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Wow, Rees E. Price Academy sure has a freaky sky: Thanks for the update - always wonderful to see!

Yeah, it's employees in the entire metro, then employees in the Central Business District, then a simple percentage of CBD employees vs. the metro employees. ...and those shots kick ass...any idea on the year of the B&W one? ...I guess I should have just said, "what PigBoy said."

I certainly envy you Cavs fans, with the excitement of the beginning of a new era finally starting to come to fruition...I've been in Cincinnati since 1997, and the only time I've started to feel that was this past fall with the Bengals. In 1999 the Reds made a run, but that was different - I don't think anyone expected anything from them that year except to make a little noise, and that's all they did. But the playoffs? With a great team with the whole future ahead of them, taking its first huge steps? Last time I really saw that was the Tribe in 1995, and hopefully the Reds this year! All the best to the Cavs, and envy from down south!

Thanks for the link! Works out to about $65/month, which is less than places like Tri-Health, but more expensive than some other places around...not worth a special trip, when you factor in transportation, but if you're nearby, it could make sense.

Did I miss it, or did the story not mention what night this takes place?

^Do you have any figures on that? I'd be interested in seeing what they charge...

All you need to be wowed by Columbus are ColDay's threads, especially these two: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=350.0 http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=351.0 Please don't interpret my earlier post as in any way knocking Columbus. I'm definitely a fan, of all three C's...

^Think it would assuage annoyance if we added that explanation to the "Sorry, you need to get Flash 8" message? We should probably explain that...

That was a balancing act...these videos are pretty large as they are - some are as large as 30-35 megs. But we were getting some really, really crappy quality. Like, there would be these floating boxes of gray-ish color, probably 15x15 pixels, floating right in the center of the road. Couldn't read any road signs, and the Roebling bridge movies were simply unwatcheable - big blue boxes where the cables should be. We tried different compression methods - me saving movie files large, saving them small, moving titles out of my files and into the .swf's, different Flash compression, etc. And in the end, Flash 8 gave such superior results in the final flash files that the decision was really pretty simple. For about the same file sizes, we had a tremendous upgrade in quality. Andy was really concerned about requiring Flash 8, but in the end, it was a pretty necessary decision: use Flash 7 and show unwatchable and unusable garbage, or Flash 8 and get good results...

Not wanting to start/contribute to a pissing match, just throwing some data I ran across out there: http://www.demographia.com/dm-uscbd.htm Data from 1990, showing the total metro employment, the CBD employment, and the percent of total metro employment in the CBD: Cincinnati 828,139 77,198 9.3% Cleveland 1,271,745 106,899 8.4% Columbus 706,215 39,852 5.6% ...that's 1990 data, and things have obviously changed since then, but I think it illustrates pretty much everyone's points thus far...would be interesting to see how this has changed in the last 15 years...

I could swear when mom and I commuted via the busses in Cleveland that a monthly pass was $54 - and that was in 1992. Am I remembering incorrectly, or have the rates really not gone up in fourteen years? (BTW, that was a hell of a commute - from Richfield to CWRU every day and back...we had to pay the out-of-county surcharge of $0.50/ride, so it was more than $54 for us - but that would have gotten us on any bus/train in the system)

Quimbob, this shot of yours is super-cool: Also very interesting, in a kudzu-creeping-death way: Very nicely done! You caught some cool scenes!

I just got off his boat entirely. Idiot and asshole, all in one...way to change minds.

Oh, and a fun shot - from when demo on 2145 Luray was in progress, you can see 2181 Victory above the rubble:

Woo hoo - some Walnut Hills lovin'! Regarding this place: ...that's the sister building to the super-ugly building that was torn down at 2145 Luray for The Overlook at Eden Park condo tower (thread here). Any idea if the plan is to demolish it or just to refit it for residential? I vote for demolition!

LOL! That's hilarious...

Absolutely, please, no doubt...

Wow - very cool pictures...did you have to go all over the city for all those angles?

Painting over a rookwood fireplace? That is truly criminal...

