Over-The-Rhine When Beer Was King

Name: Over-The-Rhine When Beer Was King
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ISBN: 9781596299146

ISBN-10: 1596299142

ISBN-13: 9781596299146

Edition: 2010

Authors: Michael D. Morgan, Greg Hardman

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Over-the-Rhine is a place where a building owner can stumble upon huge caverns underneath a basement floor or find long-forgotten tunnels that travel far below city streets. Its present mysteries are attributable to a past that transcends the common story of how cities change over time: it is the story of how a clash between immigrants and "real Americans" helped rob Cincinnati of its image, its soul and its economy. In the 1870s, OTR was comparable to the cultural hearts of Paris and Vienna. By the turn of the last century, the neighborhood was home to roughly three hundred saloons and had over a dozen breweries within or adjacent to its borders. It was beloved by countless citizens and…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication date: 9/17/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.31" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Foreword



Acknowledgements


How to Find a Building Under Your Building


Whiskey, Pigs and Adulterous Lust: Birth of a City


America Versus Over-the-Rhine


The Golden Age of Golden Beer


Drunkenness and Bloodshed: The Parallel Perspective


Side-Door Sundays in the Paris of America


America Wins


The Road to Dryville


Rot and Redemption


Bibliography


About the Author