downtown columbus walkabout

Rudolf Scheffler. mosaic of Vulcan. 

There are two Roman gods in the elevator lobby of the Ohio Supreme Court, originally the Ohio State Office Building. They are wonderful, alas mosaics gleam, making photographing imperfect. Considering the relationship between religion and politics currently, this might be problematic if the idiot Republicans and their supporters knew of their existence. Scheffler was an artist working during the Roosevelt recovery from Hoover's Depression. Perhaps, there was a kerfuffle then, the mosaics are subtitled "Harnessing the Elements & Fruits of the Soil". Vulcan holds a hammer, and Ceres a sickle (literature printed by the State of Ohio reads "scythe"; either, the writer is not familiar with agriculture, or did not want hammer and sickle appearing).

Rudolf Scheffler. Ceres. c.1933.

Ralph Crawford. Arnold. 2010. Columbus.

By odd co-incidence, i snapped this foto on the same day i saw his daughter promoting her book. She looks like a Kennedy. Previously, i have passed this by, because i was not interested.

When the covid scare came to Ohio, the first major event cancelled was the Arnold Sports Festival. I heard of it, and was never interested. Now in typing this, i read it is considered the biggest thing in bodybuilding after Mr. Olympia. Arnold won that contest seven times.

I did not have positive feelings for Arnold Schwarzenegger, or his party politics. But, when he expressed his anti-fascist feelings, i changed my opinion (on him, not his party). He saw what fascism did to his father, and that generation of people in Austria, and their spirit. They were broken men. Arnold was one of the very few Republicans who spoke against trumpenfuehrer's failed putsch. Schwarzenegger began speaking of Kristallnacht, it came to America on a Wednesday. "It all started with lies, and lies, and lies, and intolerance." [click, see, and listen]

Karma enjoyed the walk. Her nose was exercised a lot, much sniffing.

The YMCA's in big cities were impressive architectural buildings.

One of a row of such heads of terra cotta sculpture on what is now the LeVeque tower. It was built  to be 5 inches taller than the Washington Monument's 555'. It was the tallest building in Columbus for decades.