MayDay

Was tidying up and found some postcard/postcard books of Cleveland I picked up on a trip to Santa Barbara, CA last October. Detroit-Superior Bridge and viaduct View of the Cuyahoga River from the now-demolished viaduct: Looks just a little different now. Going to look a LOT different in the (hopefully) near future. Interesting tidbit - the Renaissance (Hotel Cleveland) is rendered incorrectly; the lightwells/setbacks are on the Superior side, not Public Square. We lost some gems in the Cuyahoga and Williamson buildings but we're getting some new ones (Beacon, Lumen). Sooo glad we ended up with the Terminal Tower. The next set is from the 50s-ish? The Lumen now stands in place of the low rise buildings on the left. Hanna fountains. Pre-Galleria. About the same view from 50ish floors up in Key Tower.

Hey now, I think the Justice Center committee made a good decision to disperse the jail facilities... oh wait ? I’m guessing whoever decided this is somehow aesthetically acceptable has no problem wearing “short sleeve dress shirts”, or their firm is lacking a Proper Gay, and it shows.

Meanwhile on the exterior...

Okay folks, I got some real dirt on the site. Literally. Dirt. ?

Maybe they’re repaving so the thousands of construction workers have a nice lot for their F150s? ?‍♂️?‍♀️

Technically not historic, but of a certain age ? Taken with my trusty Minolta 140EX film camera - downtown from Cliff Drive circa 2001:

Friendly reminder to NEVER post any kind of paywall workarounds for media resources. Years ago, this forum was given a cease and desist by the eight largest newspapers in Ohio because forumers were posting entire articles, we shut the whole place down for two weeks to scrub every thread to be compliant. If it weren't for those efforts, the forum wouldn't be here for your enjoyment.

You rang? ? From 2008:

^Been a regular there for most of those 20 years; need my Gomoku fix!!

So around 1995ish? We may have crossed paths in/near Taylor Hall - I wasn't in the architecture program but knew plenty who were, and I worked for the Daily Kent Stater for several years. Guess 2009 was my year for making mockups - Omaha's First National Tower on the Public Square site, Milwaukee's University Club tower adjacent to the Renaissance Hotel ballroom (Prospect and Superior) Louisville's Waterfront Place at West 6th and Superior. I should note proportions were NOT scientifically studied or rendered. ?

I've always liked the more 'structural expressionist' aesthetic that Sir Norman Foster follows. I just think the diagrid-pattern and other elements would work well in Cleveland (think the lift bridges, etc.). Anyway, the Bow in Calgary turned out really well - better than my attempt at these renders from 2009; I thought it would be a good fit for the Sherwin Williams tower site.

Beautiful day for a ride, out to the far west side for a socially distanced outdoor brunch with friends. When they have views like this from a location about 17 miles due west of Public Square, it adds a little to the experience ?

^I’m partial to Dannii Minogue’s version (disregard the cheesy video) but agreed.

Piling on the cranespotting.

I'll try to dig up some of my admittedly hasty and dreadful mockups from back in the day and add them here. Great idea for a thread! ?

Update of the Geis apartments from today.

Let me make this absolutely 100% crystal clear AF. If anyone ever hijacks one of my photo threads with off topic trash, they will have a year off. I am completely done with the bullsh!t, folks. We have threads for just about every current event topic, and we have a private messaging system. It ain’t rocket science - THINK before you post.

Today was the first day I went back to work in the office - I'm very fortunate to still be employed, and to have been able to work from home. A few things: Thank you to those who have been snapping and posting photos all this time. Please keep it up, I speak for a lot of forumers when I say it's very much appreciated. Finally seeing the boarded up windows in person was jarring, to say the least. Hopefully the issues that lead up to the damaged property get the attention and resolution they need. That more than anything will determine if Cleveland is able to move forward, with and for everyone. I don't know what the solutions are, but we can't keep going on with the way things have been. Windows will be repaired, but our fractured City needs to face up to a lot if we truly want to heal and continue growing I typically shoot with a DSLR, but it's a lot to lug around on a lunch break (or as has been lately a walk on the Towpath with our Pug). These are just some shots with a Canon SX620 point and shoot - not going for portfolio candidate pics, just grabbing some images in the moment. One silver lining, not that Cleveland ever had bad traffic, but my commute from Tremont to my office is less than ten minutes: The Goodyear Blimp doing a flyover of Northeast Ohio health care facilities - 2020 may not be a good year, but it's a great gesture: Forumer @Boaty McBoatface posted some visually great but disturbing images of the results of the May 30th rioting and looting so I didn't think I needed to rehash that. However, this spot was a bit of a gut punch - in 2016 during the Cavs championship parade, the base of the column was my perch to get a better elevated view. A young African American mom and her kids were on the sidewalk in front of me and I heard one of the kids say they couldn't see anything. I scooted over, said "come on up!" (okay, I did kindly ask the kids to not bump me ? ), they got to see everything, and all of us had the time of our lives. If you were there that day, you know what I mean - we were all there together and you couldn't help but feel the love. I hope we can get to that point again. Checked in on the Euclid Grand progress: Understandably Geigers has closed their store indefinitely - hopefully they'll be back. Again, windows can (and have already been) replaced. Stopped by an old (new) friend: And the oldest best friend of the bunch: Spectacular restoration of the May Company building: Biggest of the old friends: ❤️

A few things: 1. I was born and raised in your same general vicinity, outside of Youngstown. 2. I've been in Cleveland for about 25 years. If Youngstown had some areas like Ohio City, who knows where life would have taken me, but it is what it is. 3. THANK YOU for this thread - sometimes we take our "everyday" surroundings for granted because well, we see them every day. Threads like this help remind us of why we moved where we did, and what first drew us to them. 4. The Edgewater Park "best picture" - agreed, it's an amazing picture and kudos, but... 5. Until Lake Erie is at its typical summer temperature, along the lakefront can be 5-10 degrees cooler than even a mile inland. But still - it ain't February - you don't KNOW extremely cold until you've taken photos during that time of year (took my body three years to get back to 98.6!) ? 6. As ColDayMan said - yes, please post more!

Two skyline pics from today.

Views from today (Edgewater Park and the Shoreway):

View of the Towpath progress along University, and a substantial home being built at West 6th and University.

Electric Gardens from the Towpath, June 9th.

Took a nice relaxing walk on the Towpath (where else?) - the 'nice and relaxing' part didn't last long when we saw this. Turned out to be an accident/fire on the Innerbelt Bridge.

Actually I would welcome anyone who is moving into the newer buildings/recent redevelopments to share their experiences. I love our place in Tremont but in a few years, downsizing might be on the horizon so curious to see what's out there. And as mrclifton88 mentioned, if you need an amazing dentist (and staff), it doesn't get better than Dr. Rosenblitt on the first floor of your building (just don't bump me out of an appointment! ? )