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...with other exciting photos included!  I'm hoping to do far more photos of Wheeling during the spring and summer.

 

Despite the cloudy conditions in Wheeling today, I decided to travel up to the Mt. Wood Overlook (http://www.graveaddiction.com/mwover.html) and take some pictures.  I also did a few other shots of the Overlook and some of Wheeling from elsewhere in the area.

 

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You can see WJU in this one.

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The overlook deserves much better care.

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Various spots on or viewed from Chapline Street.

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Bye from Wheeling!

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Thanks for sharing.  There's something haunting about WV. 

Well done!

"You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers

They're grrrrrreat!

I love Wheeling, and it has some of the best commercial building stock around, but it is always depressing :(

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yeah,  they sure are. 

 

I get what Seth is saying about the WVA. Haunting. This part of the Ohio Valley was the locale for "Night of the Hunter".  The Robert Mitchum character preached at a "tabernacle on Wheeling Island".

 

In a way this reminds me of Kentucky, the same melancholy feel in Appalachian KY.

 

But Wheeling has a suprising degree of urbanity for a smaller city, probaly due to being squeezed into a river valley.  You get that a little with Huntington, too, but especially with Wheeling.

 

 

Though filmed mostly in PA, the movie the Mothman Prophecies gives a similar aura.

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Great pictures of my hometown. :-) Do you live close to Wheeling?

Interesting photos. Those concrete elements look like footers/foundations; were there once pavilions or observation structures there?

Great pictures of my hometown. :-) Do you live close to Wheeling?

 

No, but I go to Jesuit.

Interesting photos. Those concrete elements look like footers/foundations; were there once pavilions or observation structures there?

 

I'm not sure - I'll have to ask around and see if I can learn anything.

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