Free Bread

 

And then half-way down the block:

 

Buddy Rogers Hays Elementary

Found Item. I think this is a tag that goes on a rental musical instrument:

 

Don't Lie to Your Wife

Odd advertisement found in an attic:

 

Pony on Tether

I thought this was fun:

 

Mt. Aurburn Historic Conservation Plan

This plan, published by the City in 1981 was found on a shelf in my office. I think it was my partner's. He worked on several projects in Mt Auburn in the 70s and 80s. I just scanned a few of the more interesting pages:

Cover of report with historic photo of Milton Street.

 

Credits page. Many of the people listed are people you will still meet around city government or in OTR meetings: Steve Schuckman, Ron Kull, Bob Richardson, Don Lenz, Genevieve Ray. In the small print it also says that this report relies heavily on the Findlay Market Guidelines of 1972 and the Mt Auburn Design Plan of 1975:

 

Map of District with noted buildings. I like how flat the area looks in map form:

 

I like this drawing demonstrating acceptable roof configurations. Hand drawn with ziptone dots added for shading. There are similar drawings showing acceptable doors, windows fencing etc:

 

Isometric drawing of Liberty Hill intersection:

 

Proposed Improvements at Sycamore and Liberty:

 

Photo of Liberty Hill and Liberty intersection:

 

You won't see junk car lots like this anymore in this area:

 

Million Dollar Bill

Found Item. One Million Dollar Bill. Handed to me by some anonymous stranger on Fountain Square. The message in small print is that money does not buy happiness, God does.

 

My son tried to spend it at several stores:

 

Health Store Things to Buy

Found Item: Strange shopping list of drugs:

 

The back:

 

Post Times Star

 

In honor of the last day of the Cincinnati Post publication Monday, I have scanned a front page of a October 13, 1928 Times Star newspaper that I found in an OTR building being rehabbed. The Times-Star was an afternoon paper that I believe was combined with the Post. I remember my neighbor as a child had a box out by his mailbox that said "Post Times-Star", which I suppose was the combined name for a while.

This paper has a couple of interesting items:
1. The lead article is about a Graf Zeppelin attempting to land at US Air Station at Lakehurst the next day. Nine years later, the Hindenburg would go down in flames at this same landing site.
2. The paper cost 2 cents per copy, 12 cents per week.
3. The weather is predicted to be "unsettled"
4. Six private bus companies were using fountain square as a stop, and the city was trying to get them to purchase a site for a bus terminal at 6th and Sycamore.
5. "Burglars entered a Kroger store at 507 Wade Street early Saturday and stole 175lbs of sugar, 40lbs of butter, and cigarettes worth $96.16. The burglars entered the basement and cut a hole in the floor to get into the store"
6. 35,000 Catholics from 100 Hamilton County parishes, are expected to march tomorrow in the Holy Name parade. The parade will start on upper Race Street and proceed south to 7th and then west to Redland field, where Archbishop McNicholas will give benediction. There is detail given about the re-routing of streetcars around the parade. The streetcar routes are familiar bus routes 17, 19 etc...

A fire in Mt. Adams:

 

Alfred Smith, Presidential Candidate in KY:

 

Black Republicans:

 

The first bookmobile:

 

1967 Billy Graham on Rioting

I found this pamphlet laying on a windowsill at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church [Where: 1522 Race Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202]. The original congregation moved out of this church two years after this pamphlet was published to their new church on Central Parkway (Concordia Lutheran). They funded an outreach church that has remained there since.

 

 

 

Would Jesus Litter

Found along the sidewalk this morning, (along with some Steel Reserve cans), left from a church handing out sandwiches Saturday.

 

Found Item - Lottery Ticket

Notes written on the back of a scratch-off. To me, it speaks volumes that these ramblings about Farrakhan and Kabaka Oba are written on the back of State-sponsored losing gambling ticket.

 

Found Item - Nat Love Book

Found in Piatt Park. The cover caught my eye, and I thought it was a joke or something. But it turned out to be an interesting find.
The cover:

 

 

Title Page:

 

Captured by Indians:

 

From the introduction:

Nat Love was born a slave in 1854. He died in Los Angeles in 1921. While he had no early formal schooling, he learned to read and write well enough to turn out an account of his life, published in 1907. His message was that he had lived an exciting and happy life and was proud of it.

This re-write of the original autobiography was intended for children or young adults and was published in 1969. Just the history of how the book was published and re-written would make a good sociological study. But also would Nat's life story itself, embellished or not.

Update: Thanks to a commentor here is a link to the original Nat Love Autobiography

Found Item - Hansy's Place

 

My dad picked this can opener up at a flea market. The address 1250 Elm Street, would place it directly across from Music Hall, where Washington Park Elementary now sits. I have no idea if Hansy's Place was a beer hall or car repair shop.

Play in Nippert

Found on sidewalk, a command to play:

 

Found Item - Button Picture

 

Found Items - Windshield

Things left on my windshield this week:

 

 

I also had a Vote Winburn flyer, again. This guy never stops.

Found Item: Detective Sign

 

[where: 1135 Vine Streeet, Cincinnati, OH 45202]