RiverViewer

Riverviewer you turned us down for this? HA Well, we already had the dinner plans was the thing...an evening of cooking and drinking and cards and whatnot... You are the king of deceiving threads. Hey, I'm just being honest!

They say it's the best view in the city! Plus, I got to sip a bourbon on the rocks, and replay the best parts over and over!

there's a mental cemetary somewhere near downtown columbus, its in that book "Weird Ohio" Here's a website as well, by the guy who wrote Weird Ohio, I believe: http://www.forgottenoh.com/Asylum/asylumcemetery.html

Subjunctive mood and split infinitives - both grammatical rules are surrounded, outnumbered, and short on supplies...I doubt either will hold out another generation...

Wonderful update! Loads of good news (well, except in East Price Hill)...a recording studio on Walnut Hills that specializes in folk? Who'd have thought it! Wonderful news on the Doughboy statue - that kind of respect for the past does so much to tie a city to its history...outrageous home value in Columbia-Tusculum, teardowns in Madisonville and Roselawn, rehabs in Oakley and Pleasant Ridge...looks like the universe proceeds per normal... It's too bad they couldn't keep the balcony on that Pleasant Ridge place, but far better to do the rehab they did and lose a balcony than lose the whole place! Say, in the Montgomery dog park story, there's this quote: Pioneer Park, which is "one of the most unique parks in the country," said resident Brett Leonard, who founded the group "Preserve Pioneer Park" a few months ago. Er..."one of the most unique parks in the country"? Really? According to Montgomery's web site, it's 21 acres, has 2 ball fields, a soccer field, a walking trail, a gazebo, a pond, a grass play area, council ring (er...what's that?), wildflower meadow, butterfly gardens, and a "grove of flowering native trees." Look, I'm as big a homer for my city as you'll want to meet, and I'm sure Pioneer Park is a great park - but come the f*ck on, buddy...

I'm just curious, what exactly do you mean by this? Seems like there's a lot of great stuff going on in Newport, but maybe you're talking about something else...

That's very funny...

So rather than braving the crowds, and following in the proud Opening Day RiverViewer tradition, here's my view of the fireworks this year: With the lights off: Channel 12 was amazing this year - the fireworks came right out of the TV screen! Our rambunctious Abyssinian was on top of the TV cabinet, and noticed all the colors, so she poked her head over and was staring at the show! ...but my fat old cat couldn't have cared less: My wife and Issue430 walked up to the upper overlook at Eden Park - seems like there's always tons and tons of people, parking up to a half mile away, and while I wasn't going anywhere, they wanted to see what they could see...turns out, they could see about nothing. Lots of people: ...including some in pretty remarkable heels, considering the walk back she had in store: ...but other than some colors lighting the sky, they said you couldn't see anything... Regarding the show - Bootsy Collins rocks, ending with Carmina Burana was fantastic, and the L&N waterfall hitting at the end of "The End" by the Beatles was just frickin' inspired...wonderful, wonderful show...I can't wait to see other folks' photo threads!

I'd love to see that, Brutus...

^It's a suburb of Barberton...

Y-CityGuy mentioned this in ColDay's amazingly gorgeous thread, Appalachian Ohio in February, but I had never seen a picture of it until I ran across this link: http://rickleephoto.blogspot.com/2006/09/touch-mothmans-butt.html ...can't direct link the pictures, and I don't want to steal them, but that rocks...gotta get my own shots...

Very cool...you need to dig through your archives more often! I love the stuff you find!

Zipcode doesn't map to neighborhood...I don't know that there's a completely definitive source, but the best source out there is the auditor's webside. Go to http://www.hamiltoncountyauditor.org/realestate, then search by Address, put your house number in and street name, then on the first page that comes up, it should give a neighborhood area...will probably either be CUF or Clifton...

You might not actually live in Clifton even technically...a number of those places down at Riddle and McMicken are actually in CUF. Have you checked your pad on the auditor's site?

Seems to me that part of what professional sports teams give up in order to enjoy their anti-trust exemption should be the ability to hold cities hostage with threats to move. If professional sports were a free market, we could have told the Bengals to shove off, we'll get another team, thank you very much...if they didn't have anti-trust protection, then the owners could be slammed in jail for collusion... I do agree with you, by the way - first things first...I'd rather have Riverfront and a jail than GABP and no jail...just thought it was funny for someone whose last dozen trips, I'm guessing, were to watch the Reds, then to complain about us building GABP - thought it a funny juxtaposition!

...off building stadiums that I believe you've used more frequently than your jail!

That's the part that gets me the most. This land is valuable - why on earth would you waste it on green space that adds no value? I guess the thought is that it increases the value of the other units more than it would be worth as more units, but I know those spaces would make this development less attractive to me, not more attractive. But then, I ain't planning on buying anything there anyway...

...never thought about that, but it makes sense. I've always thought balconies that were all enclosed like that were poor design, but I guess it's the only way to satisfy the love of balconies with the needs of economical design with the building policies...

So how is the place?

What was there in the early 1990's? I remember seeing some sports-related things on campus maps...

Six feet wide, but with supports blocking most of that every ten feet or so, though, right? It'd be the snaking past the columns part that would freak me out...

It's in Walnut Hills, surrounded by properties also in Walnut Hills, but it is near the Walnut Hills/Corryville border, and the Walnut Hills/Avondale border...but it's a long ways from Clifton.

For a visual aid, here's ColDay's aerial of Xavier:

The Victory Parkway Bridge steps aren't creepy! Though yeah, the dude sleeping there is a little disconcerting... So dude, you climbed up on the arch supports?

Very cool...yeah, when you've got a city like that, why would you change it?