Other things only a Clevelander would know/appreciate (Euclid: schools, plumbing)

[chicagonow]

What was the name of the show, Saturdays around 6 pm, the kids from differend high schools went head to head academically.
Academic Challenge???
Who was the emcee?

[normie]

Back in 1969, Cleveland Hts. opened a skating rink. I believe it's called the South Skating Rink now. At the time it was a really big deal.

I won a contest to be the very first person to ever skate on the ice as part of a story for the nightly news. Two people actually won the contest (how many candies in a jar). The other winner was a local priest, Father Halaiko from St. Ann Church. I was amazed to think that a priest would be ice skating!!! For some reasons I thought they just sat in a church 24-hours-a-day, praying.

I hear a fancier rink has now been built, and the South Rink has fallen out of style. But in its day it was the place to go for fun; we went there day after day in the winter.

[chicagonow]

In the 60's and early 70's, we used to spend many hours at the Euclid Ice Rink at Memorial Park. We took lessons, skated in shows, spent our Friday nights holding hands and skating, then sneaking
off to some pizza place and getting back before the second session ended and our parents came to pick us up - they never knew we left. In the summer we would ride our bikes and swim at the pool, the big poo, not the little ones at the playground like Willow. The big pool had two diving boards and a diving platform where you could go off a ladder type set up at any of several levels. Talk about dangerous.

[normie]

I also remember going to basketball games with the Capelletti family--Jim Capelletti was the coach for Cleveland Hts. High. In 1971 or maybe 1972 Heights High went all the way to the state championship.

At the end of the division championship about 50 fans stood up, saluted the coach, and yelled "I can't believe we won the who-o-o-le thing!" (A parody of a popular alka seltzer commercial at the time.)

Man I wish we had video cameras back then, that's the sort of thing I'd love to see over and over.

[normie]

Another place I remember is Red Raider Camp. They used to have field trips out there to watch maple syrup being tapped from the trees (and usually you could also see the sap being made into sugar). Every year local fifth graders had a week-long camping trip at Red Raider. We'd hear rumors about strip poker and other risky stuff going on but the kids always assured us it was nothing but rumors... just a squeaky clean camping trip, mom. Yah, right....

[normie]

Originally Posted by chicagonow

In the 60's and early 70's, we used to spend many hours at the Euclid Ice Rink at Memorial Park.

I remember that place--before they built the rink in Cleveland Hts., we went to Euclid. Or sometimes if it got really cold they'd flood the parking lot at Cumberland Pool and turn that into an outdoor ice rink. But parking lot ice is too uneven to be much fun.

[Cat9]

I think Christmas brings out the nostalgia in me and as I was reading over some of the postings, I couldn't help but remember some items I don't think were mentioned.
Halloran Park Outdoor Skating Rink- Ice in winter and roller in summer
Dragway 42 in Lodi
Whipps Ledges
Peanut Butter Burgers either at Bearden's or Kenny Kings, maybe both.
I dated a guy who loved them
Berardi's French Fries at Cedar Point. You'd eat them with malt vinegar sprinkled on them while they were hot then salted.
OMG! I'd give my left arm to have them again.

[lakeriedog]

I left Cleveland in 1977, but I have fond memories of

Mr. Jing A Ling
Big Chuck and Houlahan
WMMS Home of the Buzzard
Hanging out at Rocky River Park "the valley"
St. Colman's elementary school especially Sister John Boscoe
Apple Cider from Lawson's
Chippewah Lake
frozen custard stands that close in the winter
SNOW!!!!

[airics]

Originally Posted by chicagonow

What was the name of the show, Saturdays around 6 pm, the kids from differend high schools went head to head academically.
Academic Challenge???
Who was the emcee?

Academic Challenge and i believe the host was Don Webster.

[bcudlin]

the corral was on cook rd in olmsted falls, what a great place. i miss cleveland