Posted September 4, 200717 yr 2007 ColDay Series: Part 1: Los Angeles Parte Uno Part 2: Los Angeles Parte Dos Part 3: Boston Part 4: A New York City Interlude Part 5: Montreal Part 6: Cincinnati Part 7: Pittsburgh & Harrisburg Part 8: Philadelphia Part 9: Brooklyn, New York Part 10: Atlantic City, Baltimore, & Washington DC Part 11: Dayton Part 12: Sacramento to Santa Cruz Part 13: Big Sur to San Francisco Part 14: San Francisco Part 15: Berkeley & Oakland Part 16: Around The Globe Preview Part 17: London I Part 18: London II Part 19: Paris Partie Une Part 20: Paris Partie Deux Part 21: Paris Partie Trois Part 22: Nashville & Pittsburgh Part 23: Gritcinnati Part 24: Toronto Part 25: Akron & Cleveland Part 26: New York City: Part One Part 27: New York City: Part Two Part 28: New York City: Part Three Part 29: Hartford Part 30: Zürich Part 31: Lucerne & The Swiss Alps Part 32: Milan Part 33: Dallas Part 34: Detroit Part 35: Gary Part 36: Chicago O'Bryonville East Walnut Hills Walnut Hills Mt. Auburn Clifton Heights Over-the-Rhine And goodbye, from The West End "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 5, 200717 yr Holy crap! Wow! Just fantastic...you've always had the best eye I've seen... Is this a greatest hits of the summer? I know this one was taken a while ago:
September 5, 200717 yr How dare you venture into East Walnut Hills and not snap some pics of the Castle! Purcell Marian is an architectural gem, ONWARD CAVALIERS!!!
September 5, 200717 yr Holy crap! Wow! Just fantastic...you've always had the best eye I've seen... Is this a greatest hits of the summer? I know this one was taken a while ago: Nah, I just went for a day a month back. How dare you venture into East Walnut Hills and not snap some pics of the Castle! Purcell Marian is an architectural gem, ONWARD CAVALIERS!!! I went to C-J. I don't "do" other SW Ohio catholic schools :D. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 5, 200717 yr I was driving down the street and I got a sudden craving for Domino's Pizza and Paramount Brandy...
September 5, 200717 yr Unbelievable pics! Cincinnati truly is a city to be loved. I really wish I could walk around Walnut Hills in it's heyday. Has anyone ever been to this Italian/Pizza joint? What fabulous street is this?
September 5, 200717 yr Has anyone ever been to this Italian/Pizza joint? That's what used to be ZZ's pizza...it was a wonderful place - packed with folks every night, lively carry-out business - they sold gormet pizzas. It was gay-owned, great folks - I don't know what all they did for the community, but I saw them as a sponsor for the Cincinnati Opera on a couple occasions...one of the owners had Parkinson's, which progressed, and it just became too much for the other one to take care of him and run the restaurant. I saw him pushing the other owner in a wheelchair in Hyde Park a few months ago, so I guess everyone's still getting along...very sad, big loss for the community, and we wish them all the best...
September 6, 200717 yr Cincinnati does a nice job of not knocking down old buildings. I often wonder what some Cleveland streets would look like if we had not been so eager to take down many buildings and neighborhoods.
September 9, 200717 yr Auburn Terrace. Checked that street out today and my suspicions were right, it rocked. I hate that little quasi-intersection though. It's always confusing to me.
September 9, 200717 yr O'Bryonville "Breaker 1-9; be on the lookout for a suspicious 'urban' male with a track suit and a giant head, taking pictures". Just kidding but damn these pictures are incredible. You basically captured everything that I like about Cincinnati. That picture in Clifton Heights is only a few streets over from me. ColDayMan doesn't go to the A-1 or Bond Hill!?!?
September 9, 200717 yr "Breaker 1-9; be on the lookout for a suspicious 'urban' male with a track suit and a giant head, taking pictures". HAHAHAHHAHA :laugh:
September 9, 200717 yr You're banned. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 9, 200717 yr great tour. plop this old tiny brick carriage house or whatever in south brooklyn and it would fetch meeelllll--eeee--yunz!
September 9, 200717 yr you really should go to south brooklyn first before you make such pronouncements lol!
September 9, 200717 yr Nonsense! Cincinnati is the architectural mecca of the world. One does not need travel to distant lands to realize this.
