April 1, 200817 yr ^Yeah, Ravenna has three great buildings enclosing its courthouse square: those two and the Etna House. Unfortunately, however, the courthouse is not so great.
April 1, 200817 yr One of those "wide-ass street towns" but this one has redeeming architectural value. Nice job. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 17, 200816 yr Wow, did Riddle build the whole town? The Riddle Coach and Hearse Company was a major manufacturer from the 1860s through 1920s but couldn't afford to modernize their manufacturing processes to keep up with the major auto makers.
August 18, 200816 yr Nice photos! Check out the Cleveland-Youngstown-Pittsburgh passenger rail thread in Transportation for more Ravenna photos. no photos of the ammunition depot? Even when it was operating, you couldn't see much from outside the gates and fences. And if you lingered outside the gates with a telephoto lens (as I did in the early 1980s), you'd attract attention. From what I understand, most of the bombmaking was done in quonset huts and other low-rise buildings. Seems to me the last military activities to occur there were before the first Iraq war. I lived about 10 miles north of the Ravenna Arsenal back then and those huge C5A military transport planes were making their turns over our house to practice cargo drops in the arsenal. We were facing a war of unknown length and casualties, yet many of my neighbors complained to the press about the noise from the cargo planes.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 18, 200816 yr Great thread. Ravenna has sort of let itself go; it used to be an incredibly cute Italian-American suburb, but now it's just a sh!t hole full of welfare collecting single mothers and meth addicts. But Main Street still manages to look nice!
August 18, 200816 yr Clark Gable's former stomping grounds! He lived in Ravenna when he caught the acting bug after seeing a play in Akron
August 18, 200816 yr Great thread. Ravenna has sort of let itself go; it used to be an incredibly cute Italian-American suburb, but now it's just a sh!t hole full of welfare collecting single mothers and meth addicts. But Main Street still manages to look nice! When was it ever a cute Italian-American suburb?
August 19, 200816 yr Great thread. Ravenna has sort of let itself go; it used to be an incredibly cute Italian-American suburb, but now it's just a sh!t hole full of welfare collecting single mothers and meth addicts. But Main Street still manages to look nice! When was it ever a cute Italian-American suburb? Like 1940 - 1980.
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