Tuesday I had one of the most quintessential Akron nights I've ever had.

I drove over the Cuyahoga River, spent 20 minutes in traffic on OH-8 due to construction on the Central Interchange, passed a community garden, zipped by the Akron Art Museum and the rubber worker statue, and parked in a University of Akron parking garage, where a student was selling tickets to the RubberDucks game down the block.

Full Akron, already.

I walked to the newly renovated Lock 3 Park in Downtown, and then, with not one, not two but three Goodyear blimps drifting overhead, I watched Mayor Shammas Malik give his second State of the City speech as sudden early June sunshine bore down on the crowd.

On the way home, I got Swensons - a salad boy, fries and a Dr Pepper.

Only if I'd then toured the Stan Hywet

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