Around Louisville, KY (My Hometown)
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| Humana building, 5th & Main Streets |
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| Looking west on Market Street from 6th Street |
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| Looking NW from downtown. K&I railroad bridge and channel to MacAlpine locks. |
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| SW corner of 5th & Market. Notice old gun turret on top. |
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| 5th & Main. Looking NW. |
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| The Bevedere on the Louisville waterfront on the Ohio River. The Kentucky Center For The Arts is in the left foreground. |
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| Looking west on Main Street for 6th Street. |
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| Looking east on the Ohio River from downtown Louisville. George Rogers Clark and Kennedy bridges. |
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| Twin Towers of the Galt House hotel, 4th and Main Streets. |
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| Looking west from 6th and Market. |
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| Looking SE from 5th and Market. The Aegon building in the foreground is the tallest building in Louisville. |
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| Looking NW on the Ohio River. In the distance beyond the railroad bridge are the Falls of the Ohio and the Hydroelectric dam. |
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| The new courthouse and jail at 7th and Jefferson. |
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| The louisville skyline viewed from across the Ohio River in Jeffersonville, Indiana. |
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| Louisville skyline from the Belvedere on the waterfront. The tall building in the center is the National City Bank tower. |
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| Looking NE from the observation deck on the 25th floor of the Humana building at 5th & Main Streets. |
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| Looking south from Market Street between 5th & 6th. The tall building is the PNC Bank tower. |
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| Sunset on the Ohio. Looking west, downriver. The George Rogers Clark (2nd Street) bridge is in the foreground. |
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| The Clark bridge ablaze with fireworks during Thunder Over Louisviile. |
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| Another view of Thunder Over Louisviile with end-to-end fireworks on the Clark bridge. |
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| Two Queens. The Bell of Louisville and the African Queen. The Belle of Louisville is the oldest original sternwheeler still in operation. |
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| The famous "African Queen" from the movie of the same name starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn. |
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| Aerial view of the Crescent Hill neighborhood in Louisville. Where I grew up. |
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| The infamous Fountain. Donated by the Bingham family in 1988, it was eventually sold for scrap because it was too expensive to maintain and operate. |
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| Downtown Louisville viewed from the Belvedere. |
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| Downtown Louisville viewed from the Belvedere. |
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| The huge Galt House hotel. Note the twin rotating restaurants at the top which give a magnificent view of the Ohio River. |
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| The rusty American Life insurance building on Main Street. It was designed to rust giving a "beautiful" bronze color. Whatever. |
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| The Belvedere |
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| The Belvedere |
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| The Belvedere. Ahead is a statue of Geroge Rogers Clark pointing the way to the Ohio River. |
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| Lokking upriver (east) on the Ohio River. Note the "Belle of Louisville" and the "Spirit of Jeffersonville" steam boats. |
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| Looking downriver (west) on the Ohio river. |
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| Future site of the Muhammad Ali museum at 5th St. and River Rd. |
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| Another view of the Muhammad Ali Museum site. The building marked in the background was used in the movie "Stripes". |
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| Sunset on the Ohio river. |
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| The Crescent Hill Resevoir |
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| Thunder Over Louisville 2006 |
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| Thunder Over Louisville 2006 |
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| Thunder Over Louisville 2006 |
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