Vas you ever in Zinzinnati? A Personal Portrait of Cincinnati

by Dick Perry

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0007DMN7S
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Doubleday
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Yes, As A Matter Of Fact, I Vas

Cincinnati is home to Irish, Poles, Italians, Greeks, and even nowadays, Mexicans, Arabs, Cambodians and Russians, but at its heart, it is a German town. There were Germans in Cincinnati as early as 1796, but they came here in huge numbers in the 1840's and through hard work and honesty, changed this river city forever. This book, part travelogue, part local history 1788 to the 1960's, is an area classic. There is much about your own neighborhood you aren't aware of, and after reading Mr. Perry's lighthearted prose tour, you'll know more. From Bucktown (about where The Great American Ballpark is now) the "murder capital of America" in the 1870's, to the Courthouse Riots of 1883, the floods of 1913 and 1937, the building of the first concrete skyscraper and founding of the first Jewish college in America, to the disdainful arrival of Charles Dickens, the history of this stolid old city has never been so funny or so likable.