Cleveland Vintage Blog

This is the million-dollar question for downtown Cleveland - well, at least until we also get some clarity on that property currently occupied by the Cleveland Browns' stadium. What will the city do with Burke Lakefront Airport? During Mayor Justin Bibb's tenure, the future of the Burke property has garnered an increasingly large focus; after all, this could become a tremendously valuable piece of lakefront property for Cleveland. There have been plenty of stops and starts over the years when it comes to deciding the future of Burke, but it does feel like the writing is ultimately on the wall for Burke...

Cleveland has quite a bit of history that has gone by the wayside, but one legacy that remains strong today is that of one Euclid Beach Park. Euclid Beach Park, situated on ninety-plus acres right on Lake Erie east of Cleveland at the end of E. 156th Street, began operations in 1895 and continued through good times and bad for 74 years until closing for good in 1969. Meant to be Cleveland’s answer to New York’s Coney Island, its storied legacy almost did not survive its first five years, losing around $20,000 per year, making its continued existence shaky at...

When it comes to Cleveland history, we would be willing to bet that even the heartiest of native Clevelanders would be hard-pressed to explain how the name Archibald Willard arrives on the list. However, as the old saying goes, you are never too old to learn something new, so here goes. Archibald Willard was an American painter who was born and raised in Bedford, Ohio, which was also the home to Cleveland baseball legend Elmer Flik. Who Was Archibald Willard? Willard's interest in art developed early, and he was known to draw his creations on anything at his disposal, including the...

Paranormal activity knows no bounds, and chasing those strange occurrences took Fox Mulder and Dana Scully all over the United States throughout their time with the X-Files.  And in a recent rewatch of the show, I had forgotten about an early season-three episode that saw Mulder and Scully visiting Cleveland, Ohio. In "2Shy," the pair are investigating a series of murders in Northeast Ohio where a mutant killer is meeting unsuspecting women through online chat rooms and extracting their body fat for sustenance, essentially dissolving/liquifying the victims in the process. Our 2Shy mutant would certainly give the Torso Murderer a run...

When people think of Eliot Ness's time in Cleveland, they generally think of one of two things: his tireless pursuit of the "Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run," America’s deadliest unidentified serial killer, or perhaps his time in Cleveland as the Director of Public Safety, overseeing both the police and fire departments. One thing we are fairly certain of is that few will say that what they remember most about Ness's time in Cleveland is when he ran an ill-fated and disastrous campaign to become the city's mayor in 1947. Eliot Ness's Time in Cleveland, Ohio Because of things like Kevin...