”CLEVELAND: CITY ON SCHEDULE” 1962 CLEVELAND, OHIO URBAN RENEWAL & DEVELOPMENT FILM XD37794

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This film from 1962 promotes Cleveland’s greater urban renewal project, highlighting the demolition of deteriorated neighborhoods, the rebuilding and rehabilitation of residential areas, and the billion-dollar developments of highways, hospitals, schools, universities, and public spaces. The film, produced by General Pictures Corporation for the Cleveland Development Foundation, is written by Frank Siedel of Storycraft and reported by Chet Huntley. The film was promoting a massive effort to rejuvenate Cleveland, which included transportation and urban renewal projects. The two efforts ended up draining population from the central city and severely affected the East Side. The developments were largely viewed as a failure.
Views of the Cleveland, Ohio, city skyline (00:10) “Cleveland - City on Schedule” title banner (00:16). The Cuyahoga River (00:34). Host Chet Huntley introduces the industrial routes of the city of Cleveland (00:52). Scenes from the steel-industry (01:14). Scenes of the production of aircraft parts, automotive parts, and machine tools, chemicals, paints, and metal fabricating (01:59). View from the centers of industrial, medical, and scientific research (02:27). The industrial quarters of Cleveland (02:46). Scenes from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (02:52). Workers are cleaning the Art Museum (03:20), and the Health Museum (03:29). An orchestra rehearsal at Severance Hall (03:38). A theater rehearsal at Cleveland Play House (03:52). Scenes from the Case Institute of Technology (04:15). The Zoo in Brookside Park (04:26). The Cleveland Stadium (04:37). A young boy is feeding a deer (04:43). Children playing baseball (04:50). Young women are spending time at the beach (04:54). Speedboating (04:59). Adults and children enjoy time at local museums (05:04). Traffic problems in Cleveland (05:36). Residential areas (05:47). Abandoned and deteriorated properties and neighborhoods (05:59). New neighborhoods in the Cleveland suburbs (06:53). Commercial institutions and industrial plants in the suburbs (07:13). Freeways connecting the city with the suburbs (07:53). Scenes of downtown Cleveland (08:00). A meeting with the local politicians and former mayor Frank Lausche at the Cleveland City Hall (08:37). (09:53). City planning commission chairman Ernest J. Bohn at the city hall archive (10:02). The ‘general plan’ report of 1949 about the development of the city (11:07). Urban director James M. Lister explains the general plan (11:19). The Innerbelt Bridge (12:54). Cleveland’s water system (13:02). The sewage treatment plant (13:07). Newly built schools (13:14). A segment with a representative from city hall viewed by residents in Cleveland (13:47). The poor Longwood area in Cleveland (15:14). A meeting between the mayor and federal authorities (16:02). Scenes from industrial neighborhoods in Cleveland (17:42). A meeting between city council members hosted by federal reserve bank chairman John Burton (18:19). Engineers and politicians investigate wasteland in the Kinsman Avenue neighborhood (19:35). A city council meeting (21:19). Citizens of Cleveland are voting at the polls (22:14). The general plan construction begins with the demolition and burning of deteriorated neighborhoods (22:30). The newly built housing and public and commercial properties of the area (23:19). Older neighborhoods to be preserved and improved (24:40). The monuments and traditions of Cleveland’s national groups located in the city (24:55). Locals attending meetings organized by the department of urban renewal and housing (25:47). Workers renovating existing properties (27:00). Scenes from the converted neighborhoods such as Longwood and Garden Valley (27:56). The Innerbelt freeway (28:05). The construction of a highway program (28:12). Newly built hospitals and health centers (28:17). Investments in improved fire and police departments (28:27). The improved and expanded airports (28:37). The improved public transportation system (28:58), and new parking facilities along the new freeways downtown and commercial areas of the city (29:06). The developed port facilities (29:20), and school expansions (29:27). A newly built public swimming pool (29:37). Civic center developments (29:46). University circle developments (29:57). Views of the general plan and developments of the urban renewal projects (30:17). Host Chet Huntley comments in the greater urban renewal project of Cleveland (30:59). A model-build of modern downtown living quarter-projects (32:02). Credentials (33:39).
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[@steveniksid5874]

Hard to believe today that Cleveland was the wealthiest city in the world in 1885.

