Barneyboy

These vintage ads blew me away. Especially the Flats Cat t-shirt design. I drew that (crappy) picture for Daffy Dan over 30 years ago back when the Flats were jumpin'. I had forgotten all about it, but I recognize my work no matter old or crude it is.

And underneath it all was this. BTW, the architects were Warren & Wetmore, (Grand Central Station).

Here....I found one!

I noticed that they used this photo I took back in'82. They must've pulled it off of UO, since it's the only place I ever posted it.

Viewing these high res panoramas from Shorpy's is like stepping back in time. Terrific!

Other high density cities with few (if any) surface lots have been able to find a way to provide ample parking for their patrons. How'd they do it? It ain't rocket science kids!

I thought that was all parking garage.

If I correctly recall, when the hotel was initially built, the adhesive used for attaching the "brick facade" was an inferior DuPont product which required a complete re-do and a huge lawsuit.

I once owned a house on E. Fairfax before I moved to Shaker Hts. I just loved the neighborhood feel. I always downed a pint at the Charles Stewart Parnell before the movie next door. I've since moved to Houston and although there are some interesting neighborhoods in this city, NOTHING here compares to Cleveland Hts.

Look for a plaque at the base of that building and you'll see that is was awarded in 1937 (I think) as the best commercial structure of that year.

Since my post of Cleveland in the '80s was recently resurrected, I promised to post a few more images. This time from the 1970s, the age of $1 Beer Nite at the Stadium, WIXY 1260 and unimpeded bowling balls rolling down Euclid Ave. Included among the images of downtown are some hotel brochures. They were both built and owned by Jim Carney and were equally tacky (I particularly love the crushed velvet furniture in the Presidential Suite). There's also pictures from a Plain Dealer from 1957 illustrating the evolution of structures occupying the area of what is now the Quicken Loans Arena. Enjoy.

Thanks for the positive comments. i've since moved to Houston, but I still have more photos that I haven't posted, but most of those are of parts of town that really haven't changed much if at all. Which is why these pix are of interest.

i've been to enough union-run convention centers to experience the demand that nothing, not even installing an extension cord can be done by yourself, then they charge an arm and leg to do it.

The reference library at Cooper School of Art. When the school went out of business in '81-'82, a bunch of us helped ourselves to it. Nobody seemed to want this brochure however, so I snagged it.

Great thread, a very well preserved town. My GrandDad grew up there and graduated from their High School exactly 100 years ago!

The mentality of these ROWM is like Christopher Lloyd in Roger Rabbit ...."automobile dealerships, tire salons, restaurants that serve rapidly prepared food.....my god..... it'll be beautiful!

What miserable?? :?

That's because so much of it isn't there anymore, such as the Denison Theater (which, if you look carefully is in the building with the White Dove mural.

These are some oldies from the early 60's from an old Foster Kleiser (billboards) brochure.

Since the city extended E.17th St. through the block from Euclid to Prospect, I imagined this to be a natural thoroughfare for future residential/retail development. Look at E.4th St. if you want to know if that sort of thing might work!

Very nice shots. Something I noticed over the last few years was that The Wade Park Ave. Bridge's winding staircase was closed off due to deterioration and rather than repairing a rarely used but beautiful feature, they simply removed it. Pity.

I posted a photoshopped image of the Weideman building in another thread and was asked to post more. I've always been intrigued by the idea of viewing proposed yet unbuilt buildings in the context of the present day. This would have been a 30 story apartment building in front of the Masonic Auditorium at E. 36th & Euclid Ave. The other would have been the Cleveland Life Insurance Company on Euclid Ave. just east of 30th St.

BTW, excellent thread! Two things have to happen before this area can come back. First, greater awareness of its existence (things like this thread would help), secondly, get rid of the gang elements. Crime will always occur, but gangs are a festering cancer on a neighborhood.

Given the fact that Prospect prostitution has been eradicated, and a momentum has been started to encourage more student housing for CSU, it seems to me that Prospect would be an idea college row, with a mix of businesses, support retail, in-fill housing on both sides of the inner belt.

I remember 25 or so years ago driving down Prospect on a weekend night around places like the Sterling or Grand Hotels and seeing crowds of ladies hooting and hollering at passing cars (sometimes standing in the middle of the street!). *sigh*