Posted May 29, 200619 yr ...well sort of....the uncool/unhip strip of East Third and vicinity in downtown Dayton You might recall this thread I posted about the old "Furniture District"...a fringe downtown area of small-scale retail, pawnshops, cheap theatres, corner stores, and walk-up apartments...and how urban renewal came in to sanitize this area and remove it all. Well, some of this character still remains, only a block though....sort of a taste of what parts of downtown Dayton perhaps was like before being eaten away by parking lots and demolitions and sterile blockbuster development... Cheap Novelties, as in those Ben Katchor comics I like...a joke shop: That's where we'll meet/ you and me/ on the dark side of the street/ I remember going to planning forums on downtown, where people spoke up for a "family freindly" downtown... Petra Food Market. One of the small retail things one finds on this block.... A dying breed...cheap downtown apartments...I lived in a place like this when I was in Sacramento... Homosexuals! Oh my! yawn...familiar scene to me.... Drinking in Dayton....a toast! (...to something or other)... Capping off the night with some rock (but in the Oregon, not on East Third)
May 29, 200619 yr So THAT'S what you look like (the one with the beer)! ALAS, JEFF! Your Centerville/Washington Township/Miamisburg/TRIO-OF-TERROR-NEAR-BRAVO! is exposed! Oh, and nice thread. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 29, 200619 yr Novelty shops are fun: Anyone who likes this stuff and finds themselves in Fort Wayne should check out Stoner's (It's the family name of the owners, not a description of the clientele), on Harrison Street between Main and Berry. They sell/rent costumes and carry a large selection of joke and gag gifts and novelties. It's a long-time family business; when I was in high school, the owner/founder used to do magic shows at area school convocations. He's still doing it.
June 3, 200619 yr I love the 'Binger's Bar' sign.....you dont see too many 7up branded signs (typically pepsi/coke) very cool!
June 4, 200619 yr that thread sure rocks! :banger: re drinking in dayton....are you guys in the century again in that pic? heh. :clap: :drunk:
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