Mt Adams Pool

Moms of Mt Adams have started a fundraising effort to fully fund the Mt Adams pool. On March 2nd, along with many other communities, they learned that their pool was not going to open this year. They are investigating options such as self-operating the pool and leasing it from the City. This pool is a great resource for families in the area, and I hope they can keep it open.

See: www.saveourpool.com

Also, the CRC has started its own donation page for the 19 community pools that are scheduled to not open this year.

The Snowy Hillsides

 

 

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Balluminaria

The kids liked this event more than I thought they would:
 

Graffiti at the Eden Park Springhouse

Have you ever noticed this little gazebo at Eden Park?:

It is right on the road, and cars just zip right past. The building is actually very cool, an architectural gem which apparently has a long history. This is called the Spring House or Water House, and I suppose it was a location of an original spring used to supply water to the city. It is located adjacent to the main waterworks reservoir, which is underneath the ice-skating pond.

There originally was a thatched hut at this location:

These three old images are found at Greetings from Cincinnati, which has an excellent collection of old postcards. Visit them for many more images:

Spring House with old car:

The soft sandstone which forms the perimeter of the building's walls is etched with all kinds of old graffiti, and that is what prompted this post. The photos are not that great, because I was using a camera phone and it was getting to be dusk, but it is fun to look at these old scratchings with the kids.

Bullock 1919 to SOS W.H.S. 1939 (is this SOS Walnut Hills School?):

July 1934 and 1927:

April 28, 1912, J.P.C.:

June 30, 1928, C.S.:

W.J.Mc. 4-27-12:

E.W.O. 1926:

1921:

G.H. 1925:

Mt Adam's Summer Movies

 

Red Bull Soapbox Bullsh!*

At about 11am Saturday we went up to see the Red Bull Soap Box Race. The race course was fenced-off through the heart of Mt. Adams. I didn't know anything about the race, so we had to ask when it started. When they told us the didn't actually start for 2 hours, we thought we would just look around and maybe get a bite to eat.

It was pretty empty at the bottom of the hill, where the race was going to end. They had loud music, about 50 port-o-lets, a paramedics booth, but not much was going on, so we hiked on up Wareham, Hatch and St. Gregory and saw the starting ramp. Then we went on up Pavillion to the top of the hill where some booths were set up to display the cars and sell some refreshments. Every step of our way up the hill, it kept getting more and more crowded, and less and less pleasant. We looked at a couple cars, but the crowd was so tight, there was no food, and we could barely move. We decided to get out of there, and maybe sit at the bottom and watch the cars there.

So we walked down Monastery past the old school, turned left down the hill, and the crowd kept getting more and more impossible to navigate. The race still wasn't starting for an hour and a half! We decided to get the hell out of this trap.

 

We navigated down the western sidewalk of St. Gregory, and at Hatch it was super crowded with pushing and stuff. With all the barricades up for the race, we were trapped. You could not cross the street. We continued heading downward only to find that at the bottom of Hatch, the sidewalk was completely barricaded with NO EXIT! At this point we considered knocking over the barricades and crossing the street. A couple behind us was also trying to leave the place and couldn't believe what a mess it was. All we could do was turn around and push our way back up the hill.

 

After much duress, we got back up to Monastery, up the hill and then we went back down towards the Celestial and cut down some steps through the woods and viola, we were back down by Elsinore street and home free. The whole time we were trying to leave, there were hundreds of people walking up the hill adding to the crowd. When we got to Gilbert, it was getting close to 1:00 and hundreds of people were still parking way down there and starting their trek up. They had no idea of the mess they were walking into, and I felt sorry for them.

Here are some pics I took before it got real bad:

Crowd at 11:30:

 

Gnome:

 

Pacman:

 

Football car:

 

Gorilla Glue Drivers:

 

Mr. Kidney:

 

Back at the bottom, Elsinore Condos:

 

Mt Adams Pool

The Mt Adams Pool is an older, smaller pool, with an integral kiddie end. It is up behind the Playhouse Parking Garage, and is a very quiet pool compared to the other CRC pools because it is mostly adults. Making this a sprayground as is planned, would not suit these users, so a Mt Adam's group is lobbying to save this little oasis. We go there because it is one of the only CRC pools open on Sunday.

Pool Entry:

Pool view from entry:

The cool clean water:

Pool and pool house: