From 2 minutes in till the end is very interesting

 

 

 

The beginning is the good part. Mute it

 

 

 

wow!! the first video fire department drill is amazing.  I have wanted to see a cleveland video like these since that San Francisco video was posted here.

^ I know, and look at the buildings! I hope someone else can find more! Ill continue to hunt too

As interesting coincidence, I'm incorporating footage from the latter two videos into a short documentary I've been working on :)

Re: Cleveland 1960 or so....I'm very surprised to see that the water is blue!! I would have guessed the Lake Erie of this era would have instead looked just terribly bad.

 

Anyhow, it was most interesting to see the "Cedar Point" ferry spot. And the building next door looked like a very neat arcade. Reminded me of San Francisco.

 

p.s. was nice to see the vintage "Parma" flamingo at 5:21

The mills on the south side of the innerbelt bridge, good stuff.

Not as old

 

 

 

 

 

Very cool stuff

no one here remembers Euclid Beach when it was an amusement park unless you're really ancient (like me. It was still in operation when I was in elementary school). The Thriller was the big coaster. I was always too much of a wuss to go on it. Next to it was the Racing Coaster, with two trains of cars running on parallel tracks. I guess the point was to see which would finish first. I don't think there are too many old time amusement parks left anywhere :(

 

no one here remembers Euclid Beach when it was an amusement park unless you're really ancient (like me. It was still in operation when I was in elementary school). The Thriller was the big coaster. I was always too much of a wuss to go on it. Next to it was the Racing Coaster, with two trains of cars running on parallel tracks. I guess the point was to see which would finish first. I don't think there are too many old time amusement parks left anywhere :(

 

 

Euclid Beach was way before my time.  But I feel like Geauga Lake is my generation's Euclid Beach.

that's right, Geauga Lake was still there. When did that close?

My grandparents grew up in the 1950s in Collinwood with fond memories of Euclid Beach, I will show them this video.

that's right, Geauga Lake was still there. When did that close?

 

2007 or 2008

I lived less than a mile from Geauga Lake for 15 years. I'm 50 years old so my emotions about Geauga Lake closing are a tad bit strong.

I worked there one summer, two years after they shut down most of the park but were still operating the "WildWater Kingdom" waterpark. 2009 I think. It was depressing, a lot of the employees were still very salty about Cedar Fair.

Poor Geauga Lake. It still stings.

Geauga Lake's closing was when I first truly realized something was "wrong" with Cleveland's economy. I was a whopping 13 years old when it closed in 2007, and I'd spent a lot of time in and around Cleveland as a kid, but I just assumed that all cities were pretty much uniformly poor and sad. It probably said a lot about Detroit's economy too (and how the Rust Belt was already feeling the full brunt of the recession a couple of years before everyone else), since there are so many Michiganders who go to Cedar Point and losing that stream of customers was starting to cut into that park's bottom line, and Cedar Fair probably didn't like the cannibalizing effect the "theme park sprawl" that came with operating two Cleveland-area parks. I get that the park had gotten too big for the market, but I don't know if I can ever fully forgive them for the way they sprung the closure on the public.

From Sea World Ohio wiki page, I found the highlighted line interesting.

 

In 1966, Earl Gascoigne, marketing director at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, was impressed by the success of SeaWorld San Diego and eager to form a partnership with the parks founder George Millay. Gascoigne spoke with Millay about building a second park near the Ohio amusement park. Millay was uncomfortable with the location and sales agreement and declined to build there.[2] Two years later, Millay and his team were looking to expand their brand eastward. George Becker, vice president and general manager of SeaWorld Cleveland at the time, explained that the company was looking for a location between Detroit and Pittsburgh. The land spanning between the two cities was the largest and highest-paid blue collar population in the United States. Becker understood that there were large, strong, families in this area that believed in doing things with their kids.

I worked there one summer, two years after they shut down most of the park but were still operating the "WildWater Kingdom" waterpark. 2009 I think. It was depressing, a lot of the employees were still very salty about Cedar Fair.

 

I’ll always reserve a bit of hate for cedar fair. Bastards.

A lot of this could be anywhere, but shots of University Circle are interesting. Severance Hall was fairly new at this point. Last section, in color, have no idea.