UNIVERSITY DISTRICT PHOTO ALBUM- Images of our neighborhood from the past 150 years: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 |
Friday night scene on the midway at the 167th Ohio State Fair. Lemonade and curly fries. |
Hammocks are so vital to student life in the 2020s that tour gides point out the many potential hammock trees to prospective students. |
Autumn Semester 2022 girls out for Friday night margaritas at Cazuela's, 1542 N High. |
I've had occasion to be at the Ohio Union a few times recently. One of my favorite things in the building is tucked away in the SW corner of the 3rd floor. Doors from all of the Ohio Unions. L to R: original Ohio Union (now Hale Hall), 1910; Women's Union (now Pomerene Hall), 1922; late 20th century Ohio Union (demolished 2006), 1951; and current Ohio Union, 2010. Behind the doors are panels with photos and images from each of the buildings. |
Halloween skulls and much more in a front yard on Duncan St. Old North Columbus remains a sanctuary of quirkiness, idiosyncrasy, and free expression in a city that strives desperately to be bland, beige, noncontroversial, inoffensive, and--above all else--developer-friendly. |
Year-in, year-out, this house at Indianola and Duncan delivers with its enthusastic and over-the-top front yard haunt. |
With galloping inflation and pumpkins going for $6.99 per, jackos were scarcer than usual in the neighborhood for Halloween 2022. Good to know that the classics endure despite that. |
Halloween party from about 100 years ago with a very frightened patron and something menacing lurking in the dark. |
Things college girls love, Autumn 2022. |
Buckeye fans thronging Midway, 1728 N High St, to watch 2022 version of The Game. Unbeaten #2 Ohio State played unbeaten #3 Michigan in Ohio Stadium. Alas, Michigan won. However, all the games broke right on December 2 so Ohio State ended up one of the four teams in the College Football Playoffs and may get another shot at Michigan for the National Championship. |
One of the ghastlier remuddlings I've seen around here. Beautiful --if timeworn--original c 1910 door with surprisingly intact art glass transom, abominated by a completely thoughtless, utterly half-assed, banally evil replacement. |
Blowmold Santa decorates a neighborhood porch at Christmas 2022. |
Check it out!!! Your University District history friend got a write-up in the Columbus Dispatch (December 15, 2022.) Great story by reporter Sheridan Hendrix. |
Nativity scene by The Old Guy on Hunter Who Decorates for All the Holidays, A typically exuberant, over-the-top, outsider art installation of original homemade art--mostly painted plywood cutouts--and commercially produced items. These have been becoming more modest lately. Each holiday I wonder if it'll be the last. |
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