Real Photos from the Streets of Dayton, Ohio - 04-11-07

Young girl jumps rope off of Wabash.


The church at Hillcrest and North Main has
a really cute chef working the soup kitchen
on Thursday nights.


Walking north on Main Street with the latest CVS catch.


Mountain Dew and other consumables are
brought home on a daily basis by many in d8n.



Dayton is a front porch town.

Dayton is a baby-walking town.

It's a chillin' on the sidewalk town too.

Trio chillin' with some large cold beers on a warm spring afternoon.


Even if a front porch is barely noticeable
on a property, Dayton residents will create
makeshift seats in order to consume large cans of beer.

The outside of the Inland plant located at Abbey and
West Third Street in Dayton.

The Scientific Barber Shop on Germantown
Pike looks to be long closed.

Outside the Desoto Bass Housing Project on
Germantown Pike.


Young males congegrate on the sidewalk
off of Bancroft Avenue near "The Bass".


Young couple talks while waiting to catch a bus
at Bancroft and Stewart Streets.


Outside of Bing Davis's art studio on West Third Street.


Waiting for the bus in front of the Ohio Paw Shop on
West Third Street near Broadway.



It's refund time in the hood. Watch for new car
sales to reactivate for a month or two.




The Zion Hill Baptist Theological Institute,
on the corner of West Third and Grosvenor.

You can pretty much KO this house on the corner of Lorenz
and West Third Street. I bet it used to be cool before Americans
suburbanized and turned into creatures led by needs, as
opposed to wants.

The old Jack's Drive-In on Leo near Keowee is now a
used tire joint in serious need of signage and
principles of advertising help.


Despite a recent cold snap, Dayton
is blooming this time of the year.

Now that's ghetto.

How sad it is to see houses like these broken into four units all
over the Five Oaks neighborhood. This palace is on Wasbash.


The corner of West Third and Williams, where
the spirit of Jared looms large.



Doin' the hustler shuffle here off of Troy Street.


Our Lady of the Rosary on Notre Dame and Hart
in Old North Dayton.


Doin' the lunchbucket shuffle off of Leo
in the Kiser Industrial district.


This dude ain't got time for walking to no damn table,
so he's just gonna' eat while he walks.



Deep in the heart of malfunction junction.

Real Photos from the Streets of Dayton, Ohio - 03-28-07

Softball practicing on the tennis
courts at Dunbar High School.

Man cycling through Five Oaks on Old Orchard.

This is like the biggest apparent party house in Five Oaks,
on the corner of Harvard and Richmond. You can count on
a crowd of people smoking blunts and downing malt
liquor on the porch on a warm day.

Backside of this trash heap.

Marathon Gardens near the corner of Linda Vista and Marathon.

Boy walking down North Main Street near Hillcrest.

You can tell the streets where neighbors care in Dayton if they've
banded together to place speed bumps in the road.

Trio walking down Wabash Ave.

Trio chillin' on a warm afternoon on Weaver Ave.

Dudes wait outside of the daily labor
place on Leo Ave. near Parkside Homes.

Man bikes near Island Park.

The Great Miami River has been swollen recently with lots of spring rain.

One of the murder marts on North Main Street.

Mama and child strolling down Riverside Ave.

Dayton Fire Truck turns onto Fairview Ave. off of Riverside.

The GVC (Greenwich Village Cockamammees) leave
graffiti that pretends anyone really cares about their
collective of post-industrial ghetto wash outs.

The old Druids Club on Leo is now a Yoga Club (you read that correctly).

Gem City Engineering on Leo Street just off of Keowee.

Abandoned car wash on Gettysburg Ave. near James H. McGee.

Phat Kats BBQ on Gettysburg. I'll be
giving reviews of some of the west side
BBQ joints this spring and summer.

Man from the Nation of Islam sells "The Final Call" newspaper
at the corner of Gettysburg and Third Street.

West side dude talkin' on the cell - probably about his grandiose rims.

Popeye's Chicken is out of business on Gettysburg Ave.

Middle aged man seemingly caught between adolescence and adulthood

prepares to cross the street on Richmond Ave.

Homeless man does what homeless men in Dayton do - panhandle.

I love this. Just off of the Salem Ave. exit nearing the Salem Ave. bridge.

Dayton Weekly News building on Salem Avenue.

The Cancer Prevention Institute on Forest Ave.

Another fine example of a great Dayton home on Forest Ave.

Loiterers ignore the do not loiter signs outside of K&J's house of hypocrisy.

Teenagers goof off while waiting for the bus near Germantown and Randolph.

Mama and baby cross the street near the Shell Station and McDonald's
at Germantown and Gettysburg Ave.

Dayton Academy Charter School on Dayton-Liberty Road.

The old Church's Chicken on Germantown Pike.

The back of the new Woggaman Elementary School, located
on the corner of MacArthur and Germantown Pike.

Man waits to cross the street at Groveland and Germantown Pike.

Row of units at Desoto Bass Housing Projects.

What is left of the old McCall's off of Germantown Pike.

Food City on Germantown Pike provides a constant
stream of 40-ounce bottles for consumers to discard
in the lot next to the store.

The service building at Desoto Bass
Housing Projects just off of Germantown.

A better view of Phad-Em Records which looks to have
been closed for years near the corner of Broadway and
Germantown.

This used to be a giant and beautiful old church
at the corner of Broadway and Germantown. It fell
victim to the wrecking ball recently.

Abandoned houses on Germantown Pike next door to
Desoto Bass Housing Projects.