Cleveland Memories Part 1

This is the Classic PBS Documentary about the Golden Age of legendary Cleveland. It includes interviews with local TV personalities as well as eyewitness accounts from people who remember fondly the memories of their childhoods and youth, and the magic of shopping in those wonderful Cleveland area stores. Going downtown to shop was something to look forward to, and something to remember.
Enjoy a trip down Memory Lane with this one-of-a-kind program, gathered from stock footage, with many personal accounts from lifelong Cleveland area residents. If you are among those privileged to share some of those memories you will appreciate this even more. Be sure to comment and feel free to share this video compilation with family and friends.

[@TH-nf1eo]

My parents moved us from Cleveland to Long Island when I was 14 years old and I was never the same again. Cleveland was a great place to be a kid. You could take the Rapid Transit to Municipal Stadium to see the Indians, there were movie theaters you walk or bike to, and all sorts of great places to go and things to do. How I missed it.

[@midnightrider7648]

My mom's parents came over on a boat from ireland about 1915. My grandfather drove a streetcar for a living. His route drove past old league park. He lived to be 98 yrs old, what a character.

[@brooklynbummer]

Born and spent 55 years in Cleveland and found it to an interesting place with lots to do and an interesting history. Yes I rode the street car under that bridge.

[@CuteCatFaith]

I was born in Cleveland in '57 and I remember from East Cleveland, it was long distance on the phone to call our friends over in Olmsted Falls. To visit my cousins in Brook Park, I took the Rapid Transit from Windemere Station and it was a long ride. I remember Cleveland was already sliding down in the '60s. Very sad, but I remember such funny things, such as "tourist homes" on Euclid Avenue between Noble Road and Prospect School where I went.

[@trappedinlafayette]

Cleveland is a great place to be from..............................

[@randykarencollinsworth2649]

My father and I both worked for RTA. My father started on when it was called CTS Cleveland transit system, driving the bus and then a rapid rail, then into the revenue department. I started at RTA in 1977 on the track department then in facility maintenance before leaving in 1991 we both have fond memories of working and living in Cleveland

[@Celluloidwatcher]

While I do not remember those old yellow street cars, I do remember the old CTS trolley busses, which I rode as a child once or twice with my Mom, and then they stopped running when I was 3. But thanks for uploading the video. It's always nice to remember how, not only Cleveland, but America was vibrant with a healthy infrastructure.

[@flautalee3090]

During my last year at CIM ‘77, I lived off campus. I loved taking the street cars that went down the middle of the street. They made me a little nervous ~ very different from where I lived in Northern Virgina.

[@stylecollective-qt9um]

While they certainly had their share of civil unrest and city mismanagement, it was a great city once: my memories of how great things were even for just an average family, they are memories that can't be traded for anything and to see how the city has descended into the pit of hell breaks my heart.

[@ronhemberger6955]

I lived, worked and graduated college in Cleveland, all on Euclid Avenue. College was Fenn at 24th and Euclid. I worked at the AAA next door while in school and in the Stouffer Building 1375 Euclid afterwards. We lived in an apartment at 16908 Euclid, then moved down the road, which turned into Mentor Avenue. We lived there, too.

[@essessessesq]

Ron, tnhat goes back a ways...i was at CSU when they bought the AAA building...late 1960s...they have preserved it nd still own it

[@brooklynbummer]

Yes, I remember the ice box and iceman, the coal furnace, cleaning out the clinkers and hauling the clinkers out to the trash.

[@nikkiboo3184]

Damn. The street cars sound so fun

[@BurlingtonNorthernModeler]

Nice video!

[@treelover4615]

I was born in 1940. My Father loved to take me on the streetcar that went under the Detroit Superior bridge. The seats were wicker and me as a child wearing short pants, the wicker seats left an imprint on the back of my legs.

[@albertotoddie]

😊 Me too 1940! Wish Atlanta had the same transit system! And trains as well thru the State.

[@mjarail]

Trolleyville USA no longer exists. The collection has been liquidated to other museums, including the Northern Ohio Railway Museum in Chippewa Lake.

[@rogertayloRRR]

Nice .what year was this video?

[@rosemariekury9186]

I grew up in Cleveland too on the east side. Was a wonderful area until "urban renewal" slammed it's ugly face there. Now if anything is left is unlivable. I remember the trolleys, but what was great was the Rapid Transit. The buses ran 24/7 too so we took the bus everywhere when we were teens and I took the Rapid Transit to work. Fond memories of Euclid Beach and the metropolitan parks. I worked at the May Company and remember Public Square and Terminal Tower.

[@midnightrider7648]

Rosemarie Kury: my mom was born in cleveland in 1921. My dad fought on omaha beach amongst the 1st wave that landed on omaha beach on d-day. They grew up on the east side. Met each other after ww2. I heard all the great stories of the old cle neighborhoods. My mom passed last month. My dad passed in 2013. I miss them so much. I look at these videos to see what they lived thru.

[@essessessesq]

do you recall on Public Square the great aroma from Peterson's Nut House?

[@wassabi-g7p]

5:01 😱

[@RWRogers]

What decade is this

[@pablotupone4190]

Le Bron will save Cleveland

[@kellyjohnson9394]

Did African Americans live in Cleveland at that time?