February 9, 20178 yr Yes, OTR is very European centric, but we are still in America Just an FYI, many European cities have a ton of lighting/neon in central cities, arguably more so than American cities. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 9, 20178 yr I wish downtown had more of the signage they used to have, would really liven up some areas. I'm OK with it but sometimes I feel OTR in areas is trying to feel too "downplayed" if that is a word? Just seems in the gray, dismal winter month weather, some neon signs and lighting could really liven it up on Main Street. I really want to know what the story is about the dumb overbearing sign laws Cincinnati now has. This is the reason why all this awesome stuff is gone :(
February 9, 20178 yr By the '70s a lot of those signs nationwide were in disrepair. Cities passed the regs to clean things up or ensure that new signs wouldn't become a blight. I know Columbus has restrictive sign laws as well. It doesn't stop the large wallscapes seen in both Downtowns as long as they play by the rules.
February 9, 20178 yr The collection was found under an employees desk at the auditors office. The photos have been making the rounds, as they were released back in 2014. The Cincinnati Magazine article in this months edition that utilizes the photos are bringing renewed interest. Really is an amazing collection! Are you sure they haven't added to it? Seems like there are some I haven't seen before.
February 9, 20178 yr ^It's weird. If you click on a thumbnail, then it brings up more thumbnails underneath. Ahhh, public sector websites...
February 9, 20178 yr ^It's weird. If you click on a thumbnail, then it brings up more thumbnails underneath. Ahhh, public sector websites... Pretty sure it has been added to. I browse those images frequently at lunch and despite the wonkyness of the site there was probably only 150-200max there before. Ill have to dig into it again tonight. Sure dont remember the pancake place earlier, or the greyhound station.
February 9, 20178 yr NOW I WANT PANCAKES!!! I asked an older friend who remembers Peri's about their pancakes and she said they were nothing special. “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
February 9, 20178 yr This one took really long to figure out until i zoomed in on the street sign and compared it to today. Only the Buildings down by Race like the Phoenix and a few on the north side of 9th are still here, everything else was gone before i was born.
February 10, 20178 yr I did 1968/2015 side-by-side comparisons of about 90+ of these a while back and never published them. If there's interest, I can throw them up somewhere. But, yeah. I do feel like some of the ones you guys are posting are new.
February 10, 20178 yr Yes there's interest. I'll speak for most everyone on this board and say you need to post those.
February 10, 20178 yr Does anyone have any old photos or info about 1100 Sycamore downtown? Our office is located there and just curious of the background.
February 10, 20178 yr ^It's weird. If you click on a thumbnail, then it brings up more thumbnails underneath. Ahhh, public sector websites... Pretty sure it has been added to. I browse those images frequently at lunch and despite the wonkyness of the site there was probably only 150-200max there before. Ill have to dig into it again tonight. Sure dont remember the pancake place earlier, or the greyhound station. Here is the original release concerning the photos. They found 544 images, and all were electronically posted back in 2014. http://www.hamiltoncountyauditor.org/pdf/news_vintagephotos.pdf
February 10, 20178 yr I asked an older friend who remembers Peri's about their pancakes and she said they were nothing special. You sure know how to RUIN MY DREAMS!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 10, 20178 yr As we see with shopping malls, once they lose about 20% of their stores, it isn't long until the whole thing collapses. Downtowns were the same way. The parking lots and garages chipped away at continuous blocks of shopping, which diluted the "mall" effect. Then six giant malls were built in the suburbs and it was game over.
February 10, 20178 yr Yes there's interest. I'll speak for most everyone on this board and say you need to post those. Yes! Please post! Forever thankful. I figured as much. I'll post a link here once I get them up.
February 10, 20178 yr As we see with shopping malls, once they lose about 20% of their stores, it isn't long until the whole thing collapses. Downtowns were the same way. The parking lots and garages chipped away at continuous blocks of shopping, which diluted the "mall" effect. Then six giant malls were built in the suburbs and it was game over. NO GAPS. Shopping on BOTH sides. No blank walls. People walking rather than driving.
February 10, 20178 yr I asked an older friend who remembers Peri's about their pancakes and she said they were nothing special. You sure know how to RUIN MY DREAMS!!! Don't pine for food from the past. The discontinuation of Ninja Turtle Pies still depresses me to this day.
