Today, there are still some great attractions on the hill, including Eden Park, the Cincinnati Art Museum, a few theaters, and numerous restaurants and bars. It's unfortunate that as in many other cities, car-driven transportation planning worked to effectively fragment the city by building big freeways through the middle of it. Here's a USGS photo from a website called Cincinnati-transit net, with a yellow line showing the site of the former funicular. The website has lots of great pictures of the Mt. Adams Incline and the other Cincinnati inclines, although it doesn't look as if there have been any posts recently.
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I was only thinking of you yesterday when I was thumbing through a big box of mixed postcards at an antiques fair. You could skim through them really quickly and still identify all the vintage American ones with a quick glance. What is it about the colours, the printing process, the finish that is so unique in American cards? Yours is another wonderful example.
ReplyDeleteWonderful. I was lucky to ride the incline in Pittsburgh back in 1987, when I was there on a business trip. So fun! Don't know if that one is still around.
ReplyDeleteThe incline is so well depicted.
ReplyDeleteLove this card. It looks like a model rail town with perfect little trees, and perfect little houses. Doesn't quite look real.
ReplyDeleteLived there in the 1970s as a UC student. Wonderful town, wonderful people. Jack/Youngstown
ReplyDeleteGreat card! I want to ride a funicular! I wonder why the sender was so confused! ; )
ReplyDeleteI think that is a perfect (no pun intended...) interpretation by Tattered and Lost. I thought the dang incline was some sort of bus catapult at first glance though! Sorry I'm going to miss it, but I will be sure to stand and admire the freeway off-ramps where the base of the incline used to be...
ReplyDeleteI thought it looked like a model too. I like it better than a realistic picture.
ReplyDeleteI had to re-read that first sentence about three times. When I finally "got it," I burst out laughing:) The journalist in me was thinking plagiarism! OK, not good to try to explain how my neurotransmitters work (or don't work, I should say:)
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