May 19, 20187 yr I apologize KJP[/member] , between this and Lucky's, that is two Cleveland border establishments you have had to correct in as many days! In my defense, it was my dad's fault, haha.
May 20, 20187 yr Cool pic.... United Cigar Stores Co. ca. 1930-1939. Photographer: Arthur Gray. Source: @Cleveland_PL Superior Ave. #Cleveland @thiswascle @EncyCle_ @CleStartsHere https://t.co/LzGvvdfWCT "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
May 21, 20187 yr While Western Reserve was playing their home football games at League Park during this era, Case Tech played at their games at lowly, but historic, Van Horn Field. Here's an aerial view of a home game from 1935: https://frontend.case.dgicloud.com/islandora/object/ksl:uarchives-arcima00019 Side historical note: September 28, 2018 will mark the 100-year anniversary of famed Notre Dame coach Knute Rockne's coaching debut at the football field shown in this aerial, Van Horn Field. You'll also notice a few prominent buildings, plus all the houses along Adelbert Road and Euclid Ave that are no longer standing.
May 30, 20187 yr Little Italy card game circa 1961 at the intersection of Murray Hill and Mayfield. Location currently is TOLI:
May 30, 20187 yr Euclid Ave, 1911 - while Cleveland was the 6th largest city in the country behind New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Boston.
May 30, 20187 yr I'm surprised St Louis was in the top 5?? Had no idea! It was 5th: https://www.biggestuscities.com/1910 Cleveland and Detroit displaced St. Louis and Boston in 1920 https://www.biggestuscities.com/1920 Los Angeles displaced Cleveland, pushing it from #5 to #6 in 1930 https://www.biggestuscities.com/1930 Top 6 stayed the same in 1940 https://www.biggestuscities.com/1940 Cleveland fell to 7th in 1950, displaced by Baltimore at #6 https://www.biggestuscities.com/1950 Cleveland in 1960 fell to 8th, displaced from 7th by Houston https://www.biggestuscities.com/1960 And Cleveland's last appearance in the top 10 was in 1970 https://www.biggestuscities.com/1970 Today, every city in the top 10 is at 1 million or more. And every city in the top 25 is at 600,000 or more. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 1, 20187 yr The Union Depot, trainyards, and Cleveland Harbor between 1901 and 1906 #ThisWasCLE from @librarycongress https://t.co/KrKOZ01aNo https://t.co/53Ng0zZCDi "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 5, 20187 yr I love coming across old photos of Cleveland that I've never seen before. These pictures of Euclid Ave, just east of E 55th St, were taken by @CLEcityplanning in the mid-1980s. Imagine what this area could be like today if those buildings still existed. (? from @Cleveland_PL) https://t.co/rwcMt5YiYa "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 5, 20187 yr The loss of this area makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. This is an example of local (CDC, City) and regional (transit authority) having no foresight on redevelopment or simply even a sense of optimism. Demolition was their only tool. What replaced this pales in comparison by any measure.
June 5, 20187 yr The loss of this area makes me absolutely sick to my stomach. This is an example of local (CDC, City) and regional (transit authority) having no foresight on redevelopment or simply even a sense of optimism. Demolition was their only tool. What replaced this pales in comparison by any measure. My gut wholeheartedly agrees with you. The lack of foresight of many of our past leaders is nauseating. However, I think part of what holds us back as a region is the aging industrial infrastructure - I'm not sure that would apply here, but if Midtown can take off, I'll feel a little less bad about the hit job to Euclid Ave
June 11, 20187 yr Photo taken the year my father was born. My father said it was Cleveland's best decade of 6-8 really good decades in a row, and its last good decade. Until... Euclid Ave. Looking east from East 9th Street. The traffic tower looms quite large in the middle of the street. Library print from a negative by Louis Baus. ca. 1929. Source: @Cleveland_PL @thiswascle @EncyCle_ @CleCityCouncil @CleStartsHere "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 11, 20187 yr Cable cars - not forward looking. Buses - forward looking. What's this in reference to YABO713[/member] ? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 11, 20187 yr Cable cars - not forward looking. Buses - forward looking. What's this in reference to YABO713[/member] ? The absolutely beautiful labyrinth of cable car wires above the street. Only to be replaced with buses permanently a few decades later.
