January 26, 20241 yr this one is quite a sight — It's something beautiful about the chaotic nature of early era cities and downtowns.Sent from my Pixel 8 Pro using Tapatalk
January 31, 20241 yr OK OK … more than 1 historic image… https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/custom/BookReader?manifest=https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org//digital/iiif-info/p128201coll0/2658/manifest.json Caution: might be a time suck!
February 28, 20241 yr ahahahaha 😂 we had our hs reunion here — https://www.instagram.com/reel/C3d5D_5vrFG/?igsh=MWx1b29vbHczdjlrZw==
March 13, 20241 yr 1995 … posted by Thom Sheridan on Facebook i didn’t realize we had a solid, 6-story brick building fairly recently on the other side of Prospect: EDIT: just found some reference to the “AVJO Building” at 320 Prospect Avenue here https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16014coll6/id/34146 Edited March 13, 20241 yr by MuRrAy HiLL
March 13, 20241 yr A Rainbow AND Wigs? That's the spot! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
March 15, 20241 yr 5 hours ago, Cleburger said: Cleveland had an Aragon Ballroom? yes of course — in the world of euro and fly by night underground bootleg albums. 😂 even today that happens — there is another recent old cle agora show bootleg i cant find but it had a pic of cinci on it lol. check out the history of bootleg albums its interesting and fun. some were rare and great, but some were incrediblely bad ripoffs.
March 22, 20241 yr higbees, may, yadda yadda --- what about some love for baileys dept stores (1881-1965)? i believe it was the first of them to open branches -- 🙌 Bailey’s Department Store 09/16/2010 https://coolhistoryofcleveland.wordpress.com/2010/09/16/baileys-department-store/ lakewood
March 29, 20241 yr i had forgotten all about this — the bizzare story of jim vinci and the s.s. canadiana — https://www.instagram.com/p/C2KiZYRgH8D/?igsh=cDB4aTVlOWJ0dHd6
April 1, 20241 yr mysterious cpp bldg — its true 😂 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4mYjvegTgD/?igsh=NGVoejJvcnV1eXF1
April 8, 20241 yr supply car entering car barn — lakewood 1940s — 🚃 Edited April 8, 20241 yr by mrnyc
April 12, 20241 yr when the flats were jumpin — https://www.instagram.com/p/C456fonrrid/?igsh=b3J5dnllbGpzdjkw
April 12, 20241 yr ^ Is it controversial to say that Terminal Tower is both the best and the worst thing to have happened to downtown? To still have that street grid of Champlain, Long Avenues etc. the original Prospect heading downhill to connect with Canal etc would make for a much more interesting streetscape than we have today. My hovercraft is full of eels
April 12, 20241 yr These 20's aerials show how the city really had just started to come into its own.
April 12, 20241 yr ^ Thanks, so much, for that pic. Love it when they are enlargeable. You can get lost in that pic.
April 12, 20241 yr ^^ yet a cross section of people and multiple local businesses insist on calling themselves Sixth City Xxxx... Nauseating self deprecation or lack of knowledge? Hard to say. To the comment on whether the Terminal Tower complex was a blessing or a curse. It's an interesting question that could fill multiple evenings at the bar for people educated on the subject.
April 12, 20241 yr Dang, those buildings look rather dirty, except for Hotel Cleveland which had just been recently built.
April 12, 20241 yr ^ i have never seen a pic of the full intact warehouse district era before. even thats not quite a full view, but its the best i have seen.
April 13, 20241 yr Pre-municipal stadium when the area was a former tire dump. There needs to be an AI program - hell, there may even be - where it can approximate what the city would look like if the camera keeps turning. I'm sure CSI Miami or some show has pretended the tech exists. Cool seeing the E9th lakefront terminal too.
