Real Photos from the Streets of Dayton, Ohio - Oct. 7, 2007

Pink Flamingos are always in season on Cornell Ave.
I feel as if I would love these people for the odd yet lovable characters
they are just by their blessed front yard decor.
Dayton is full of characters who could easily line
the pages of great novels with their quirky eccentricity.

The famed Oregon District Dayton legend,
a.k.a. "Crackhead Phil" or "The Muffin Man" has
been spotted by this photographer hanging
around the upper Salem Ave.
area recently around Catalpa and Fairview.

This dentist office on Salem Ave. has quite
the modernist tiki style architechture going on.

This home at the corner of Otterbein and Catalpa
in the fantastically grandiose Dayton View neighborhood
of Dayton is spectacular to behold.

This building at the corner of Grand and Salem Ave. has
been restored and turned into apartments for the elderly.

Grace United Methodist Church on the corner of
Salem and Harvard I do believe deserves a visit. I feel as if
I would love to photograph the inside of this beautiful house
of worship. Where, oh where have architects with pride gone?

Driving up Otterbein or just about any
street in the Dayton View area is like taking
a trip in time back to a beautiful day when trees,
architecture and ambiance mattered.

The new Cricket store on North Main Street
is the latest in a long line of businesses to inhabit
the drug store overabundance of the 1990s.

Corpus Cristy Catholic Church on the corner of
Five Oaks and Forest Ave. in Dayton.

The North River Coffee House is on the lower end of
Salem Ave just across the street from the 5th District
Police headquarters. Any reviews are always welcome here.

You know you are in the inner-city when
the beauty supply stores come into focus.

If there were any business I'd love to produce
a commercial for, I think it would be the famous
Gold 4 Ya' Mouth store. This is the North Main Store.

Woman working North Main.

A loyal visitor to this blog requested that I
take a picture of this beauty of a home that he restored
on Ridge Ave. Well, it's still beautiful.

Augustus Uloho got into a motorcycle accident there.
He was the owner of the Uloho's on North Main. May he rest in peace.

A ray of sunshine in any Daytonian's day:
The sight of Tank and his big bus taking a load
of customers to the Dayton Dragon's game from
Tank's Bar and Grill on Wayne Ave.

Benjamin's Burger's on North Main Street are still delicious.

Memorial Baptist Church, North Main Street.

We love to tease the junkies in my neighborhood.

Dayton Reggae Festival at Dave Hall Plaza.

Grandmama makes her way to the RTA.

Skater boys arrive on the scene.

The always present smell good oil and incense stand.

Porta potties bring pottie parity.

I love this woman's purple hair.

Styles for the rich and ghetto fabulous.

It might as well be another day in Yellow Springs.

Sax man Danny Sauers is one of Dayton's true gems.

Smokin' a J at the reggae festival.

Then enjoying the buzz.

May Dayton Police officer Steve Whalen rest in peace.

This old business/residence on Wyoming Street
next to the UDF store was a victim of fire.

It will take a nation of a million shirtless East Side
men to bring America back to greatness. Near the old
Hillside Tavern near Phillips and Wyoming.

High atop the Wyoming Street Hill stands a
a place that does good. Bluebook Daycare.

In some Dayton locales, the world is your very own trashcan.

One of the more graphically pointless
pieces of graffiti. This was taken just off
an alley off of Wyoming Street.

More of the same. U.S. 35 is a perpetual
construction zone. This picture was taken off of
U.S. 35. This was the Steve Whalen exit just a few weeks
ago. This is now all paved and taking traffic.