The construction across the street from work continues. Here’s the view from my window this morning when it was all rainy…

And the sunny view across the street this afternoon…


😀🚧❤️
The construction across the street from work continues. Here’s the view from my window this morning when it was all rainy…

And the sunny view across the street this afternoon…


😀🚧❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on March 13, 2019
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I rode the Metro 17 bus into work this morning. It’s been a minute since I rode the bus to work. I couldn’t help but notice that they’re tearing down the old Deaconess Hospital across Clifton Avenue from UC’s campus to make way for new apartments…

And downtown on the corner of Walnut and Court Streets, the new apartment tower keeps extending upwards. This building’s parking garage is already open…


😀🚧❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on March 6, 2019
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Posted by Thadd F. on February 26, 2019
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The Servatii bakery on Fountain Square closed…

Dang. I’m going to really miss their smiley face cookies. Also, I noticed that the CVS at the corner of Race and Sixth Street has closed as well…

And one more sign. After work, we stopped at Northside Distilling again for a drink…

😀🛑❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on February 22, 2019
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Posted by Thadd F. on February 22, 2019
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They’re back to digging holes across the street from work…

I don’t work in construction but it’s pretty weird to be that they filled in a hole with dirt only then to remove the dirt again. It’s just odd. 😀🚧❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on February 21, 2019
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I wonder if they’re finished across the street. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if they just paved over the space and called it a new surface parking lot…




I don’t think that’s the plan. But it looks like it could happen.😀🚧❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on February 15, 2019
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You know what I think would be interesting? I think it would be really interesting to photograph all the storefronts in downtown Cincinnati and Over-the-Rhine. Even since we’ve left downtown there have been a lot of places that have closed their doors for good and there have been even more places that have opened, either in those spaces or in new spaces. It would be an interesting study in the continual evolution of urban spaces particularly downtown Cincinnati. How long before something new moves into this space on Main Street and the Spatz Foods sign is gone forever? We would walk by this sign every time we headed out to do something when we lived downtown…

Downtown Cincinnati is in a state of continual change and it’d beat really neat to have the time to document those changes and downtown details better. 😀🏙️❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on February 13, 2019
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After work, we stopped back at Queen City Exchange for a beer…









It’s such a fun place with so many great beers. Then we walked across the street to have a drink at our other new favorite place, Northside Distilling…



I love their cocktail called The Dude. It’s their take on a White Russian…

It’s delicious. And speakingof delicious, on the way home we stopped at NYPD to pick up one of their delicious cheese pizzas for dinner…

I really love Thursdays. 😀🍺🥃🍕❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on February 7, 2019
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This afternoon we bus the Cincinnati Metro 17 bus downtown to celebrate my birthday. First stop on our adventure was one of most favorite bars from when we used to live downtown, Igby’s…







From Igby’s, we walked down to The Banks…







We were planning to eat at Moerlein Lager House…

But even after being open all this time, it was still packed on a Saturday night…

So instead, we walked back up to the new Galla Park where the old Crave used to be…





I’ve been on a White Russian kick since we went to Northside Distilling…

As is our new custom, we shared Galla Park’s giant soft pretzel…

It was pretty terrific. Their mustard was outstanding. And we also shared Galla Park’s Cuban sammich…



It was very good as well. It’s good to see that something new is now in the space the Crave used to occupy. We have a lot of fun memories in that space. From Galla Park, we headed down the block to US Bank Arena…

Ealier, we bought tickets to tonight’s Cyclones hockey game against Tulsa Oilers…

In the new ECHL app, you can purchase Cyclones tickets through your phone…

And that means, we don’t have to wait in line to buy Cyclones tickets anymore…



It was a pretty full house tonight at US Bank Arena…

Cheers! It’s good to be back ‘Clones!

The Cyclones were already up 2-0 by the time we were in our seats…





And it was pink the rink night tonight…




At the end of the second period, it was 6-1…

And then there was chuck-a-puck…




CYCLONES WIN!



The Cyclones thumped the Oilers 7-1! Seven Cyclones goals and four fights makes for one heck of a hockey game. It was great to finally be back at US Bank Arena watching our Cyclones play hockey again. And soon we’ll be back at GABP too!


From US Bank Arena, we walked over to catch the Streetcar Cincinnati Connector…



We rode it up into Over-the-Rhine and got off at Twelfth and Vine Streets…

We walked back down Twelfth Street to Main to the new Platform Beer taproom that just opened for the very first time tonight…












We found this little private room where we could hang out and drink our beers…


I don’t normally dig wallpaper in bathrooms but this wallpaper is just wow…





Platform’s taprom is such a fun place and an incredible additon to Main Street…



From Platform, we walked up Main Street to The Pony for a nightcap…




And from The Pony we hopped in an Uber and headed home. And it brought to an end a pretty epic Saturday. 😀🥃🏒🍺❤️
Posted by Thadd F. on February 2, 2019
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