Your Great Grandpa's Place

05/14/2023

Well I have neglected my duties recently. A lot has happened since I started this post ten years ago. At that time Over the Rhine was not an assured thing. At that time I had not traced my relatives to their first landing in the USA 170 years ago in OTR at the corner of E. Clifton and Frintz St. because both streets were called a different name when they moved there. At that time I was recalling my Great Grandpa and his life 100 years ago, trying to imagine an urban life lived today. It should have been My Great Great Grandpa but the walkable lively life they lived in is happening now.
Imagine 5,000 rose plants now growing on Stark St. Many active restaurants serving and admired by region wide patrons, Imagine that OTR was an entertainment hub again. Imagine even Vine St lined with open vibrant vendors bars and beer gardens as busy as they were a hundred years ago. It all has happened in just ten years from when I dreamed that it could. This journey also chronicled the path of what went on in that ten years both serious and funny the success and the tragedies, the brick by brick building of the dream. Going back in the posts gives a step by step of the life of a Great Great grandson's dream and the dream of many to bring back a most wonderful neighborhood to its vibrant life again.

05/14/2023

The Bannack Association is an organization of volunteers that supports Bannack State Park and its mis

09/10/2020

Knowledge is power

A closer look at the Bradykinin hypothesis

09/20/2019

Join us to celebrate the 140th Anniversary of the naming of the Bay Horse! We have events scheduled for the whole weekend of September 26th through the 28th.

We are also helping J**s - Since 1879 celebrate their founding date!

Join us for all of the fun!

07/22/2019

I no longer listen to what people say, I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.

05/23/2019

Talk about place! Northern Row Brewery is within three blocks of where Our Great Great Grandfather started his first cigar rolling business in 1853 The same year that Christian Moerlein started his brewery. Good luck David Berger and Nancy Berger The place is beautiful and the liquids are Great!

The storied taproom will pour a slew of traditional lagers and inventive brews

11/04/2018

05/31/2018

The Bay Horse Cafe and Roadhouse has been a downtown Cincinnati institution for approximately 200 years.

03/13/2018

11/18/2017

Been racing around for so long that a good rainy day feels like a relief to sit and collect my thoughts. I am sure that a hundred years ago folks were also running around like crazy but it seems that we now are more fractured no than ever. No time to read a book. No time to go for a walk. No time to even smoke a pipe or cigar in a park bench. The news cycle is now so fast that it is old news by the time the paper is printed. No time for critical thinking or to sort what is real and what i.e. fake. I guess we are just waiting to give our minds to AI. After all the machines will be able to think better than we can and not get headaches.

09/20/2017

“ is a city built on beer! Celebrate our brewing history with this design that benefits the . https://t.co/cc8ODiEh8y”

07/11/2017

We traced our bar back 200 years! Follow the horse to the reinvention of the historic Bay Horse Cafe

07/08/2017

Grandpa felt right at home at the New Old Bay Horse Cafe just reopening at 625 Main St. Pretty much the same as it was in the day every day many years ago

04/07/2017

Things are surely changing in the old neighborhood. It used to be horses everywhere double parked on Elm St unloading grain and loading barrels. For a while nobody parked on the streets and only a few street walkers inhabited the sidewalk. Now you can try your darndest to find a place to park just to get a burger at the Dunlap saloon! What is this world coming to?

12/06/2016

Friday we lost another one. Elm and Liberty seems to be the new Corryville scene, full of huge scale developments. The Planning Commission denied 28 speakers and approved a plan with no commercial parking as well as 84 units with "ug Petooey " style also have less than one parking space per unit. Oh yes on a less than 2 acre PUD !

11/30/2016

With all the "New" Construction going on in "Over the Rhine" using "Modern" Designs, Great Grandpa will visit the place in 50 years and conclude that Over the Rhine is composed of 2016 buildings with scattered buildings built in the late 18th Century. Why cannot we build designs that can bring this process some balance?