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E Rocc: That first website is great; I don't believe I have seen it before and will now be using it. I think connecting this situation with the Federation and the CJN are probably the best bets for getting information and/or something being done about it - one way or another. Thanks. Of course, I was hoping someone HERE might know something....

We hadn't visited the mural at Kinsman Road and East 116th Street for a while, but this week we got to that intersection and found the mural's references to the Jewish community of Mt. Pleasant, which was a good share of the neighborhood from the early 1920s into the 1960s, are gone! It looks like a sizable piece of the mural - at the top left - is gone; I'm wondering if that is where the Jewish references were. Did that piece of the mural get damaged and will it be replaced? Were the large X-shaped stripes specifically to obliterate the Jewish references? Were the Jewish references painted over? Is the entire mural repainted, with a different design? What is the story? We are not happy to find any references to the multi-decade Kinsman Jewish community now missing. Please explain what happened? Thanks!

All that graft that the Breuer Tower savers were surmising about came out to be true! Plenty in PD today, alone. When I came in '73 I was one year from my Art History M.A. degree and I really liked this sort of constructon and aesthetics - the grays and the waffle design. The stunning Vasarely work always displayed in the public lobby area, seen when first walked into the building, helped add cache, too. Wonder where the heck it is now!

I'm seeing the cleaning of the tower now and glad to see a considerable change in the window area. When I moved here in 1973 the building became my favorite modern building downtown. I hadn't noticed over the years how filthy the exterior had become, but apparently this light gray was the color I had originally seen which was part of what I appreciated about the structure. Now I'm anxious to see how different the granite portion will become. I suppose Cleveland Trust kept up the exterior maintenance for many years but it sure came to and end a while back.

Wish developer would rebuilt small tower that used to grace Schofield Building. But I don't expect it. I was waiting for something to be done with that modern cornice cornice but didn't notice this in my limited trips to view the building. Thanks.

Okay - I'll have to look up to the cornice area again. I had been waiting for that modern material to be removed. Sure wish the corner tower ornament would be rebuilt but I suppose that's too much to expect this developer to find worthwhile.

How about that project around Chester Avenue and East 101st Street? Any hopes groundbreaking will be this year? Also, why is there not any sign of construction for CIA? Having a groundbreaking (was it back in June?) and seeing absolutely nothing going on for months is kinds obnoxious.

I read that construction had resumed on the planned hotel in the Schofield Building but it always looks about the same to me. Is there really something going on daily?

No - I can't picture a Trader Joe's, or any other grocery stor, where people want to buy in bulk, doing well without a parking lot right by the door. :?

Cleaning - Great!

My usual question: Now that the basic infrastructure replacement is nearly completed on Superior Avenue in the AsiaTown corridor, and I see some sidewalk work is going on on Payne Avenue, is the big AsiaTown streetscape plan going to continue on after this? The work that has been done so far looks very ordinary - simple replacement with very similar design.

Are you positive those latest townhouses in the complex are the final colors? I find that hard to believe!

I hope not. I could imagine living there myself some day - possibly. Right next to WRHS, across the street from CIM, just down the street from CMA; near HealthLine, Constantino's, etc., etc. - sounds almost like Utopia. At least shades of Upper East Side in NYC....

Many wonderful buildings but not quite up to the 1920s types I refer to, as the top. For Cleveland Heights I suppose the complex called "Owners Apartments" was about tops in 1923 in that suburb. Yes, bldg. on N. Park very good, etc., but still not quite as high as some buildings constructed in the three areas I mentioned.

Yes, thanks. I wanted to see if te original windows had muntins - perhaps six over one, but one can't tell. I wouldn't say this was a real luxury apartment complex, like Upper East Side in Manhattan in the '20s for example, but it was pretty good. The "best" ones in 1923 were being built around Shaker Square, Lake/Edgewater, and Unversity Circle.

"Search" button isn't working here.... Can anyone find that old photo of the Erie Square apartment complex someone posted here earlier this year? I know the buildings had different names, too, but there is a ca. 1920s photo here somewhere. Thanks.

Actually, PD's Road Rant guy has now responded and said he just hasn't had time to see the signs yet (though they're just as I said, of course). :-D

Really wish City would replace the "Parklane" signs on Park Lane with sings with the correct spelling.... I had written to a city department and then the PD's Road Rant guy about this but so far no go. The street was named after Park Lane in London - a very elegant thoroughfare connecting two districts lined with famous hotels and other monuments, as well as parkland - and I'd really like to see at least the correct spelling on our signs (where they would match the correctly spelled "Park Lane Villa" signs). Does anyone here have clout to get this done? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Lane,_London

Yes, old name! I walked around it the other day - it was a classy building.

An individual around last summer was convinced those two "schlock" clothing stores - Dario and Manhattan - would be closing soon. I asked why, as I hadn't seen any definite signs. Anyway, they're still going and I don't see any reason they will no continue on. They really are not what I was hoping for in TC and I doubt if they are attracting the Casino people much. And the latest one isn't much of help to the TC image, either. Nor the leather shop reincarnated. Wonder what happened to the idea there would be new outlets stores of the Aurora Premium Outlets type. Nary a single one, so far.

Those "flying machines" were not up at least by last year. I figured they were expensive to run and probably, after being up ever since 1990, they were no longer in good working condition or were getting shabby.

It's time to go back to the old name, if they haven't already on the sign. I noted how close the building is to the VA complex.

I was afraid the '20s Hotel Sovereign at E. 105th and East Boulevarad was surely a goner, but now I see it's being resucitated as a renovation/restoration project. That's great! I just passed it quickly; is that the VA Hospital behind this job? What will it be used for? I started looking it up on the web but it isn't easy. With the enormous amount of demolition which has taken place in the University Circle vicinity over the past 50 years, all five of the luxury apartment hotels of the '20s have survived. Quite amazing, really. Two still evoke luxury and sophistation.

Victory Building has undergone various renovations. I recall in the late '70s it was turned into the Arts Building; we went to an open house of artists' studios and I purchased a ceramic mug. Was constructed originally as an auto showroom and repair shop, like many others along Euclid and around Prospect, Carnegie, and Chester.

Here's the new website: http://emperorspalacecle.webs.com/ As you can see, the prices are not particularly high. Huge menu, if they really have most of this. Impressive on the exterior, anyway - looks more upscale than prices would indicate. Meanwhile, I had read on really upscale restaurant was expected in the row - does anyone know if the plan is materializing or was this just a concept to have all these different types of restaurants that had been mentioned (no two exactly the same type)?