The Oil City Photo Trip - You can ride shotgun (Pittsburgh: real estate, big house)

[Cosmic]

I tried to do a first quick tour around, get the lay of the land and then circle back and decide what to take photos of. Tried to get the feel of the place in the tour, not just to photo one type or condition of house.








Every street is different in some degree, note the work on the Hip Roof, maybe a finished attic.



Looking back over the river toward the south side of town.



Some streets are sort of average, these may or may not be cheap houses.




Some streets are sort of junky



Going back down toward the shopping part of town, some pretty seedy houses in here.



You can have a fair house with two junkers on either side.




Grocery store, only one I saw. Least of the big chain type



Drug store, the dude would not look at me once he saw the camera, some of the peeps might be a bit anal.



Circling back to get on the other bridge to go over into the south part.







Peep at the bridge we are going to cross



Coming into another downtown section, we are going to bang a right



Yup, got to wait for this red light

[Sgoldie]

Doesn't look bad at all!

[Cosmic]

Ok, getting ready to want lunch, crusing the downtown looking for a place. Ain't liking either the parking or look of the joints.



Over a few streets



Deciding to go back over the other side and check out that downtown for lunch. That green-blue iron bridge will take us to the bridge we came in on.




This is the downtown section where we saw in the newspaper that they had boarded up for flooding






Over the bridge, the low chow alarm is flashing.



Lining up to get back on the original Rt-62 bridge





Doing the bridge again, this is making me hungry



Check out a few more streets, look for some chow



This is down closer to the river, going right off the bridge







Ok, chow on hold, we will go up a few streets. The one will the dog was pretty anal, they actually attempt to avoid you.









NAH is having an orgasm. We are up a couple of streets in elevation. Going to try to work over and check out the other downtown for chow.

[Wisteria]

So, where's Need_Affordable_Home?? Has he seen these photos yet? Is this what he is seeking? It kind of reminds me of Utica, New York. What would someone do there for culture, music, fun?? I wonder what most people do there for work? Any ideas on that?

It's kind of depressing to me -- I love those old homes, but the rest of it seems dismal. But that's just me.

This must have been a fun trip, Cosmic! I can't believe you did this -- NAH should be so grateful to you for the real look at Oil City. What a great idea -- and what a great guy to do this for him!!

[Cosmic]

Nice house, no parking



That is a her, finally bagged her, would not look up. NAH might not get that cuddle, least not early on. Even the dog looks away.
















Off to upload more. Should be 50 more.

[dreamofmonterey]

It doesn't look bad at all. Some of those bigger brick houses look quite nice. There seems to be a downtown with some restaurants? Alot better than some anonymous mall. I HATE malls.

sunny

[Magnolia Bloom]

I like it! I bet it is much prettier in the spring and summer, too.

I noticed a lot of empty upstairs in the downtown area. Can Oil city lofts be far behind?

Can't wait to see how NAH finds the pix. A very nice town- bigger than I had imagined.

Thanks for making the trip.

Something strange, though.... Anyone else notice that all the dogs look the same?!

Great pix, great city! I think you should move this thread to the PA forum. I bet folks looking to move to PA would consider relocating to Oil city.

[plaidmom]

I LOVE older towns in the hills/mountains.

Any mountain bike trails in the area???

[Cosmic]

Originally Posted by Wisteria

So, where's Need_Affordable_Home?? Has he seen these photos yet? Is this what he is seeking? It kind of reminds me of Utica, New York. What would someone do there for culture, music, fun?? I wonder what most people do there for work? Any ideas on that?

It's kind of depressing to me -- I love those old homes, but the rest of it seems dismal. But that's just me.

This must have been a fun trip, Cosmic! I can't believe you did this -- NAH should be so grateful to you for the real look at Oil City. What a great idea -- and what a great guy to do this for him!!

I did not do what I normally would have done. Didn't try to find the library, town hall, etc, etc, and actually go into a lot of places. I did see what was a school and there are lil parks, play yards scattered around. Also didn't get up that much on the south side. Traffic had started to pick up in the afternoon and I wanted to do some chores once I got back in Ohio, plus I had a time to be back because we were going to go out to dinner, so things got cut short. I might have tried to stay overnight. Again didn't see any hotels, motels, in town, was a place out of town going back toward Franklin.

There is enough stuff to live there. Fast food, general shopping, etc. There are also some other sections I didn't get too up higher above where I was.

Talked to maybe 10 people, some of the people could be a bit weird, like characters in maybe Cambridge, MA or fringe places in CA. Nobody said the place was a dump and they were dying to get out.

Apparently anybody that wants a job can get one. Some good paying jobs in like a metal fab plant, one women said more industry was coming. There is NO WALMART in town, least none of the locals know about it yet.

The downtowns appear to be functional and not all bummed out like most other towns of its size in the USA.

Some of the sections did remind me of upstate NY. Something like Utica or Rochester. There is one street where the houses look like the film clip on the old Archie Bunker TV show opening.

NAH is supposed to be sending the credit card billing info. Plus getting everybody a free pizza in Oil City. Beer too but I didn't see any booze stores.

Off to upload more photos, should be like 50 more. Wonder what this pays by the hour????

[Cosmic]

Originally Posted by plaidmom

I LOVE older towns in the hills/mountains.

Any mountain bike trails in the area???

Nope didn't see any. You could just use some of the town streets. Make sure them brakes work. Hills are steeper than they appear in the pix's.

One dude on a motor bike, seen him all over. Never saw him go up a hill. Finally bagged him on film during lunch, suicide jockey every time I looked he was in the rear view mirror. Might have been with the Police, checking them strange newcomers.

Also note the age of cars in the pix's. You do not see tons of old junkers, peeps drive fairly decent tin.