Posted July 31, 200618 yr helloooo cleveland!! :banger: heading in -- hello w117th and clifton we stayed at the hyatt at the arcade one night for fun -- highly rec'd! :clap: the e4th strip is right across the street from the arcade pimp c pimps out prospect smoov mister alberts rulez for-evah i love the landscaping by the roof :wink2: atmospheric alleys the sharp colonial arcade, note the swerve in there :laugh: nice detailing post-tribe game we went to pickwick & frolic restaurant for a nightcap -- some e4th at night the arcade after hours the view from our hyatt arcade hotel room a few more along e9th st on the drive out bye bye bye rockside road's suburban style nonsense cuyahoga valley -- ya gorgeous! :clap: ohio turnpike in the valley -- tha getaway :mrgreen:
July 31, 200618 yr Nice photos again...it's amazing to see how downtown has changed from even the 1985 photos put up here on another thread. It may be slow work, but every year downtown is looking more majestic. The E. 4th transformation is unbelievable...I've gotta go there next time I'm downtown.
July 31, 200618 yr I like the attempt to hide a parking garage in the 7th or 8th photo down.....nice job indeed.
July 31, 200618 yr How did you like the Hyatt? I hear its the most unique Hyatt in the chain as almost everyroom in the building is slightly different. Even if you are in 204, rooms 304, 404, etc... might be different. In regards to Mr. Alberts....i can remember when that was a sleazy bookstore back in the day and Nick's was Dominoes....ah the good old sleazy grimy days of downtown Cleveland. sigh...
July 31, 200618 yr ^ mts i liked the hyatt a lot. i was very interested to stay there a night just to check it out. formerly offices and shops, the rooms seem on the small side, but are otherwise fine. i can imagine they all have differences on the inside despite the landmarked uniformity of public view on the outside. there is a fitness area and the 1890 restaurant/lounge makes an excellent and seemingly popular high-end breakfast/brunch. fyi i got the room for 100 bucks online. info: http://cleveland.hyatt.com/hyatt/hotels/ I like the attempt to hide a parking garage in the 7th or 8th photo down.....nice job indeed. yeah i am fascinated by that garage too, it came out to be very cool looking. supposedly they will build a residential tower on top of it someday soon. clevo needs more interesting and unique looking modern stuff just like that to fill in the holes downtown.
July 31, 200618 yr Great photos, mrnyc! The arcade with the swerve is actually the Euclid Arcade. The Colonial Arcade is the two-level arcade to the east. "Nick's was Dominoes....ah the good old sleazy grimy days of downtown Cleveland. sigh..." Ahem... that would be The Domino Lounge, and yes - I set foot in there once or twice. For some reason, that gave me a lot of street cred with "my people" :? :-D clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
July 31, 200618 yr ^ woah nice catch mayday, i always mix those two arcades up! my hangouts around there in the old days were the "old" rathskeller and otto mosers. i loved both of those, esp the 'skeller.
August 1, 200618 yr Hey, mrnyc, keep your eyes on the road! The life you save may be mine! Kidding aside, nice post. As usual, Cleveland looks quite majestic, architecture-wise, but the desolation of our downtown -- reflected again and again in these photo essays -- is depressing.
August 1, 200618 yr ^never fear, spouse was at the wheel while i rubbernecked! however to your bigger point, i must admit the desolate gaps are off putting, esp at night. for example, after the game i wanted to go to sushi rock in the warehouse nabe. as we walked my spouse said, "unh oh i just remembered the midwest, how far away is this place? we are going to hit a ghost town in another block." sure enough when we walked past the lebron billboard and got to public square the post-game crowd had thinned out to just us, a very darkened street ominously blocked off by the euc ave brt construction and some shakey characters. so i said ok forget it and peeled us back along euclid to e4th and to pickwick & frolic instead. a pity the post-game choice was made in that way. this is a good example of why investment in downtown residential is so vitally important. isolated nightlife nodes are a good start, but not the answer. otoh, more people who live and work around them and around downtown would be the cure. for now better street lighting would not hurt either.
