One famous person who was born in Cleveland is fictional. It’s Superman. But he wasn’t born the old fashioned way, it was with the merging of the creative minds and hands of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.Joe Shuster (July 10, 1914 - July 30, 1992) was born in Canada, but his family moved to the Cleveland area in the mid-1920s, when Shuster was 10 years old. Jerry Siegel (October 17, 1914 – January
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Wednesday, 20 August 2008
Cleveland’s "Other" Arcades
Posted on 12:43 by jackson
The ArcadeWhen everyone thinks of an arcade in Cleveland, they think of “The” Arcade, (above) which sits between Euclid Avenue and Superior, and is now part of the Hyatt Regency hotel. Of course, it is an impressive building. But there are two other, smaller arcades very close by on the other side of Euclid Avenue that deserves more attention and respect than they get.Built in 1898, The Colonial
Saturday, 16 August 2008
"The Rocker" Set To Rock Cleveland - and The World
Posted on 13:32 by jackson
The Cleveland Plain Dealer recently featured a movie whose story is set in Cleveland, with some of the exteriors filmed in Cleveland. It’s called “The Rocker” and stars Rainn Wilson. The film opens nationwide on Wednesday, August 20. Take a look at the trailer; the Plain Dealer article is below. "The Rocker" Preview Clip from the Film's YouTube ChannelRainn Wilson pounds and preens for laughs as
Friday, 15 August 2008
Cleveland’s Collection of Children’s Shows
Posted on 04:43 by jackson
Back when there were only a handful of TV channels from which to choose – Channel 3 (WKYC/KYW), Channel 5 (WEWS) and Channel 8 (WJW), locally produced programming for the kids in town was a very big deal. Cleveland had a whole litany of stars for the kids: Captain Penny (Ron Penfound) with Jungle Larry; Mr. Jingeling (played by Max Ellis, Carl Mackey, and Earl Keyes); Barnaby (Linn Sheldon) and
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Monday, 11 August 2008
The Rose-Mary Center: Cleveland’s Living Angels
Posted on 07:56 by jackson
There are some places in Cleveland area that may be relatively unknown to people, that is, until they find themselves in need of their services. The Rose-Mary Center may be one of those places. You may have heard their name mentioned on Cleveland radio station Mix 106.5 when they have on-line ticket auctions for special concerts, but you may not have ever bothered to find out exactly what it is
Wednesday, 6 August 2008
To Forbes Magazine: Reports of our Death are Greatly Exaggerated
Posted on 03:34 by jackson
An editorial Cleveland makes another list, this one from Forbes Magazine, calling Cleveland one of “America’s Fastest-Dying Cities”. More specifically, in the pictorial summary of the cities, they list the area as the “Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, Ohio, metropolitan statistical area.” And I am not quite sure of the location of photo of Cleveland that they used (see below), but it hardly represents
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