February 10, 20178 yr I grew up in Cedar Rapids, IA and my good friend's mom worked at the huge Quaker Oats factory there. We pretty much had as much oatmeal as we wanted. I think they still have it but the favorite was Dinosaur Egg oatmeal, so good. Edit: They still have this!
February 10, 20178 yr I asked an older friend who remembers Peri's about their pancakes and she said they were nothing special. You sure know how to RUIN MY DREAMS!!! Well my dreams too. I'd love to get the history of it...then the rights and recipes...then open my own Peri's! “All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
February 11, 20178 yr BANNED!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
February 13, 20178 yr https://particularlyeverything.com/2017/02/12/downtown-cincinnati-then-and-now-1968-2015-mashups/
February 13, 20178 yr https://particularlyeverything.com/2017/02/12/downtown-cincinnati-then-and-now-1968-2015-mashups/ Wow, that was crazy to look at. Thanks for sharing.
March 6, 20178 yr See how downtown Cincinnati’s streets have changed in 100 years: PHOTOS Mar 6, 2017, 6:27am EST Can you imagine what downtown Cincinnati looked like without Macy’s near Fountain Square or PNC Tower overhead? Now you don’t have to. Real estate website Rent Cafe has gathered images of the Queen City from the turn of the century along with some fun facts to remind us just how far we’ve come. http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/news/2017/03/06/see-how-downtown-cincinnati-s-streets-have-changed.html
July 11, 20177 yr Great photos! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
December 25, 20177 yr The Cincinnati Fun Map - 1982 This came out right about the time I moved to Porktown. Later, I worked at a pre press place that did work on these posters for other cities. Dunno if it was the same company that produced this. Somebody posted this on FB, unfortunately this is so small you can barely make out anything. The Kroger Building is labelled as the Kenner Building. It was labeled Kenner because Kenner Toys (Star Wars) occupied the 10-12th floors in the building at that time.
December 29, 20177 yr From the Royal Collection Trust. Some photos taken by noted 19th century landscape photographer Charles Waldack. The photos were taken in 1860 from the roof of the Ohio Mechanics Institute, which was located at the swc of 6th and Vine streets. The photos offer a unique glimpse of the interior of the fast growing city of that time. The Young Prince of Wales, the future King Edward VII, visited Canada and the United States during a 4 month span in 1860. The Queen City of the West was one of the cities he visited, and I'm assuming Mr. Waldack gave the young Prince the photos during that time. https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2700748/cincinnati https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2700746/cincinnati https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2700745/cincinnati
December 29, 20177 yr I seem to have forgotten one. https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/2700747/cincinnati
December 29, 20177 yr Cool stuff! Let me see if I have this correct? First link is looking Southeast with Dayton KY in the background Second is looking West with St Peter in Chains and the Western Hills (Price Hill area) in the background Third is looking Northeast with the present day 71 cut (Walnut Hills, Mt Auburn, & Prospect Hill) in the distance
December 29, 20177 yr I would say the background of the first is more Newport and Bellevue, but possibly Dayton too. Yes to the second. Third is more East, looking right down 6th Street into Bucktown, of course, that is Mt Adams in the background. Fourth photo is northeast, broadway commons, Pendleton, Mt Auburn, Eden Park etc.
March 19, 20187 yr Found this today on the Wayne State University Digital Library. Some amazing old school Cincinnati density 1931. Exhilarating and heart breaking at the same time. There are several other Cincinnati views from the 1930's, check it out. For you Cleveland forumers there are some 1937 Great Lakes Exposition aerials on the site as well. https://digital.library.wayne.edu/digitalcollections/item?id=wayne:vmc9300
March 19, 20187 yr Found this today on the Wayne State University Digital Library. Some amazing old school Cincinnati density 1931. Exhilarating and heart breaking at the same time. There are several other Cincinnati views from the 1930's, check it out. For you Cleveland forumers there are some 1937 Great Lakes Exposition aerials on the site as well. https://digital.library.wayne.edu/digitalcollections/item?id=wayne:vmc9300 Thanks. A number that I hadn't seen before, including two that have my house in them!
