Posted December 26, 201311 yr A few Christmas-time photos in Cleveland and Lakewood! One day there's no snow on the ground in Lakewood..... The next day there is..... Taking the Rapid downtown..... And spotted the first of the newly renovated Red Line cars on public display at Tower City station..... Pedestrians scurrying about in the snow on Euclid Avenue at Star Plaza at Playhouse Square..... Playhouse Square lights which stay up year-round.... Views from my office 1.... Views from my office 2.... View from my father's hospital room (sorry -- hard to hold the camera still).... Lakewood Gold Coast with a man clearing the freshly fallen snow..... Gold Coast high rise (The Meridian)..... I may use this rustic-looking scene along Lake Road for my future Christmas cards.... Hard to believe from this small sample that we're in Ohio's most densely populated municipality..... Can you see downtown Cleveland from Pier W?.... Easily a 50-foot cliff. Note the full-size tree and apartment buildings above it.... The Carlyle and a chilly lake..... Pre-war architecture (the apartment building is from before WWII, the wall from before WWI)..... On guard in Lakewood.... Sorry to say the snowman (above) didn't last this warm-up in the days before Christmas, and neither did some of these inflatable decorations on Winchester in Lakewood..... A classic dubplex with a great veranda on Ridgewood in Lakewood..... Not terribly Christmasy except for the evergreens, but I love the intimacy of urban settings like this alley off Clifton Prado in Lakewood..... Back downtown again, this time across Prospect from the Fifth Street Arcades..... And inside the Fifth Street Arcades.... On Christmas eve, the chances for a white Christmas were raised to 100% when this intense squall blew into Cleveland from Lake Erie, giving a few quick inches of snow and tying up transit traffic on Euclid..... And with that, I wish you all a merry Christmas and happy holidays from Cleveland.... "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
December 26, 201311 yr Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
December 28, 201311 yr Thanks for sharing, KJP. Thoughts and prayers to you and your family. Thank you. My father loved Cleveland and I'm pretty sure that's where I got my love for Cleveland. My Dad, James Prendergast, would have been a brilliant architect if he was able to muddle through the mathematical part of it. So he got his masters degree in English from Western Reserve University (before it merged with the Case Institute of Technology) and he then worked with Art Falco in the early years of saving Playhouse Square. My dad also was active with the Willoughby School of Fine Arts, as well as with the Western Reserve Historical Society. But he got to truly "sell" Cleveland when he became a realtor at HGM Hilltop Realty which later became Realty One. He was ill for a long time as he suffered from diabetes, but his brain was still pretty sharp right up to the end on Thursday, Dec. 26. I will always love and miss him, especially telling him about the latest and greatest developments coming to the fore in Cleveland. He always looked forward to hearing about those. Maybe I'll never stop telling him about those developments.... http://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=james-prendergast&pid=168774552&fhid=13560 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
January 2, 201411 yr Thanks for sharing, KJP. Thoughts and prayers to you and your family. Thank you. My father loved Cleveland and I'm pretty sure that's where I got my love for Cleveland. My Dad, James Prendergast, would have been a brilliant architect if he was able to muddle through the mathematical part of it. So he got his masters degree in English from Western Reserve University (before it merged with the Case Institute of Technology) and he then worked with Art Falco in the early years of saving Playhouse Square. My dad also was active with the Willoughby School of Fine Arts, as well as with the Western Reserve Historical Society. But he got to truly "sell" Cleveland when he became a realtor at HGM Hilltop Realty which later became Realty One. He was ill for a long time as he suffered from diabetes, but his brain was still pretty sharp right up to the end on Thursday, Dec. 26. I will always love and miss him, especially telling him about the latest and greatest developments coming to the fore in Cleveland. He always looked forward to hearing about those. Maybe I'll never stop telling him about those developments.... http://obits.cleveland.com/obituaries/cleveland/obituary.aspx?n=james-prendergast&pid=168774552&fhid=13560 KJP. I'm so so sorry for your loss.
January 3, 201411 yr Thanks guys. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
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