Other things only a Clevelander would know/appreciate (Lorain, Elyria: food, subway)

[Nadilyn]

Originally Posted by Clevelander17

Saves you the runaround. You'll find everything you need. Apparently.

My boyfriend and I would go to Drug Mart, seemed like almost everyday, and we would come home singing... Discount Drug Mart Bags in your Hands, like the jingle you hear in the store.

[sleepy eyes 1979]

The fifth wheel over Bob Evan's any day.

[pirate_lafitte]

I have never been to Cleveland, but I hear there is an Italian restaurant there called Trattoria.

[denracer]

Originally Posted by twange

Nice.

How about Gold Circle? Silverman's? Fisher's Bigwheel? Stop n' Shop?

How about "Uncle Sid's" on Buckeye Road & E. 79th?

[denracer]

Originally Posted by dmikulec

Here's one I didn't see mentioned at all, sort of regional...

The Brown Derby restaurant that used to sit out by Cleveland Hopkins Airport.

That whole area of Brookpark Road has been reconfugured and the original cross-street rerouted so one can't even tell anything was ever there. Used to be a fairly large bar right across the street if I'm not mistaken. Think the road was named Clifton?

I grew up around Holland Road in Brookpark and McBeth Avenue in Fairview Park in the 60s and early 1970s before mom moved us kids away. My heart will aways be in Cleveland tho and my favorite radio station will aways be WMMS, home of the Buzzard.

Wow! my late wife lived on Holland Road across the street from the school

[denracer]

Originally Posted by Robinbach

I remember all of this, 90%. I lived on 110th and Woodland area, way back in the 50's! I remember going into a little alley to get fresh bread out of a store the size of a cubical. It was Orlando's bakery! Nobody is probably from that area here lol I loved my life in Cleveland, now in Maryland and I'm always homesick!

Orlando's has become a huge regional bakery, making the puffy white bread and calling it "Italian". They are now located on Grand Avenue near E.79th St. I worked at the National Castings Company that was the vine covered building on the corner where Woodhill Road turned into Quincy. They closed the castings company in the 70s and it's now an RTA bus garage.

Denny

[OhioNative]

I just got back from Mentor Ohio and got to have Mr. Hero and 2 great NE Ohio pizzas!!! It was also nice to see the Lake (although the wind blowing off the lake was chilly, and it was unusually cool for July!). Nice to visit my old home.

[hlaverdiere]

What about "pop?"

[OhioNative]

Originally Posted by hlaverdiere

What about "pop?"

When we were visiting Ohio last week, my Atlanta-born daughter got a kick out of people saying "pop" ( she can do a great imitation of our NE Ohio/Great Lakes accent with the word pop!). She knows it as "soda" or "coke."

[pirate_lafitte]

Originally Posted by OhioNative

When we were visiting Ohio last week, my Atlanta-born daughter got a kick out of people saying "pop" ( she can do a great imitation of our NE Ohio/Great Lakes accent with the word pop!). She knows it as "soda" or "coke."

I live in metro Atlanta and I say "pop". Some people have insisted that I say "coke". I do my own thing and I don't worry about it.