Description
Do you remember the “broken cookie store?” Free dish night at the Marval Theater? Saturdays at the Rollercade? Crusin’ on Lorain Avenue? Riding the interurban? The smell of fresh bread coming from the neighborhood bakery?
If so, this is the book for you. Inside are 72 stories about life on Cleveland’s Near West Side in the first half of the 20th Century, including . . . Summer afternoons at Perkins Beach . . . Playing “cops and robbers” in the alley . . . Hanging out at Heck’s . . . Visits from the “umbrella man” . . . penny candy at the corner store . . . and lots more!
Table of Contents
Really—Where is The Near West Side?
Bakeries
Whiskey Island: The Island That Isn’t There
A Potpourri of Memories
Cleveland Sandlot Baseball
What We Did For Fun
Early 1900s
The Gordon Neighborhood
Winter Fun
Rollercade
Early Nineteenth Century Immigrants’ Contribution to Cleveland
A Man to Remember
The “Paper Rex” Man
West Side Memories
James Ford Rhodes
West Side Community House
Day Care Baby
Pizza, Potato Chips, Ice Cream—Back When
The Corner Store
Rubbish Pickin’
Abbey Market
Penny Candy
John Patrick “Johnny” Kilbane
Rail Transportation
Alleys
Street Scenes
Bridges
Stockyards
Drugstores
Breweries
Some West Side “Good Old Days” Reflections
Out to Eat
To Market, To Market
Joseph & Feiss Company
The Heisman House(s)
The Teachout House
Lost in the ’50s
Gone Fishin’
Orchard School
Door Service
Second Empire Italianate
William L. Halloran
The West Side Hungarian Lutheran Church
Pops
A Former St. Ignatius H.S. Student Remembers
Harry O
I Could Have Danced All Night
1950s Music
1956
Cudell
Memories of Greenwood
Neighborhoods Mid-Century
Old Movie Theaters
Summer in the City
Housing Along the Lake
Coming of Age
It Wasn’t Club Med
Looking Back
Shopping
Some Hard Ways
Broken Cookie Store
Churches—A Legacy of Cultures
“Solid as a Rock”
Memories of Youth
My Life on The Near West Side
St. Stephen School Days
St. Patrick’s Bridge
St. Colman
St. Mary’s On-The-Flats
Miles of Walking
The Old Neighborhood
A Special Club—A Special Place and Time