[@afridgetoofar1818]

Thank you, John Rockefeller

[@midnightrider7648]

My dad worked for the city of Cleveland in the 50's, 60's, 70's & into the 80's. He landed on Omaha Beach the morning of d-day & fought in the battle of the bulge. He went to work every day despite the perils of times such as the Hough riots. He had no fear of the city because he had been to hell already. Thanks Dad. You are a true hero.

[@Daledavispratt]

Yes, we'll tear down the slums of today, to make the slums of tomorrow...a never-ending cycle.

[@SputnickSpooner-jg5gi]

I was 5 years old living there in 1962. It was still vibrant with industry (my father worked in the Flats and needed a junk car to take to work). This was the beginning of the downfall, but it was still an exciting place. Self proclaimed "Best Location in the Nation".

[@user-ms5ed6kd2j]

Or Mistake on the Lake 😎

[@ericschminke8233]

We lived in Berea from 1950-1962. I arrived on September 9th, 1953. Those were the best years of my childhood. Our neighborhood of Oakdale, Elmwood and Westbridge Dr. was thriving and energetic. Block parties were held every Memorial Day and July 4th holidays. Over the Memorial Day holiday in 1962 we had a neighborhood track meet. Those times will always be treasured. I wish I could take a quantum leap back to those days.

[@DerrickOil]

Seems like a nice place to live and work!

[@Ozama1221]

White majority then, and black majority now

[@Umberto2]

@@Ozama1221white people are to blame for fleeing like cowards

[@Nicksonian]

That's Chet Huntley reporting. He was co-anchor, with David Brinkley, of NBC's nightly news program.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

"Goodnight Chet," "Goodnight David," "and goodnight for NBC News."

[@Nicksonian]

@@WAL_DC-6B Yes, exactly. Thanks for that memory. The Huntley-Brinkley Report surpassed Walter Cronkite in the ratings for much of the 1960s.

[@Nicksonian]

My father started working in Erieview in 1964 when it opened. Eaton Corporation was a major tenant. My dad took me and my brother there...once. I remember running around the place on a Sunday.

[@Umberto2]

Did you ever go to the top floor restaurant?

[@Nicksonian]

@@Umberto2 Good question. I don’t think so. I remember my dad talking having lunch there regularly…martinis included…

[@ktoth29]

Longwood was originally the Severance estate in the 19th century…it then gave way to an orphanage and the neighborhood that is depicted here. This was replaced by the worst public housing project in Cleveland, and was just replace about ten years ago with a more modern style housing complex.

[@johnp139]

CLEVELAND didn’t MOVE OUT!!! The people and industry did!

[@stayingtrue2myself542]

This is the year I was born and My Birth Hometown!

[@jefftis1]

Me too!

[@MusclecarFred]

Same as the once great Chicago. Now just a good memory of the good days long gone.... So sad for so many large cities...

[@user-id8yf8dk1s]

I was born and raised in Cleveland until October 1968. We lived on 124th Street off St. Clare. I went to Iowa Maple and Hazeldale elementary school. I also attended Patrick Henry Middle School. I remember the riots after Martin Luther King's dea-- and the loitering that went on. It was a very scary time for our family so we moved to Maryland. As a child i always planned to move back but have since changed my mind. I still love Cleveland but will only visit. Its really run down from what I remembered .

[@ericbivins8014]

The old Columbian bench vise in the garage says Cleveland O MADE IN USA. on it

[@Daledavispratt]

I have a lot of tools made in Cleveland, still doing their jobs to this day, long after the plants that made them went away. I'm in Ohio, and I avoid Youngstown and Cleveland like the plague.

