3 hours ago, BigDipper 80 said:

^I know at the original one in California, they bought a bunch of old street lamps from St Louis when they were ripping them out and replacing them with electric lights.

 

Did they take some of St. Louis's famous bricks as well? 

On 9/3/2019 at 9:54 PM, GCrites80s said:

 

 

I'm really surprised and somewhat saddened by how bonkers 21st century rehabs have gone with painting over brick. That brick made it 100 years without any paint besides signs and people are just going willy-nilly with the paint. We are going to be very sorry we did that. The same goes for interiors as well. It's just more of the attack on rich detail... to steal a political term.

Eh I mean fair point on the exterior paint, but personally I think it all looks really nice. As for the interiors, most of these buildings were practically falling apart inside, there is only so much that can be preserved

Corner of Elm and Odeon, 2014 vs 2019:

 

 

Thanks for sharing these! 

Transformation of the 1200 block of Main Street, 2015 vs. 2019:

 

 

That second photo is so much prettier with the full green trees behind all of the buildings. The hillsides are rough in winter.

Taft's Ale House, 2014 vs. 2019:

 

 

Quite a few changes between 2016 and 2020:

 

 

2017 vs. 2021:

 

 

Insane.

Man, and that's just in the five years since I moved away. Still in awe how much OTR has changed since even 2011 when I moved to Cincinnati the first time. Have there been any changes on Green Street lately? Architecturally it's one of my favorite streets north of Liberty, but it's always felt super sketchy. 

Unfortunately my "before" picture above (from 2017) was taken after they finished renovating the building on the right (the Kruckemeyer) and were starting to build the 14th & Vine infill office building. It would have been cool to get a shot of that entire area completely unrenovated. Here are a few shots from photographer Kurt Goethert of that corner, taken in 2013:

 

 

 

 

4 hours ago, BigDipper 80 said:

Man, and that's just in the five years since I moved away. Still in awe how much OTR has changed since even 2011 when I moved to Cincinnati the first time. Have there been any changes on Green Street lately? Architecturally it's one of my favorite streets north of Liberty, but it's always felt super sketchy. 

 

Green Street still feels sketchy to me and not a whole lot has changed. I would guess that's going to change in the next 5 years; development is simultaneously pushing north from the southern half of OTR, and pushing south from the Findlay Market area.

I feel that Green Street at Pleasant has seen a lot of revitalization, and not too sketchy to walk. Whenever out of town friends visit I give a walking tour starting At the market and we walk down Pleasant all the way to Washington Park. Its a great walk and the murals just keep getting better and better. 

Here's another pair of before-and-afters from Race Street in OTR, now that the most of the storefronts have filled in. These are both 2016 vs. 2021:

 

 

 

 

15th Street, 2016 vs. 2021:

 

 

One more set showing the evolution of Modal Group's "Market Square" project next to Findlay Market:

 

 

^So many great components to that project. Just removing the overhead utilities was a big win.

The Pho Lang Thang building that went from bright pink to bright blue is the best conversion of the bunch. Before renovations it was one of the saddest buildings in OTR. The little prison windows were so bad.

2 hours ago, ink said:

^So many great components to that project. Just removing the overhead utilities was a big win.

 

I do find it odd that they did not remove the massive old trolleypole on the right side of my images above, which now only holds a few street signs.

It almost look like they took the signs from the signpost and put them on the trolleypole which if I'm not mistaken is a MUTCD violation.

14 minutes ago, taestell said:

With Industry essentially complete, it's time for a before and after:

 

October 2019:

 

October 2022:

 

On May 15, 1974, 50 years ago today, photographer Stephen Shore captured a photo at the corner of 15th and Vine streets in Over-the-Rhine, which he published as part of his 1982 book Uncommon Places. It's a really great collection showcasing 1970s and 80s America and I highly recommend you pick it up.

 

Earlier this week, I photographed the same corner to show how it looks 50 years later.

 

 

 

We need some before-and-afters of the world-famous OTR Gold Star that Bill Clinton and Al Gore ate at!

50 years of progress that mostly occurred in the last 15. 

8 hours ago, taestell said:

On May 15, 1974, 50 years ago today, photographer Stephen Shore captured a photo at the corner of 15th and Vine streets in Over-the-Rhine, which he published as part of his 1982 book Uncommon Places. It's a really great collection showcasing 1970s and 80s America and I highly recommend you pick it up.

 

Earlier this week, I photographed the same corner to show how it looks 50 years later.

 

 

 

 

Great capture! What a difference all that greenery makes too.

1 hour ago, Miami-Erie said:

Great capture! What a difference all that greenery makes too.

 

That's the biggest difference I noticed too. I guess Cincinnati did not believe in street trees in the urban core in the 1970s?

^Vine and many of the other downtown streets had the highway "claw" lighting and were set up for maximum traffic volume (Vine, of course, was one-way until about 2005).  I think that people today don't understand how wildly congested city streets were back in the streetcar/trolleybus era, and so don't understand why traffic engineers did everything they could to improve traffic flow above any other interest.  

That's one reason it was so easy to make a small business successful back then -- you didn't need to drum up all your own foot traffic or sit there on Facebook all day trying to coax people in.