September 9, 200717 yr Cincinnati has some great neighborhoods, and I love O'Bryonville, but what the hell is that big red barn looking building?
September 9, 200717 yr Nonsense! Cincinnati is the architectural mecca of the world. One does not need travel to distant lands to realize this. We do have some great treasures in the Queen City. No wonder Cincinnati is a sister city to Rome!
September 9, 200717 yr Cincinnati has some great neighborhoods, and I love O'Bryonville, but what the hell is that big red barn looking building? Apartments in Walnut Hills. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 9, 200717 yr I hate how the urban Kroghettos aren't as nice as their suburban counterparts. Stepping into the one in east price hill, Corryville or Walnut Hills is like stepping into the 7th circle of hell. You would think food stamps and an increased amount of check cashing would even the field when it comes to revenues. However, in those gritty neighborhoods, the people aren't as mobile and will shop there regardless of how bad it is, rendering a rehab pretty much useless to Kroger. I don't like Kroger! Those bastards have no vested interest in OTR like they should. All the fortune 500 companies in Minneapolis are a member of the (5%?) Club. They give like 5 percent of their profits to LOCAL charities!
September 10, 200717 yr I just shopped there tonight...the produce definitely sucks, but it's really not that bad a store. I have to go to Hyde Park for big meals or anything even remotely specialty, but it's got all the basics... Of course, I really wish they had better produce, more selections, and more than two or three cashiers open during peak hours...
November 25, 200717 yr Death Burial RESURRECTION!!! This is my favorite Cincinnati thread. I just shopped there tonight...the produce definitely sucks, but it's really not that bad a store. I have to go to Hyde Park for big meals or anything even remotely specialty, but it's got all the basics... Of course, I really wish they had better produce, more selections, and more than two or three cashiers open during peak hours... Its the same in Corryville. NEVER any cashiers. Some nights, there's nothing but u-scan open! Kroger may be involved in 3CDC so they might not be that bad for OTR but just open a few checkout lanes and I'll be happy.
November 25, 200717 yr I love photos like this. Great work! Where/what is this? I love the design and the varying setbacks, given that it is a modern twist on urban development, it could have been worse. Giggity.
November 25, 200717 yr That's in East Walnut Hills, as part of their business district. I guess I'm not mad that it's there but if you saw the context you might think it's a slap in the face to all the old churches and commercial buildings its next to. Sketchup junkies rejoice.
November 26, 200717 yr Yeah, seicer, as David mentioned it's DeSales Plaza in East Walnut Hills. Explore: http://www.desalesplaza.com/
November 26, 200717 yr ^I actually think it looks pretty good for a modern building, but it tends to fail in details typical of modern architecture. Two complaints: 1) Why on earth are the windows that small? They couldn't have been bigger? Who hates access to natural light? 2) The damn passage between the corner and the parking lot doesn't even look inviting enough to piss in. It was clearly designed for foot traffic, so why not do something to make it look inviting to enter instead of shameful?
January 16, 201015 yr Wow,thanks for that. I was wondering what it was about East End that I loved and it's the grit I think. There is something wonderful about it all that the scrubbed and perfect parts of the city lack, any city. I was thinking about taking out my good camera and doing a bit of shooting of the grit parts of East End and now I definately will. I have also thought about going down to Mt. Lookout square once a year and shooting the storefronts and comparing them after a while. I wish I had done that when I was a kid and had those pictures now to look at.
January 16, 201015 yr Dammit... Lately I've been starting to almost like NYC again, but then all these Cincinnati photo threads got bumped, and now I'm back to being homesick.
January 16, 201015 yr Those apartments at DeSale's Corner are already looking rough and they're only 3 years old. They're a half step in quality better than McMillan Manor, so a D-.
January 16, 201015 yr Anyone been noticing how a bunch of the so-so city retirement homes have been advertising around town? The two worst that I've been in are 510 Oak next to the Vernon Manor and the "Duel Manor", which is the circular thing next to the MLK Dunkin' Donuts. There's also 625 Probasco which is pretty bad. I've delivered pizzas exactly twice to Lincoln-Crawford, and it's not bad, at least the lobby. By that I mean it has no noticeable odor. There's nothing quit like carrying a large pizza and salad past a body getting wheeled out.
January 18, 201015 yr Dammit... Lately I've been starting to almost like NYC again, but then all these Cincinnati photo threads got bumped, and now I'm back to being homesick. Bittersweet
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