East 17th Street

Fish-eye view of Broadway Melody ballyhoo on East 17th, next to Loew's State, from Motion Picture News, April 27, 1929. on the right the Hawthorne Apartment building, 1818 E. 17th can be seen.  Also on the right can be seen the original Loew's State stage entrance which was razed in 1982 for the new stage house. I believe the Hawthorne was razed not long afterwards. Unsure why they chose 17th and not somewhere closer to the Stillman which was a couple blocks west of this location at 1111 Euclid Avenue for the bally photo.

Plat Book of The City of Cleveland, G.M. Hopkins Company, 1921, Volume 1, plate 2.

A few views along 17th from May 10, 2018. The red brick structure is Loew's State, the white terra-cotta structure is the RKO Palace and B.F. Keith Building.

About the only thing of interest I could find about the Hawthorne Apartments, from the Plain Dealer, May 26, 1910. This incident was eleven years before Loew's State opened.