[@discodave4190]

@@DaledavisprattI live in Pittsburgh and have always enjoyed my trips for professional functions and personal reasons. Cleveland was the last place to which I traveled before the onset of the pandemic (to attend the Slovenian Festival and celebrate a friend's birthday). During the following year, I spent a day in Youngstown and had a great time.

[@ktoth29]

I also have a Colombian vise…repainted it a few years back…looks like new.

[@SputnickSpooner-jg5gi]

I have a 4" Columbia Vise that I use every week.

[@thekidfromcleveland3944]

Yeah we still waiting

[@johnp139]

“Industry Wasteland”? How could that POSSIBLY be a problem?!?

[@johnp139]

I wish that the Top of the Town was still in the Erieview Tower.

[@Nicksonian]

My dad worked in Erieview. He talked about Top of the Town. That's probably where he and his coworkers had many of their three-martini lunches. But I never got to go there.

[@johnp139]

I’m surprised that the river didn’t catch on fire 🔥!!!

[@BroskiTheGreat]

One of the greatest cities ever. Solid peeps.

[@lizcook]

We came to Cleveland 65 years ago, and my family had applied for a visa. We waited 6 years my mother had work As soon as we came, our family was pround that we had the opportunity to be in Cleveland. I went to school. l had leard English before we arrived. I still have friends in Ohio

[@drpoundsign]

I remember my parents driving me down Carnegie Avenue, from the Expressway through the Cleveland Clinic area, to see relatives in University Heights. That was a Scary area, back in the Seventies! Maybe it's a little less so at present, simply because most of the Slums are Gone. The housing actually seems Older, on Average, than Detroit, even though the City is technically Younger. I assume this is because the Steel, Oil (first used for Kerosene lamps) and Railroad Trusts predated the Automobile Industry. There are more Large multifamily homes, and apartment buildings.

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

Actually, Cleveland was the leading producer of automobiles until Ford

[@petebondurant58]

This is just plain depressing.

[@MoeLarrycurly1]

Words can be said and arguments can be started..

[@midnightrider7648]

Why not just say the TRUTH of why the inner city of Cleveland turned into a wasteland?

[@neohistoryfan1014]

what Cleveland school is/was that at 29:28?

[@Ericka0916]

Case western reserve university

[@Gannett2011]

Another great American city decimated by deindustrialisation. Blame the greedy corporations who sent all these jobs overseas for what is happening there now.

[@michaelkline884]

I agree I grew up at that time in far western Pennsylvania and my medium size town had two big steel mills one made only sheet metal for the auto industry and the trucks ran by my house day and night I got so used to it that I didn’t notice The other made seamless stainless steel pipes for nuclear reactors Bygone days forgotten

[@johnp139]

You obviously didn’t grow up there when the air was ORANGE FROM ALL OF THE F’ING POLLUTION!!!!!

[@user-ys5eo3eq2t]

The government set the industrial movement out of the USA into motion with evil GATT and NAFTA trade agreements.

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

Nah. Freeways and cars.

[@thomasfx3190]

Again, nobody did anything TO Cleveland. Cleveland had to compete with Japanese and Korean steel and didn’t innovate to take it head on. So they rolled up their businesses, laid off their employees and half the town departed westwards.

[@grimtea1715]

It would only get worse in Cleveland from here on out. Population as of 1960 was 876,000 (iwhich was a decrease from 1950) and it is now around 360,000 people.

[@josephbingham1255]

It's the left's push for demographic change that's the cause behind it all.

[@johnp139]

Rust belt

[@grimtea1715]

@johnp139 Yeah Brother, it's sad to see what has ha00ened to so many other places. Crazy to think that Detroit used to be wealthy, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, etc used to be so much better

[@josephbingham1255]

There is a video of Biden sitting next to a smiling Myorkas. Where Biden says "Someday most Americans will not look like me - and that's not a bad thing." Expect it to get worst unless someone strong enough to stand up to the left and deep state agenda. @@grimtea1715

[@Dadsezso]

@@grimtea1715 Foreign trade destroyed it all.

