Steel City Discovery

Like Cincinnati's cut-in-the-hill view on North 75 in Kentucky, Pittsburgh features a dramatic entrance. Cars crowd through suburban countryside and into the Fort Pitt Tunnel (seen above) into a mess of traffic and yellow light before emerging into a striking view of the Pittsburgh skyline.

A Blimp in the Sky.

My head hurt from a long day of drinking and a long week of working as our designated driver drove us out of the comfort of downtown to the the typical suburban bar that we usually gather at after work. A beer there, some excedrin from the gas station next door and we eventually found ourselves near the Indiana border and I-74 at a party filled with high school kids. A "solid bro" named Ray wanted to fight me for making out with his cousin. I wasn't familiar with Ray or his cousin, nor had I made out with anybody.

Surf Cincinnati.

- A July, 1999 photograph of the Surf Cincinnati wave pool with the original park logo superimposed over it to create what, at the time, was a postcard-ish view. Photo credit: Bill Ware
Once an iconic Cincinnati amusement park, the wave pool's been shut off and the lazy river is dried up.