Walk west on the north side of Findlay Street from Findlay & Western and cross Dalton Street. Now, go to the first driveway on your right. Turn into this driveway and walk between the buildings and you are there. Look out toward Clifton Hill (NE)...Approximate Map Coordinates:   39° 7' N, 84° 32' W

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Side by Side - 1997 and 1970
The photo above shows a view of the scoreboard in 1970 and how it looks now from the vicinity of home plate. What if we could go back in time? Let's try...

You are standing at what was once home plate, looking out to where the scoreboard used to be, and....WOW, so that is where it used to be!
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Superimposed Scoreboard
Side by Side Views
Side by Side Views
Continue walking forward (N) until you find this spot. Look right (E) and you are looking at what would have been the right-center field wall and the north corner of the bleachers, between the scoreboard and the right field corner.


Now that was so much fun, let's go to the scoreboard and look back. Walk across the parking lot (NE) toward the corner of Dalton & York Streets. Cross Dalton and stand in front of Berning Printing. You are now standing in front of where the scoreboard once stood. Look back (SW) across Dalton...
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Looking back to home plate from Berning Printing

Okay, now we will do it again. Visualize. Concentrate. WOW...so that is Crosley Field! Hey, who put all this stuff in the playing field? "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone? They tore down the 'field' and put up a parking lot!"
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If the grandstands were still there

Side by side views


Okay. Now that we are out at the scoreboard, I want you to look back in time once again at the picture below. You will see that you are in the 1940's. There is a car parked behind the scoreboard, facing south on Western Avenue.
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Old Car by Scoreboard

Now what we will do is go forward in time, but we will leave the car exactly where it is.

Old Car in Present Day Setting

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I hope this gives you the feel of how Crosley was fit into this area! These renditions are probably 98% accurate, given the limits of my abilities with the tools I have available.
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