Sunday, August 31, 2025

Nay Aug Falls

 The falls was really roaring after a torrential tropical storm, August 28, 2011.

Saturday, August 30, 2025

Lackawanna 663-664

 DL&W 663 and 664 on Bridge 60, September 2, 2011.

Friday, August 29, 2025

Superior Avenue

 Looking east on Superior from West 9th back on June 21st.

Thursday, August 28, 2025

Amtrak 51

 AMT 51 at Penn Station, Harrisburg, July 30, 2004.

Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Klots Throwing Co.

 The Klots Throwing Company building in Carbondale, from August 21, 2010.

Tuesday, August 26, 2025

West 38th Street

 Looking south on West 38th Street, from Lorain Avenue last week.

Monday, August 25, 2025

Cleveland Trust Bank

 A former Cleveland Trust Bank building on Lorain Avenue, at Fulton.

Sunday, August 24, 2025

St. Mary's Church

 St. Mary's Church on River Street, August 14, 2010.

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Sidewalk Closed

 Always some sort of construction going on, this is on Edgewater Drive last week.

Friday, August 22, 2025

Lake Shore Towers

 The old Lake Shore Towers at Cove & Edgewater Drive is quite the imposing structure, built in 1929.

Thursday, August 21, 2025

Fridrich Bicycle

 Stopped by Fridrich Bicycle, 3800 Lorain Avenue the other day. The store is closing at the end of the month, stop by and check it out. According to the article below, they've been there since 1883.


Dusty Plain Press article from May 14 - 27, 1985.

Wednesday, August 20, 2025

Squirrel

 Squirrel on a Nickel Plate boundary marker, Cove Park last Sunday morning.

Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Cleveland Skyline

 View from behind some Edgewater Drive buildings on an overcast Sunday.

Monday, August 18, 2025

City Diner

 Stopped by the City Diner, 5109 Memphis Avenue, the other day, neat place on the west side.

Sunday, August 17, 2025

Big Creek

 Looking upstream at Big Creek from foot bridge in Brookside Park last month.

Saturday, August 16, 2025

Delaware-Lackawanna 4068

 DL 4068 at Carbondale, August 21, 2010. The 4068 has recently been painted in the classic D&H "lightening stripe" scheme.

Friday, August 15, 2025

B&O Bridge

 Baltimore & Ohio bascule bridge, viewed from the trolley deck of the Detroit Superior Bridge back in June.

Thursday, August 14, 2025

VJ Day

 The official word came in a 7 PM Eastern War Time flash...

Plain Dealer, August 15, 1945. The official VJ is September 2, the day of the Jap surrender, legally it was August 15 in the US. However the unofficial celebration began that warm Tuesday evening. In Cleveland it started with a cheer in front of the Telenews Theatre, 241 Euclid Avenue, and spread like wildfire. See the Loveland article below.

Plain Dealer, August 15, 1945.
 Plain Dealer, August 15, 1945.
 "Practically everybody who wasn't dead was out." 
 
Plain Dealer, August 15, 1945.
Liberty, May 30, 1942. General MacArthur's autobiography should be required reading for everyone in the White House and Congress.

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Detroit - Superior Bridge

 Looking west across the Detroit-Superior Bridge, back on June 21st.

Jazz Time Revue

 Jazz Time Revue at the Empire, 850 Huron Road, from the Plain Dealer, August 23, 1925.

Tuesday, August 12, 2025

Bridge View

 View of the Union Terminal complex from the trolley deck of the Detroit-Superior Bridge, from June 21st.

Monday, August 11, 2025

Canadian Pacific 2317

 CP 2317 at Steamtown Yard, August 29, 2009.

Sunday, August 10, 2025

Cuyahoga River

 Cuyahoga River, looking downstream towards the Main Avenue Bridge, back on June 21st.

Saturday, August 9, 2025

Colgate Court

 Looking west on Colgate Court from near West 65th Street, from a couple weeks ago.

Friday, August 8, 2025

Sanders Cigars

 An interesting use of lawfare against Dan Sanders and his cigar store at 733 Vincent Avenue, from the Plain Dealer, August 21, 1925.

Thursday, August 7, 2025

RTA 809

 RTA 809 on the Waterfront Line back on June 21st.

Wednesday, August 6, 2025

1468 West 9th Street

The new addition to the Western Reserve Building at 1468 West 9th Street, built c.1990, from a few weeks ago.

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Lincoln Park

 Lincoln Park on a hot summer afternoon a few weeks ago.

Monday, August 4, 2025

Philadelphia Suburban 76

 Philadelphia Suburban 76 Southbound at Connell Jct, August 15, 2008.

Sunday, August 3, 2025

Pilgrim Congregational Church

 Pilgrim Congregational Church, 2592 West 14th Street, from last month. I really need to get here early in the morning for a better photo op.

Saturday, August 2, 2025

Nickel Plate 180

 NKP 180 leads Train 9, The Blue Arrow past the walkway near West 96th Street in this late 1950's view from Railroad, July 1977. The Blue Arrow departed Union Terminal at 7 AM and is due at Rocky River at 7;20, with a St. Louis arrival time of 7:45 AM the following day, according to the April 27, 1958 NKP public timetable.

The 180 was the first of the PA's to arrive on the NKP in December 1947.

Friday, August 1, 2025

RTA 3387

 RTA 3387, running inbound, passing the Norval Theatre Building, 5306 Storer Avenue last Sunday afternoon.