Stairs to Parking Garage Washington Park

My Single Spring Post

Random photos from the past month or so FWIW:

 Washington Park, corner entry at 14th and Race

biking around

kid carrying bike

Motor on my roof went bad

Moron bumper sticker

410 and 408 West Liberty, owned by Olivia Champion and Cincinnati Change Inc, respectively:

Soul Food 1735 Elm

our regular Sunday game of pickup soccer

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church steps

Fr Greg Friedman with white dog

wooden walk-in cooler

my wife's grandfather with Nixon

Easter baseball at Dad's house in the country

old Music Hall parking garage: The bandstand area, a sunken circular space of brick and concrete:

off trail, in-city climb

hike view

Ensemble Theater stage

1123 Walnut

Plant sprout found in woods

Fragile Chest yelling at me

Invention of Jaywalking

One key turning point, according to Norton, came in 1923 in Cincinnati. Citizens’ anger over pedestrian deaths gave rise to a referendum drive. It gathered some 7,000 signatures in support of a rule that would have required all vehicles in the city to be fitted with speed governors limiting them to 25 miles per hour. -Article in The Atlantic Cities

Suburban Growth Still Declining

"Suburban housing prices may not recover in our lifetime," Shiller said, calling the development of suburbs since 1950 "unusual," enabled only by the rise of the automobile and the nation's highway system. "With the bursting of the bubble, we may be discovering the pleasures of the city and the advantages of renting, investing our money not in a single house but in a diversified portfolio," he said.