April 13, 20241 yr 23 hours ago, mrnyc said: when the flats were jumpin — https://www.instagram.com/p/C456fonrrid/?igsh=b3J5dnllbGpzdjkw Now that one hurts Geauga Lake style. As a kid (42 now), I would go to Shooters (and maybe Hooters?) with my sisters and brother-in-laws, and everything about the area was amazing. All those cheap bars, music performances, tens of thousands people strolling on weekends, boats, socializing, dancing, exchanging numbers or hooking up, drowning or getting mugged occasionally - intimidating as a kid, exciting as a teenager, frustrating as an adult who missed out enjoying all it could offer. Today's new Flats is very pretty and polished but c'mon... I wish there were a proper Flats documentary of that era; hell, I can't find that many photos of their 80s/90s heyday easily. People were having too much fun to film. Edited April 13, 20241 yr by TBideon
April 13, 20241 yr 17 minutes ago, TBideon said: Now that one hurts Geauga Lake style. As a kid (42 now), I would go to Shooters (and maybe Hooters?) with my sisters and brother-in-laws, and everything about the area was amazing. All those cheap bars, music performances, tens of thousands people strolling on weekends, boats, socializing, dancing, exchanging numbers or hooking up, drowning or getting mugged occasionally - intimidating as a kid, exciting as a teenager, frustrating as an adult who missed out enjoying all it could offer. Today's new Flats is very pretty and polished but c'mon... I wish there were a proper Flats documentary of that era; hell, I can't find that many photos of their 80s/90s heyday easily. People were having too much fun to film. It was a great time to be alive and in your 20's! Cleveland missed the opportunity to become the New Orleans of the North. Should have put a big hotel and casino on the Powerhouse property, hire hundreds of off-duty cops and keep the party going.
April 13, 20241 yr That area definitely developed a lore. When I tell people I'm from and partially reside in Cleveland, sometimes, especially from the Gen X crowd, they may mention the Flats or having heard about the area. All these decades later, and its heyday still maintains an impression.
April 13, 20241 yr 5 hours ago, TBideon said: Pre-municipal stadium when the area was a former tire dump. There needs to be an AI program - hell, there may even be - where it can approximate what the city would look like if the camera keeps turning. I'm sure CSI Miami or some show has pretended the tech exists. Cool seeing the E9th lakefront terminal too. Quickly and poorly done Photoshop job, but the link to Google Earth is close to the same angle. clevelandskyscrapers.com Cleveland Skyscrapers on Instagram
April 13, 20241 yr ^ Wow. So much of that landfill was turned back into lake. My hovercraft is full of eels
April 13, 20241 yr @MayDay your angle is sooo close, but it’s off. You can see several of the same buildings in both photos on the left side. Land was definitely not turned back into water (from everything I know). EDIT: maybe try to align with some of those remaining buildings on the left side? Edited April 14, 20241 yr by MuRrAy HiLL
April 14, 20241 yr 8 hours ago, TBideon said: That area definitely developed a lore. When I tell people I'm from and partially reside in Cleveland, sometimes, especially from the Gen X crowd, they may mention the Flats or having heard about the area. All these decades later, and its heyday still maintains an impression. several people around my age that i worked with from long island who are big sports fans and boaters talked to me about the flats all the time. it was an epic, memorable and irresistible combo of everything they liked for them. 😂
April 16, 20241 yr Cleveland's Historic Flats view of the Hausheer building from across the Cuyahoga River circa 1920. The Watermark is located in the right portion of the building. This shot was taken from what is now the boardwalk on the west bank of the river facing east.
April 29, 20241 yr Makes me sad. Cleveland was like the 5th largest city in the country and a leader in the aviation universe. If I were mayor today I wouldn't be talking about getting rid of Burke Lakefront. I would be promoting Cleveland and it's unique downtown airport to aviation technology companies to use a a test bed for the coming-soon VTOL/electric taxi business.
May 1, 20241 yr todd music -- one of the best pop concerts ever -- back to the bars utopia at the agora 1978 some of the show was broadcast later on local tv in the fall -- also, 1977 and the cle was premiering the long in the works bat out of hell album (on cle international records) -- meat in his browns jersey + you have to wonder what 'ol album producer todd thought of him by that look on his face 😂
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