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OK, I'll admit I'm a fool for their breakfasts. I'll have to assemble my collection of hash-brown-provided Monopoly game pieces and post them... No, I can't bring myself to post them. But I'll PM them to you!

Hmm...looks like you just did it! I don't have any inside info to contribute, but indeed, nice idea!

Man, I've been driving the suspension bridge every last chance I get of late...if I can come up with any excuse, I roll down the windows and listen to the hum as I cruise over the gorgeous bridge!

Hmm...www.aepohio-.com didn't connect to anything, and I can't find a handy analysis link thing on www.aepohio.com...

Haven't been to Honey, but I've heard nothing but raves about it. And Arnold's has always had surprisingly good food. Though that's mostly because you expect really typical bar food, and it exceeds those expectations - not because it'll blow you away of its own accord. ********* EDIT: Regarding Arnold's, I should amend that - they do have food that's surprisingly good of its own accord sometimes. Like one time, we got Goat Stroganoff. WTF? Goat Frickin' Stroganoff? But it was really tasty - the goat really went well in the stroganoff. A daring choice, no doubt, and one they pulled off. Gotta give them big props for that. And eating it while listening to live bluegrass? Hard to top that evening... ********* I've also always heard good things about Slim's, for that Northside-y feel, but haven't been there... Pomodori's wood fired pizza's and pasta dishes are reasonably priced and very, very tasty...another good choice... And obviously, there's Cincinnati Chili at the parlor of your choice - unique and tasty. Then there's also Zip's for a Girth Burger - very nice stuff in a fun setting for cheap... That's what comes to mind for me first...

<i>Yes, this is probably the worst thing I've put out this year.</i> Dude, what are you talking about? This is another round-up of loads of stuff happening around town. Plus a double-dose of lovin' for Walnut Hills - I'm always gonna love that! Thank you as always!

I had one upriver cruise that went upriver to about Collins, then back...then one went downriver well past Mt. Echo park - a decent ways past it...then the third cruise went upriver in the dark, and I don't know exactly how far - I was pretty drunk by the time we turned around, and it was dark, but the moon was to the port side of the boat, so maybe as far as Lunken...

I meant to hunt this up earlier...check out this thread: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9999.0 I called up Larry Brown, who offers Cincinnati tours, and he was a really nice guy... Sorry I didn't find this sooner!

I love the way the city looks lit the hell up...very bright...especially with the contrast of a huge sky...very cool!

Wow - gorgeous! Did you wake up special just to get the morning moonset shots?

OTRFan's back! OTRFan's back! Life just got better, 'cause OTRFan's back! (Isn't the chorus to a song, but it should be!) Very cool! Gotta use exclamation points! Yay! Oh, and a great thread too! Happy! Yay! !

That's like saying, "I bought some candy, children, but I don't know if I want you to have any..."

Oh, great pictures! Our cruise went upstream, so we didn't get to go under the Roebling...lucky you... Thanks for the thread!

and to cost from $2.09 billion to $3.03 billion. I love the precision..."oh, it'll cost somewhere between $2,091,223,948.75, and $3,028,934,044.39." You know, when you leave a billion dollars worth of slack, I don't think you really need three significant digits...

Absolutely gorgeous - what a great eye you have! Wish I could see things like you do...just fantastic shots!

^I'm sorry, can't be serious about what specifically? I didn't follow you...

Jisel, those are great...any "before" shots? Here's a thread I posted from that same January 2005 flood of the Ohio River, from downtown and a little downstream and upstream: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=2016.0

The Community Fund is their charity arm, so yeah...

Those smaller rivers can just be devastating, because places just aren't protected against them as well. Here's downtown Cincinnati on March 5th, 1997 (Ernest Coleman's photo for the Enquirer): ...but here's Falmouth, a small Kentucky town on the Licking River, two days earlier (Michael E. Keating photo for the Enquirer): Cincinnati had damage, but folks died in Falmouth...

Ink, I'd actually tried loading the page this morning, but something was acting up and only one or two pictures showed...figured I'd check back in later. But you're right, this is precisely the kind of thread I dig the hell out of! TC Joe, that's some great stuff...I mean, not for the city, and weren't there two boys who died in the flooding? It's tragic, but still, it's just overwhelming to see that much water where water's not supposed to be. My grandparents live up that way (on Rt. 18, near DeRussy Road - closer to Wakeman than to Norwalk), and I was driving up there for a funeral maybe in July or so...there'd been some rain not long before, and I remember the fields along Rt. 13 - it looked like they'd planted water, and were bringing in a bumper crop. I can't imagine driving up during this - the fields must have been half drowned. Well, great work, and thanks so much for posting them!

OK, that just sounds funny...the construction of your nature preserve? Of course, once you read the end of the article, it makes sense: ...I guess construction will involve fill dirt and such...but still, wouldn't that be "restoration," not "construction"?

Yeah, I like the Roebling homage of the fake bridges too...

Nicely done! I actually went to mass there a couple times during the 1990/1991 school year...always happy I got to do that before it was decommissioned...

Yeah, that's definitely St. George. Here's a thread regarding the development going on around it. When they closed that church, they merged the congregation with St. Monica's (which used to be the pro-cathedral for the archdiocese), and that congregation is now called St. Monica/St. George. It, by the way, is an astonishingly gorgeous church...it's just west of UC on McMillan at the five points...

I wonder how much of this is the "rural" part, and how much is the particular denominations. Because I've played organ at a now-closed Catholic church here in Cincinnati (Holy Angels in O'Bryonville), a Methodist church (Northside United Methodist), and have recently been subbing a lot at an Episcopal church (St. Michael's and All Angels in Avondale) that, last Sunday, featured a congregation of five people, plus five vested ministers, an usher, and me...