2009 ColDay Series:

 

Part 1: East Coast + Detroit

Part 2: Cincinnati

Part 3: Toronto

Part 4: Cincinnati & Washington DC

Part 5: Louisville

Part 6: Grand Rapids & Lansing

Part 7: Lima & Windsor

Part 8: Dayton & Cincinnati

Part 9: Baltidelphia

Part 10: Chicago

Part 11: Pittsburgh

Part 12: 2ronto

Part 13: The Chicago Bengals

Part 14: Dallas & Austin

Part 15: Atlanta

 

 

The highly underrated Louisville

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Goodbye from Duke University...and Oprah?!?!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes!!! I didn't realize you were snapping photos while I was driving over the Kennedy Bridge... the only way to get those first few :)

 

 

YES! Build it! Build it!

 

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A bit of history behind that. The S&SC Club was formerly Lucky Strike Lanes that Cordish (the developers of 4th Street Live!) abruptly closed. The S&SC utilizes pretty much the same decor, and kept the bowling lanes, but it has a different "atmosphere." Kind of sh!tty, but Cordish controls that block. The venues remain well used and is Cordish's biggest success so far, to the point that they are duplicating and expanding the concept with the City Center project only one block away.

 

Beats the failed and awful indoor mall they had there only a few years ago.

 

 

This was once enclosed.

 

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Nice work, I like Louisville.

Some of those neighborhoods look incredible...and for Louisville's sake, please don't build Museum Plaza.

I heart Louisville.  Just remember to say it properly.  Loovl

Yeah, all the lawn chairs near the HVAC was classic.

Wow, I am impressed.  I see a lot of Cincy in some of these shots.  The only times I've been to Louisville was for basketball games at Freedom Hall, or Six Flags, but these neighborhood shots look great. As always, great job, I really love your photo threads.

I heart Louisville.  Just remember to say it properly.  Loovl

lul  luu  luu luu  lou vul  lou ie vil  lui vil.  oh Hell  Louis-ville!

I see a lot of Mt. Auburn in these.

 

I say, Lu-ie-ville.

 

¡4th St. Live!=Chain-bar-heaven

Great pics... My great-grandfather co-founded the Hillerich & Bradsby Baseball Bat Company (the family fortune apparently went down a different branch of the tree, though), so I've always felt some connection to the city, despite having only visited a couple times as a child for family gatherings.

looks like you had decent cell phone service out there  :laugh:

 

Nice pics of Kentucky!

Very cool. Kind of like an Akron-meets-Austin vibe.

Very nice, what's the deal with the buildings that only the facades are left of?

I think they were in bad shape, and the back were demolished.  Actually, many of the storefronts in that entire historic strip of main were empty.  It reminded me ALOT of Woodward Ave in downtown Detroit.  You got some people living upstairs in lofts/apartments, but no action at street level.

There were three buildings that were demolished sans the facades. They were to serve as an entry point to the diagonal-elevators that would take you to the 25th floor of Museum Plaza that is on hold right now. The entryway would contain a few restaurants and shops.

 

As for West Main, it was always more offices and museums than anything (it is dubbed Museum Row), and contains more office condominiums than residents. Most of the new residential units are east of downtown, towards Papa John's Cardinal Stadium and Butchertown.

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