Posted August 15, 200717 yr The industrial design thread got me thinking about the importance of design. At my job, I read a lot of design magazines, and now I'm a little obsessed with all of the design blogs out there -- products, decorating, building, gardening, cities, businesses, showrooms. So, I was wondering, in your opinion, where have you been in Northeast Ohio and just thought: Wow, that just knocks me out! I'll start. The first time I walked by Lola on E. 4th at night, I thought I had been transported to another city through a wormhole or something. The street presence of that place is amazing, and I still haven't been inside. The glowing bar, modern glassiness, the allowing of the cute hostess to wear black Converse All-Stars. It was like creative chaos. Things were different on purpose. Second, I think the Banyan Tree in Tremont has the best storefront in the whole city. It shouts creative commerce, which I love, and I'm not even the target consumer. However, I always know when I go in that store I'm going to find something my mom and sister will love.
August 15, 200717 yr At my job, I read a lot of design magazines, and now I'm a little obsessed with all of the design blogs out there -- products, decorating, building, gardening, cities, businesses, showrooms. Are my people, converting one?? :? LOL just kidding!
August 15, 200717 yr The first time I walked into the old Aquilon on Old River Road in the Flats. I was totally floored. Never scene anything like up to that point in my life. I found out later it was designed by I.M.Pei's office. It made a huge impression on me on how the inside of building can work. I loved it so much I worked there for five years... and got married there, too.
August 15, 200717 yr The industrial design thread got me thinking about the importance of design. At my job, I read a lot of design magazines, and now I'm a little obsessed with all of the design blogs out there -- products, decorating, building, gardening, cities, businesses, showrooms. So, I was wondering, in your opinion, where have you been in Northeast Ohio and just thought: Wow, that just knocks me out! I'll start. The first time I walked by Lola on E. 4th at night, I thought I had been transported to another city through a wormhole or something. The street presence of that place is amazing, and I still haven't been inside. The glowing bar, modern glassiness, the allowing of the cute hostess to wear black Converse All-Stars. It was like creative chaos. Things were different on purpose. Second, I think the Banyan Tree in Tremont has the best storefront in the whole city. It shouts creative commerce, which I love, and I'm not even the target consumer. However, I always know when I go in that store I'm going to find something my mom and sister will love. The question is loaded as there are so many beautiful things in NE Ohio to appreciate.
August 15, 200717 yr The first time I walked into the old Aquilon on Old River Road in the Flats. I was totally floored. Never scene anything like up to that point in my life. I found out later it was designed by I.M.Pei's office. It made a huge impression on me on how the inside of building can work. I loved it so much I worked there for five years... and got married there, too. Shut up!
August 15, 200717 yr What??? (Sheeesh, I usually just get a "HUSH!!" from you) HUSH! I can't believe that you got married at Aquilon. How did that go over?!
August 15, 200717 yr How about some more details about this Aquilon - I've never heard of it! And I'm not gay, by the way, I just have interests that make it hard to relate with straight guys. I blame my mother, and if you have several hours, I'll tell you about it, LOL JK.
August 15, 200717 yr What??? (Sheeesh, I usually just get a "HUSH!!" from you) HUSH! I can't believe that you got married at Aquilon. How did that go over?! Ah, well working there helped pull that off - great discount. (i guess i will have to find some pictures off that also to post) Actually, there were many "interesting" events there - even a funeral once.
August 15, 200717 yr How about some more details about this Aquilon - I've never heard of it! And I'm not gay, by the way, I just have interests that make it hard to relate with straight guys. I blame my mother, and if you have several hours, I'll tell you about it, LOL JK. JamieC. lol lol....I'm all ears! LOL :wink: Aquilon, was an amazingly fabulous club in Cleveland. The original Dance Party Cleveland (then named Club Cleveland) started there.
