Hudepohl Brewing Company: Tour 3
Years ago the Busch Gardens theme parks in Williamsburg, VA and Pasadena, CA offered tours of their respective nearby Anheuser-Busch brewery's via a monorail. The tours took you through the brewery process and ended in a sample of free beer. Those attractions have long since closed (The Pasadena, CA park is gone entirely), but here in Cincinnati brewery tours still exist...kind of.
A Super Villian's Secret Laboratory
Once again, Zach took an opportunity in New York. Who can blame him though? Great pay, great experience and all in a great city. The main downside was he would be missing out on any further Queen City exploring for awhile. We wanted to send him off the right way, by exploring/photographing something new in the area, something none of us had previously seen.
Exploring Duck Creek
QC/D Contributor Luke Field explores the graffiti and trickling waterways of "The Narrows" in Duck Creek.
Fourth of July
At my place of employment, the Fourth of July is a busy day. In the five years I have worked there, I've never had that day off. This year was the first time. I worked half a day on Friday, July 3rd then went down to see the fireworks that would follow the Red's game as part of their "Fireworks Friday" promotion.
The "Indiana Jones" of Cincinnati.
How an adventure to a not-so-interesting abandoned location reminded me of my intense, dislike for slithering creatures.
The Catacombs of Cleveland
In Cleveland, beneath the Veterans' Memorial Bridge, crossing over the Cuyahoga River, is an abandoned deck which once provided an exclusive right-of-way to Cleveland's streetcars, while motor vehicles whizzed by overhead.
The Reds Have Been Losers For The Past 20 Years, The Cubs...For Over a Century.
Some of my favorite photographs growing up were ones of the Cincinati Skyline with Cinergy Field in the foreground. Those mid 90's photographs are iconic in my mind, I just hope that one day maybe the photographs I take today will mean something to someone in a similar fashion.
The Unsolved Mystery of Joe Wilcher
As customers go to and from the Ice Cream Palace on the street level of the Over-The-Rhine neighborhood, many of them are unaware of the secret two stories above the store which produces their ice cold deserts.
Cincinnati's Other Abandoned Subway
When it comes to abandoned icons of the Queen City, the abandoned two mile never completed subway is usually at the top of the list. On the other end of downtown though, there's another abandoned subway... sort of. The Riverfront Transit Center was built with a vision in mind and sees sparse use these days. In many ways though, it's just Cincinnati's other abandoned subway.
Alisha's Apartment
The day had been marred by failed attempts at exploring. On one of his rare days off work, Chris met up with me to go out, cameras in hand. Every place we were interested in exploring had some sort of obstacle to it, obstacles we were not willing to challenge.
Climbing to the Top of Mt. Hudepohl
The stars had aligned and surprisingly everyone in the usual crew was able to get together.
A Cold, Rainy Opening Day.
Yesterday it was 70 degrees and sunny. Today it was 38 degrees with rain, hail and the Reds losing their 2009 home opener to the New York Mets.
Portrait of a Dead Mall
The ominous hum of the Segway's electric motor filled my ear as a Cincinnati Mall security guard rode her mighty steed beside me, leading me towards the mall exit. I had been "asked to leave" and they were going to make damn sure I didn't provoke any more "security concerns" with my picture taking ever again.
Take a Ride on the Anderson Ferry
There's a shortcut connecting the shores of Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati and it's the only one of it's kind in the area. That shortcut is the Anderson Ferry. Operating three boats, the crew of the Anderson Ferry shuttles passengers from Anderson Ferry Rd., six miles west of downtown Cincinnati, across the Ohio River to Constance, KY, just North of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) or vice-versa.
The Cincinnati Subway
It was a cold night in March, 2008. I had just finished up photographing an assignment downtown when I met up with Zach. I was dressed in slacks, dress shoes and a nice button down shirt, hardly exploring clothing. I exchanged my dress shoes for muddy combat boots and my jacket for an old sweatshirt. We grabbed cameras and flashlights then headed out for a recon mission. We parked the car on Central Parkway, and walked over to the stone fence.
"That doesn't look too far down," I said.
"Yeah, we should be fine," Replied Zach.
Cincinnati's Forgotten Theatres
Standing in the vast, empty parking lot the only cars you can now hear are the ones passing by, honking their horns on the nearby Norwood Lateral. In the center of the wide expanse of asphalt is a rectangular, one story building adorned with white tiles, locked doors, boarded up windows and the words "Showcase Cinemas" across the top.
Kings Island's 230 ft. "Diamondback" almost ready.
Kings Island's newest roller coaster, Diamondback, as seen while shooting for KICentral.com. At 5,200 ft. long, 230 ft. high, Diamondback will be the park's tallest and fastest roller coaster once it opens in April and is speculated to maybe be one of the top steel coasters in the nation.
Take a Virtual Tour of the Cincinnati Skywalk - "Downtown's Ghost Town"
Skywalks. "Modern" ideas of the late 60's/early 70's born out of a major city's desire to keep shoppers downtown and out of the suburban, indoor shopping mall. These enclosed bridges crisscrossing over city streets were envisioned to network hotels, office buildings and retail centers. In the summer months they kept pedestrians cool with air conditioning and warm in the winter months with heat.
Cincinnati's Forgotten Railroad History
At the beginning of the 20th Century, Cincinnati was a chaotic mess of seven different railroad lines all converging on the Queen City. In a time before crowded interstate highways and an over priced Delta hub airport across the Ohio River, rail was king and a solution was developed to Cincinnati's growing rail traffic problems. That solution was Union Terminal, a central hub where the majority of freight and passenger lines running through the city would converge in one central location. In August 1929, construction was started on the massive Art Deco structure.
