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Originally Posted by Chef
Nice photos. I grew up in the Mohawk Valley in upstate NY. Cincinnati always reminds me of a Mohawk Valley village on steroid, or maybe if Utica grew into a major metro - similar architecture and similar topography.
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Interestingly enough, my grandmother was a women's clothing buyer for one of the Cincinnati department stores in the early 1950s and made many trips to all of the small and mid-sized cities in Upstate New York. It's hard to believe that pretty much everything Americans bought in stores back then was actually made somewhere here in the United States but it was, including clothing.
I have some 50+ year-old hand-me-down furniture from the Cincinnati department stores and it's interesting when you move to see the manufacturing labels on them, since it was all made somewhere in the eastern half of the United States. California, let alone Japan/China/Taiwan wasn't a thing yet.