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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Downtown

5 comments:

irene said...: Vistas I remember very well... but with a few intrusions, and more vacancies.

What I did not know was that one can see the spire of St. John's from the courthouse. (4th image from the top, just to the left of the tower on the Knights of Pythias building.); May 8, 2008 at 5:21 PM
Jeffrey Smith said...: That brings up one of the oddities of Toledo views. If you move a couple feet, to the right or the left, you can't. There's a lot of that sort of thing in Pancake City. Coming from the mountains, that fascinates me.; May 8, 2008 at 5:46 PM
irene said...: Pancake City?

Can't see it. Toledo is a swamp, once known as "frogtown". In one of your images I can still see a faint trace of the old canal (that part abandoned for almost a century and a half) running through the courthouse square. In those days Toledo and the surrounding territory was infamous for malaria and Yellow Fever -- French and Anglos could move in at will because the Indians avoided it.

A pancake is too sanitized for the analogy... of course, I suppose you could bury the pancake under a pint of syrup and let it soak for an hour....; May 8, 2008 at 9:02 PM
Jeffrey Smith said...: Remember the mountains. My main impression of Toledo can be summed up in the word "flat". The swamp only becomes noticeable after a heavy rain.
Come to think of it, I think the first post at this blog involved Frogtown.; May 9, 2008 at 5:31 AM
irene said...: Of course if you cut down all the trees in a swamp the result is flat!

Actually, there are a few places within the city limits where the swamp is still obvious even between rains, and many in the environs, especially SE of the Maumee. Some of the latter have been designated for preservation by the government.; May 9, 2008 at 4:27 PM

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