Posted March 15, 200619 yr Ahem. Bah. Olde Town East, Near East...represent!!! :shoot: Summit Street! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 16, 200619 yr Well, more house rehabs would be a biggie. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 16, 200619 yr ColDayMan - Those mansions are great. I like the shot with the Motorist building looming in the background. Thank you!
March 16, 200619 yr EASTSIDE!!! My family's hood. Columbus has some real gems over there just ripe for restoration. Great pics ColDay!
March 16, 200619 yr EASTSIDE!!! My family's hood. Columbus has some real gems over there just ripe for restoration. Great pics ColDay! Wait. You got FAMILY over there TOO?! We might...be...cousins... "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 16, 200619 yr Some parts look really nice (like the one with some skyline on Garfield), but isn't Old Towne East just residential? Are there any shops or restaurants worth going to? (Aside from Champion Market & Hip-Hop Fashions)
March 16, 200619 yr Olde Town East has a small commercial district on Parsons (with a couple of restaurants, art galleries) and of course the typical corner bar or whatever. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 16, 200619 yr BTW, Great pictures too, ColDayMan! Is anyone familiar with the documentery film on Columbus' East side called "Flag Wars? It was filmed in that part of town. It is about gentrification in the area and how two different classes or cultures are clashing in the area. I think it is really cool. Here's a link if you have never heard of it http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/flagwars/
March 16, 200619 yr I just happened to catch that on TV. I sympathize with some of the long time residents, but if you do nothing and let hoodlums cause trouble and bring down the area, well, someone else will have to take it upon themselves to improve the neighborhood and that unfortunately means displacing current residents.
March 16, 200619 yr ^Agreed. There's just too much beauty in this area (as ColDayMan has aptly shown) to let it whither and die. Thankfully, a large chunk of the area has been cleaned up, and hopefully more is on the way. Again, thanks for the great photos of some of Columbus most intricate old homes.
March 16, 200619 yr thanks for those lovely shots of the Motorists building. At one time (many years ago, not long after it had opened) I worked as a waiter in a restaurant on the ground floor of the parking garage (!) in the back, overlooking picturesque Oak St. Several years before the invasion of the multiplicity of cuisine (both ethnic and haute) invaded Columbus, said restaurant, dubbed the "Fire Mark Inn," was supposedly devoted to the food of early Ohio, if you can imagine such a thing. It featured dishes such as "Hunter's Stew" (rabbit in an unnaturally orange-colored cream sauce), and "early American" desserts like tipsy parsons and flummerys (though I seriously doubt those early settlers--forced to rely solely on fresh ingredients--were able to match the congealed density achieved through canned fruits and custard drenched with artificial flavors and dyes). (this was not Columbus's crowning moment in fine dining, even for that era, to say the least!) http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
August 26, 200915 yr A shirt that my wife bought for our son (although he's not big enough to wear it yet): <img src="http://www.handcrafteddelights.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/eastsidefries.jpg"> :D
August 26, 200915 yr Not sure how I missed this thread, but love this - it has perfect "His and His" wings of the house: clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
August 26, 200915 yr Actually, that's not Olde Towne East, but Town-Franklin, which became a defacto downtown neighborhood with the surrounding highway moat which cut it off from neighboring Olde Towne East. Great place to live, btw.
August 26, 200915 yr A shirt that my wife bought for our son (although he's not big enough to wear it yet): <img src="http://www.handcrafteddelights.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/eastsidefries.jpg"> :D Do they make those in adult size? Or is that a non-ironic shirt? You know how teens and twentysomethings love those ironic T-shirts.
August 27, 200915 yr Heh... I dunno if they make it bigger. She found it on the clearance rack at Target in the kids section. ;)
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