Real Photos from the Streets of Dayton, Ohio - 01-30-07

Woman digs through her purse on West
Third Street in Dayton.

I've published this tragic photo before,
but not with quite the clarity of this one.
Roadside memorial to a murdered soul
along West Third Street.

Dude chillin' outside the Ohio Pawn Shop
on West Third Street.

Dayton Po-Po pull over a Camaro in
Five Oaks on Cherry just past Norman.

Even the temporary labor business on
West Third Street has gone out of business.

Young man walking down West Third Street
near Conover.

This stylist's cabinet at Derailed
Salon in the Oregon District shows
the basic life philosophy of many Daytonians.

Enchilada's at Wympees? I thought that place was
for rot gut food, cheap wine and lottery tickets!
The times, oh how they are a changin!

Mailman delivers in Five Oaks while
pups wait outside to go in.

Am I nuts for thinking that so many of these
old art deco style apartment buildings would
make great two-story lofts if properly converted?
This one is on Forest Ave. near Grandview Hospital.

Custom Auto Wash, North Main Street.

Video News, North Main Street

The grand Thomas Graphics building
on Troy Street and Chapel in Old North Dayton.

Troy Street Market and Sundries is just closed.

Believe it or not, there is a child evangelism
institute on North Main Street just north of Siebenthaler.

Members of ACORN meet with Dayton
media to announce a protest of the Danner
Ave. market.

Meanwhile, the drug wheeling and dealing
goes on outside of the store unabated. Why
they just don't legalize it, bring it inside of the
store and collect those taxes for schools, I'll never
know, other than maybe putting too many
criminals - in and out of government - out of work.

Beer Drive-Thru, next to
Rooster's on North Main Street.

Isabella's Bra-Tique on North Main Street just
south of Siebenthaler Avenue.

Large houses on brick streets with
giant trees defines the entrance to d8n's
Five Oaks Neighborhood.

Real Photos from the Streets of Dayton, Ohio - 01-23-07

The former Frisch's on North Main
Street is now a Tex-Mex place.

But the Old-Hickory still chugs along.

As does Schear's Ice Cream.

And the Dayton Fish Company. Always fresh fish first.

West side cemetary in Edgemont.

Phad 'Em records, Germantown Pike.

Woman walking alongside Broadway street in west Dayton.

Carryout and drive-thru, Germantown Pike.

Old Lee's Sandwich Shop building on Broadway and Home.

UAW Local 87 on Abbey Ave.

What has been a Goth/Pagan gift shop on Wayne Ave.
is another cell phone store to compete with the cell phone
store already across the street from it.

Young fella' talking on the cell, walking up
Wheatley Ave. in Five Oaks near Delaware.

This is what historical district guidelines can lead to.

Old dude walking south on Wayne Ave.
near the Keowee Intersection.

Distinguished cuts barber shop, Catalpa Drive.

Finally, a little treat that I found on YouTube.
The legendary and spectacular Dayton Gospelaires:

Real Photos from the Streets of Dayton, Ohio - 01-22-07

ArtiFacts on Wayne Ave. across from
Cocoa's. The coolest store in town.

The old SAMU apartment building on the corner
of Wayne and Fifth, which way back in the day
was referred to as the corner of "Filth and Wine."

It is an old d8n urban legend that if you can't get laid after last
call at Sloopy's, you probably can't get laid at all.

Four non-townies on a stroll through
the shops of the Oregon District.

All things British on Third Street in the Cannery Complex.

Some of the other shops in the Cannery District.

Big Lutheran? Church on Wayne Ave. in the Oregon District.

Wympee's done gone Mexican.

The KC Motorcycle Club with art from the k-12
gallery, where I'll be teaching a pop/folk art
class this summer.

The corner of vice and ill-repute on East Third Street.

Dayton Fire Department Station, corner of East
Third and Keowee. Gotta' love the retro styling.

Berties Food and Liquor, East Third.

Passing by the past. Coffee Cup on East Third Street.
At least Mom's Diner is still keeping the greasy
spoon Appalachian tradition going.

Year-round nativity scene on East Third.

Food For Less - East Third Street

Side parking lot of Food For Less on East Third Street.

Jazz Central on East Third Street is having a
fabulous new mural of jazz greats put on the building.

Closeup of the mural at Jazz Central