Cleveland Vintage Blog
Cleveland Has the Best Restaurant Tippers in the United States
If you live in Cleveland, you might already think that Northeast Ohio is home to some of the nicest, most generous people on the planet. But here's some statistical proof to back that up! According to a recent restaurant trends report from Toast, a digital platform for restaurants, Cleveland is home to the best tippers in the country. Toast compared 12 markets and the trends at both full-service restaurants and quick-service restaurants for both in-person and takeout orders. What the data shows is that Cleveland is the only market to tip above 20% (20.6%), making the city far and away...
Looking Back at the Yellow Cab Co. of Cleveland
It has only been about four-and-a-half years since Cleveland’s Yellow Cab Company ceased operations in June of 2017. We would also be willing to wager that if we took to the streets of Cleveland and asked a random group of people, there would be a small amount of them that would be able to tell you anything about the company that had a 90-year run all around town. The first thing that would probably come to mind about Yellow Cab's demise would be the rise of companies like Lyft and Uber that allow drivers to use their own vehicles to...
Ohio State and Michigan Faced Off in the First Outdoor Hockey Game at FirstEnergy Stadium
On February 18th, 2023, the Ohio State Buckeyes and Michigan Wolverines played in the Faceoff on the Lake, the first-ever outdoor hockey game at FirstEnergy Stadium in Cleveland. Pretty cool use for a fully outdoor stadium sitting on the banks of a lake in a Midwest city, huh? More than 45,000 people showed up to watch the historic game, a huge number for an outdoor college hockey game, but certainly nothing that should come as a surprise for anyone familiar with this hockey-obsessed region that has a long history of supporting the game. It doesn't hurt either that we're talking...
The Assassination of Mobster Danny Greene and How It Led to the Demise of the American Mafia
The title suggests an interest premise, does it not? Could it be possible that the bombing that ended Cleveland mobster Danny Greene’s “luck of the Irish” streak, as he himself referred to his ability to cheat death, had also been the start of the end of the strong Mafia influence nationwide? The question came up recently in casual conversation, so I went back and took a second look at an earlier article I had done on Danny Greene’s Cleveland reign as the city's “bomb king” in the explosive '70s. As mentioned above, Greene ultimately met his own explosive end in Lyndhurst...
The Ghoulardi All-Stars, a Charitable Endeavor Featuring Cleveland Legends
Most native Clevelanders are at least aware of Cleveland television pioneer legend Ghoulardi, or one Ernie Anderson, who went on to Hollywood fame as the voice of ABC television promos. Most memorable was his deep booming voice calling out the phrase “The Loooove Boat” in promotion of one of the network's most popular shows of the time. What most Clevelanders might not remember was Anderson’s use of his local fame here in Cleveland to organize other local celebrities as the Ghoulardi All- Stars to play football, basketball, and softball games to raise funds for local charities. These efforts on their part...