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Book AsiaTown Cleveland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan F. Dutka
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2014-10-28
  • ISBN : 1625850867
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book AsiaTown Cleveland written by Alan F. Dutka and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, Cleveland's Chinese residents struggled to find a secure place in the city. Immigrants came with dreams of building a better life, but without English proficiency, prospects dimmed, and emigres often earned poor pay for long hours of strenuous work. In 1925, Cleveland police responded to an especially brutal outbreak of the tong war violence ravaging the community by arresting every Chinese person in the city, creating an international scandal. In spite of the anti-Asian sentiment of the time, the community persevered and paved the way for its current entrepreneurial success. Today, Clevelanders and tourists travel to the growing AsiaTown neighborhood to enjoy authentic Asian dinners, shop at Asian-owned stores and enjoy Asian-themed karaoke nights in newly built malls and century-old former residential homes. Alan F. Dutka vividly portrays one of the oldest and most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the city.

Book AsiaTown Transportation   Streetscape Plan

Download or read book AsiaTown Transportation Streetscape Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although the area's Asian heritage dates back to the early 1900s, it is the creation of the AsiaTown moniker and the recent neighborhood branding that has brought the district increased recognition. However, to many people outside the neighborhood, AsiaTown is a place represented by a few restaurants and businesses, and the true cultural diversity of the neighborhood is hidden. This streetscape plan ... is the direct result of the need to define both a physical and cultural center for AsiaTown. This plan provides a set of clear principles guiding the transformation of Superior Avenue between East 30th and East 40th Streets as well as East 36th Street between Superior and St. Clair Avenue" -- Page 3.

Book Slovenians in Cleveland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan F. Dutka
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2017-10-02
  • ISBN : 1439662754
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Slovenians in Cleveland written by Alan F. Dutka and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting story of Slovenian heritage in Cleveland, Ohio and how the culture remains relevant even today. The Newburgh, St. Clair and Collinwood neighborhoods formed the core of Greater Cleveland's enormous Slovenian population, still the largest in America. The city's Slovenian heritage is replete with gripping tales of World War II prison camp escapes and bizarre bank robbers who threatened the St. Clair Savings institution. The catastrophic East Ohio Gas explosion and tragic Collinwood school fire are etched into local consciousness. The rise of neighborhood residents to professional sports stardom and national political prominence contribute to a proud legacy. And the century-old "Cleveland style" Slovenian polka remains an important cultural expression. Author Alan Dutka offers the first comprehensive history of the struggles and triumphs of Cleveland's Slovenians.

Book Christmas in Cleveland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan F. Dutka
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2020-11-02
  • ISBN : 1439671621
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Christmas in Cleveland written by Alan F. Dutka and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of Clevelanders share cherished memories of the city at Christmastime. Many recall the incredible Sterling-Lindner Christmas trees, shopping for mom and dad at the Twigbee Shop and the mesmerizing Nela Park light displays. And no one can forget exciting downtown parades and enchanting visits with the beloved Mr. Jingeling. Yet few may know that E.L. Baldwin's 1881 sale paved the way for today's "Black Friday" frenzy or that, through the decades, a host of celebrities ranging from Bob Hope to boxer Joe Louis have helped make the holidays brighter for the city's neediest families. Touching on all of this and more, author Alan Dutka evokes fond recollections of bygone holiday seasons.

Book 100 Things to Do in Cleveland Before You Die

Download or read book 100 Things to Do in Cleveland Before You Die written by Nikki Delamotte and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cleveland is a city on the rise. As a melting pot of arts and culture, a foodie paradise, and home to lush green space along Lake Erie, the world is catching on. Consider 100 Things to Do in Cleveland Before You Die your insider’s guide to the city everyone is talking about. From sports fanatic to theater lover, there’s something here for everyone. So stroll thought the sprawling Cleveland Cultural Gardens, visit the birthplace of Superman and dance through the streets to the tune of Cleveland-style polka on Dyngus Day. But don’t forget to work up an appetite at Superelectric Pinball Parlor before you fill up on hot dogs topped with Froot Loops at Happy Dog while the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra plays. 100 Things to Do in Cleveland Before You Die is a fun for the whole family look at how to experience the rock and roll capital, from the rich in history to the delightfully quirky.

Book Moon Cleveland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Douglas Trattner
  • Publisher : Moon Travel
  • Release : 2019-05-07
  • ISBN : 1640493565
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Moon Cleveland written by Douglas Trattner and published by Moon Travel. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience a city with Rust Belt roots and a vibrant, creative spirit with Moon Cleveland. Inside you'll find: Explore the City: Navigate by neighborhood or by activity, with color-coded maps of Cleveland's most interesting neighborhoods See the Sights: Root for the Cleveland Indians at "The Jake," check out the legendary costumes, instruments, and handwritten lyrics at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, admire industrial-era mansions, or check out the Museum of Contemporary Art Get a Taste of the City: Dine at a trattoria in Little Italy, savor fresh fare at farm-to-table restaurants, sample falafel, pierogis, local cheeses and more at the Westside Market, and relax with a pint at a craft brewery Bars and Nightlife: Catch a performance at the House of Blues, play bocce ball in an Irish pub, polka-dance at a popular local happy hour, or sip craft cocktails in a historic lounge Local Advice: Douglas Trattner shares insider know-how on the city he calls home Itineraries and Day Trips: Explore nearby Lake Erie, Akron, and Amish Country, or follow city itineraries designed for long weekends, rainy days, and more Handy tools like full-color photos, detailed maps, and background information on the history and culture of Cleveland With Moon Cleveland's practical tips and local insight, you can experience the city your way. Exploring more Midwest cities? Check out Moon Chicago or Moon Minneapolis & St. Paul.

