Cleveland Vintage Blog

Like any region in the United States, the people of the Midwest have their own language, a subset of slang and sayings that tell anybody, "Oh yeah, this person's definitely from the Midwest." Here is a look at 50+ of those phrases and sayings you might find while traversing around the Midwest. Getting a Midwesterner Excited If you rile up a Midwesterner one way or another, you're liable to hear one of these phrases: Ope! Uff da! For cryin' out loud Cheese and rice / Cheese and mice Oh, for cute! / Oh for fun!  Heavens to Betsy! / Jeez...

The time was the 1820s, when a terrible potato famine struck Ireland and the Irish population in Cleveland began to grow significantly, with many making the area surrounding the Cuyahoga River home. By no means was the initial surge to Cleveland overwhelming, with the numbers of Irish immigrants settling at around 500 by 1826, which led to the establishment of the first Catholic priest to serve the growing Irish population. The overall push to Cleveland of Irish families because of the Great Famine back home continued into the 1840s, with overall numbers swelling to well over 8,000 by the 1930s....

Whether you're begging for aliens to finally pay you a visit and take you with them or you're petrified at the thought of being abducted, you now have some odds to consider. A recent report analyzed more than 4,000 abduction reports in Ohio ranging from 2019 to 2024, which means that Ohioans have about a one in 89 chance of reporting an alien abduction (this boils down to one alien abduction for every 11,300 residents; Ohio has about 12 million people total).  Those figures put Ohio right in the middle of the pack in terms of states with the most...

A Bedford Staple Rooted in History If you have been around the greater Cleveland area for any length of time, specifically the Bedford area, you have probably heard or seen the Sirna name at least a few times. If you are a Bedford native, or you frequent Bedford for any reason, it is also quite probable that you have been to Sirna’s Café at 795 Broadway for what can only be described as the best comfort food money can buy. And if you at some point became a regular, it would not have been unusual for you to be greeted...

Back in 2014, I was a freelancer writing for a variety of publications. That spring, I was in Arizona to cover spring training mainly for the Associated Press, but I was pitching other story ideas around and Sports on Earth (RIP) agreed to pick up an interview I had with Jim Thome.  Thome's playing career ended after the 2012 season (it will never not be weird seeing him in a Baltimore Orioles uniform), and it felt then — and still does now to some extent — that the baseball world simply did not appreciate what he accomplished on the field....