[@terrycain1811]

Cleveland is still managing to grow. A lot of money is vastly being poured into the city. It’s just not known by many people. Cleveland is actually thriving. I am a proud Clevelander.

[@fragout9575]

I grew up in Cleveland too!! I became an architect and currently live in Arizona now, but miss Cleveland a lot! Glad to hear it's still thriving and making a comeback!! I'll forever be a Clevelander and a Die-hard Browns, Cavs and Indians (Guardians) fan as well!!! I'd love to be apart of the growth there, even if from afar!!

[@thomasfx3190]

I just got here from Seattle 4 years ago and I like it fine!

[@weltraumaffe4155]

That's bullshit. People who say they are from Cleveland seldom live there. This is the Cleveland you are talking about: The Cleveland-Elyria Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is the metropolitan area that surrounds Cleveland, Ohio, and Elyria, Ohio, which is located 23 miles southwest of Cleveland. The MSA is also known as Greater Cleveland.

[@thomasfx3190]

@@weltraumaffe4155 Well I’m not from Cleveland, I grew up in Tacoma, Washington, but we moved here in 2020 and we live on the west side, it’s nice here, no traffic & great access to entertainment and I like to go to Guardians (Indians) games.

[@weltraumaffe4155]

@@thomasfx3190 You are a person that this city needs more of. I was born in the city of CLE and have lived on all four coasts and then some. WELCOME!

[@Vector_QF8]

This was just a crummy commercial for Ovaltine - I mean Erie View! Lol 😂

[@pbcanal1]

So let's put a freeway through those slums!

[@johnp139]

Elevated

[@Nicksonian]

That was done in every city across the US

[@tomfields3682]

They also put freeways through nice neighborhood s which turned them into slums.

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

Yep, cars and freeways destroyed our cities.

[@johnp.mullowney4749]

A great town, but the economic forces driving changes in a post WWII world were all beyond the cities control. This began a decline as the city peaked in the early 1950s and has not stopped as of today. The huge manufacturing base the city was home to has moved overseas, its workforce, largely unionized, provided hundred of thousands of jobs that supported many times that amount driving a prosperous middle class lifestyle, just disappeared in the 1970s and left the empty suit the town has become. The surrounding suburbs have thrived, despite the city issues, but not at a sustainable pace Cleveland provided itself. Today, 2024, the town and region is just treading water, waiting to change into something else, a process that has taken decades so far, and I am doubt it will get back to its past glory.

[@Umberto2]

It will probably become a boomtown again at some point, but not for many decades with climate change and water resources dwindling in the Southwest and West

[@kw1333]

23:16

[@danielwilkins7509]

Sadly, the PEOPLE, and the INDUSTRY left Cleveland, because of over-taxation, and the people of Cleveland, simply felt sorry for themselves, and didn't clean the place up. Nobody wants to live in a mess. Also, how often, did then-President, KENNEDY, visit CLEVELAND, the then-popular place, to live, and work. Also, we reaaly need to develope the lakefront, such as a LAKEFRONT-DEVELOPMENT PROJECT, proposed, by LAND STUDIOS, of CLEVELAND.

[@johnp139]

“Slum free city”, HAAA!!!

[@danorthsidemang3834]

He just patted the transparent mannequin on her butt.

[@vicepresidentmikepence889]

1:08..Iron or what? He never finished

[@sirllamaiii9708]

Lol

[@johnp139]

Iron AND PLENTY OF AIR POLLUTION!!!

[@kw1333]

24:22

[@user-oj1sq2qu1i]

По этому видео видно, что Америка в 60-тых уже обгоняла по развитию и уровню жизни почти все страны и СССР, в которой я родился. Но у нас при социализме жилье и квартиры давали людям бесплатно а в Америке дом нужно покупать за собственные деньги. Сейчас Америка сильно зависит от Китая, ведь многие американские производства перемещены в Китай. Получается США теперь зависит от Китая а Китай сильно зависит от США.

[@waltkeast9777]

What in the hell happened?

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

Freeways. Cars. Suburbs. Exurbs.

