B&O Station

 The former B&O Station on Canal Road behind Union Terminal.

Sherwin-Williams Building

 A look at the new Sherwin-Williams Building on Public Square from Saturday afternoon.

Church of the Ascension

 Church of the Ascension, 13216 Detroit Avenue, from last week.

Exposing Cleveland's Sin Circus

 A sordid tale from Exposing America's Sin Cities, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter, 1956, don't know if there's any other issues. I got this copy from a guy name John Wallace Skinner who once ran an Americanna store in the Caxton Building. Most of what he had was high end art, but he also had a lot of odd ephemera.

Shaker Heights Rapid Transit 12

 Shaker Heights Rapid Transit 12 at the Northern Ohio Railway Museum last month. This car was built by Kuhlman in 1914 for the Cleveland Railway Company as 1212, sold to the Shaker Rapid in 1920.

Lake Avenue

 Lake Avenue looking west from Cove, it's beginning to look autumnal.

Nickel Plate Freight Station

 The Nickel Plate Freight Station in Fremont. It appears to still be in use by Norfolk Southern.

Clifton Boulevard

 Clifton Boulevard, looking west from Cove. I hate crossing this street.

Cleveland Block

 Bricks on a railway station platform in Fremont Ohio.

Rocky Glen Lake

 Rocky Glen Lake, October 18, 2013.

Birds on a Fence

 Spotted this the other day, those little sparrows sure made quite the cacophony.

Le Dumont D'urville

 Le Dumont D'urville departing Cleveland a couple weeks ago.

Highland Manor

 An interesting looking doorway along Detroit Avenue.

Despina's Bakery

 Despina's Bakery, 11823 Detroit Avenue is a great spot for a quick cup of coffee, baked goods from Greece are the specialty here, and they're very good.

Sparky's Pizza Co

 We stopped by Sparky's Pizza Company, 1 West Main Street in Downtown Seville a few weeks back. A great little spot for lunch while visiting the nearby Northern Ohio Railway Museum.

Westbound Freight

 CSX 7026 leads a westbound stacker through Berea last Saturday afternoon.

Nay Aug Falls

 Nay Aug Falls, Sunday, October 13, 2013.

Berea Tower

 Berea Tower last Saturday afternoon.

CTS 112

 CTS 112 at the Northern Ohio Railway Museum, from last month.

At A Theatre Near You

 Neighborhood listings, from the Plain Dealer, October 11, 1963.

Reading Is A Treat

 Reading garden at West 65th & Franklin, last week.

Eastbound Freight

 An eastbound Norfolk Southern freight at Berea last Saturday afternoon.

Bounce House

 We passed by a bounce house festival in Berea over the weekend.

Trackmobile

 Trackmobile at the Northern Ohio Railway Museum.

St Peter's Cathedral

 St Peter's Cathedral, October 4, 2015.

Jed Ellis

 The recent passing of Jed Ellis came as a shock to me.

Jed at the English Oak Room in Cleveland Union Terminal, from Tower City Times, Spring, 1982.

I first met Jed when Todd Reeves brought him up to the RKO Palace projection room, where I was living in the summer of 1974. He was in town for the summer visiting his sister who happened to be dating our PR guy and got him a summer job at the theatres.

And did we have the task for him. In the basement of the Loew Building was a large pool of slime, caused by the overflowing grease trap from the kitchen in the former restaurant space we were using for the run of Brel. It was pretty grotty down there, a rather unpleasant aroma filled the area, plus the rats were getting sick off the slime pool, a really nasty problem none of us had the stomach to deal with. Luckily a new guy just showed up, so we sent poor Jed down there with a bucket and a shovel, and he did a great job. Welcome to Show Biz.

He was around for the rest of the summer, when he left to go return to Connecticut to finish school, he vowed to be back the following summer, and he was. Over the next several years we did all sorts of tasks together, including pumping ice water off the roof of Loew's Ohio during the spring thaws after those nasty late 1970's winters. He was one of the few people who would go the extra mile on a project that didn't pay much but would do anything to help move it forward. Saving those theatres was quite the thankless task. The people who did the actual work got none of the glory and are forgotten by the people there now. When Playhouse Square kicked us all to the curb at the end of the 70's, we both ended up at the RKO Palace in Columbus along with Ray Shepardson and some of the Cleveland gang, including Jed's mother Joan, a great lady who was Ray's secretary for a number of years. In 'Lumbus Jed, along with his future/former wife Vickie and myself rebuilt all the light fixtures there, including the large chandeliers on the mezzanine, and in the auditorium. Great to work on a project that was properly funded, unlike Playhouse Square where it was a hand-to-mouth operation.

Later we'd go our separate ways, Jed was with Ray in Louisville, before coming back to Cleveland where he worked on the English Oak Room in the Union Terminal.  Jed was a great guy, liked by everyone he met, God Bless Him.

The old theatre gang on my wedding night, Tom Bindernagel, Jed Ellis, me, Bob Bindernagel.

Cleveland Skyline

 View from the New Innerbelt Bridge.

Ohio Bell Building

 The Ohio Bell Building from the Erie Street Cemetery.

Frank's Falafel House

 We like to stop by Frank's Falafel House, 1823 W 65th Street, at Franklin every so often, great lunch. They also have an all-day breakfast here. This is a great place to go.

CTS 201

 Cleveland Transit System 201 at the Northern Ohio Railway Museum.

CSU Tower

 The Cleveland State tower, seen from Erie Street Cemetery on Saturday afternoon.

St. James Church

 St. James Church, 17514 Detroit Avenue.