Old Tracks, New Buildings

Arena District
Columbus, Ohio

Joanie Sommers - Johnny Get Angry

Stripes

The first Wendy's fast food restaurant, now shuttered and abandoned
Downtown Columbus, Ohio

John Philip Sousa - Stars and Stripes Forever

Historic Newark

Back in the 1800s, when Ohio had a network of canals, the kids in Newark used to spend winters ice skating on the frozen canal downtown. This is a really well done mural, and it's hidden on the back of one of the buildings "on the square" downtown.

Newark, Ohio

Vanilla Ice - Ice, Ice Baby

Splash

Downtown Columbus, Ohio
I took this: the woman standing right next to me took this.

hot weather music:
The Beach Boys - California Girls
Chad & Jeremy - A Summer Song

Beacon Building

downtown Columbus, Ohio

more hot weather music:
Diesel - Sausalito Summer Nights
Buster Poindexter & His Banshees Of Blue - Hot Hot Hot

Hammonds

Lancaster, Ohio

The Rolling Stones - Paint It Black

Center Hardware

downtown
Lancaster, Ohio

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

Lancaster Fountain Photo # 976,230

Downtown
Lancaster, Ohio

You will love this fountain as I do, dammit.

Blossom Dearie - A Fine Spring Morning

Tattoo

Zanesville, Ohio

R.E.M. - Orange Crush
Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi

Old & New

Architectural Contrast
downtown Columbus, Ohio

Check out the blimp; there's something you don't see every day.

Brian Setzer Orchestra - This Ole House

Melanie - Brand New Key

Liquor & Violins

downtown Columbus, Ohio

Tom Waits - The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)

Ohio National Bank

Downtown Columbus, Ohio

There are still a few other vestigial ONB buildings around town; someday I'll shoot those too.

Barrett Strong - Money (That's What I Want)

Monument

London, Ohio

The Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays

Tracks

Just north of downtown
Marion, Ohio

Roger Miller - King of the Road

Pic - Downtown Greenville

Interestingly angled building
Greenville, OH