[@johnp139]

Did the schedule call for air quality that was capable of actually being breathed?!? Obviously NOT!

[@kanyecheedar9170]

Cities are an outdated concept

[@thomasfx3190]

I like the access to fire & police, retail, restaurants & bars, museums and theatre, paved roads & a reasonably clean cityscape. I could not live on 5 acres in a McMansion with a septic tank and a well and gravel roads and neighbors leaving dead cars and washing machines on their front porch.

[@theGIGbetween]

Little did they know what Garden Valley would become

[@TheRoland444]

We all love "progress." See what "progress" has gotten us? Progress is our most important product. Progress for people. We bring good things to life.

[@johnp139]

At least the air is no longer orange from air pollution!!!!

[@tomfields3682]

​@@johnp139But they didn't have to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

[@robertcarillio9126]

Still a large populace area. People just moved over the imaginary lines. The region could be considered over 3 mil. Add the tri-metro area and it could be considered at it over 5 mil. People running city exude much more intelligence than today. It is almost asinine in comparison. Although, some of these urban renewal plans proved just plain stupid. Putting streams under culverts, instead of restoring, preserving and incorporating them into green buffers, for example.

[@frankthewriter5937]

Having grown up in the area and having left as soon as I could, I can tell you that Cleveland just has too many things working against it… The all but vanished industrial base, the racial tension and resentment that led to the white flight to name a few… And don’t forget that God-awful dreary winter that seems to go on for nine months… I can remember as a child, the entire month of June being wrecked by lousy weather… So in that sense, no matter what they do to improve it most likely won’t work… People have moved on, and for good reason, leaving their friends and relatives back there to defend it for the rest of their lives😂😂😂

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

Quitter

[@danielwilkins7509]

All of the very BIG Metal-Working plants are gone. Just as Cleveland has a lot, of MICRO-BREWERIES? Use the same intuition, and know-how, and technology, to bring the world, MICRO-REFINERIES, and MICRO-FACTORIES.

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

There are plenty of micro factories..... that pay shit. And some of the big ones

[@brooklynbummer]

Cleveland was at its height back then. Sorry to see IRS decline since then.

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

"Cleveland. Dour, plain and boring. Just the kind of place I could find a story that didn't involve artillery. This is Edward R. Morrow reporting."

[@johnp139]

What is “dour”????

[@thomasgoodwin2648]

@@johnp139 dour adjective Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.Stern, harsh and forbidding.Unyielding and obstinate.

[@danadbrown91]

Cleveland will be USA's first 15 minute city.

[@discodave4190]

I live in Pittsburgh and am able to access most destinations within the city by automobile, walking, or public transit within 15 - 20 minutes. If Cleveand can do that - great!

[@ktoth29]

15 minute city is just the latest buzzword form “we’re going to spend millions of dollars to make things worse”

[@discodave4190]

@@ktoth29As I said, I already live in a "15-minute" city. No money was spent to acheive that specific designation. Stop making things up.

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

I advocate for the 15 minute pedestrian -centered model.

[@eddieafterburner]

Gee, looks like Cleveland’s “urban renewal” was about as successful as … Baltimore’s. Americans are great at throwing money around for flashy quick fix Band Aid projects, not so good at addressing core root issues for long term results.

[@Nicksonian]

I grew up in suburban Cleveland in the 1960s and '70s. I moved to Annapolis in 1986. I sold the house I grew up in when my mother died in 2017. While Cleveland and Baltimore are comparable, Ohio and Maryland are not. Ohio is swirling down the tubes and there's nothing that could ever get me to go back there.

[@Roadtripmik]

Baltimore didnt do that much urban renewal all the buildings are still there, they really screwed up the upton neighborhood tho: that was thru blockbusting, redlining and greedy real estate tactics

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

Erieview is a ghost town surrounded by parking craters

[@johnp139]

How could ANYONE think that SMOKING was actually SAFE?!?

[@Losttouchjs]

I like how they in a roundabout way pointed to the problem 😂

[@johnp139]

Why is the Terminal Tower almost completely BLACK?!? Why didn’t anyone QUESTION THIS?!?