August 15, 200717 yr CORRECTION: The Aquilon was the same place as this.... I'll tell you the place that knocked my socks off -- it was a club called the Lift, later the Smart Bar, then the Whiskey. You waited in line downstairs in a dingy hallway lit by yellow anti-bug bulbs, got on this rickety freight elevator with 10-15 people and rode up to the top floor of a 4- to 5-floor warehouse. When the freight elevator's doors opened, it was a total change. Here was a high-tech dance club playing the latest music at the time -- New Order, Depeche Mode and some stuff you could only hear at clubs in New York or Toronto. And, if you couldn't make it down to the club, they did live simulcasts from there on 107.9 FM, when it was the new wave station in town. There were large windows all around, where you could look straight out at the lit-up Detroit-Superior bridge on one side, or at Red Line trains going by on the other side. In 1996, as part of the city's bicentennial, they were flashing laser light shows on the bridges, adding to the lightshow inside the club. The girls were always great and ready to dance, and you could relax on the sofas by the windows and watch the crowds below on Center Street and Merwin. That was a place that rekindled my interest in cities after living in Geauga County for 15 years. I haven't been the same since. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 15, 200717 yr Oh god, I loved the "arrival" into the club - you could hear a very muffled thump-thump-thump from the bass four floors above. It got progressively louder as you were on the freight elevator and once you got to the top floor it was just unreal. I think I still have some of my Smart Bar tapes lying around. musky, was the funeral for Forbush? clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
August 15, 200717 yr Oh god, I loved the "arrival" into the club - you could hear a very muffled thump-thump-thump from the bass four floors above. It got progressively louder as you were on the freight elevator and once you got to the top floor it was just unreal. Oh MayDay, you're right! I'm having flashbacks.
August 15, 200717 yr The old Arcade still takes my breath away every time I walk in there. Amazing, amazing place. I also really love the Reading Garden near the main library. I think it's an amazing public space. I'm not sure if I've seen anything truly daring design-wise in Cleveland in a while. But I haven't spent a lot of time there lately, so I can't really say. I think CSU's Performing Arts Center will be really cool if/when that's built.
August 15, 200717 yr there are many building downtown I find absoulutely stunning and they are too many to list. As well there are way to many School, places of worship, parks, beaches, cemetaries, bridges or gardens to personally list. Others buldings or areas I like: All of Shaker Square North & South Moreland (especially the castles); Shaker Blvd. (especially my building :laugh: ) Belgian Village Homes on the following Streets that take my breath away Glenville Between East Blvd. & Parkgate/Superior & Kempton - those homes are amasing! Shaker Fairmont Blvd Shaker Blvd. Parkland Blvd South, North West Park Blvds. (If I could afford the Halle Mansion, it would be my first choice of a home) South Woodland Cleveland Heights Fairmount (My second choice of a SFH, would be on the corner of Fairmount & Stratford) North Park East Cleveland The Rockefeller historic area Lee Road to Henley/Brewester/Glynn Roads Edgewater Lake Clifton there are just so many nice neighborhood/areas I could go on forever.
August 15, 200717 yr Oh god, I loved the "arrival" into the club - you could hear a very muffled thump-thump-thump from the bass four floors above. It got progressively louder as you were on the freight elevator and once you got to the top floor it was just unreal. I think I still have some of my Smart Bar tapes lying around. musky, was the funeral for Forbush? I still have some tapes from the Smart Bar/Whiskey simulcasts, too! Now I'm going to have to dig them out. When I was in my early 20s, lived in Geauga County and was staying home in the "country" on a Friday night, I would tune into the simulcast on 107.9 and imagine how amazing the Flats probably looked like that evening. I so wanted to be there. Sometimes I would call up friends and say "Let's go!" It made me realize I didn't belong living amongst the chirping crickets in otherwise quiet Geauga County. Of course, a lot of times when you wish you were someplace and, when you get there, the reality doesn't live up to the imagination. But, in the case the Aquilon/Lift/Smart Bar/Whiskey, it did live up to it. The club, the crowds, the urban setting, the music and the companionship were fantastic. I was really bummed out when it closed. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
August 15, 200717 yr i would also be interested in re opening "chapter two" (aka chaps), that was an awesome club!
October 14, 200717 yr wow, the flats was fun in the summer. I was away at school as it became a cool place to party. What was the place that had dance party and where the DJ from NYC and CHI would play? One time I remember Rupaul and Lady Bunny running down the street laughing. What happened to Numbers?
October 15, 200717 yr No you're thinking of Legends. Numbers was at 620 Frankfort (West 6th and Frankfort next to little bar) became Atlantis, which became Hydra which is now Motion. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
October 16, 200717 yr wow, the flats was fun in the summer. I was away at school as it became a cool place to party. What was the place that had dance party and where the DJ from NYC and CHI would play? ] Okay, I think I remember the place....forgot the name, damn, but it's the building that later became John Harvard's Brew House.
October 16, 200717 yr Its about the various night clubs that Musky worked in........ I mean..... The first post will answer that.
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