March 19, 20187 yr ^I'm guessing the 2 of the Jackson Brewery area? Yeah. I don't know if anything was originally on that rise where the broadcast tower is or why no homes were ever built on it. It seems like they cut all of that rock out to build foundations in the basin and only built homes in that area (Emming, Warner, etc.) after foundation construction switched to concrete. It seems like the entire area switched from stone to concrete foundations right around 1900.
March 20, 20187 yr Amazing. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 20, 20187 yr Hard to imagine how we could have torn all of that down? Thousands and thousands of sturdy brick structures. Just wow.
March 20, 20187 yr https://digital.library.wayne.edu/digitalcollections/item?id=wayne:vmc6342_1 https://digital.library.wayne.edu/digitalcollections/item?id=wayne:vmc6342 https://digital.library.wayne.edu/digitalcollections/item?id=wayne:vmc7318_4 https://digital.library.wayne.edu/digitalcollections/item?id=wayne:vmc7322_1 https://digital.library.wayne.edu/digitalcollections/item?id=wayne:vmc7322_2 These are a few of the images on this site, there are plenty more still please check em out.
March 20, 20187 yr Awesome pics. What's with the roadway going into or throug the building. Looks like it's an extension of Roebling Bridge? Does anyone have info on that?
March 20, 20187 yr Awesome pics. What's with the roadway going into or throug the building. Looks like it's an extension of Roebling Bridge? Does anyone have info on that? That was the old (and Current) Dixie Terminal. It used to be the end of the line for buses from Kentucky but they were sadly kicked out to the curb (literally) and now the terminus is on the street.
March 20, 20187 yr Those bridges were rebuilt for buses when Fww was built and remained in use until it was rebuilt in 1998.
June 22, 20186 yr So found some good stuff on Flickr... Hyde Park Theater, 1981 Hyde Park Theater Cincinatti 1981 by Meredith Jacobson Marciano, on Flickr Calhoun Street, 1984 Calhoun Street - Cincinnati, Ohio by [/member]N06/]Particularly Everything, on Flickr Kings Island, 1975 Kings Island (1975) by matthunterross, on Flickr Captain Al's Trolley Tavern, 1975 Captain Al's Trolley Tavern (1975) by matthunterross, on Flickr I-471, 1982 I-471 and Daniel Carter Beard Bridge by [/member]N06/]Particularly Everything, on Flickr Red Onion Chili Parlor & The Mushroom, 1976 Red Onion Chili Parlor & The Mushroom (1976) by matthunterross, on Flickr Cincinnati Brochure, 1976 Cincinnati, My Kind of Town (1976) by matthunterross, on Flickr Union Terminal's Land of Oz plan, early 1980's "Land of Oz" plan (197x) by matthunterross, on Flickr Union Terminal's Shopping Mall proposal, 1971 Shopping Mall / Office proposal (1971) by matthunterross, on Flickr The Beast, 1979 The Beast (1979) by matthunterross, on Flickr Fountain Square, 1978 Fountain Square (1978) by matthunterross, on Flickr Loehmann's Department Store [/member] Union Terminal, 1981 Loehmann's Department Store (1981) by matthunterross, on Flickr King Cobra, 1984 King Cobra (1984) by matthunterross, on Flickr Kings Island's 25th Anniversary, 1997 Kings Island (1997) by matthunterross, on Flickr Kings Island 1989 season map Kings Island (1989) by matthunterross, on Flickr For taestell[/member] ...The Pad in Covington, 1985 The Pad (1985) by matthunterross, on Flickr "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 22, 20186 yr Cincinnati, 1975 Cincinnati Illustration 1975 by Particularly Everything, on Flickr Cincinnati, 1982 Cincinnati, Ohio fun map (1982) by matthunterross, on Flickr "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 22, 20186 yr For taestell[/member] ...The Pad in Covington, 1985 Not sure what you are trying to imply.... Unfortunately it's just a law office now. Boooring!
June 22, 20186 yr Cincinnati, 1975 Cincinnati Illustration 1975 by Particularly Everything, on Flickr Cincinnati, 1982 Cincinnati, Ohio fun map (1982) by matthunterross, on Flickr These are so cool. My family used to have the second one as a poster. We also have a puzzle with a similar art style, but isn't either of these. I'll try to remember to take a picture of it. I spent so much time looking at the poster and trying to figure out what everything was. It's such a great idea to present a city like this.
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