A walk around Cincinnati, OH December 2020

jmecklenborg · #1 Posted **Dec 15, 2020, 3:53 AM**

Cincinnati is my hometown. My family has lived here for 150+ years. I shot about 700 photos on two walks this past weekend but due to an equipment mishap I lost about 500 of them. These are the good ones from the ones that were usable.

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Chef · #2 Posted **Dec 15, 2020, 5:12 AM**

Nice photos. I grew up in the Mohawk Valley in upstate NY. Cincinnati always reminds me of a Mohawk Valley village on steroids, or maybe if Utica grew into a major metro - similar architecture and similar topography.

IMBY · #3 Posted **Dec 15, 2020, 11:25 AM**

Thanks for the tour. I would think when they get a big snowstorm there it's challenging to get up and down some of those steeper streets.

marcus · #4 Posted **Dec 15, 2020, 4:48 PM**

Gosh, I'm such a sucker for mid-sized North American cities. That region is chalk full of awesome mid-sized cities. Cincinnati looks beautiful as ever. Thanks for these!!

I never realized Cincy had a light rail

edit: upon further research, I meant to say streetcar!

jmecklenborg · #5 Posted **Dec 15, 2020, 5:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by Chef

Nice photos. I grew up in the Mohawk Valley in upstate NY. Cincinnati always reminds me of a Mohawk Valley village on steroid, or maybe if Utica grew into a major metro - similar architecture and similar topography.

Interestingly enough, my grandmother was a women's clothing buyer for one of the Cincinnati department stores in the early 1950s and made many trips to all of the small and mid-sized cities in Upstate New York. It's hard to believe that pretty much everything Americans bought in stores back then was actually made somewhere here in the United States but it was, including clothing.

I have some 50+ year-old hand-me-down furniture from the Cincinnati department stores and it's interesting when you move to see the manufacturing labels on them, since it was all made somewhere in the eastern half of the United States. California, let alone Japan/China/Taiwan wasn't a thing yet.

edale · #6 Posted **Dec 15, 2020, 6:48 PM**

Nice photos, thanks for sharing! As much progress as Over the Rhine and other core neighborhoods have made in recent years, these pictures show there is still a long way to go. Especially in the northern edge of OTR where it meets the hillside...much of that area is still pretty much abandoned and begging for reinvestment.

WestCoastSupertall · #7 Posted **Dec 15, 2020, 6:50 PM**

Damn! What a phenomenal streetscape downtown and I had no idea Cincy was so hilly. It looks like there's a ton of historic real estate (and for comparatively cheap i'd imagine)

Mr. Franks · #8 Posted **Dec 15, 2020, 9:15 PM**

Great photos of a very cool looking city! These remind me of Pittsburgh somewhat. Cincinnati is on my list of cities to visit. I've been through it twice, but never stopped to check it out. I was going to go this year, but covid put an end to that. Hopefully next summer!

Urban Enthusiast · #9 Posted **Dec 15, 2020, 11:23 PM**

Impressive! Cincy is old and quite unique. I used to live in Indy and can remember my first visit to Cincy. It's so different from Indianapolis! Thanks for sharing!

pwright1 · #10 Posted **Dec 15, 2020, 11:27 PM**

Nice tour of Cincinnati. Thanks.

#11 Posted **Dec 16, 2020, 12:24 AM**

Glorious. I love how the hillsides add two or three stories to the backsides of some of those old homes. It's walk-out basement heaven.

Austinlee · #12 Posted **Dec 16, 2020, 1:33 AM**

Great pics! I haven't been to the city for a few years and it's nice to see renovations on old buildings moving along.

jmecklenborg · #13 Posted **Dec 16, 2020, 1:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by IWant2BeInSTL

Glorious. I love how the hillsides add two or three stories to the backsides of some of those old homes. It's walk-out basement heaven.

Yeah everybody's got a basement and many if not most of the old houses have walk-out doors, including mine.

Strangely the new infill homes are often being built on slabs. Having a basement is one of the huge advantages over owning a condo, so owning a house without a basement to me is only incrementally better than a condo.

DetroitSky · #14 Posted **Dec 17, 2020, 2:20 AM**

Cincy is so cool

Steely Dan · #15 Posted **Dec 17, 2020, 5:47 AM**

Cincy is always a treat!

What a great town, one of my favorites.

Excellent photos!

BnaBreaker · #16 Posted **Dec 17, 2020, 5:48 AM**

Holy shit what an awesome, criminally overlooked city Cincinnati is. Excellent thread!

Echoes · #17 Posted **Dec 17, 2020, 5:11 PM**

Great city.

Buckeye Native 001 · #18 Posted **Dec 17, 2020, 8:24 PM**

The hometown

Am I alone in thinking that FC Cincinnati's new stadium is kind of an eyesore?

ColDayMan · #19 Posted **Dec 19, 2020, 9:02 PM**

Nice.

deja vu · #20 Posted **Dec 20, 2020, 5:17 PM**

Sorry to hear you lost so many of your photos. But still, great work with the ones you were able to post. As others have mentioned, Cincinnati reminds me in many ways of my former hometown of Pittsburgh.