I agree with that in principle - you've gotta judge folks' behavior by the standards of their time, not our time. But in this case, no, fuck them, these fuckers were vandals, just like the sons of bitches that paint over finished wood.

Pigboy and I have been working on a new website for a while now - CincinnatiRoads.com. Our idea was to document the whole city by driving around, taking video of each street, and then posting it in an interactive map. So far we've covered the Central Business District and most of the vehicular bridges, but we plan to hit OTR next, the West End, Mt. Adams, etc., just radiating out. The site was really designed with you folks in mind. We figured a) it's the kind of site it would be cool to browse - and Andy's map is an amazing experience to browse - I'm still astonished every time I see it! and b) it would be an excellent resource for hunting for that building you remember, or explaining to someone a particular site's location - you can direct-link just to the movie, and then tell someone "it's the building on the left at 1:15." So if you have any comments, suggestions, ideas, anything, just let us know. We hope you dig the site as much as we've dug putting it together! http://www.CincinnatiRoads.com

A thread for direction-giving stories! Talk about times when you've been a Certified Directions Master, tossing out brilliant directions to a passing motorist while mowing the lawn or on a walk or whatever else...your audience at the time had no appreciation for your brilliance, but we will, so do tell! Or when you've screwed up directions (unintentionally, of course!), or, as my story has, you were put in a tough spot, and weren't sure of the best decision to make... ************** My wife and I walked to a Reds game last week, and when we were right where Eastern becomes Riverside Drive now, walking down that Kemper Lane Extension, a car pulled up and asked us for help. Being a Certified Directions Master, I was pleased at the opportunity to impress all and sundry with my tremendous skill. And they had to ask me how to get to the frickin' Celestial. For those not from around here, the answer is, "there's no easy way." My first instinct was: turn around (they were already partway up Kemper, which is one-way, but whatever), back down Riverside to Eggleston - "do you know where Eggleston is?" "No, we're from out of town." Damn. OK, I think it's the 2nd light...yeah, 2nd light, then right, then...is it the first right? That's the 50 entrance ramp - but you've gotta turn left onto Monestary under there, I think the first left, or you're on 50 and you can bend over because you're screwed...if you catch that turn, you're golden - if you miss it, you're stopping again for directions in the AmeriStop at Stanley in Columbia-Tusculum. I figured the danger of missing Monestary under there or getting turned around was too great, and the consequences too severe. So I pulled out my notepad that I brought to keep score at the game on, drew a little map, and sent them like this: up Kemper Lane here to 50, right on 50 then an immediate left at the light (figured that's pretty straightforward, and you could see hints of the light from where we were standing). Up the hill, then the first left is Luray...that angles into Eden Park Drive, so just turn soft right there and head through the park (still pretty easy). Then that winds, gotta go around the roundabout to stay on Eden Park Drive...past the lake...then left at the fork, up the hill, past the Art Museum, last left onto Ida, then go straight 'till you see it... With a map and turn-by-turn directions, I figure they probably got there - and even if they made a mistake, they were at least closer to their goal that way. But man, there just ain't no good way to get people around frickin' Mt. Adams.

I've been told I look like Tom Cruise, especially when he's manly and sexy... (actually, I've never been told that...)

Jimmy - that is a good question: what should we be doing locally about this? And I think the only way we're going to solve this problem is federally, so that means putting pressure on our elected representatives. Because the only way to stop the anti-immigration folks and the blowhards is to pull their teeth - when they can complain about folks who are breaking the law - and they're right, they are breaking the law - the argument isn't going to go away. But when the immigrants aren't breaking the law, then there's no good argument against them, and loads of arguments for them. We might be talking past each other here - maybe I should reiterate that I completely agree with welcoming all immigrants, legal or not. I'm just saying that it isn't going to solve the underlying problem...and furthermore, I don't believe that, by itself, it stands any chance of making immigrants actually feel welcome here - because the anti-immigration folks have a legitimate concern, and the blowhards have a valid platform to stand on, and folks like that Sheriff will find support. The only way to undercut that support is to take their legitimate argument away.

^Does that say "milk"?