Bring back dangerously tall and elaborate libraries that wouldn't look out of place in a Resident Evil game
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If a background in mountaineering isn't a qualification to work at your library, then I want nothing to do with it.
They issue you a harness and arborists' knots pocket guide on the first day.
Falls in Dewey Decimaaaaaaaaalllllllll
After 1904, they might have been falling in LoCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!
100000 percent this!
This place looks like a wizard boss fight location for a big d&d campaign. Sad it's gone.
Well, the new one is really nice.
That doesn't mean you get rid of the old one. Not when you can have wizard fights in it.
I was about to go on about how there weren't many wizards in Cincinnati when I was there, but then I remembered about the Hollows series
It reminds me of Elden ring
this place looks like caleb widogasts personal heaven
we used to be a society
people used to view books
kids used to want to work not play on their phones all day
The children yearned for the mines...
/s
Damn it I want to see elaborate shit like this in person safety hazard be damned. I'll sign a waiver, gimme my overbuilt adult playground.
Should look at some of the pictures of the Los Angeles Public Library. 
I've been! My wife is a librarian and she used to work for the L.A. library system. Very beautiful. The main branch of the NYPL is wonderful too. As a bonus, in the children's department, they have all of Christopher Robin Milne's original childhood toys that inspired his father to write the Winnie the Pooh stories:
Is that an otter behind Kanga?
Shhhh....
I guess the otter didn't make it into the books? I don't remember that from when I was there.
Why was such a place demolished?
Most likely because old buildings are expensive to maintain, expensive to heat, must be refitted for modern lights or communication or have asbestos or lead pipes or don't comply with modern building standards, such as accessibility.
There is this old cinema from the 1920s in my town that went out of business in the 1990s. Nobody goes to the cinema anymore to fill the 300 seats, it's a 20min walk away from residential areas and there is no parking nearby. On top of that it needs 30 years of maintenance. Nobody has a good business plan for this building.
Is twenty minutes too long to walk?
It is for ameircans
Y'all need to walk more! 20 min is only about 2 km, or 1.4 miles in funny units. That's not far man.
It's not far but our cities are not designed to be walked. There's very likely no footpath at all and would require walking on dangerous roads or through private property which isn't allowed
I know it isnt. I have no issue walking 20 minutes. Also not american myself.
As an American who's gone to walkable cities, no. Non-walkable cities, yes.
https://www.1000libraries.com/blog-posts/why-was-the-old-cincinnati-library-demolished
Not originally constructed as a library. Too hot in summer. No windows. Books would get covered in soot in winter. Flooded. Wasn't safe for the public to even be in.
Lovely as it looks here, in historical terms 75 years old is last week. My town is demolishing a 117 year old cinema to make way for flats, and nobody gives it a second thought.
The height of those railings makes me nervous
This is what I imagine fantasy libraries look like.
Make him stay, Murph. Make him stay, Murph. Don't let me leave, Murph! Don't, don't let me leave Murph! NO, NO, NO, NO!
Looks super safe.
They tear it down to make room for a fast food chili joint?
Don't call that slop they eat on spaghetti in Cincinnati "chili." It doesn't deserve that name.
They put cinnamon in it. Cinnamon.
A little bit of cinamon and chocolate in normal, non-Ohio related, chili is really good.
Yeah, I agree. I've had the cincy stuff and it's not terrible, but it's fast food on par with most fast food junk. It has precious little in the way of actual meat in it and it leaves one feeling carb'd out and kinda gross afterwards like any other fast food place. Most people have some memories of some homemade chili in their minds and when they try this it certainly doesn't match with those memories.
Right, Skyline is fast food, and should be held to fast food standards. I hate when people call Cincinnati-style-chili "slop" when their only experience with it is the fast-food version though. Like, first of all, duh Skyline is slop, in the same way that Taco Bell beef is slop, and people (myself included) eat that shit up. Because fast food tastes good, even if it's slop. There wouldn't be hundreds of Skyline locations, or thousands of Taco Bell locations, all serving up various versions of slop, if that slop doesn't taste good. And second of all, if people would take 5 minutes to read up on the history of the dish and understand it a bit more, they'd probably understand all the "weird" ingredients and quirks that make it different than The One True 'Merican Texas Style Chili ™️ (which traditionally uses chocolate/cocoa powder as well, by the way). It's an Americanized version of sauces/dishes commonly eaten in Greek and Macedonian cuisine, which explains why the spice profile is so different. It was first served over hotdogs with mountains of cheese instead of the more-traditional pasta to cater to the American audience. But Cincinnati-style chili is essentially Greek bolognese, and it's a beautiful, wonderful dish.
I'm sorry, none of this is directed at you, I'll get off my soapbox now. I don't know why I'm so passionate about Cincinnati chili, it just really grinds my gears when people get up on a high horse to look down on some food just because they happen to dislike it.
Hey man, I just love seeing that you're passionate about something. Apathy and ignorance are the bane of society. When it comes to food, I'd argue most food people don't like is because there is so much perversion of food that they've never had a chance to try the OG version of something. Don't like salmon? I'd be willing to bet you haven't had a well prepared high quality cut. The vast majority of restaurants totally fuck this up and people go on eating it.
The tiniest pinch of cinnamon mixed in with your other spices is also great on burgers.
wienerschnitzel drive thru
Is that AI?
Nope. 100% real.
See the photo of the main hall on the right.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Main_Library_(Cincinnati)#Opening