2 posts tagged “euclid”

i'm torn. cool cleveland has listed two events i want to go to equally badly tonight. my choices are:

1. Fifteen Cleveland women are profiled in a documentary film for TV Slovenia. 100% Slovenian: Stories of Slovenian Women in America makes its Cle debut at the Euclid Library on Thu 6/19. C-town is the country's Slovenian capital; the film was well-received in recent European festivals, and nominated for a Slovenian "Emmy" award. Call 496-4646 or visit http://www.euclidlibrary.org/Public/home.asp.
 

i'm greatly interested in this doc (i'm all slovenian), and don't know when i'd get the chance to see it again. plus, my grandpa, a lifelong euclid resident, might even want to go.

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2. HOT Coventry Street Arts Fair It's a party like no other Thu 6/19 from 6 - 9PM, featuring a spectacular slate of arts and culture events. Check out the band Vital Mines, laugh with the Something Dada comedy troupe, bop with the Cleveland Jazz Project and hear the iconic Harvey Pekar at Mac’s Backs! The Cleveland Museum of Art will be running family art projects during the evening and Coventry merchants will hold their traditional "Sidewalk Sale." Grab some nosh from Coventry restaurants and check out local artists, farmers, and vendors. Spend Your Summers at the Coventry Street Arts Fairs! http://www.coventryvillage.org/events.html.

harvey pekar reading from his new book?! i've never seen him in person before, and he's one of my idols.

hmmmmm......

 

 

i stumbled upon this photo of the bali-ha'i in euclid on the cleveland memory project's archives and it brought me back. we passed by this place a zillion times throughout my childhood, since my grandparents lived in euclid. i always was intrigued by the sign; it must have triggered daydreams of exotic travel in my kid mind. too bad it's no longer there.

the cleveland memory project's yesterday's lakewood illustrated history sucked me in for hours and hours today. the archive contains over 2,000 photos dating from the early 20th century through the early 1990s. i like trying to find the places i frequent and seeing what they used to be -- like the u.s. post office on warren road that was once a fisher foods supermarket. or the city ice & fuel co. ice-skating rink that was in its day the largest refrigerated skating area in the country, before the city of lakewood purchased it in 1961, and built the winterhurst ice rink. or reading about the histories of the mansions along lake road. i feel lucky to live in a place that is kind of an anti-cookie-cutter modern suburb. lakewood grew up with cleveland. it's got a rich history, incredible nature and a ton of quirky, interesting architecture. i'm posting some of my favorite photos from the aforementioned archive below.