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The peril of having more than one blog is you are bound to have a mistaken post at one point or another. Please disregard! It has been removed.
Didn’t see a first post, but I always tell people when they come out here to try North Market–kind of a condensed version of the Strip District. Also Skyline Chili, though I’ve heard rumors that a location was supposedly coming to Monroevile.
On a related note, the “Kroger buying Giant Eagle” story, while not as big here, is still getting attention here because of the two overlapping here and Kroger having to divest stores here. I don’t really see what the big fuss is back home–my parents shopped at Kroger before they closed in 1984 (my dad shops there now in Las Vegas via Kroger-owner Smith’s)–but I am kind of curious as to what will happen to the independently owned Giant Eagle’s like in Ellwood City.
Anyways hope yinz are having a good time.
I love Skyline Chili… even if it is a Cincinnati concoction!
Kroger will ultimately have to sell certain locations of one store or the other. There are so many that are close to one another throughout… Powell is the best example. Some people didn’t believe when I said some divesture needed to happen, yet… here we are!
My biggest memory of Columbus was a 1992 rendezvous with my parents at Ameriflora in Franklin Park. Ameriflora was to be the first international flower show, running 6 months leading up to Columbus Day (500 years since Columbus landing). We were there in September, but were quite surprised it was so lightly attended. I don’t recall tickets being expensive, but there were very few attending that day. The event cost nearly $100 million to put on, and total attendance was 5.5 million. I give Columbus credit for trying it, although I think it lost money.
That’s sad! My feeling is FPC is a step above Phipps. Perhaps it wasn’t at the time?
Proud to call Columbus my birthplace (my parents grew-up on the same street in the Burgh, but when I came along Pittsburgh was in one of it’s regular downcycles where there were no jobs here and that was the closest place my dad could find one. They moved back at their first opportunity). The city has grown exponentially since that time, and there are certainly a lot of cool things to see and do there. I lived near Cbus again as a young adult in an area that was still semi-rural. The old farmers there were not at all happy about Cbus growing out in their direction. There is a huge contingent of the Pittsburgh Diaspora there.
I can believe the farmers weren’t happy. But the ones up in Hilliard/Dublin were probably happier than pigs in you know what! Even since the last trip I made there 7 years ago, it has grown exponentially… almost obnoxiously so. And friends who live there say you’re either a Pittsburgh fan or an OSU fan… few admit to being fans of Cinci.