June 11, 20187 yr Is this where I correct you on the proper transit terminology for cable cars? "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 11, 20187 yr Is this where I correct you on the proper transit terminology for cable cars? Nope, nope, this is when you let my ignorance remain as a hue of happy and nostalgic
June 12, 20187 yr Encycle @EncyCle_ Image of East 105th near Euclid Ave. in #Cleveland ca. 1920s. #CleStartsHere #PhotoByWRHS #cwru #thiswascle #thisiscle #history #theland #ohio Frank Dutton @dufr01 Hotel Doanbrooke ad, from 1927 NVA Yearbook. #ThisWasCle #Cleveland #Uptown105 John Skrtic @SkrticX University and Keith Theatres. E. 105th Source: @Cleveland_PL in Vintage #Cleveland by James Toman. @lostincleveland 1941 photo of Woodland & 79th with the Workhouse in the background to the left @lostincleveland E 79th at Woodland, with the old Workhouse, on the left. @lostincleveland ...1898 city map from the Cleveland Public Library. “Workhouse” @lostincleveland ...a better view of the original “Workhouse” Great/rare photo of elevating the Pennsylvania RR through Cleveland (other railroads were also elevated above or depressed below street levels in the city limits) @lostincleveland Jun 10 ...Euclid at 55th, looking south.1913 @lostincleveland ...Euclid at 55th looking west. 1910 And ending with a 19th century oldie.... @lostincleveland Euclid at 40th. 1880 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 15, 20187 yr John Skrtic @SkrticX #Cleveland Mayoral Candidates. Source: @Cleveland_PL in July, 1975 @ClevelandMag "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 19, 20186 yr Kausek Brothers department store, 6202 St Clair Ave. Almost 110 years later. Looks like 6204 to me. :) If it had been on the other side of the street it would likely be 74 years gone....
June 19, 20186 yr That caption re: Danny is pretty damn ominous in hindsight. There had already been multiple attempts on his life by 1975. "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 19, 20186 yr That caption re: Danny is pretty damn ominous in hindsight. My mother knew him and said he was an engaging gentleman - unless he thought you were competition. Remember: It's the Year of the Snake
June 19, 20186 yr That caption re: Danny is pretty damn ominous in hindsight. My mother knew him and said he was an engaging gentleman - unless he thought you were competition. Yup, I had family members who worked for him - his son is a very nice guy too
June 21, 20186 yr nice 1905 pic of the sheriff street market (1891-1936) -- can you imagine if this structure still existed downtown in this prime shape? later became central market & a bus garage, etc. -- then finally torn down in the 1980's for gateway
June 21, 20186 yr The area that Gateway and the highway replaced in my opinion is a bigger loss than the WHD. The Haymarket district I think it was technically called? This used to be the commerce hub of Cleveland and was a connecting point for so many main arteries leading into the near Southeast side which at that point had Chicago level urbanity. Now, complete corridors like Woodland, Central, Cedar, Orange are unrecognizable, and the one remaining corridor of potential (Broadway) is completely severed from Downtown by the stadiums, highways, low density industrial etc. Now with the stock of historic conversions basically gone Downtown, could you imagine if we could have just saved all of those buildings and watched the development spread along these corridors. Broadway will come back, but even when it does, the connectivity is completely gone, and the damage is already done.
June 21, 20186 yr The Sheriff St Market was awesome, but most of it had burned down long before Gateway. Here's all that was left by the time it was demoed: http://frank-dutton.blogspot.com/2017/03/sheriff-street-market.html
June 21, 20186 yr The area that Gateway and the highway replaced in my opinion is a bigger loss than the WHD. The Haymarket district I think it was technically called? This used to be the commerce hub of Cleveland and was a connecting point for so many main arteries leading into the near Southeast side which at that point had Chicago level urbanity. Now, complete corridors like Woodland, Central, Cedar, Orange are unrecognizable, and the one remaining corridor of potential (Broadway) is completely severed from Downtown by the stadiums, highways, low density industrial etc. Now with the stock of historic conversions basically gone Downtown, could you imagine if we could have just saved all of those buildings and watched the development spread along these corridors. Broadway will come back, but even when it does, the connectivity is completely gone, and the damage is already done. KJP once posted a plan to eliminate that interchange mess by re-routing 77 straight north to the shoreway. It's crazy they didn't do it like that to begin with.
