Etheostoma Caeruleum

How DARE we question or expect better from the best transit system in North America!!! Seriously, yes.....this is a pathetic scenario sure to alienate any respectful and loyal paying rider. (although he wasn't paying...but with the claim of it being a "mistake") This guy, seemingly sincere about not, not paying on purpose.... gets grilled and the daily litterers, loud noise makers, and loiterers are allowed to hang out and use the transit system as a means to conduct the transportation needed for their probable drug business. What a joke.

And another.... Sorry, I went to post the other photo... Tried in the same post above, and then below, but both attempts and this forum will not allow me to post the window photo because it is saying the file is too large..Max 200 KB. It is 320 KB but I cannot make it any smaller. Sorry. :?

Here is another window completed.... Also, we are working on placing the "Goddess Of Speed" Statue in a Halle's window by sometime in November...and a 14 by 20 foot mosaic Mona Lisa in Halle's as well. The photo below will be a gold mosaic one installed there. Perhaps a couple more will show up around downtown. This is a large replica of the hood ornament of the classic Packard automobile. The national museum is out east in Warren. It was one of the nation and region's first automobiles. Apparently Jay Leno bought one of these for $6,000.

Looks open and airy..not closed up and gloomy.

And until the salaries are capped teams like Cleveland will only compete occasionally... Indeed, MLB is a joke not worth supporting.

Looks as though many houses were removed. The remaining homes are actually not bad at all. The area has lots of room for residential infill. I was thinking the same in that Newton could become the new Hessler. Hopefully the clinic will not decide to build more parking lots on the vacant spaces.. I see a mix of residential and a few community gardens for providing fresh local food...hence fostering a real community.

Let's be realistic. They will not win...and we should not be getting down o them because this growing process will take a while. However, how many times have we witnessed little to no-name qb's come in and look like all-stars against the Browns?

Exactly the kind of little streets that are such little gems. Great addition, MH!

Leaving the Bodies exhibit space, long before Bodies came....looking like it did so undermined the good stuff around there. Just one big eye sore..and unless something is planned for a future fit... Goodness forbid another restaurant....I predict it will be allowed to look like crap again. The Bodies windows looked like crap in my opinion...better, but dark and desolate at night, not even a subtly lighting of the murals for a few hours per night. Also, that other storefront where it looks like the facade was ripped off next door, does not need to look like that... a simple wash and dark paint would do wonders in the meanwhile while it is empty. Again, more simplistic basics not getting done right. I am sure many will make the typical excuses for this, but personally as a former property owner who was not ripped with funds, would have never left a place looking like that for this long. Washing a window does wonders too! Baby steps that go a long way and need to be achieved before the grandiose...otherwise we have a grandiose flop.

When in the end zone...act like you've been there before T.O. Sorry, but guys like this are classless.

^ Good points....And in somewhat contrast to my first post....I also think that by having more shorts and fewer talls, the Cleveland skyline has its own kind of personality in that you can distinctively tell the buildings apart...(the "less is more" effect)as opposed to the kind of density that is so cluttered that you cannot tell one structure from another. Also, a 400 plus foot tower standing with less clutter appears much taller than it really is. The towers look more like monuments. Glad you also pointed out the limestone factor in Chicago. Another point... I would take a lot of shorts to fill in the seas of surface pavement near the square and in the "Parking Lot District" any day over the choice of getting more high towers. At street level, even low structures as long as its dense, offers a "bigger" feel of the city scape.

If I worked in such a place, I would want to be able to see the outside world instead of being cooped up all day behind a fog of snowed windows. ^^^ And yes, I also thought the houses thing could have been a neat thing if made to be seen.

I believe Chicago, geologically speaking, sits over the top of that solid limestone base that starts near western Ohio and moves further west... Something like that. But for now, I would be happy to see the lots filled with something ample and dense.... Just maybe at least Erieview height. ^^^ Yes, and weren't they dug by hand?

So many buildings in Cleveland are so similar in height. I wish we'd get a couple to pass up the 400 plus feet range, in the spirit of adding a little more distinction.

Please get the lights working on the clock tower.

I knew it was just a matter of time before the race card was pulled. Its time he looks in the mirror and blames no one else but himself. Its very simple minded and "prejudiced" to deal that card.

I wonder if when they were taking all those public input suggestions...if here locally, they actually heeded to the advice of doing very simple things to upgrade the appearance of the station we have to live with for now.

And by this ideology...many are not in the hall that should have been a long time ago.

Although a very small example and not big homes.. Burton, farther east side (Cleveland) has done this with a small century village.

If the Cleveland service was even at 11:00 PM that would make a huge difference for me, at least. 3:00 AM... Oh dear!

Nice little place.. Sandy Creek running through it has yielded some of the largest darters I have ever seen.

The clock is so obvious. The lights out for years have made it a ghost at night.

Better yet...regular market rate living space.

Just a lot of tail kissing to material that should not even be in there in the first place. The selection process was explained to me once in a lengthy email and it was all double talk. I didn't buy it. It was more a rationale to kiss ass to someone who wants to bully their way to the front of the line. That's how I saw/interpreted it.

^^ Spot on.