110 points

Bring back dangerously tall and elaborate libraries that wouldn’t look out of place in a Resident Evil game

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If a background in mountaineering isn’t a qualification to work at your library, then I want nothing to do with it.

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17 points

Falls in Dewey Decimaaaaaaaaalllllllll

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8 points

After 1904, they might have been falling in LoCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC!

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22 points

They issue you a harness and arborists’ knots pocket guide on the first day.

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7 points

100000 percent this!

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49 points

This place looks like a wizard boss fight location for a big d&d campaign. Sad it’s gone.

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15 points

Well, the new one is really nice.

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34 points

That doesn’t mean you get rid of the old one. Not when you can have wizard fights in it.

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7 points

I was about to go on about how there weren’t many wizards in Cincinnati when I was there, but then I remembered about the Hollows series

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3 points
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this place looks like caleb widogasts personal heaven

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13 points

It reminds me of Elden ring

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-7 points

Is that AI?

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24 points

Nope. 100% real.

See the photo of the main hall on the right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Main_Library_(Cincinnati)#Opening

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30 points

Should look at some of the pictures of the Los Angeles Public Library.

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32 points

I’ve been! My wife is a librarian and she used to work for the L.A. library system. Very beautiful. The main branch of the NYPL is wonderful too. As a bonus, in the children’s department, they have all of Christopher Robin Milne’s original childhood toys that inspired his father to write the Winnie the Pooh stories:

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8 points

Is that an otter behind Kanga?

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5 points

Shhhh…

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2 points

I guess the otter didn’t make it into the books? I don’t remember that from when I was there.

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7 points

They tear it down to make room for a fast food chili joint?

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6 points

wienerschnitzel drive thru

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7 points

Don’t call that slop they eat on spaghetti in Cincinnati “chili.” It doesn’t deserve that name.

They put cinnamon in it. Cinnamon.

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7 points

A little bit of cinamon and chocolate in normal, non-Ohio related, chili is really good.

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Yeah, I agree. I’ve had the cincy stuff and it’s not terrible, but it’s fast food on par with most fast food junk. It has precious little in the way of actual meat in it and it leaves one feeling carb’d out and kinda gross afterwards like any other fast food place. Most people have some memories of some homemade chili in their minds and when they try this it certainly doesn’t match with those memories.

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4 points

The tiniest pinch of cinnamon mixed in with your other spices is also great on burgers.

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