The hand demolition of the building continued across the street at the corner of Main and Eighth Street…
And down the street work continues on the building that is home to Taqueria Mercado at the corner of Walnut and Eighth Streets. That’s actually the entrance to their Mexican restaurant just above the furthest most construction pilon to the right…
It’s pretty amazing that they’ve been able to stay open through all the construction on the building they call home. 😀🚧❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 30, 2018
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I have a confession. I love Taco Bell’s Chalupa Supreme. They are one of my little guilty pleasures. I used to be able to resist, mostly because there wasn’t a Taco Bell in close proximity. But then the Taco Bell Cantina opened over on Sixth Street in downtown Cincinnati. Now about once every couple weeks or so, I find myself ordering two chalupas online and walking over to Sixth Street to pick them up. It makes for a tasty, quick and cheap lunch. We were watching TV the other night and when I saw a commercial for Taco Bell’s new Spicy Double Chalupa, I knew what was going to be happening soon…
It was every bit as good as the normal chalupas. But just more of it. And it was almost too much of a good thing. The thing that I discovered was I really like the ratio of ingredients on the normal chalupa. It’s just the right amount of everything. It was definitely worth trying the new double chalupa. Because theoretically, who wouldn’t love more of a good thing? But I think I’m just going to stick with my original guilty pleasure. 😀🌮❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 26, 2018
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It looks like there’s a new Asian eatery called Monk going in on Main Street between Sixth and Seventh Streets where The Orient used to be…
I can’t wait to try this place once it opens. I hope it’s as good at The Orient or even better. Because you can never have too many good Asian eateries. 😀🍜❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 26, 2018
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The demolition of the building across the street from Deskey continues…
I took this timelapse Instagram video of them deconstructing the little room on top of the building. It’s been really interesting to watch them start deconstructing this building mostly by hand. 😀🚧❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 26, 2018
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I had to run a couple of errands around downtown Cincinnati this afternoon. I walked by one of my favorite buildings in all of downtown Cincinnati, Lyric Piano Building on Race Street. I’d love to hang out on that fourth-floor balcony…
I’d also love to hang out in this bay window a little bit further down Race Street…
Walking back to work, I cut down College Street on the backside of Race Street. There are some wonderful ghost signs from businesses past…
And speaking of bay windows…
Downtown Cincinnati is beautiful. 😀🏙️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 25, 2018
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The building across Eighth Street from work is in the process of being demolished. With the exception of a Donato’s pizzeria on the ground floor, the building has been vacant for as long as I can remember. When Donato’s left a few months back, you kind of knew the building was going to be coming down. Last week, they started knocking all the windows out on the ground floor. This morning on our way into work the building was covered top to bottom with this blue mesh…
And here’s the view I have from my window at work…
And the view from the parking lot across Eighth Street…
One of the tenants in the Deskey building is a company called Streamspot. They do high-quality live streaming broadcasts. They set up a live stream of the demolition across the street. It’ll be interesting to watch this building come down. The building was kind of an eyesore and I don’t think it’ll be missed one bit. In its place, I think I heard they are planning to build condos that no normal person could ever afford.
But at least it’ll probably look nicer. 😀🚧❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 22, 2018
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This afternoon we brainstormed big ideas for Deskey’s upcoming milestone birthday…
Taken with Instagram. 😀💻🎂🎉❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 17, 2018
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There was that really cool “Mark Rothko-esque” graffiti cover-up on the side of this building in downtown Cincinnati. Someone wasn’t all that happy about their bomb being bombed, and I found it pretty funny…
I guess it’s important to maintain your sense of humor when someone ruins all of your hard work. And that’s a very important lesson to learn, especially in my industry. Taken with Instagram. 😀🎨🖌️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 15, 2018
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We had a fall barbeque weenie roast potluck sort of thing at Deskey this afternoon…
It made for a pretty fun Friday at work. 😀🌭🔥❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 12, 2018
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I guess when someone covers up your work it’s important to maintain your sense of humor even when your work is on the side of a building…
I’m still keeping an eye out for more examples of this. It’s kind of beautiful in its own unique way. Taken with Instagram. 🎨🖌️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on October 11, 2018
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