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Rather than continue to hijack the thread on the High Desert, I thought I should continue my discussion with a new thread... and invite others to showcase their hometown... or where they live.
MrBungle- Was there for 40 years. That place is cursed and I do not miss it.
They don’t call Cleveland a mistake by the lake for nothing.
"The Mistake by the Lake" is a long-outdated term for Cleveland going back to the late 60s when the Cuyahoga River famously caught fire in 1969 thanks to various heavy industries dumping chemicals into the river. Since then, many of the heavy industries have left... as they have for many former Steel Belt cities (Detroit, Toledo, Youngstown, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, etc...). Pittsburgh, the "Steel City" doesn't have a single steel mill remaining. The Cuyahoga River fire combined with the heavy algae (caused by agricultural/fertilizer run-off) in Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes led to the establishment of the EPA and the cleanup of many of the cities surrounding the Great Lakes.
Cleveland, like any major US city, has its problems... first among these being the obvious racial divide and disparity between the West and East sides of town. The city proper has lost population, but Greater Cleveland, which includes the immediate surrounding neighborhoods (Cleveland Heights, Bratenahl, Euclid, Shaker Heights, Rocky River, West Lake, Avon Lake, etc...) remains a major population center with many things to see and do. Housing in Cleveland and the suburbs is more than reasonable and often includes large grassy yards with billowing trees.
I lived in a neighborhood like this one above on a teacher's salary. For a short period of time I lived a few houses away from the Franklin Castle, supposedly the most haunted house in Ohio:
Downtown Cleveland and the Lakefront have undergone major renovations and clean-up over the past decades:
There are many marvelous works of architecture around the city. The baseball team formerly known as the Indians and now as the Guardians were named after the Art Deco statues of "Guardians" on the bridge connecting the East and West sides across the Cuyahoga:
The Cleveland Aracade is one of only 3 surviving Art Nouveau wrought iron arcades in the world (the others being in London and Paris):
The Arcade is especially spectacular during the Christmas holidays.
The Theater District is also spectacular:
The Theater District combined with the major sports stadiums and arenas mean that Clevelanders have continual access to theatrical performances such as plays, operas, ballet, broadway productions, and performances by pop stars... such as Elton John during his farewell concert:
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MrBungle- Was there for 40 years. That place is cursed and I do not miss it.
They don’t call Cleveland a mistake by the lake for nothing.
"The Mistake by the Lake" is a long-outdated term for Cleveland going back to the late 60s when the Cuyahoga River famously caught fire in 1969 thanks to various heavy industries dumping chemicals into the river. Since then, many of the heavy industries have left... as they have for many former Steel Belt cities (Detroit, Toledo, Youngstown, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, etc...). Pittsburgh, the "Steel City" doesn't have a single steel mill remaining. The Cuyahoga River fire combined with the heavy algae (caused by agricultural/fertilizer run-off) in Lake Erie and the other Great Lakes led to the establishment of the EPA and the cleanup of many of the cities surrounding the Great Lakes.
Cleveland, like any major US city, has its problems... first among these being the obvious racial divide and disparity between the West and East sides of town. The city proper has lost population, but Greater Cleveland, which includes the immediate surrounding neighborhoods (Cleveland Heights, Bratenahl, Euclid, Shaker Heights, Rocky River, West Lake, Avon Lake, etc...) remains a major population center with many things to see and do. Housing in Cleveland and the suburbs is more than reasonable and often includes large grassy yards with billowing trees.
I lived in a neighborhood like this one above on a teacher's salary. For a short period of time I lived a few houses away from the Franklin Castle, supposedly the most haunted house in Ohio:
Downtown Cleveland and the Lakefront have undergone major renovations and clean-up over the past decades:
There are many marvelous works of architecture around the city. The baseball team formerly known as the Indians and now as the Guardians were named after the Art Deco statues of "Guardians" on the bridge connecting the East and West sides across the Cuyahoga:
The Cleveland Aracade is one of only 3 surviving Art Nouveau wrought iron arcades in the world (the others being in London and Paris):
The Arcade is especially spectacular during the Christmas holidays.
The Theater District is also spectacular:
The Theater District combined with the major sports stadiums and arenas mean that Clevelanders have continual access to theatrical performances such as plays, operas, ballet, broadway productions, and performances by pop stars... such as Elton John during his farewell concert:
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