Other things only a Clevelander would know/appreciate (Parma, Cleveland Heights: condo, Home Depot)

[pete0501]

Parma Home Bakery at the corner of Pearl and Ridge Roads.

[drb753]

How about Pesano's in Valley View
Red Barn chicken
Giant Tiger
Zayres
When Cleveland PD had lime green police cars

[Cat9]

Pete0501
I think the other drive-in that you are thinking of might be the Starlight Drive-in. There was also another one, I believe, was somewhere on
Canal Rd.

[SoCalClevelander]

BTW, for those of you who are missing WMMS, check out yes, KID LEO on Sirius Channel 25 (Underground Garage). I had no idea he was on that station until I got my receiver and here I was, puttering along the clogged LA freeways and out of the speakers comes a voice that instantly transports me back to my teenage years. Instead of my new PT Cruiser, I could just close my eyes (traffic aint going anywhere, remember) and I am back in my 76 Mustang clunker and crusing up to the Headlands with 'MMS blasting.

The Garage playlist is much like 'MMS of that time period (not a surprise since Kid Leo is the program director), plus newer rock, so if you were a fan of the Buzzard, you will like this station. I have to catch it on Friday afternoon to see if he plays Born to Run at the end of his shift :-)

[exclevelander]

Originally Posted by normie

You must have lived in Cleveland Heights. I remember all those things very clearly.

By the way, if you wanted something really delicious you went to Hough Bakery. I still remember the lamb cake at Easter.

Cedar-Lee. Can't believe Bi-Rite and Scotts 5&10 are gone, those were fixtures of the neighborhood. (I haven't been in Cleveland Hts since 1976, as you can probably tell). There was a dance studio near the parking lot that was the scene of a few scandals back in the 60's.

But the big scandal was when Arthur Treacher's opened across from the high school. It was the first (and very quickly became the only) fast food restaurant allowed in Cleveland Hts.

It was all over the Sun Press for a while. Is the Sun Press even still around?

I actually grew up in University Heights, but close enough When you left in '76 I was still a little kid, but I'm sure I'd remember a lot of things you remember. I'm too young to remember Severance being built, but I certainly remember the years it was a full-fledged mall (with both Higbees and Halle's). I remember Hough Bakery and the Sun newspapers (those were both there when I left in '91, not sure if they're still around now, though)

[exclevelander]

Originally Posted by normie

Some of you may remember a big fuss in Cleveland Hts. during the 1970s when they tore down 4 elementary schools and a high school. All of these schools had been classic brick buildings from the 1920s. They were beautiful pieces of architecture... and the new buildings were, ummm, not attractive. Not attractive at all. Butt ugly, actually.

I remember that era. I'm guessing that must have been around 1973-74. I was quite young at that point and such happenings would have passed unnoticed by me, except for the fact that every time we drove by as they were tearing down Taylor Elementary and Boulevard Elementary and Roosevelt Jr. High, my mom (who had attended 2 of those 3 schools in the '50s) would cry. So those images remain etched in my memory (less how they looked beforehand, because I was too little to pay attention, but more of how they looked halfway torn down in heaps----like the death of a being, it was kind of scary looking). And the new buildings that replaced them (except in the case of Roosevelt Jr. High, which was never replaced) were typical weird 1970s monstrosities with tinted windows and odd angles.

My elementary school---Northwood---was a 1950s building and lacked some of the charm of the older 1920s buildings, but at least survived the wrecking balls of the 1970s. It's no longer part of the public school system (the building was sold off in the 1980s), and I'm told is now a private Orthodox Jewish school, but at least it's still standing today (or was as of 2005, the last time I visited University Heights).

[pete0501]

Thanks Cat9! And I do believe the other on Canal was the "Canal Rd Drive-in".
This really was and is a fine city.

[normie]

Originally Posted by exclevelander

But the big scandal was when Arthur Treacher's opened across from the high school. It was the first (and very quickly became the only) fast food restaurant allowed in Cleveland Hts.

I was stunned to see that Mawby's was turned into a McDonalds. A McDonalds!!!! I still remember the fuss about Arthur Treachers. McDonald's tried to get into the high school and people were furious about it. Arthur Treachers was finally allowed... because it was considered "nicer" than McDonalds.

Amazing to see that McDonalds not only found a way in... but set up shop in Mawby's to boot. Oh, the indignity!

[normie]

Originally Posted by exclevelander

I remember that era. I'm guessing that must have been around 1973-74. I was quite young at that point and such happenings would have passed unnoticed by me, except for the fact that every time we drove by as they were tearing down Taylor Elementary and Boulevard Elementary and Roosevelt Jr. High, my mom (who had attended 2 of those 3 schools in the '50s) would cry. So those images remain etched in my memory (less how they looked beforehand, because I was too little to pay attention, but more of how they looked halfway torn down in heaps----like the death of a being, it was kind of scary looking). And the new buildings that replaced them (except in the case of Roosevelt Jr. High, which was never replaced) were typical weird 1970s monstrosities with tinted windows and odd angles.

Odd you should mention that--I have a photo of Taylor being demolished. Does this bring back memories?

[exclevelander]

Originally Posted by normie

Odd you should mention that--I have a photo of Taylor being demolished. Does this bring back memories?

Holy smokes! That's exactly what I remember seeing whenever we'd drive by the Taylor/Superior intersection! Wow, it's even sadder to see it now than I remembered. Why didn't we appreciate the beautiful buildings we had? I guess in the early '70s we still had the mentality that old was bad and new/modern was good. But compare the architecture and grandeur of this building (even partially wrecked) compared with what's there now.

But despite it being sad to look it, it's still awesome that you have this pic. It does bring back memories.