Cleveland Vintage Blog
Bring Back the $1.99 MDP Burger!
During his ten-year NFL career, Michael Dean Perry was a six-time Pro Bowler, two-time All-Pro selection, and was the UPI Defensive Player of the Year in 1989. But the most important and lasting impact of Perry's career came during his time in Cleveland (he played for the Browns from 1988 to 1994), when he ushered in the magnificent MDP, a triple cheeseburger slathered in bacon - and circular bacon at that! Now, the MDP is no more and hasn't been for nearly 30 years, but maybe it's time we did something right for a change as a society and brought it...
Akron-native Thurman Munson Belongs in the Baseball Hall of Fame
Full disclosure: As a longtime Cleveland baseball fan, I have never found it easy to say anything nice about the New York Yankees, but if there was one individual in all my years of being a fan who has been able to bridge that natural rivalry, it would be Akron native Thurman Munson. You probably are aware that Munson died on August 2nd, 1979 in a plane crash in Green Ohio, near his home in Canton while practicing takeoffs and landings with his Cessna Citation. Munson had been flying for just over a year and this latest plane (his fourth) was...
The Cleveland Sandwich Club Visits Davis Bakery & Deli for Heavenly Roast Beef
Like any self-respecting human, I love a good sandwich. And Northeast Ohio is just full of great sandwiches, which we're going to chronicle here. Welcome to the Cleveland Sandwich Club. In the Cleveland Sandwich Club's inaugural journey, we visited Davis Bakery & Deli in Woodmere, located right on Chagrin Boulevard and a staple deli in Northeast Ohio for more than 75 years. Truth be told, I've been going to Davis for a while. I was working out of the house one day a couple years ago, and found myself in Woodmere, perusing the aisles of books at the Barnes & Noble...
The Glory Days of the WMMS Coffee Break Concerts
So, we all know that Cleveland is the Rock & Roll Capital of the World, right? But how many of you know that Cleveland’s heightened music passions were the catalyst in the early 1970s for then-WMMS program director Billy Bass to create the Coffee Break Concert Series that debuted in studio in 1972? Bass was approached with a live performance opportunity for a little-known artist, Carol Hall, who had just released her first album. Bass quickly accepted and Hall performed in the cramped WMMS production studio - and another piece of Cleveland music history was born. Everyone saw the potential...
You Guys vs. Y'all vs. Yinz: What's the Difference and Which Do You Say?
If you're from the Midwest, you might say something like, "Hey, you guys, wait up!" If you're from the South, you might say something like, "Hey, y'all, what can I get you to eat?" The breakdown - essentially a north vs. south indicator - is fairly simple at first glance, but there are some interesting trends to note about this grammatical usage and its continuing evolution in the English language (not unlike our previous foray into the pop vs. soda debate). For one thing, "you guys" has an inherently male connotation, and there simply isn't a viable second-person plural pronoun...