In no other Columbus neighborhood will you feel like you're in the middle of bumfuck nowhere as you will in Scioto Southland: a little slice of dilapidated southern Ohio (hell, it could be Arkansas), a no man's land right in our backyard. It ain't gonna be pretty; you've been warned...

 

 

Image from Google Maps

This is bad?  It's just a trailer park with a big factory or something in the backround and high-tension wires. 

 

You need to come to Dayton to visit west suburban Drexel.  Now that is a setting for a COPS episdoe.

This isn't a bad neighborhood that would be featured on COPS (I've already covered those in great detail), it just feels very remote for being just south of Merion Village (which is just south of German Village) and equidistant to Downtown from the south as Old North Columbus (a dense urban neighborhood) is to the north. I probably should have held off on using just one pic to sum up the neighborhood. I'm not good at that, which is why I usually end up with 50+ pics in my photo threads. And now with the damn snow I'll probably have to wait til the end of the month when it's supposed to be 40 degrees again so that I'll be able to go down some of the residential streets.

I think I know this area.  It's south of that big foundry and railroad overpass at the end of Parsons, no? 

Columbus developed largely after well-to-do people made the decision that they didn't want to live near foundries, factories, warehouses and such with all their dirt and noise. That left the poor Appalachian factory workers to settle the area. Now that a lot of those jobs have dried up, this area which never had much appeal to start with has gone downhill.  A lot of the rural feel in the area is simply due to land that was never developed.

I think the architecture of the horse track, Scioto Downs? is interesting.

 

And the old drive in has been an inspiration to countless photographers!!

 

But yeah, south of Columbus is Jerry Springer land.

Scioto Downs looks like something out of an old Chuck Jones cartoon -- I think that's the appeal.

So, is this the part of town Dwight Yokum is from?

^ Nope, hes from the Morse Road area from what I hear. Dunno what part of Morse Road; there were probably a lot more parts of it that were somewhat rural back then.