Posted June 19, 200816 yr Delphos was certainly a pleasant surprise! First, let's get this out of the way... Gets the award for 'Ohio's Worst Cladding' Now to the core... And a great house on the road out town that I HAD to circle back for...
June 19, 200816 yr Delphos, eh? "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
June 19, 200816 yr I met a kid from Delphos a few years ago, and that is the first and only time I had ever heard of it. Looks like a decent town.
June 19, 200816 yr The white dake top house is so gay! I love it. However, all thing Unique....not so much.
June 19, 200816 yr interesting. lol! the dubious cladding award is certainly very well earned. however, the rest of the town's "good stuff" was quite nice. i think i had heard of delphos, but didn't know anything about it. it was greek to me. hawr hawr. :laugh:
June 22, 200816 yr I love the little building on the right. It could be cute as a button, fixed up. I believe Delphos was an important point on the Toledo St Louis and Kansas City Railroad, locally known as the Clover Leaf for its shamrock herald. The Clover Leaf became part of the Nickel Plate, and was the NKP's route to compete against the Wabash RR for traffic between St. Louis/Kansas City and the Great Lakes. When both NKP and Wabash came under control of Norfok & Western in 1964 or thereabouts, Clover Leaf traffic fell off rapidly. Now the line exists only as bits and pieces operated by various short lines serving local industries and grain shippers. Farm-country towns and villages along the Clover Leaf dwindled to near-nothing when their grain elevators lost their rail connection.
June 23, 200816 yr What a nice surprise. Never even heard of Delphos, but it appears to be well maintained and quaint. The church at the end of the alley is a really great shot. You are right about the cladding. Maybe even the worst cladding in a couple of states! Not only should the owner be horse whipped on the square, but the contractor as well, and whoever approved the permit. Guess every town is allowed one or tow of those, and it can always be ripped off in a few years when it starts crumble. At least it wasn't torn down for parking.
June 23, 200816 yr I might make the drive just to photograph that cladding. Walker Evans would have spent a week and a few hundred dollars worth of film on that building. I also like the alleyway with the satellite dish and the church.
June 28, 200816 yr A friend from College in the 80's used to bring back Delphos Potato Chips...they were delicious! I would stop off I-75 whenever i was traveling north to Toledo or Detroit ever since, to stop and get some. The company was bought out awhile ago, and sadly I can't find them anymore....tragic....just tragic.
June 28, 200816 yr A friend from College in the 80's used to bring back Delphos Potato Chips...they were delicious! It's a good thing that you used the past tense ("they were delicious") in that sentence, otherwise U.O. would get a DMCA takedown notice from the Mike-Sells company. ;)
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