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Quick background for people thinking to themselves "Toledo? What?" Toledo OH used to be a fairly wealthy industrial city (second tier to cities like Detroit, Cl
by sybercecurity 6y ago
Quick background for people thinking to themselves "Toledo? What?" Toledo OH used to be a fairly wealthy industrial city (second tier to cities like Detroit, Cleveland, etc.) with a fairly wealthy business class. As a result, the city zoo and art museum is better than expected for a city of its size and current economic status.
- brianzelip 6y agoThe zoo was a WPA project!
- jcims 6y agoOhio has to be one of the best zoo states in the country.
- m463 6y agoand roller coasters.
- pivo 6y agoThe art museum there is also pretty good. I lived in Toledo for most of high school.
- beoberha 6y agoMuch like Detroit and Cleveland, the Toledo suburbs are quite affluent even though the city itself is on hard times. Very cool to see my hometown on HN :D
- sandworm101 6y agoI still think of Toledo as the place Klinger came from. Im sure is a great place with a culture of its own, but that's where my minds goes to when it is mentioned. I wonder how many nightshift zoo keepers are searching for blacklights on amazon right now.
- selimthegrim 6y agoRobert Ghrist of TDA fame did his undergrad at UToledo I think.
- briankelly 6y agoAlso Willard from Apocalypse Now. But anyone from Toledo asked "how far [is Toledo] from the river?" Would probably not be thinking of the Ohio river.
- pmiller2 6y agoJust a little bit of MASH trivia for you, then: Tony Packo's is a real place. https://www.tonypacko.com/ https://www.tonypacko.com/
- tptacek 6y agoWe used to make the trek from Ann Arbor to Toledo with the kids just to go to the zoo. It's solid. Lots of great WPA architecture, too.
- nine_k 6y agoMy first thought was Toledo in Spain, the "original" one.
- pmiller2 6y agoI've been to both, and I can confirm this. I think the art museum is definitely leagues above what you'd expect, and the zoo was named Best Zoo in America in 2014 by USA Today, according to Wikipedia. IIRC, they were also the first zoo in the US to exhibit giant pandas, which no zoo in the world can get ahold of except on loan from China.