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Since I was stopping to take a photo of this sign in Sabina, Ohio I felt it was only fair to get something to eat. It's only fair, I get the photo while Frostie gets my patronage.
I did not try the deep-fried cauliflower. Instead, I asked the surly teenager, she was not a happy camper, for a chocolate milkshake. It wasn't clear if she forgot to put milk in the shake or that's just how they make 'em at Frostie, but she more or less gave me a pint of soft serve chocolate ice cream in a cup.
This was the last apple that I cut up for applesauce making this evening. It did not make it into the sauce.
The State of Ohio painted a bunch of barns in honor of the state's bicentennial in 2003. The state, courtesy of the Longaberger Basket Co., also put up a whole lot of historical markers. The markers came in handy as I'd take a picture of them to better remember what I was looking at.
On the other hand, the bicentennial license plates, which had a design sort of like what's on the barn, lost a vital piece of information -the county where the plate was issued. When I spot a car with Ohio plates I want to know where in Ohio it is from. I mean, there's a big difference in seeing a car from Paulding vs. Cuyahoga County. At least, last I knew, Nebraska has kept the county number prefix on their plates (but to know the county you have to know that the prefix corresponds to the county rank based on number of vehicles registered in that county in 1922).
You may recall that I visited the Big Well in Greensburg, Kansas a couple of years ago, and that Greensburg was all but destroyed by a tornado last year. Flyover People proprietress Cheryl recently visited Greensburg and has current photos of the Big Well and other sites around town. This lonely building can be seen on the right in the first photo in this post.
Riding up the Grand Concourse gets kind of boring after many blocks of apartment buildings. The boredom is broken in a big way when you come upon the Loews Paradise Theatre a couple of blocks south of Fordham Rd.
The Loews Paradise opened in September 1929. It was the 23rd largest movie theater ever built in the U.S., seating 3885 people. The Paradise was one of five Loews "Wonder" theaters, named after the Wonder Organ installed within, in the New York area. The others were in Queens, Brooklyn, Jersey City and nearby in Washington Heights (which is now Reverend Ike's United Palace).
The Wonder Organ that was in the Loews Paradise was removed in the 1960s. It was renovated and installed in the Loew's Jersey Theatre (follow the link above to see and hear the mighty organ).
Like a lot of these giant theaters the Paradise was subdivided into multiple screens and eventually closed. The theater was renovated and reopened a couple of years ago but it may be closed once again.
Also note the Jumbo Hamburgers on the right side of the movie house.
There's a note on my phone reminding me to write about the Grand Concourse. It, the note, has been on the phone for a month so I figured it was time to do that post.
The Grand Concourse in the Bronx was designed in the late 19th century to be New York's version of the Champs-Élysées in Paris. The street boomed after a subway line opened a couple of blocks west in 1917 and another line along the street in 1933, serving as a new neighborhood for people escaping the crowded tenements of lower Manhattan.
There lots of mid-sized Art Moderne apartment buildings, like those above, lining the Grand Concourse. There are also a few Art Deco buildings. The overall effect, though, is more dowdy and dull than grand. Dowdy and dull, that is, until you arrive upon...
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