August 10, 201014 yr Meh. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 10, 201014 yr NW Ohio and much of Indiana seem to go hand in hand. Geographically makes sense of course. But this area is distinct from the rest of Ohio IMO.
August 10, 201014 yr Quaint and clean. Nice city hall, nice Lutheran church. Reminds me of my rides up to Lake Erie on I75 as a kid. You were there this spring?
August 11, 201014 yr Yes, the resemblence to western towns is there. A real different feel from NE ohio small towns. Is it the topography/flora more so than the building styles?
August 11, 201014 yr They tend to view us in Toledo as being very rude and obnoxious, which is pretty true. We pride ourselves on our ability to cut each other down. I don't think anywhere else do people spend so much time sh!t-talking just for the sake of sh!t-talking. Funny, I grew up in D8ton, moved away for several years, moved back, and I was stunned by the level and ferocity of insular nastiness and cliquishness in SW Ohio. Getting away from it my "acclimatization" to local ganging-up behavior had decreased. My opinion is that Toledo has nothing over Dayton or Cincinnati.
August 12, 201014 yr Too much brown. And the college kids in the area go to Toledo for bars? Have they never heard of that little hamlet Bowling Green?
August 21, 201014 yr nice job on pemberville. it always seemed to have a pleasant and well-kept feel and looks like it still does. the purina granary thing is iconic in this burg. btw and just for the record sherwood anderson's (gasp! a shoestring c-dawg relative? :-o :wink: ) famous literary 'winesburg, ohio' is based on nearby clyde, ohio.
August 22, 201014 yr Cute, fairly intact downtown. This building is a delight, and could really benefit from a facade rehab and restoration of the street-level storefronts. I'll bet it once had some impressive cornice work. ... I don't think anywhere else do people spend so much time sh!t-talking just for the sake of sh!t-talking. I've heard it's the legacy of Great Lakes shipping and all the industry in the city. It's a level of swearing and insults that the small towners just have never heard before. Some of these people are absolutely terrified of Toledo. They think it's Detroit or something. They view it as a real ghetto culture (which is also pretty true) ... In the '60s - early '70s, there were no real "out" gay bars in Fort Wayne with dancing, etc.; there were the closeted cocktail lounge at the Van Orman Hotel, and Henry's, where the theatre crowd hung out, but no place where gay people could party it up and dance. Toledo's Scenic Bar (Monroe & Erie?) was a popular Saturday-night destination for a carload or sometimes even a mini-caravan from FW. A sort of cultural exchange evolved, with occasional carloads coming from Toledo to Fort Wayne. What evolved wasn't exactly an improvement in the social environment in Fort Wayne. We always had had b!tchy queen bees who sometimes pretended to their affluence, but not so many and not at the (low) socio-economic level where evilness and the ability to out-trash-talk everyone else became something to aspire to. Some nice kids came to Fort Wayne from the nearby small towns, got caught up in the Toledo thing, and turned into obnoxious, spiteful, evil queens. Ooops! Straying off topic. Sorry.
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