Vulpster03

Consider getting a winter jacket for your car.

Paris ist schlect. Berlin macht mir spass.

I didn't realize it was openning so soon. maybe time just flies.

What happened to Cleveland Town Topics?! If you don't know what Cleveland Town Topics was, here is an article posted in the Encyclopedia of Cleveland History: CLEVELAND TOWN TOPICS was the "Bible" of Cleveland's social and cultural sets for over 40 years. Billed as "A Weekly Review of Society, Art, and Literature," it was founded on 17 Dec. 1887 by Felix Rosenberg, who served as editor, and Thomas J. Rose, who became business manager. Its magazine format organized coverage into regular departments in lieu of feature articles. A lively lead column of gossip and commentary appeared under the heading "Talk of the Town," later renamed "The Lounger." Following the departures of Rose and then Rosenberg, Norman C. McLoud and C. H. Wright appeared as short-lived editors, the former also as proprietor. The publication's address moved from the Arcade and Vincent St. to the Garfield Bldg., before finally settling in the CAXTON BUILDING There it came under the proprietorship of CHAS. S. BRITTON†, who published it for the next quarter-century. Although not overly political, Town Topics served its elite readership with a moderate dose of Republicanism. It was an early automobile enthusiast, giving the horseless carriage regular coverage as early as 1901. During the next few years, automobile ads pumped its annual Automobile Show issues to more than 50 pages. Circulation, however, was never more than a few thousand. On 7 Dec. 1929, Britton announced its merger into the BYSTANDER, a newer rival that thereafter would be printed in his plant. Apparently the marriage did not succeed, because a year later former staffers announced the "return of a conservative family journal" under the name Cleveland Town Tidings. Appearing on 28 Mar. 1931, the weekly later formed an affiliation with the FEDERATION OF WOMEN'S CLUBS OF GREATER CLEVELAND in an effort to acquire a circulation base. After a 6-week suspension in the summer of 1932, Town Tidings returned in a newspaper format on 17 Sept. and apparently expired after 19 Nov. 1932. http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=CTT So, it was apparently merged with the Bystander, and here is the article on the Bystander: The BYSTANDER began publication as the Country Club News, probably ca. Jan. 1921. Strictly social in orientation, the monthly magazine seems to have been run largely by the efforts of female volunteers, among them GRACE GOULDER-IZANT†. It became the Town & Country Club News in Dec. 1926, with Chas. T. Henderson as editor. Shortly thereafter it was incorporated as the Town Publishing Co. by Warren C. Platt and moved to the Penton Bldg. on W. 3rd St. Conversion into a weekly on 21 Apr. 1928 put Town & Country Club News in a position to rival the cultural coverage of the older CLEVELAND TOWN TOPICS. Renamed the Bystander in Aug. 1928, it began running feature articles on subjects ranging from the Goodyear Blimp to PETER WITT†. It absorbed its rival on 14 Dec. 1929, when it appeared as the Bystander Combined with Cleveland Town Topics, appropriating even the volume numbers of the older publication. Despite the benefits of the merger, the ensuing Depression eventually ate into the Bystander's gains. "Cleveland's Pictorial News Magazine," as it billed itself in 1933, was less than half its pre-Depression size, and its price had been cut correspondingly from $.15 to $.10. Published on a biweekly schedule during the summer of 1933, it reverted to a monthly the following February and made its final appearance in Apr. 1934. http://ech.case.edu/ech-cgi/article.pl?id=B27 I first heard about this paper in the exhibit on Euclid Avenue at the Western Reserve Historical Socity. Based on what I remember and the articles in the Encyclopedia it seems a lot like The New Yorker.

I really don't feel like doing this overdue paper tonight. So I'm playing with pictures instead. Here are some reccent ones of me:

believe me, I don't.

okay, I don't know about illegal immigration. but Ohio definately needs immigration. Cities with a lot of immigrants are ones that do really well economically. Plus, you consider what immigration did for Cleveland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Everything went downhill when immigration declined.

just kidding

Why would they open a marine fuel station in the Detroit-Superior Lofts development?

Wine's first duty is to be red. Its second duty is to be dry; not sweet. I'm sorry, but I don't care for Ohio wines.

Don't be so humble and make excuses for them.

Well if Cleveland has been behind in the general developments thread, I think its because we have less "random developments" and more "significant" developments deserving their own thread.

Where is that Forest City representative, clvlndr? He has been missing from this thread ever since I responded to his August 3rd rant.

What bearing does the medical mart and/or legalized gambling on the location of the convention center if any?

No I don't think its open yet. Too bad Filene's isn't downtown. It would be the perfect addition to Euclid in my opinion.

I saw this on Wikipedia and found it interesting: "The Plain Dealer is the major daily newspaper of Cleveland, Ohio. It also has the largest circulation of any Ohio newspaper, and is a top 20 newspaper for circulation in the United States.[1] The Plain Dealer currently boasts more than 820,000 readers on weekdays and 1 million readers on Sunday.[2] The Plain Dealer's media market, Greater Cleveland, is ranked #1 in the country for Sunday newspaper readership percentage (75.4% of total adults) and #2 in daily newspaper readership percentage (62.6% of total adults), second only to New York City in the weekday editions.[3]"

I read your sidenote Mayday, and I watched some clips on youtube. I think I understand now.

I don't know who that is, but I'll take it as a compliment

I fely very bad about not standing up in that instance, however they weren't sitting very close to me. Believe me though, I'm a huge grass roots promoter of Cleveland on various internet forums, and with my peers in bars and at parties.

I encountered a similar situation on the Rapid over the summer. A very cynical woman was talking to a few visitors she met on the rapid. She was explaining, rather loudly to these people that the flats on the right were dead. People get stabbed and thrown into the river, and the Stonebridge apartments were new, but "no one lives in them". I was so embarrassed.

cigarette smoking isn't linked to unemployment and domestic abuse either.

People do die everyday, rather tragically, from drunk driving. People on the road don't choose whether to encounter drunk drivers. When you go into a bar you choose to encounter smokers.

I absoulutely agree. Taxing alcohol makes a lot more sense, and I thought of that as a better sin tax than tobacco. Tobacco unfairly narrows the population burdened with generating revenue. Raising the taxes won't make people stop smoking. They are addicted and this just takes advantage of their addiction. I don't buy the argument that this about getting people to quit smoking. It is about raising tax revenue, which isn't a bad thing in itself, but smokers are an easy target. This is extremely discirminatory. I honestly find this policy as abhorent as requiring minorties to pay a special property tax on their homes on the grounds that they are a greater cost to the majority.

okay, the store concept aside. is it not better that we see a denim store rather than a porn shop? nothing against porn or people who like porn, but denim is an upgrade for the neighborhood.

you sound like our parents