Yearly Archives: 2012

Fixing A Hole

Now that I've lived downtown for three months, it was only a matter of time until I started exploring my immediate surroundings at the Midtown hole. Thanks to a shitty economy and even worse planning, Midtown has hit bottom after a 30-year slide from innovative (one of the first indoor malls, and a thriving business district until the late 70s) into desolate (rising crime and falling population) to promising (new construction, or at least demolition of the old, closed mall), and finally to stagnant, in its present half demolished, completely unbuilt stage. This was Midtown (and the rest of the…

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Capitol Offense

There are days meant for just getting the hell out of here... this weekend was certainly one of them. The combination of dealing with grad school, Laura and being indoors all winter put me over the edge; I had to do something besides another weekend with Her, and I had to do it NOW! So, as soon as Laura was safely on the bus to class for a Friday morning (and she'd just stayed with me, so I had to make sure it looked like nothing was out of the ordinary), I packed my bag (consisting of mostly beer) and…

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Filthy Clean

Revisiting the American Laundry Machinery power plant, during the day and with a camera, for once! It isn't the biggest or most interesting place but at least I got out somewhere finally. As far as I know, this place was open for most of the 20th century, and they made industrial washing machines. I don't know much else about them except that they moved to Cincinnati at some point, and there is another abandoned power plant just like this one there. I didn't feel like climbing this, but apparently there's a view from the top of all these I-beams What…

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