a case and defend your intellectual property!

Make sure you tell us your time when you finish! And thank you for swimming, in part, for my mother!

The survey doesn't say what the best buildings are - it says what people in general think are the best buildings. Definitely can be a big difference! But we should keep in mind that when architects and the public agree - say, in the Ascent - that it makes for a fantastic, and well-supported project!

Nick, stop posting here. Your doing great in Northside. Fantastic. Stay on that subject on some other thread. Dude, WTF are you talking about? I've certainly disagreed with Nick sometimes, but his insights and opinions have made this thread one of the most interesting and productive we've had so far. I don't think someone whose only post thus far have been to call out ColDayMan and bitch about alchemize is really in a position to tell folks what to discuss here...but maybe that's just me...I mean, your opinions are welcome and encouraged - but telling another poster to "stop posting here" is kinda out of place, don't you think?

Jimmy, that is beautiful...I think that second one is my favorite shot ever of Music Hall...absolutely gorgeous!

Very pretty, Ink...and none of that flash-on-the-nearby-flakes either - well handled!

Wow...he violates his own thread within two posts...that's gotta be a record!

boy I feel stupid now... Oh, don't - your point is still well-taken regarding the double-standard, which I took to be your main point...

I'm sure Robert Tuttle (and William Farish before him) would be surprised to learn that! I'm assuming you meant that in some ironical way, or some Bush's Personal Representative way or something?

I've seen references to it freezing in 1948 or so...I'll have to look around, see if I can find any kind of comprehensive list...well, comprehensive list since canalization - before that, it probably froze most years. If you can dig those pictures out, I'd LOVE to see them!

You get any pictures of walking on the river? That would be incredible! In January 1977, two days reached highs of 33, two reached 34, and one reached 38. Every other day never broke freezing. The average low was 5, the average mean was 16, and the average high was 22...if I remember the figures right! Coal and gas shipments couldn't reach the city (or the whole area), and I've read about folks who were working in 45 degree buildings...factories were shut down due to the energy shortage...then the month ended with a huge blizzard! That would really, really suck - but I'd endure it to get the pictures!

Wow, Jimmy - you're a LOT younger than I thought you were! (haha!) That's great...always so cool to walk on water! For some reason, I find it fascinating. I'd hate the heating bills, but I could SO love seeing the river freeze solid again like in 1977...

Wonderful stuff! Grit + Nature = Southern Ohio! Something so appealing about it all... ...and this shot: ...why, that's a close-up of the Space Alien with Staircase Mandibles of Death Courthouse, isn't it? Here's Summit Street's picture of it: From his Pomeroy thread...your shot looks far less threatening!

I love that stretch of Burdett - I love that dense, single-family type neighborhood. But yeah, it ain't a $215K-type street...it'll be interesting to see what it finally sells for... Isn't the lot across Boone from that also bare? Something around there was torn down not too long ago...if Peebles Corner ever comes back to life, that could be a great spot for something new...

Oh, yeah, the winner of the first half this year was DEFINITELY Prince! The production team blew a tremendous amount of [male anatomy] - the mix on the feed we saw was horrible, you could only hear Prince's mic and his guitar...most musicians, that would spell disaster - but with Prince, it was astonishingly cool. Man, that guy can play, and sing... If they fixed these things, no way would Arizona have won the World Series in 2001...otherwise, I'd be right there with you!

I don't recognize the location...which, of course, doesn't mean a damn thing - I'd defer to ColDay and Grasscat and Monte on this - but I don't recognize it...

Actually, according the Publisher's Weekly review of her book, she wrote it by herself...

Welcome to the forum, Cincyboy! And what a great way to start - with a grasscat photo thread! Lucky, lucky you!

Ink, that link takes me to a page where the username is populated as REFURL and requesting a password...alas...

Through some of the other Cincinnati Library-available links, there's full-text searches available for the following: Akron Beacon Journal, from 1984 Cincinnati Enquirer, from 1999 Buffalo News, from 1989 Cincinnati Post, from 1990 Cleveland Plain Dealer, from 1991 Dayton Daily News, from 1990 Kentucky Post, from 1990 Toledo Blade, from 1996 Washington Post, from 1977 ...but the Columbus Dispatch isn't in that group...it's in another database, but only goes back to 2003...

As a card-carrying member of the Cincinnati Public Library system, I just discovered I have access to full text searcheable archives of everything the New York Times has ever printed, going back to 1851! You just go to http://www.CincinnatiLibrary.org, select Research, then Databases, then the Proquest Historical link thingy, and you have to log in with your library card number and PIN (which defaults to the last four digits of the phone number you gave them when you signed for the card), and boom, access to EVERYTHING is yours. It's insane. Put in Cincinnati, between 01/01/1977 and 02/01/1977 and you get articles about the last time the Ohio and Mississippi froze over...full .pdf's of each article. Or you can browse the whole paper... That's where I've been spending just about every waking minute that I haven't been working, sleeping or drunk...oh, and they've got other stuff, though nothing that goes back so far - other databases are available though, including the Columbus Dispatch for five or ten years, along with 200 other publications - but nothing like the NYTimes back catalogue...wow.

What's your blog?

Sorry, no pictures, but the on-site crane is fully erected, and this morning they're taking the mobile assembling crane away - we and our neighbors were awakened at 7am by the sound of flatbed after flatbed jake-braking outside our homes...at least it's not like the excavation, which happened in warm weather with the windows open...gah. Anyway, we have a crane! I can't wait to go around the city and see where all you can see the crane from, and see where precisely the Overlook is going to poke skyward!