Can you identify the location of this pic?

 

 

It's from the city's sesquicentennial celebration:

http://overtherhine.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/geography-quiz-sesquicentennial-surprise/

 

 

I have seen this same photo before and wondered myself.  My best guess is that it is on Spring Grove, with the parade heading south, somewhere near Harrison Avenue. 

There's a pretty good obvious clue: the building in the foreground has a name "C.C. A-------" wholesale wallpapers, paints, varnishes, ladders, brushes. Since we know the date (1938...1788+150=1938) a look at a city directory from this period should only have one supplier with this name and a corresponding address. Mystery is then solved. (Right?)

Right but the Cincinnati virtual library only has city directories up through 1928 digitized: http://virtuallibrary.cincinnatilibrary.org/VirtualLibrary/vl_CityDir.aspx

 

Can anyone figure this out?

Again, I think it's on Spring Grove not just because they're heading south, but because probably everything behind them was bulldozed for I-75.  That's why it's hard to place. 

Yeah, I can see that. 

^+2  Anyone know what year vehicles are in that pic?  The Western Hills Viaduct may not have even been built if they are prior to 33.  My guess though is it was taken in the late 30's early 40's.

 

Found it. Woo hoo!  Where do I go to claim my prize?

 

Found it. Woo hoo!  Where do I go to claim my prize?

 

Don't hold back :)

I don't know precisely where this is, but that is most definitely Mt. Adams in the background. You can make out Rookwood Pottery to the left and and the Mt. Adams Incline to the right. I think people are being thrown for a loop because we are not used to seeing street level pics of this part of town.

 

    Yes, the Mt. Adams incline was what led me to the right neighborhood. The precise location is East Fifth Street at the intersection with Eggleston. The horses are heading south on Eggleston. The building on the corner is The C. C. Aler Company. The building with the awning is on the corner of East Fifth and Lock Street.

 

    I had a blast looking for this, and then exploring the neighborhood through old photos, maps, and directories. One again, I am blown away by the changes that have occured in a little over 50 years - and most of those changes happened in the 50's, 60's, and 70's with highway construction.

 

    Besides an almost unbelievable number of residents listed in the directories - sometimes hundreds of people per block - there are a huge number of businesses listed, many of them manufacturers and also quite a few services such as bakeries and groceries.  The building on the left with the curved windows was apparently a cotton mill.

 

      Eggleston Avenue is obviously still there, but all of East Fifth Street east of Eggleston is gone. The section of East Fifth Street behind the camera is still there. Rookwood Pottery is still there. A few of the hillside buildings might still be there, but it's hard to tell because the photo is not very clear. All of the buildings in the foreground are gone.

 

    I wonder if the photographer captured the front end of the parade? I wonder if there are more photos from this photographer?

 

    Can you imagine what people would have said in 1938 if you told them that by Cincinnati's bicentennial in 1988 almost everything in the photo would be gone?

nice job.  I figured that was an incline but I was guessing it to be Bellevue.

I don't know precisely where this is, but that is most definitely Mt. Adams in the background. You can make out Rookwood Pottery to the left and and the Mt. Adams Incline to the right. I think people are being thrown for a loop because we are not used to seeing street level pics of this part of town.

 

I wanted to believe it was Mt. Adams too but couldn't bring myself to admit that so many great streetscapes were plowed for highways and parking lots.