City - Cincinnati, OH - That is quite an incline 1906
by Mike Savad
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City - Cincinnati, OH - That is quite an incline 1906
Artist
Mike Savad
Medium
Photograph - Colorized Photo
Description
Colorized image from 1906
Original title: Mount Adams Incline
Photographer: Detroit Publishing
Location: 64 Lock street (no longer there), Aligns with 367 Kilgour St, Cincinnati, OH
In Cincinnati Ohio, there were once 5 different inclines. Most were build in the late 1800's and ended in the 1920's or so.
This is the Mount Adams incline, built in 1872, and demolished in 1948, it was used for over 75 years! The incline saved a lot of time, as it would often take 45 minutes or more to go up the hilly streets, this only took a minute.
But it wasn't free, and it wasn't cheap, from my understanding it cost around $2-$4 (our prices), each way, and that didn't include the streetcar fair. Streetcars, people and wagons could use this service, and later in the 1940's, cars used it.
Despite running for 75 years, they weren't that popular, it was more of an attraction than anything else. They took people out of polluted air and put them where it was slightly less polluted. They burned coal which made black coal smoke, so down below must have been choking. But they also used it in the power house above, so like, it was kind of a lie that it was cleaner there.
At the top of the hill you would find clubs, hilltop resorts, huge places that could accommodate over a 1000 people at once.
Because of the high price, you would often see a stowaway on board, in fact you can see one guy now, standing underneath the car.
But isn't the town charming? It's like a big railroad set, and many of these houses are still there today, though they are harder to see because this vantage is now an interstate, and they don't let you sit to take pictures. From the midpoint of this image forward is the interstate, the rest is still there, even the pillars that support it. Even those retaining walls are there in some form. Right in the center you'll see a door in the wall that seems to go nowhere, that existed just up until a few years back when they turned that block into townhouses.
On the left you'll see the Rookwood Pottery, opened in 1880, closed in 1967, then opened again in 2004. It's the same buildings though. On the right of the power house is The Sterling Glass co, and just behind that, that tower is where the monastery is (which I believe is a restaurant now).
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