Other things only a Clevelander would know/appreciate (Lorain, Euclid: shops, company)

[jam40jeff]

Originally Posted by MaryB65

The new residents should "take care" of their environment instead of neglecting and burning and whatever it is they do. The entire city needs a bulldozer.

It sounds like you left after the neighborhood was down the tubes. You should be blaming all those who ran BEFORE things were bad, dreaming of some utopian life with 2.7 kids, 4.7 cars, a 1/4 acre patch of grass, and freeways as far as the eyes could see. They are the reason our inner cities fell apart (and house values went down the crapper), we have Applebees and Wal-Marts all over, sprawling pavement eating up farms, an overused highway system we can't even afford to maintain, and an unhealthy dependence on oil. The grass turned out not to be any greener on the other side. They just left behind a bunch of brownfields.

[Mr.Blonde]

Originally Posted by fireball0074

malleys chocolate has the best homeade hot fudge!!!still 2 scoops of ice cream and the little pitcher of fudge for .99. Does anyone remember the 2 old guys that had the morning show in cleveland ?one guys name was Del Donahue but i cant remember the other guys name..Tom maybe...

Tom Haley. I went to high school with his daughters.

[Mr.Blonde]

Originally Posted by OhioNative

1) "The Interception"
2) "The Drive"
3) "The Fumble"
4) Cleveland stadium mustard
5) The Prize Movie
6) Superhost
7) Dick Goddard
8) Wooly Bears
9) Big Chuck and Houlihan/Little John
10) Michael Stanley Band
11) Calling KFC "Kenny Kings" (may be a Mentor thing, not sure)

Kenny Kings was a Lakewood thing too. There was on Warren Rd. at Detroit for the longest time.

Even after they became KFC's, my grandfather called them Kenny Kings.

[Mr.Blonde]

Originally Posted by twange

2. Lawsons (you can still see all of those distinctive, ugly buildings everywhere...but now they're Dairy Marts, etc...)

There is a former Lawsons in Lakewood, I believe, that is now a dental clinic. The buildings are too tell-tale not to recognize.

I grew up on the West Side/Lakewood and they were everywhere.

A couple of years back, I went back to Cleveland and went to dinner at a place in Bay Village and the restaurant occupies a former Lawsons site. You could still faintly make out the cursive lettering of the Lawsons.

[Mr.Blonde]

Originally Posted by OhioNative

I forgot about Barnaby! And who could forget the Coliseum, with the worst acoustics of any arena in the country! Three other things that I miss about Cleveland: Mr. Hero, Millbrook Bread, and Cherikee Red Pop (Cotton Club?).

I guess all the Mr.Heros are gone now then. Although this is not what you would normally get at a hero shop, they used to make a killer tuna sandwich, along with the waffle fries.

[Mr.Blonde]

Originally Posted by OhioNative

I love Arthur Treachers. As of my last visit to Ohio, there are still two left - one in the food court at the Great Lakes Mall, and one on Lakeshore Blvd. in Euclid. On another note, does anyone remember York Steak House? I loved that place, at least when I was a kid (I know that nothing ever tastes as good as you remember).

There used to be an Arthur Treachers on Madison in Lakewood at W.117th.

Also I was back several years ago and there was one out in Parma somewhere.

[Mr.Blonde]

Originally Posted by camelclutch

6. Gold Circle

We used to go to the Gold Circle on Memphis Ave. and my mom would buy me a Mego Superhero figure or a model airplane kit. Good times.

[Mr.Blonde]

This thread has been a blast to read all the way through.

I grew up on the West Side.

Born 1967. Moved to Lakewood 1979. Left Cleveland for the West Coast in 1994.

Does anyone have fond memories of the Memphis Kiddie-Park on Memphis Ave? I have pictures my mom took of me when I was real little riding all the kiddie rides.

What I really remember was the miniature golf course they had, with the windmill and the jump-the-water hole. Also there was an arcade along about the time video games reared their ugly head. I must have pumped a fistful of quarters into the Space Invaders machine back then.

Also, I saw a post about Charlie's Chips and the cans the chips came in. Does anyone remember the the little trucks that used to deliver the chips? They were about the size/shape of rural postal trucks and painted the same scheme as the cans of chips. When I turned 16 I was lookinmg for a cheap car to buy and a friend of my dad's had a Charlies Chip truck he would have sold me for $500. It didn't have a radio or seats, it was a 3-speed with a blender for an engine, so being 16, that's wasn't very cool, but i would love to see one of those things now.

A couple other things I'll throw out there.......

Sledding on Tiedemann Hill over by Memphis and Tiedemann Rd.

The Interpretive Center (now the Rocky River Nature Center) in the Metroparks ("the Valley")

The fords in the Rocky River (before they built the bridges) which would flood every fall and every spring. You would just have to stop and leave the park, go to a surface street and drive around.

Sledding down Stinchcomb Hill in Lakewood. We would return there years later in high school and smoke joints at the monument.

[Mr.Blonde]

Originally Posted by artcgal

Man! Thanks for the memories!

I remember "Kenny Kings" fondly! The one, I believe...either in Brook Park or Parma was the one we went to.

I always think of Dick Goddard and the Wooly Bear Festival when we go to a custard joint here in Fort Worth Called "Woolley's." It has nothing to do with Wooly Bears...but, I just always remember it! LOL!

Some other things that only a Clevelander might appreciate that I didn't see mentioned:

West Side Market
The Flats
Goodtime II (or III)
Fred Griffith and Liz (I can't remember her last name) and the Morning Exchange
Malley's Chocolates
The Gene Carroll Show
St. Patrick's Day Parade
Dorothy Fuldheim
The Old Arcade
Polka Bands at weddings held inside a UAW hall
Chippewa Lake
Franklin Castle

I'm sure there are plenty more! But, this is all I can think of off the top of my head!

One of the great things about the Old Arcade is/was that you can bring your lunch and just sit there and eat it. I had my first job out of college in downtown Cleveland and wasn't making a lot of money, so I had to brown-bag it every day and I used to go there and eat my lunch.
Nowdays, it seems you have to go to a food-court and pay one of the places for lunch. When you are just starting out, that $5-$7 for lunch everyday just kills you.

[normie]

What happened to Sea World? Did it move to a new location?