Living » Cincinnati Life http://mattsprinsky.com/blog The life of a photographer, artist, sysadmin, explorer and backyard philosopher. Sun, 23 May 2010 06:12:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Sledding In The Shadow of Abandonment http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/2010/03/04/sledding-in-the-shadow-of-abandonment/ http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/2010/03/04/sledding-in-the-shadow-of-abandonment/#comments Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:24:31 +0000 matt http://mattsprinsky.com/blog/?p=308 Cincinnati is full of abandonments, most of the time you drive right past them without knowing their history. Many people take the presence of these historical treasures for granted, some call them blight, but their significance in Cincinnati’s history remains strong. They are an ever present reminder of Cincinnati’s past, and in some cases, a beacon for Cincinnati’s future; but more than likely they’re just a playground for explorers like me.

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Standing quitely behind a snow-blind sledder in Mt. Echo Park, the Crosley Building was once home of WLW radio (better known today as 700WLW.) The radio tye-in doesn’t stop there though, previously Crosley Radio Corporation used the building to manufacture low-cost table top radios until 1942 when World War II operations within the Crosley Building demanded that manufacturing operations be moved elsewhere.
Sledder and Crosley Building in the background

Consolidated Grain, abandoned in 1993, watches over Sledders in Mt. Echo Park.
Sledders, Consolidated grain in the background

Much thanks to Sherman Cahal for his wonderful resource of Abandoned Online where I pulled the links and quick history for these two abandonments. Your 10+ years of cataloging abandonment and infrastructure is quite an accomplishment.

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