Posted July 22, 200717 yr This has to be the nicest USBank I've ever seen. Too bad they rip people off with the highest rate of bank fees.
July 22, 200717 yr A Miami Alumnus' wet dream, 4sho. Graeters has the "charming" business districts on lock.
July 22, 200717 yr good work. i think i saw a few zombie eyed stepford wives. LMAO! The tree swing and all the american flags made me think of stepford as well!
July 22, 200717 yr imageshack.us is off the list. Terrible load times. Interesting suburb, did Chris give you the tour?
July 22, 200717 yr imageshack.us is off the list. Terrible load times. Interesting suburb, did Chris give you the tour? Yeah and I noticed a few of the pics are just red Xs; had to fix that. No, Chris didn't give me a tour, just Me, Myself and I. He probably doesn't like Worthington lol.
July 22, 200717 yr Very nice. Looks like a perfect place to raise children; fortunately, I don't have any.
July 22, 200717 yr I miss Hyde Park :-/ The HP is more walkable and has more stores and restaurants (and better ones at that). Plus the residents in Worthington are generally much older. Not as many dog walkers and joggers either :-/
July 23, 200717 yr Well it is Worthington, for a similar demographic to Worthington in Cincinnati, you need to look at Loveland or Mason, both also have business districts.
July 23, 200717 yr Bah to all of Worthington except Rush Creek Village. On a snide® little side note, friends of ours who relocated to Columbus from Chicago refer to this part of Columbus as Upper Dublington.
July 23, 200717 yr Great little downtown and town square. Reminds me a lot of Connectictu where I grew up: very typical of how many Connecticut towns are set up. Great little restaurants: an Old Bag O'Nails, La Chataleine and PK O'Ryan's Irish Pub, decent coffee shop and (slurp) Graeters. BTW: The Old Worthington Inn (the actual Inn part) is being converted to condo apartments. Wouldn't be a bad place to live.... right on a major bus line, great access to the bike trail.
July 23, 200717 yr Reminds me a lot of Connectictu where I grew up: very typical of how many Connecticut towns are set up. I can definately see that. Much like Hudson up near Cleveland. And ColDay actually likes Worthington. Any place with Graeter's can't be that bad...except Springdale and Beavercreek. And Centerville. Fine. Whatever. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 23, 200717 yr A lot of that is because most of the northern half Ohio was first settled by people from Connecticut, who created their new communities in the image of what was familiar to them back in New England. My personal favorite for that New England look is Granville. Been to Hudson and it's very nice as well.
July 24, 200717 yr one of my OSU classmates in the 70's used to refer to this, his hometown, as "Worth-nothing-ton." Not so original, perhaps, but then again this guy (white) claims he once lived with the Black Panthers in Cleveland; and called German Village "Nazi Village." By the way, when did Graeters, that great Cincinnati institution, arrive in Columbus? (It's been a long time since I've been there) http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
July 25, 200717 yr I've heard that Columbus Graeter's is actually owned by the brother of Cincinnati Graeter's, has different ice cream and is a Columbus-based company.
July 25, 200717 yr Hi, New to the group. Love the pictures of Worthington. It is my home and especially if you live in Old Worthington it is a great place to live. You can walk to the library, post office, restaurants and pubs and it is 10 min drive to the Short North, OSU or Downtown. On another note all of the Graeter's Shops are owed by the same family and have the same ice cream. 3 brothers of the 4th generation are running the company at this time. -Beth
July 25, 200717 yr ^Welcome to the forum; you should stick around since women and people from Columbus are under-represented on this forum :) I knew that couldn't be right; maybe each brother controls each region where the company's stores are located. It would be silly to have two separate companies under the same name selling the same thing but with different recipes. It's probably not legal either :-/
July 27, 200717 yr there is a really cool section of worthington that has a bunch of Frank Lloyd Wright style houses.... It'd be cool to get a whole thread on that...
July 27, 200717 yr Yeah, I believe it is east of High St. Can't remember the name of the neighborhood, but there was an article on it in the Dispatch awhile back with lots of pictures. The houses were awesome.
July 27, 200717 yr Actually, the last 8 pictures in this series are from the Rush Creek Frank Lloyd Wright neighborhood you speak of :) The neighborhood is definitely unique. It's very secluded, wooded,and has a soccer field at the edge which is really cool. As you can see from the second to the last pic in this series, many of those houses are hard to photograph because so many trees are in the way. I shot the ones that were most visible; unfortunately they weren't necessarily the best houses in that neighborhood. But I didn't want to be all up on someone's private property taking a picture. I've been screamed at several times for that already lol. I love how the garages aren't enclosed in that neighborhood. They're more like carports that are integrated into the design of the house.
July 27, 200717 yr Actually, the last 8 pictures in this series are from the Rush Creek Frank Lloyd Wright neighborhood you speak of :) The neighborhood is definitely unique. It's very secluded, wooded,and has a soccer field at the edge which is really cool. As you can see from the second to the last pic in this series, many of those houses are hard to photograph because so many trees are in the way. I shot the ones that were most visible; unfortunately they weren't necessarily the best houses in that neighborhood. But I didn't want to be all up on someone's private property taking a picture. I've been screamed at several times for that already lol. I love how the garages aren't enclosed in that neighborhood. They're more like carports that are integrated into the design of the house. a few years ago the New York Times did a story on Rush Creek. Here's the link (though unfortunately the pictures that accompanied the story don't appear to be online) (and I posted the last couple of paragraphs with info on gaining access): http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C06EEDA1139F937A15755C0A9629C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3 Rush Creek Houses: If You Want to Visit THE houses of Rush Creek Village in Worthington, Ohio, 12 miles north of Columbus, are best seen by taking a stroll among the enclave's creeks, ravines and backyards. Friends of Rush Creek Village, a nonprofit educational group of residents affiliated with the Worthington Historical Society, leads tours once or twice a year; $15; (614) 885-1247 or Celia Conlon, conlonfamily @sbcglobal.net. Two original Usonian houses by Wright are open to the public. One, the Pope-Leighey, is in Alexandria, Va.; www.popeleighey1940.org or (703) 780-4000. Tours given daily, every half hour; $7.50 for adults, $3 for children. The other, Wright's Gordon House in Silverton, Ore., is open Wednesday through Monday. Tours are $5; (877) 674-2733. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
July 31, 200717 yr David, Thank you for the great pictures of Rush Creek. I had almost forgotten that they were there - it is nice to be reminded of the great things that sometimes fade from your memory Here is a recent article from the Columbus Dispatch about the Rush Creek Homes http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/content/home_garden/stories/2007/07/15/RUSH_CREEK.ART_ART_07-15-07_H1_P678IQU.html?jrl=205866&rfr=nwsl&clk=137448 I am going to try out my new camera this week in that area, see if I can get any great shots.
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