August 1, 200618 yr Great post MrNYC! I agree with you on the street lighting. There are some spots Downtown that are just dark as all hell when the sun goes down! That's one of the reasons why my friends and I wanted to do the Storefront Cleveland thing...if the City wasn't going to spend money on street lights, the least we could do was get the storefronts lit up! You captured our companion's project (Exhibit Cleveland) near the top of your thread, under the "Corts" sign. They've since expanded to the May Company and 1010 Euclid, next to the Cleveland Trust Rotunda, two spots that were desperately in need of activity. Your pics of the Hyatt at the Arcade made me want to drop a Benjamin and take my lady there for a night!
August 1, 200618 yr Hey, mrnyc, keep your eyes on the road! The life you save may be mine! Kidding aside, nice post. As usual, Cleveland looks quite majestic, architecture-wise, but the desolation of our downtown -- reflected again and again in these photo essays -- is depressing.
August 2, 200618 yr I see from this picture.... ....that you were less than three blocks from my condo. Next time you're in the neighborhood, drop me a note by e-mail or pm and we can get a cup of coffee, bite to eat or whatever. What brought you to my neighborhood anyway? A stay at the Days Inn (across the street from me) or with family in Lakewood? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 2, 200618 yr What may I ask is that ridiculously cool building of glass, the 8th picture down??
August 2, 200618 yr That's 515 Euclid Avenue. It's a parking garage with retail spaces on the ground floor. There is a thread about it at: http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=3198.msg3878#msg3878 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 2, 200618 yr I see from this picture.... ....that you were less than three blocks from my condo. Next time you're in the neighborhood, drop me a note by e-mail or pm and we can get a cup of coffee, bite to eat or whatever. What brought you to my neighborhood anyway? A stay at the Days Inn (across the street from me) or with family in Lakewood? none of the above. we drove in to stay the hyatt from my mom's house in lorain. my bro worked in that tall silver office building on detroit in "downtown" lakewood for years & i used to hang out around there a lot back in the days (hennesseys/alterhouse, phantasy, detroiter, etc) & i even lived there one summer myself so i am quite familiar with the nabe. i'll let you know next visit when i'll have more time. btw any new news on that iconic building in the pic?
August 2, 200618 yr Unfortunately, no news. I'm always surprised at how many people drive into Cleveland from Lorain County on Lake/Clifton just to enjoy the more scenic drive (as compared to I-90). I hope that's a good sign for the proposed Lorain - Cleveland regional rail service! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 2, 200618 yr ^it's much, much more convenient than the highway or detroit road, esp if you live along the lakefront or close to it. here's another thing along those lines that will surprise you: despite lorain catholic being open at the time, i had several neighborhood peers that commuted to st. ignatius high school in ohio city, so go figure!
August 2, 200618 yr here's another thing along those lines that will surprise you: despite lorain catholic being open at the time, i had several neighborhood peers that commuted to st. ignatius high school in ohio city, so go figure! Simply put, its a great high school that creates some great urban ohioans! ;)
August 2, 200618 yr Great photos, mrnyc! The arcade with the swerve is actually the Euclid Arcade. The Colonial Arcade is the two-level arcade to the east. "Nick's was Dominoes....ah the good old sleazy grimy days of downtown Cleveland. sigh..." Ahem... that would be The Domino Lounge, and yes - I set foot in there once or twice. For some reason, that gave me a lot of street cred with "my people" :? :-D LMAO! Mayday...you never cease to amuse me! You're correct the proper name is 'the domino lounge", but most people referred to it as "dominoes". You probably would have like Club Petraka, the original u4ria or ISIS and TRAXX cause you seem to have some flava.
August 2, 200618 yr mts, you are giving me flashbacks. i went to u4ria/grid, traxx/nine of clubs and the excaliber (aka the 'scaliber) both east (in cle) & west (in lorain) all the time. hard to believe today, but the infamous traxx/9 was thee only thing going on in the warehouse nabe at night in those days! :mrgreen: :laugh:
August 3, 200618 yr mts, you are giving me flashbacks. i went to u4ria/grid, traxx/nine of clubs and the excaliber (aka the 'scaliber) both east (in cle) & west (in lorain) all the time. hard to believe today, but the infamous traxx/9 was thee only thing going on in the warehouse nabe at night in those days! :mrgreen: :laugh: actually....the u4ria/grid you're speaking of is in downtown. The original u4ria was on the lakewood/cleveland border near 117 st., Traxx before it went "hetero" was actually exclusively gay. I used to love Chaps (Chapter 2), Keys, Mr. Henry's, Porky's, the Flare, the flame, Numbers. God we had such a good downtown gay scene. oh and what was the name of that bar on 17/chester?? it was good afterwork and young...but I was always afraid to go into the Leather Stallion Salon...that place will last forever. I think that place is/or one of the oldest leather bar in the states.
