Can you guess the city without cheating?

 

 

I will give you a hint:

 

 

Somewhere in a warm climate, due to the trees.  I say, somewhere in Florida or Texas.  Orlando or Tampa or Miami.  Though Miami doesn't look to be it since the third picture is very un-Miami.  Thus, central Florida or Tampa.  Hmmm...Orlando doesn't have tallerish older structures that I know of so I guess...Tampa?!?

Whoa, I was off...

Hamilton? Dayton? middletown? or maybe youngstown.

The picture on top is of a  Maas Bros. Department store.  I found an article about rehab/demo of a old Maas Bros. store in Tampa Bay.  So my vote goes for Tampa!

Hamilton? Dayton? middletown? or maybe youngstown.

 

OTR?

Not New Orleans. (they don't have traffic lights that look like that)

Yes it is Tampa.  Many people think Sun Belt cities are so full of life because of the glass skylines but this is what it looks like at street level. 

 

The neighborhood of Ybor City is great but downtown Tampa is completely dead outside of some suburban lifestyle center called Channelside.

 

How about this street performer in a life-filled city?  Shot from October 2004:

 

 

Dude was hilarious...had a boom box playing all the disco classics, and he'd hit all the Travolta moves...he drew a big crowd...

^ Chicago?

Ding ding...give the man a prize...

Along Michigan I guess, huh?

Yep...the wife wanted to do some shopping...it was really hilarious...

My sister knows that dude. I think he goes to Depaul. maybe?

Sad to see Tampa so dead.

For how dead it is, the general population doesn't hear about it like they do with older Midwest cities.  If people saw downtown Tampa, Houston or Dallas they would have more love for Midwestern downtowns.  Sun Belt cities market their cities better.  You will find booming suburbs in these cities and generally a trendy neighborhood (Ybor for Tampa, Lower Greenville for Dallas) but their downtowns are dead. 

 

Here is a shot of Ybor (pronounced E-boar) which is a neighborhood in Tampa about 2 miles away from the CBD.

 

Good Lord.

To each his own I guess.  I enjoy the Tampa area because of the weather and atmosphere.  Cincinnati is great, but after college, I don't think I will be living here.

Ybor City looks great, but I didn't know it was so far from Downtown Tampa.  Sad to see Tampa's downtown is that bad, but I don't think I have ever heard anyone suggest that Tampa had a vibrant downtown.

They do have 3 tower cranes in the city shot.  I don't know how dead it can be if they are still investing in significant structures in the CBD.

On a positive note for Tampa, there is a trolley that takes you from Downtown to Ybor.  On a negative note, I think they continually are the top city for Ped/cyclist/car fatalities.

ah tampa. i spent two weeks every winter down there as a kid. eh.

 

tampa does have that cool old early 70's airport people mover, a pre-cursor of today's airtrain:

 

 

 

 

If you're a transit fan "stuck" in Florida for a weekend, there could be worse places to spend some time than at the Tampa International Airport. No less than 7 different "lines" serve the terminal buildings.

 

The Tampa Airport has a unique system of "airside" pods connected to the central core by monorail-style people mover systems. Each pod is serviced by two tracks with a 1-car or 2-car shuttle going back and forth on its track. The oldest ones were installed when the airport first opened circa 1971-1975 (airside B, D, E). Both Airside B and Airside E are currently closed for rebuilding; Airside D had it's 24 year old shuttle cars replaced within the past few years. The newest pods, Airside A and Airside F, have two-car trains on each track. The cars are serviced at the airsides, a bay underneath the platforms is visible when arriving at Airside A, for instance. The platforms have edge doors that resemble elevator doors. The Airside A line is somewhat different from the others; it is curved and slopes downhill from terminal to pod. It takes approximately 45-60 seconds to travel between terminal and pod.

 

The short-term and long-term parking decks are connected on Level 5 by a people mover loop system. There are three stations in the terminal (well, it's really four but one is on a single-track section and the car doors open on both sides- they call this two stations), and four in the parking desk, each named for a famous aviator. The small cars change ends at the single track stub at Sikorsky/Yeager station, stop at Armstrong station (still in the terminal building) and run in a counterclockwise loop around the parking structure (making stops at Wright, Jannus, Goddard, and Lindberg stations) before returning to the terminal, with a stop at Earheart station (directly across from Armstrong station). Inside the parking structure there is a loop track for holding out of service cars. The cars operate similar to a horizontal elevator. Each station has a monitor showing the locations of the cars and there is a "press to call" button like an elevator. You can also walk between the stations along the trackway, which is on the other side of a fence.

 

link:

http://world.nycsubway.org/us/tampa/airport.html