Posted June 4, 200619 yr Might be this is already a well-known spot, but I'd never seen it before...if you know for sure, maybe you can let other folks guess first!
June 5, 200619 yr It was taken somewhere in Covington obviously. Perhaps Wideview Dr. It just so happens, my friend lives in a house on Wideview that has that very view.
June 5, 200619 yr I'm not personally familiar with the area, but I dug out my Cincinnati map. From the angles in the photo, I'm inclined to make a wild-ass guess at Devou Park. That may be too far away, though, and I don't have any first-hand knowledge of what the terrain is like around the park. I dunno.
June 5, 200619 yr I dont believe it is either of those two locations.....you can see Covington in Cincinnati's foreground, and Devou Park is on that hill towards the left side of the photo (I believe). I'm just a little thrown off by this angle....if I had to say...I would say that it is near Devou, but maybe on top of a bldg or another unknown locale.
June 5, 200619 yr The location was publically accessible (or at least it wasn't someone's yard), and I was standing on the ground... Here's a hint - this shot was taking within about a 300 yards' walk of the skyline shot: I'll post the exact spot tonight, or confirm if someone nails it...
June 5, 200619 yr It's on the East side of I-75, you can see the cut in the hill in the fist picture. My guess would be somewhere around St. Luke's, but I think the hospital is farther south.
June 5, 200619 yr Ah, you finally joined up! Hopefully Mr. Issue will come out and play with us more often now that he's got a login!
June 5, 200619 yr ^ hehe nah, Florence is too low to view downtown. The picture might be zoomed I won't be surprised if it was somewhere around the licking river
June 5, 200619 yr I forget how zoomed it was, but the camera only has 3x...probably was somewhere around 2x, maybe a little more... Is this east of I-471? No, not east of 471...
June 6, 200619 yr richNcincy was awfully close...if this location doesn't have a name yet, I'd like to dub it the Battery Hooper Skyline View. I went to the James A. Ramage Civil War Museum with my father this weekend - the second shot is the view to the south from the old Battery Hooper Earthworks they're excavating in front of the museum. It looks over Madison Pike, with 275 in the background. We'd parked in the lot of what used to be, I believe, a Methodist Church, but is now a day care center of some sort. Dad isn't walking all that well, so I was picking up the car and going back to get him near the entrance, when I saw that view sticking up behind the church. I went around to the rear parking lot, got out, and took a few pictures! Here's a Google map of the area - the church/day care is the building north of the circular driveway...the square parking lot is where you park to go to the museum, and then you walk on a paved path through the woods WSW to get to the museum. http://maps.google.com/?ll=39.055876,-84.525708&spn=0.003949,0.007231&t=h&om=1
June 6, 200619 yr Oh, I see - I'd tried to track down Cecilia Avenue and couldn't find it...indeed, your guess was a little farther away than richNcincy's, but was basically dead on for alignment...good show! The museum rocked out. Dad and I parked and walked over there, checked out the excavated earthworks, then were discussing the cannon they have in front when a volunteer from the museum came out and started chatting with us...actually, hold on, I should put this in its own thread...gimme a couple minutes...
June 6, 200619 yr Here's a post on the museum: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=9159.0
June 6, 200619 yr I know but can't say since I had dinner with RiverViewer Saturday. Welcome to the forum, Mark! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 6, 200619 yr Cool, RiverViewer. I've never been there even though my sister used to live in the adjacent neighborhood on Augusta. I'll have to check that museum out.
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