Breaking Mad on the river. (photos) (Dayton, Kettering: 2015, live, shop)

[jfre81]

Hello once again, Dayton forumers.

First it was Yellow Springs and then Miamisburg. Now, let's do Dayton.

A little cold, a little windy, a little hazy and gray. Does that mean we can't have photos? Of course not. Most of these were shot yesterday, and a few were from a couple weeks ago.

Hope you're having a great weekend.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KZtm1qHn4A

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Seems winter's not done with us just yet. Stay warm. Stay safe. We'll do another tour here soon.


©2015/jfre81

[RDriesenUD]

Thanks

[SWOH]

[quote=jfre81]Just went shooting around downtown. Dreary, cold, windy, hazy. Pretty hostile. Going to fire up Photoshop and see if I have anything worth posting.[/jfre81]

Well, this is probably one of the top 10 best Dayton photos threads I've ever seen! Great job sir.

It did look pretty dreary and hostile out there, but you did an excellent job working with it and incorporating it into the mood of the thread.

This is Dayton, in reality, on an average day. But concentrated, intensified. A Mini-Detroit, with all the blight, but some subtle some tinges of a new prosperity coming. Fighting for a life in a hostile environment. A very good microcosm of what is really happening.

I like it! Definitely an artist's perspective of the city rather than that of a mindless city-booster like myself, a fear mongering suburbanite or journalist, or even of someone who lives the life of the city everyday but yet lacks the chops to portray it visually. Thank you!

[CarpathianPeasant]

Yes, lovely, delightful, stunning and where on earth is that? -- as in, where on earth is that bronze soldier with the rifle?

A bit of addenda here, when the post office moved out of that grand old post office building, it was a sad day indeed. I used to have to go there to pick up the mail for the office where I worked. Just walking into the place always conveyed an overwhelming sense of being in an integral part of a great nation.

The post office modernized a lot of places. If anyone would like to know what I mean there, well, they still use the building in Covington, KY, for postal service.

[RDriesenUD]

Memorial Hall?

[CarpathianPeasant]

Originally Posted by RDriesenUD

Memorial Hall?

Yeah. Maybe. That sounds about right _vaguely_. I never went there but a couple of times, like in 1960.

[jfre81]

Originally Posted by RDriesenUD

Memorial Hall?

Correct, and the monument is for soldiers of the Spanish-American War.

Originally Posted by SWOH

Well, this is probably one of the top 10 best Dayton photos threads I've ever seen! Great job sir.

It did look pretty dreary and hostile out there, but you did an excellent job working with it and incorporating it into the mood of the thread.

This is Dayton, in reality, on an average day. But concentrated, intensified. A Mini-Detroit, with all the blight, but some subtle some tinges of a new prosperity coming. Fighting for a life in a hostile environment. A very good microcosm of what is really happening.

I like it! Definitely an artist's perspective of the city rather than that of a mindless city-booster like myself, a fear mongering suburbanite or journalist, or even of someone who lives the life of the city everyday but yet lacks the chops to portray it visually. Thank you!

This may be my favorite response ever to one of these threads, and I probably have three dozen or more here on city-data across eight or nine city/state subforums.

This is definitely what I saw, and see. Dayton does face a lot of challenges, but with the right minds pushing in the right direction, they will be overcome. This city's claim to fame is the innovative people who came here - the Wrights, Charles Kettering - and what it needs is a little bit more of what made it famous.

Personally, I heard of Dayton all the time growing up in Texas because my paternal grandmother was born here. Dad's dad's family also originally came from this area. Up the line is a Revolutionary War soldier who was one of the first American settlers to western Ohio, around Urbana.

Every place needs a mindless city booster or three. No matter what my longterm future holds, I will always root for the Miami Valley. Even with its "mini-Detroit" grit, it's a beautiful place with certainly its own character. I'm also thankful for everyone here who has been good to me since I arrived.

[Natural510]

Great photo set; you really have a keen eye for architecture and urban minutiae.

[IDtheftV]

Awsome series. I see you pre-emptively posted a link in the pictures sticky. I loved them.

[Ohiogirl81]

Wonderful photos. Thanks for sharing them.