Posted March 17, 200817 yr My recent Bryan thread had a 6 month turnaround, so I thought I'd get Marietta out in 6 hours. Posting from a hotel room within Marietta city limits, here's some Marietta from this afternoon and evening:
March 17, 200817 yr Sweet. Marietta is pretty, especially in summer. A nice summertime treat is a sightseeing tour on the Valley Gem, a diesel sternwheeler. It's not expensive and doesn't eat up a whole afternoon.
March 17, 200817 yr Good to see downtown is back! I remembered one flood a few years ago that left downtown pretty much devastated.
March 17, 200817 yr Beautiful. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 18, 200817 yr Marietta has some very nice buildings and a few nice streets Downtown, but I remember being dismayed by how much surface parking there was for a small town. It left things feeling disjointed to me.
March 18, 200817 yr I've always loved the view with the "skyline" and the hills in the background. It is truly a pretty town.
March 19, 200817 yr Marietta has some very nice buildings and a few nice streets Downtown, but I remember being dismayed by how much surface parking there was for a small town. It left things feeling disjointed to me. I agree behind the downtown for it having a large amount of surface lots but what Marietta makes up for it is the intact residential neighborhoods and the two mainstreets being fairly intact. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 19, 200817 yr It and Chillicothe can run with 'em (excluding suburban areas/towns included in larger metros like Glendale, Hudson, or something). "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 25, 200817 yr double L saloon, how i miss you. that bus shelter, not so much. i heart marietta, nice work inky.
November 10, 200915 yr excellent travel article about Marietta from Friday's New York Times: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/travel/escapes/06amer.html AMERICAN JOURNEYS | MARIETTA, OHIO A Historic River Town Where the West Began By ROBERT C. YEAGER Published: November 6, 2009 Marietta, Ohio — A DEEP current of history runs through this quiet town of 15,000 nestled in the arms of the Ohio and Muskingum Rivers. Indians first left their mark here, in great earthen burial mounds. Then, as the first chartered city in the Northwest Territory, Marietta felt the nation’s initial footprints as it strode west. As the birthplace of governors, senators and even a vice president, Marietta has had a historic impact on its state and nation that transcends its small size. For visitors that history is meticulously preserved in the town’s brick-paved streets, stately 200-year-old homes and more than 300 monuments. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
January 9, 201015 yr My friend and I visited Marietta in 2008 and had a blast. The City of Marietta and Marietta College were both very nice. What's really nice is that downtown Marietta has a monthly "Downtown Hop" similar to the Gallery Hop in the Short North so there were lots of people downtown, stores were open late, and musicians were on every corner. We also got to see the Jerry Springer side of Marietta at the Four Seasons Bar (a.k.a. the Four Diseases). Several fights broke out while we were there, including one that involved a group of women fighting over a "colored" boy as the bartender put it. My friend and I were also briefly detained by a Marietta cop on suspicion of punching a guy on the main drag after the bars closed. We witnessed the guy get his lights knocked out but had nothing to do with it :-D
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