[@mikemonett7071]

I was born in 1954 and grew up in Columbus, Ohio. I distinctly remember that all the white stone buildings and even many brick buildings were black in the late 50s and early 60s. It struck me as very depressing. I now know this was because coal as the main home heating source had just then phased out. It wasn't until perhaps the early 70s that most of these sooty building exteriors were finally sandblasted to their original brighter colors. I bet the sandblasting industry was probably HUGE in the 1960s.

[@matrox]

Democrats got hold of this city and into the crapper it went...and I mean fast! DemocRats controlled that city nonstop from the 40s to early 70s. Peeps began to see the damage from the mid late 60s to the early 70s and voted in a republican for 5 years to stabilize the community and damned if they didnt turn around and vote back in another democrat after the city was stabilized. The democrats went back and all was undone. Repub George V. Voinovich came in stabilized and made some real progress for 2 terms, then they voted dem again for the next 30 years creating a massive sh!thole of crime, and filth never seen before in that city.

[@Nicksonian]

Turning this into a partisan tit-for-tat is a pointless comment. The issues surrounding urban decay are far more complicated than just that of politics and politicians. It has a lot more to do with economics and sociology. Voinovich was a good mayor, but he only delayed the inevitable. And certainly, the moderate Voinovich wouldn't belong to the extremist Republican party of today.

[@matrox]

@@Nicksonian Thats exactly what the Dems are doing again...denying history so they now tear down statues as if history didn't happen.

[@matrox]

@@Nicksonian DemocRATS the party created by slave holders....for...slave holders. The party of Jim Crow and who's members created the KKK.

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

Thank you for your feelings, Brunswick

[@matrox]

@@Nicksonian You are seriously brainwashed. Typical maker of excuses.

[@johnp139]

Where are all of the blacks?

[@larrybedouin2921]

On the east side duh!

[@tomfields3682]

The city was still overwhelmingly while back then

[@SputnickSpooner-jg5gi]

Blacks lived on the East side of the river. Whites on the West. Actually worked out well. No racial strife until the absolute lunacy of busing students was forced upon all the unwilling people.

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

Coming up your street! Head for the basement!

[@thomasfx3190]

Man you are all over this comment section with angry, racist remarks. Who cares what color your neighbors are? We’re all people. So it’s a free country, you can run your mouth if you like, but it’s offensive.

[@johnp139]

It’s hard to tell who is black or white in black&white videos, especially if the blacks don’t speak in a Jive accent.

[@RETIREDAMATUER]

Are you blind

[@pameladrake7547]

Pretty chocolate my complexion is beautiful sorry but we're Brown or chocolate

[@Nicksonian]

No, just an idiot

[@thomasfx3190]

Jesus really? Racist much?

[@sugarplumenigma4850]

Took God out of schools . Godlessness equals lawlessness.

[@WAL_DC-6B]

So, for example, they took God out of Cleveland Catholic schools?

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

Lol. Yeah children were just wonderful in the old days. Even white children. No.prisond existed. Nobody ever got beat up. There were no gangs. I mean it was a fairy tale

[@thomasfx3190]

That’s ridiculous. Taking Jesus out of public schools just means that the other half of the kids don’t have to feel less than while you Jesus types are loudly praying in math class.

[@Dragongod462]

In those days they didnt have blacks, its wasn't until greyhound buses started bringing them from africa in 1965.

[@eilyjones6359]

What??!!

[@kraigthornhill9166]

How stupid! Shows your ignorance!

[@TV-yb6wk]

A greyhound across the Atlantic Ocean? Jesus Christ

[@motorizedvehiclehegemony4107]

Good trolling. I give it a 7

[@GoldFinger34]

@@TV-yb6wk😂😂😂

[@rckc.1719]

gone all gone 😪

[@chrisjohnson7038]

The Garden Valley project. Wheres a time machine and a spare T-800 when you need one....

[@kw1333]

19:37