June 22, 20186 yr The area that Gateway and the highway replaced in my opinion is a bigger loss than the WHD. The Haymarket district I think it was technically called? This used to be the commerce hub of Cleveland and was a connecting point for so many main arteries leading into the near Southeast side which at that point had Chicago level urbanity. Now, complete corridors like Woodland, Central, Cedar, Orange are unrecognizable, and the one remaining corridor of potential (Broadway) is completely severed from Downtown by the stadiums, highways, low density industrial etc. Now with the stock of historic conversions basically gone Downtown, could you imagine if we could have just saved all of those buildings and watched the development spread along these corridors. Broadway will come back, but even when it does, the connectivity is completely gone, and the damage is already done. yep absolutely -- that is why i always thought the new ballpark should have gone back to league park. it was an opportunity to redevelop a wrigley type neighborhood and could have saved more of the central/haymarket/gateway area space/structures. of course even that would only have perhaps been a partial remedy to the devastation you have described so painfully well.
June 22, 20186 yr You might even say... Broadway is dark tonight.... a little bit weaker than it used to be...
June 22, 20186 yr Euclid Ave near Belvoir looking east. I used to live near this area back in the early 80s. Much has changed.
June 23, 20186 yr #Cleveland, 1926 - film view from Lake Erie. https://t.co/5vbOnSDg4e "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 23, 20186 yr Amazing. A very eerie video, the lakefront was very clearly a dumping ground for dredging and trash. Its neglect originates from this time period.
June 24, 20186 yr I'm genuinely curious but am certain I will never find out, I wonder how many other historical major US cities similar to Cleveland have seen as much historical deconstruction as we have done. Quite depressing.
June 24, 20186 yr ^I feel like St Louis is worse, they went crazy with Urban Renewal funds and horrible freeways on stilts. I only say worse because St Louis had some really beautiful well made brick buildings and east coast style row homes, higher quality than the stick built stuff in Cleveland. Probably Detroit too. Viceland's "Abandoned " series had a nice documentary on the beautiful old St Louis Schools that are crumbling.
June 25, 20186 yr This was the imaginative home of Nelson Cotabish, mayor of @LakewoodOhio (1910-12) and sales manager for National Carbon (on Madison Ave at West 117th). He got the idea for this house at Detroit and Cohasset Avenues while traveling to Cohasset, MA, with its cobblestone houses. Photos: @Cleve_Memory #CLE "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 26, 20186 yr Now Woodland at East 55th is an urban prairie.... In its heyday in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the corner of Woodland and E. 55th was, in the words of bluesman George Hendricks, “like another city--it was like New York.” And one of the brightest spots was Gleason’s Musical Bar. https://t.co/3XS06S3doH #CLE #blues #rnbmusic https://t.co/53oFnmlNOT "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 26, 20186 yr Now Woodland at East 55th is an urban prairie.... In its heyday in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the corner of Woodland and E. 55th was, in the words of bluesman George Hendricks, “like another city--it was like New York.” And one of the brightest spots was Gleason’s Musical Bar. https://t.co/3XS06S3doH #CLE #blues #rnbmusic https://t.co/53oFnmlNOT I literally watched a human being defecate on the corner of 55th and Woodland three weeks ago.
June 26, 20186 yr I literally watched a human being defecate on the corner of 55th and Woodland three weeks ago. So it really is like New York! "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 26, 20186 yr Photograph taken from the window of an upper story building of the construction being done on the Cleveland Trust Bank. This building is now the site of our beautiful downtown @Heinens (wish it was a larger pic) "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
June 28, 20186 yr I literally watched a human being defecate on the corner of 55th and Woodland three weeks ago. So it really is like New York! two out of three. jazz clubs and poopers yes. the urban praire is a cleveland specialty.
July 1, 20186 yr ‘tis the summer season — did anyone see these great shots of blossom through the years on cle dot com?
July 3, 20186 yr I'm going to Blossom for my first time ever this Sunday to see Roger Daltry and the Cleveland Orchestra perform Tommy. Yes, I've never been there. Not a concert guy. Not an outdoors guy. The combination is the answer to that math question. Meanwhile, here's the only Great Lakes watershed lake-named street that no longer exists in Cleveland. This was about 4-5 years before construction for the Cleveland Union Terminal Group obliterated this canal-era neighborhood SW of Public Square. Note the horse water trough at right and the downhill sloping street.... Looking west down Champlain in 1918 #ThisWasCLE from @Cleveland_PL Digital Gallery https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4014coll18/id/3186/rec/40 "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 3, 20186 yr Meanwhile, here's the only Great Lakes watershed lake-named street that no longer exists in Cleveland. This was about 4-5 years before construction for the Cleveland Union Terminal Group obliterated this canal-era neighborhood SW of Public Square. Note the horse water trough at right and the downhill sloping street.... Looking west down Champlain in 1918 #ThisWasCLE from @Cleveland_PL Digital Gallery https://cplorg.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p4014coll18/id/3186/rec/40 Same spot, same view, just 100 years later:
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