DAYTON/BELLEVUE KY
June 27 • June 29 • June 30 • July 18 • July 29 • July 30 2024
You need your exercise, Bert! I was trying to get out each day for exercise, which was hard because of all the rain. Yet this set gives us a few minor road photos from our immediate area.
6/27 - Southwest on Lindsey in Dayton. The classic CHILDREN AT PLAY sign at right is old, and that's why I have a photo.
Northwest on Vine at 9th. The stop sign is also old.
Northwest on O'Fallon. The border between Dayton and Bellevue runs right down the middle of the street. Right about here is where a woman walking across the street blew a bubble with bubble gum in 2 cities at once on April 18, 2020.
O'Fallon at 8th. The ONE WAY sign is old.
6/29 - Southwest on Fairfield (Biz KY 8) at Taylor in Bellevue. Of importance here is the remains of the Fifth Third Bank building. A developer let it sit in shambles for months, until finally part of the building collapsed, and it had to be condemned. After that, the city allowed this worse mess to sit for months. This sidewalk closure violated the Americans with Disabilities Act. The city made zero effort to make sure it was cleaned up.
6/30 - When it rains, it pours. This is southwest on Grandview in front of Grandview Elementary School. After the disasters of the early 2020s, I wouldn't trust most of America's schools with even a carpet fuzz, and this photo shows another prolonged sidewalk closure. This makes the school district also guilty of an ADA violation - and not for the first time that decade. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said many schools are "criminal enterprises", but at least this was only a civil offense. Kennedy must have been talking about the Campbell County Schools instead of Bellevue.
7/18 - Southwest on Manhattan Boulevard at Berry in Dayton. The graffiti on the sidewalk is fitting, as this is in the middle of a gentrification boondoggle: "No development is better than bad development."
7/29 - A view of 2nd at Dayton Avenue from the floodwall. I got a wider view of this in 2015, when the stop sign was still legible.
7/30 - Southeast on Maple in Dayton, about where 10th once crossed. I got a photo here from about this spot in 2016 and am pleased to report that the speed limit sign decayed even more by 2024.
Northwest on Maple where 10th used to cross. I got this in 2016 as well. The sign was ancient in 2016 and didn't get any younger.