These weren’t really slums. They were just the way folks lived back in the day. My grandmother raised her siblings in a house like this on Kilgore street in Mount Adams after both her parents died. Her mother from disease and her father from a construction accident while building the Mariemont Inn when he fell to his death. She had fond memories from that time period. Here we are so many decades later and my wife and I do our best to live as they did back then. We are business owners and could live a posh lifestyle, but instead choose to heat with wood that we harvest ourselves from our own property and the experience is very rewarding. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Its hard to imagine that in a hundred years or so ppl of the future will be looking back on on what our life is like today and feel the way we do when we look back I wonder what Cincinnati's going to look like ps if anyone from the future is reading this November 20th and its 4.05pm i am in Batavia Ohio I just wanted to say hello cherish the time that you have on Earth live everyday to the fullest
German descendant on both my mother and fathers side. Cincinnati born and raised. My great grandfather helped build the Hudepohl brewery as a boilermaker.
It would have been nice to know what streets these homes where on. I don't think you could call these slums from the 30's. At that time the great depression was going on and you had to survive.
The word slums offends those whom have family/relatives that lived in these days , have you heard of the Great Depression in 1930”s people were dirt poor nothing to eat, no money , if you had any money you be blessed to be able to feed your families, East End was not the Slums, may have been very poor due to Great Depression of 1930”s then world war 2 in the 40”s then Vietnam war in the 70”s , do your research before you label neighborhoods!!!!!
The sign that read " Please Keep the Zink Clean. Bought back memories of my Grandparents both German always said Zink. They live on Colerain Ave the lower end it's call Old Colerain now.
These are not.....were not slums.....working class homes.....along Mt. Adams.....you can see the historic church up on the hill in one photo and Rookwood in a couple others.....depression era photos....everyone was BROKE.........
Thank you so much,my families were from Over the Rhine,both sides were German and tightly interwoven with the beer industry down there...Seeing these pics puts into perspective why my Grandparents kept striving for more and more and never settled for us having less than the best...again thank you !!!
Some characteristics of slum life but an axe leaning in a corner, a kitchen table covered with food and utensils and a prominent wash tub speak more to industrious survival. And those brick row houses?…quite comfortable living in the 1930s.
My guess would be the majority of those houses was off Eastern Ave. I know the last pic of the tracks and wall running behind the row houses and privy's is between Eastern Ave and the new Columbia parkway. I dig those privy's finding some amazing stuff. Hand lots of blown bottles, and machine made cork top bottles, pottery, china, stoneware, bone tooth brush handles, clay marbles and regular marbles, clay pipes,
I was thinking...otr isn't much different now . Ive lived in Cincy my whole life and even though I have a car one thing I love to do is catch the bus downtown because you get to see all of the nostalgia there's still a lot of these very old buildings that are vacant boarded up broken windows.... it's amazing
These weren’t really slums. They were just the way folks lived back in the day. My grandmother raised her siblings in a house like this on Kilgore street in Mount Adams after both her parents died. Her mother from disease and her father from a construction accident while building the Mariemont Inn when he fell to his death. She had fond memories from that time period. Here we are so many decades later and my wife and I do our best to live as they did back then. We are business owners and could live a posh lifestyle, but instead choose to heat with wood that we harvest ourselves from our own property and the experience is very rewarding. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Its hard to imagine that in a hundred years or so ppl of the future will be looking back on on what our life is like today and feel the way we do when we look back I wonder what Cincinnati's going to look like ps if anyone from the future is reading this November 20th and its 4.05pm i am in Batavia Ohio I just wanted to say hello cherish the time that you have on Earth live everyday to the fullest
German descendant on both my mother and fathers side. Cincinnati born and raised. My great grandfather helped build the Hudepohl brewery as a boilermaker.
It would have been nice to know what streets these homes where on. I don't think you could call these slums from the 30's. At that time the great depression was going on and you had to survive.
The word slums offends those whom have family/relatives that lived in these days , have you heard of the Great Depression in 1930”s people were dirt poor nothing to eat, no money , if you had any money you be blessed to be able to feed your families, East End was not the Slums, may have been very poor due to Great Depression of 1930”s then world war 2 in the 40”s then Vietnam war in the 70”s , do your research before you label neighborhoods!!!!!
Poorly researched, because most of these are not "slums", just working class, and some are even middle class homes.
Sweet Cincinnati. Land of my antsisters.. Forever I will claim thee
If things look dirty remember these people were overwhelmed with physical labor evry wakeing hour , clean was an unaffordable luxury.
The sign that read " Please Keep the Zink Clean. Bought back memories of my Grandparents both German always said Zink. They live on Colerain Ave the lower end it's call Old Colerain now.
These are not.....were not slums.....working class homes.....along Mt. Adams.....you can see the historic church up on the hill in one photo and Rookwood in a couple others.....depression era photos....everyone was BROKE.........
Thank you so much,my families were from Over the Rhine,both sides were German and tightly interwoven with the beer industry down there...Seeing these pics puts into perspective why my Grandparents kept striving for more and more and never settled for us having less than the best...again thank you !!!
My mom lived in Mt Adams in the 30s. She told me they had flushable outhouse like the ones in 6;56.
Without any kind of narration, these pictures tell a sad, but fascinating story. Well done.
Some characteristics of slum life but an axe leaning in a corner, a kitchen table covered with food and utensils and a prominent wash tub speak more to industrious survival. And those brick row houses?…quite comfortable living in the 1930s.
I would really like to.know where these buildings are.
As others have said, not sure these were all slums. But a great collection of photos, thank you for sharing.
My guess would be the majority of those houses was off Eastern Ave. I know the last pic of the tracks and wall running behind the row houses and privy's is between Eastern Ave and the new Columbia parkway. I dig those privy's finding some amazing stuff. Hand lots of blown bottles, and machine made cork top bottles, pottery, china, stoneware, bone tooth brush handles, clay marbles and regular marbles, clay pipes,
I was thinking...otr isn't much different now . Ive lived in Cincy my whole life and even though I have a car one thing I love to do is catch the bus downtown because you get to see all of the nostalgia there's still a lot of these very old buildings that are vacant boarded up broken windows.... it's amazing
How cool would it be to go back in time and visit these places...
I grew up in and around Cincinnati and remember being in old houses like this wondering what they were like at one time