August 3, 200618 yr "Simply put, its a great high school that creates some great urban ohioans!" It also creates some great boyfriends too! Gooo St. Ig!!!! :-D Where was Isis located? I was there once but I vaguely remember the place. I most certainly went to the old U4ia on Berea Road (god help ya if you couldn't park in their garage or lot!). It was always Smart Bar on Friday night, U4ia on Saturday night, and Metropolis on Sunday night. How on god's green earth I'd get up on Monday and work for 10 hours is beyond me! If you ever saw someone wearing candyapple red 8" clomper platforms with the occasional red feather boa... well, I uhhh might know that person ;-) clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
August 3, 200618 yr mts i meant the berea rd u4ria, but the later grid spot too. most people do not know or might be surprised, but traxx was very very famous in the disco world days. it remained pretty popular in my day when it went more hetero and then changed into the 9, an 80's alternative music dance club, but i always heard that was nothing like the older days. i saw this in soho one day & could not resist the shot, so now i can finally use it :-D
August 3, 200618 yr mts i meant the berea rd u4ria, but the later grid spot too. most people do not know or might be surprised, but traxx was very very famous in the disco world days. it remained pretty popular in my day when it went more hetero and then changed into the 9, an 80's alternative music dance club, but i always heard that was nothing like the older days. i saw this in soho one day & could not resist the shot, so now i can finally use it :-D Oh Ok cool.....I loved private skyboxes at U4RIA. Yes. Cleveland's Traxx is LEGENDARY. People I know in NYC talk about our traxx as one hell of a club, it was the model for the Roxy. You might be too young, but do you remember Club World (or the world, I can't remember is proper name) which was the model for NYC's Club USA. That place was DA SHIT!! and Cleveland'S Chapter Two (AKA Chaps) was modeled after NYCs Garage. That also was one hell of a club. I remember seeing Grace Jones, Bette Midler, Patti LaBelle and Divine it was the celebrity entertainer "fag hag" circuit bar...RuPaul before he became fabulous I remember in the early days of MTV all the drag queens who are now big in NYC would fly into Cleveland to party at the clubs in for the weekend. Nina Blackwood hosted a weekly party at Traxx. Dance Party Cleveland (aka club mtv) would have lines for days waiting for people to get in. When I was at Ohio St., my boys and I would drive up to Cleveland (from god awful Columbus) to party every weekend. Then the WHD got all "sanitized" and turned into a neighborhood and the real club scene in cleveland was reduce to aqualon and a few other lesser know places. The gay (particulary black/latin clubs) in downtown left and never reopened. I'm glad I had the opportunity to party down in Cleveland when the "gettin' was good" ahh.....Memories................ BTW...I'm living for Ms. Thang in her silver halter top!!!
August 3, 200618 yr ^ now thassswhudimtalkinbout mts! i dk chaps (yikes), but yes i remember club world even tho it i never went -- i think it was before my time and yes of course i remember dance party cleveland at traxx. hell to the yes. i am surprised you never went to excaliber, but then that was hetero r&b so i guess i answered my own question. too bad gentrification always seems to mean whitewashing. there has got to be a better way. ah well, the newer clubs will find a way elsewhere if not in the whd, that's the creative part that never ever fails. :mrgreen: you know the disco diva never dies! :laugh:
August 3, 200618 yr ^ now thassswhudimtalkinbout mts! i dk chaps (yikes), but yes i remember club world even tho it i never went -- i think it was before my time and yes of course i remember dance party cleveland at traxx. hell to the yes. i am surprised you never went to excaliber, but then that was hetero r&b so i guess i answered my own question. too bad gentrification always seems to mean whitewashing. there has got to be a better way. ah well, the newer clubs will find a way elsewhere if not in the whd, that's the creative part that never ever fails. :mrgreen: you know the disco diva never dies! :laugh: I've been to excaliber and all the other "breeder bars" LOL but shhhhhhhhh.....don't tell anybody! LOL :wink: I don't want the kids to revolk my gay card! lol
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