Real Photos from the Streets of Dayton, Ohio 06-15-06

Man at this house screams across the Wyoming
Wayne Street intersection at some skanky ol' woman.
I used to think his window was cool until he started
flying the stars and bars rebel flag.

During the first week I lived in d8n, I went to this salon
on Wyoming St. to get a haircut. Some old dude who was working
there offered to sell me some pills he said his buddies
stole from a pharmacy. He didn't even know me, and
started that conversation up from scratch.

I mean, do people in other cities get offered
oxycontin from complete strangers who admit
to it being stolen?

Appalachian brood settles down to another
evening of chilling on the porch on East Fifth Street
and Monmouth Ave.

Jazz Central on East Third Street is responsible
in large part for the live, original music scene
in D8N. When it was the Building Lounge, cutting-edge
punk rock bands like MOM and Toxic Reasons frequented
the bill.

Two young East enders in the back of a Dayton
City Police cruiser. With the help of Photoshop, we
can see who they are and know what they are about.

Working girl on East Third Street suffers from the
bootydoo epidemic. You got it, her belly stick out
further than her booty do.

Women like this who can squash you
like a bug inhabit much of East Dayton.

What was once a grand family home on a bustling
street is now a boarding house for chronic addicts
and disabled people.

Hivling Street off of East Fifth is a total wreck.

While only two blocks behind...

The beautiful Huffman Historic District.

And old gas station continues to fall prey to
the forces of nature on East Third Street.

The American Saloon is a blue-collar gay bar.

At Abracadabra costume shop on Fifth Street, you can
become who you want for the annual Oregon District Halloween bash.

The Liederkrantz Center on the corner of
Fifth and High Street is still going strong.

New life has sprung up at the Fifth and Hamilton Street
railroad tracks with the opening of the Fifth Street Grill.

Young east end couple practices the art of
male shirtlessness and tightly fitting female forms.

You can get $1 draft beers and $4 pitchers every
Monday and Thursday at the historic Trolley Stop,
one of my favorite D8N watering holes. Say hi to Jon
if you stop in, and tell him drexel dave sent you.

Dayton literary legend Harold Bonnet passed away last year.

But the bookstore he founded still stands and
is going strong on Fifth Street in the Oregon District.

And if you go inside, there is a treasure trove of
used books, comic books, magazines from the past...it's
just a fabulous store with a little bit of everything for everyone.

Dreadlocked hipster girl talks to the dude at the
porn shop on Fifth Street in the Oregon District.

Best Pizza in the Miami Valley, hands down.
The Dayton Pizza Factory on Wayne Ave.

China Buffet on Fifth Street near the Oregon District
is always good for food, and people watching.

At the Tumbleweed Connection in the Oregon District
You might spot a pooch waiting for a tequila slammer.

Stylist at derailed hair salon has the
modern day D8N gal look all wrapped up.

Big mama, little mama. Walking into
the Oregon District off of Wayne Ave.

Gettin' them babies exercised on Wyoming Street
just east of Patterson Kennedy Elementary School.

A couple takes a break from using the pay phone
and smoking a blunt on Wayne Ave.

Just some dude on a lonely afternoon near Warren Street.

Waiting for the RTA outside of
Miami Valley Hospital on Main Street.

A mullet serves many in d8n for life.

The official body builder physique of East Dayton.

Homeless outside of the Other Place shelter on
Patterson road near BHA.