The Obama Inauguration - A Cincinnati Perspective
On assignment for school, I was tasked with documenting the Inauguration. There wasn't much going on in Athens, Ohio where I go to school. Not interested in traveling to fight the crowd in Washington D.C., I decided to head home for the assignment.
The Ruins of Hudepohl Brewing Company
Until 1985, this building was home to the headquarters of Cincinnati's local Hudepohl Brewing Company.
Forgotten Cincinnati
Forgotten Cincinnati was an exhibit of photographs taken by myself and Sherman Cahal. The first of it's kind, the gallery opened at Park + Vine on January 30, 2009 and ran till March 23, 2009.
A new year begins...
Every year in New York City thousands, maybe even millions by some estimates, crowd the city streets and Times Square to watch the ball drop and ring in the New Year. Most of the other 299 million Americans sit at home and watch Dick Clark, and now Ryan Seacrest as well, live from the center of New York City. Here in Cincinnati, while it may be on a much smaller scale, an old tradition is coming back to life; ringing in the New Year at Fountain Square.
Beneath Your Feet - Exploring a Forgotten Railroad Tunnel - and More.
Nearly two years ago I first learned about the nearly forgotten CL&N RR Tunnel. About a month ago I was crawling through thorn bushes along I-71 trying to find it.
Adventures in Avondale, in search of The Ghostbusters.
An abandoned nursing home and an abandoned tunnel - one of which was rumored to be a filming location for "Ghostbusters.”
"Light Up the Square" - Christmas begins in Cincinnati
With Thanksgiving meals from yesterday digesting and credit cards maxed out from all the black Friday deals, hundreds, maybe thousands, made their way to Fountain Square to officially kick off the holiday's in the Queen City.
Back in Cincinnati.
2.5 hours across the state, from the Southeast to the Southwest. After 10 weeks of stress, lack of sleep and frustration I got to go home. I promise to update more in the coming weeks while I'm home, but here are some photographs from this weekend.
The Queen City From the Sky - Aerial Photos from Nov. 8, 2008
Back in October my friend Gabriel offered to take me flying with him and his father.
And Consolidated came tumbling down
So back in 2008, I originally published this post. In 2014, all of the images that had been previously hosted for QC/D were lost. I was able to scrounge most of them from a backup. This particular post though lost a lot of context. So here's the gist…
Back in Athens, back to The Ridges.
"The Ridges" is the name designated for the Ohio University owned, former Athens State Hospital Property. The Kirkbride style hospital originally opened in 1874. For those of you unfamiliar with "Kirkbrides," they were a common style of mental hospitals built on large plots of isolated land where patients took care of the land. Many Kirkbrides like the Athens State Hospital featured self sustaining apple orchards, gardens, and dairy farms. The hospital in Athens became part of Ohio University in 1993 when the final patients left and the grounds were transferred to the school. Today the main ward and wings serve as an art museum and office space, unable to be photographed.
Cincinnati Bridges, Cincinnati Highways.
I drove back from South East Ohio. I had planned to actually stay there for a weekend. However, I'm not always happy there and needed to get some stuff photographed this weekend.
More to this city than meets the eye.
I have often heard people say that Cincinnati is only considered a major city because it has "major league sports teams." Nothing could be further from the truth, while the Queen City is no Chicago or New York (and is certainly better than Pittsburgh), it is in fact a major city. Facing major city problems, major city crime, and major city progress.
Abandoned Rail Depot off of 75.
Ever since I was a young kid I can remember passing this structure. While our car sped southbound on Interstate 75 you could see it sitting parallel to the railroad tracks. It had the architecture of a building you'd see sitting along your toy Lionel trains (didn't everyone have those?). However, it seems that Sir Topham Hat, Thomas, Percy, Gordon, Scheemer, and all of the other shiny time station friends (anyone get the Thomas the Tank Engine reference?) have been gone since the mid 70's according to the papers inside. You've probably seen it on your way to a Red's game, the aquarium, or for any other reason you'd go southbound on I-75, now see what its like up close.
And in the end?
And in the end the East of Ohio was ok, but I am in no hurry to go back out in that direction and slowly being back in the Queen City has not been all that great.
History of the Crosley Building
You may have seen The Crosley Building, the original home of Cincinnati's 700 WLW and former headquarters of famous inventor Powell Crosley featured on this website before. Despite the many explorations done inside very little specifics were known about the buildings history. Thanks to a recent contribution by Ram23 we now have an interesting tidbit about the building.
Some More From Americana
Today we have some recently un-published photographs from the QCD team's visit to the now defunct Americana/Lesourdsville Lake Amusement Park. These photographs were omitted from the October Article.
The Cincinnati Gardens.
Opening in 1949, the arena which seated 11,000 patrons, became Cincinnati's premiere indoor venue. Modeled after Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto, this area would go through history playing host to professional basketball, indoor soccer, concerts, Richard Nixon, Elvis, boxing, roller derby, monster trucks, and so much more. Perhaps though, the Gardens most interesting event history is rooted in Ice Hockey.
Crosley - Part 2: The Return.
Two weeks ago Tron2.0, Ram23, and I had the opportunity to re-visit the Crosley Building again. Tron2.0 first explored this place in March 2007, now almost a year later we returned with Ram23 and discovered a bit more about the former tenants.
![Vacant Houses [that I would've rather not have had to photograph]](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f4d8a25db85a54c4d64fe76/1606418449579-ZH2P8VEBV1GHTKS64TZ1/image.jpeg)
Vacant Houses [that I would've rather not have had to photograph]
Because these houses were once the homes of my neighbors.