Other things only a Clevelander would know/appreciate

[gary toomey]

Ate there a lot good grub, Also ate at Tony's Pizza on 20 near Chects trailer park. Cicerilles, Kenny King Manners and Weavers Restraunt later known as Henny Pennys by Hacks trailer park. Used to love that part or Ohio, Vietnam ripped me away and desrroted my good memoried.

[Durhamlou]

Originally Posted by Willowick131

Anyone from Shoregate School? Remember Federals in Shoregate Shopping Center in Willowick? Euclid Beach, Kenny Kings on Lake Shore Blvd and their drawer of prizes for kids?

Going to Master Pizza in a group?

remember Shoregate Lanes ? I was just thinkking about the Kenny King on Lakeshore Blvd because I am looking for a recipe that could duplicate the onion rings they had. Those were the the best thing thay had on the menu.

[Hitthespot]

Originally Posted by donp68

the neighborhood, if still there, was the old original corduroy road. if you went up garden (i think) til it ends at the lake then turn left, it was where corduroy used to run along the lake. it now has a big guard rail where the road washed away and fell into the lake. this road went quite a ways down the lake with about 15 houses on it, then it made a sharp left and came out where noziks marina is. i think al nozik is gone and the marina changed hands, and i don't know what it is called now. but anyway, if you were entering the marina from lakeshore blvd, as you come down the driveway it makes a sharp left in front of a big blue building. this building is built right where corduroy road came out. go behind the building and there is an opening in the trees where the road used to be. follow it north towards the lake and there is a little side street that goes off to your left. at the end of this old street is a big set of gates with an old brass sign that reads mentor deer park.
story behind this place is that a guy built it to raise deer he imported from china. the wrought iron fence he put in is only 8 feet tall. these deer were capable of jumping 12 feet. so most escaped and bred with our local deer. when you see deer with red color in their fur, they are most likely offspring of the chinese deer that were imported here back in the 30's or so.
when i was a kid, we used to play in all the houses back there. some were still completely furnished. the street lights would still come on at night. that was nearly 30 years ago, so i wonder whats left there now, if anything. i wish i would have taken that old brass sign from that set of gates. probably a really cool piece of pretty unknown mentor history there. i've only met two other people in all the years i've asked who knew about or remembered this place.

The road that runs along the lake is headlands road. In fact it is still called headlands road but there isn't much left. It does go all the way into the marina but it is more of a path now. Corduroy is the main road that comes in off of lakeshore. This is where I grew up. My parents still live on Corduroy. We were hiking over the weekend and found the reminents of the old deer park buildings and houses that used to be back there. There is also an old grave dated 1841 of a woman from Berkshire Mass and was 29 when she died. Few people know about it. Nozik's place (marina) is now been turned into a park and is owned by ODNR and all of those acre's of woods can be visited. It is the largest plot of undeveloped land on Lake Erie. Its great. I am trying to place where this road with the sign is but can't since it has been turned into a park and many things may have changed. Maybe you could give a little more detail. I will look for this sign while hiking this week.

There are no homes anymore along headlands road between the headlands and the marina. Just a dirt path around 3 feet wide. I'm not even sure this is the road although Google Earth still calls it headlands road. I believe the road is over the hill between the path and lake, and covered with debree.

I believe the orginal posters question was about the houses at the end of Corduroy road after you pass the shopping center. There are still homes on the south side of the road that goes left and right at the end of corduroy ( only about 50 yards in each direction.) but the houses or cottages on the north side (lake side) are over the hill on the beach and can't be seen. I doubt these are the houses you are talking about. I think the old homes fell over you are talking about and the cottages were built some time later right on the beach level.

We moved to Mentor Headlands when I was 14 over 35 years ago and the Deer park was already gone. My father remembers it from when we lived in Cleveland and he used to come to the headlands to hunt. I can't find any information on the Deer park and if anyone knows of any information I would appreciate them pointing me to it.


Thanks
Bill