March 3, 200916 yr East Toledo is sort of its own world Very. I always thought of it as a queer place where queer people come from, and I don't mean gay. There's just a special brand of weird that permeates East Toledo. But yes, great bars and architecturally very cool.
March 3, 200916 yr Looks...like it has potential. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 3, 200916 yr Good God, Frankie's is still there! I graduated from UT in 1992, and spent many a drunken night at Frankie's listening to alternative rock bands covering INXS and The Cure, etc. All the campus bars changed hands or have been redeveloped into coffee houses, the Ottawa Tavern has been through numerous incarnations, but Frankie's apparently still rules East Toledo. Too bad Packo's wasn't open for after hours grubbing, would have made a perfect Toledo night.
March 3, 200916 yr Gritty is exactly the word I was thinking. But gritty is so much better than abandoned in the rust belt these days.
March 4, 200916 yr nice job. i lived over there for awhile in 1986. i liked it fine. main st sure looks about the same as i remember then & the last time i visited toledo a couple years ago. nothing much changes around there, but thats ok at least they arent tearing everything down. good work i was suprized to see this!
March 5, 200916 yr overheard in my city (toledo) today: "my knowledge of that part of town is sketchy at best" frankie's is the only thing i have ever patronized over there.
March 5, 200916 yr Excellent thread. There are some great facades on some of those underutilized buildings, sometimes hidden under a couple of generations of remuddling.
March 6, 200916 yr Definitely looks intact. Also looks like urban renewal took a bit of a toll. How fast is that street anyway?
March 6, 200916 yr Looks to more like the "Main Street District" rather than "Business District" because it doesn't appear that there is much business going on other than perhaps Wendy's and Frankie's
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