Book Cleveland s Millionaires  Row

Download or read book Cleveland s Millionaires Row written by Alan F. Dutka and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-14 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible affluence and extravagance of Euclid Avenue's Millionaires' Row have fascinated Clevelanders for more than a century. Within these stately mansions, US presidents enjoyed dinners and discussions with powerful politicians and influential industrial and banking leaders. Through photographs and meticulously researched captions, Cleveland's Millionaires' Row provides authoritative visual and written answers to the most often-asked questions regarding the famous avenue: where were these mansions located, how did their occupants acquire such enormous wealth, what caused the street's demise, and what replaced the famous old homes? The book also reveals the progress in remaking Euclid Avenue's four-mile stretch from Public Square to University Circle. Cleveland's Millionaires' Row vividly illustrates the birth, glamor, decline, and renaissance of the grand old avenue.

Book Tong Wars

Download or read book Tong Wars written by Scott D. Seligman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tong Wars is historical true-crime set against the perfect landscape: Chinatown, New York City. Chinese rival tongs (secret societies) each lauded over illegal markets such as gambling and prostitution, and nothing could shut them down. Not threats or negotiations, not prison, not even executions. Pretty soon Chinese were slaughtering one another in the streets, inaugurating a succession of wars that raged for the next 30 years. This is the true account of these wars, turf wars fuelled by gangsters and drug lords, prostitutes, judges and cops.

Book The History Of Cleveland s Asian Communities

Download or read book The History Of Cleveland s Asian Communities written by Wan Feaster and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was a neat bit of history about the Chinatown/AsiaTown area. The book goes from the start of the small but impactful Chinese immigrant population in Cleveland to the present day. It highlights past and present businesses and prominent residents. There's a good chapter on the Tong Wars, a sad period in Cleveland history for that area. For years, Cleveland's Chinese residents struggled to find a secure place in the city. Immigrants came with dreams of building a better life, but without English proficiency, prospects dimmed, and emigres often earned poor pay for long hours of strenuous work. In 1925, Cleveland police responded to an especially brutal outbreak of the tong war violence ravaging the community by arresting every Chinese person in the city, creating an international scandal. In spite of the anti-Asian sentiment of the time, the community persevered and paved the way for its current entrepreneurial success. Today, Clevelanders and tourists travel to the growing AsiaTown neighborhood to enjoy authentic Asian dinners, shop at Asian-owned stores, and enjoy Asian-themed karaoke nights in newly built malls and century-old former residential homes. Alan F. Dutka vividly portrays one of the oldest and most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the city.

Book Explore Cleveland s Chinatown

Download or read book Explore Cleveland s Chinatown written by Robby Antunez and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was a neat bit of history about the Chinatown/AsiaTown area. The book goes from the start of the small but impactful Chinese immigrant population in Cleveland to the present day. It highlights past and present businesses and prominent residents. There's a good chapter on the Tong Wars, a sad period in Cleveland history for that area. For years, Cleveland's Chinese residents struggled to find a secure place in the city. Immigrants came with dreams of building a better life, but without English proficiency, prospects dimmed, and emigres often earned poor pay for long hours of strenuous work. In 1925, Cleveland police responded to an especially brutal outbreak of the tong war violence ravaging the community by arresting every Chinese person in the city, creating an international scandal. In spite of the anti-Asian sentiment of the time, the community persevered and paved the way for its current entrepreneurial success. Today, Clevelanders and tourists travel to the growing AsiaTown neighborhood to enjoy authentic Asian dinners, shop at Asian-owned stores, and enjoy Asian-themed karaoke nights in newly built malls and century-old former residential homes. Alan F. Dutka vividly portrays one of the oldest and most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the city.

Book Misfortune on Cleveland s Millionaries  Row

Download or read book Misfortune on Cleveland s Millionaries Row written by Alan F Dutka and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extreme wealth could buy a mansion in Millionaires' Row but not immunity from unsavory business dealings or shameful behavior. May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager of a prominent Euclid Avenue apartment building, gave his family cough medicine laced with poison, killing his entire family including himself. Married to a Millionaires' Row doctor, the infamous con woman Cassie Chadwick posed as Andrew Carnegie's illegitimate daughter and forged a fake $5 million check. Author Alan Dutka delves into sixteen tales of anguish and deceit that offer a startling perspective on Cleveland's super-rich.

Book Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook

Download or read book Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook written by The Staff of Belt Magazine and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is for those who want to understand what radiates away from Terminal Tower, and who understand that as lovely as the city often is, it can sometimes be brutal, too. You will read about places no longer here, such as the Little Italy Historical Museum and League Park, as well as increasingly popular areas, such as North Collinwood and Asiatown. You will learn about Cleveland Heights s natural history, Mount Pleasant back in the day, and Opportunity Corridors missed. The writers tell you stories about starting a business in Ohio City, marketing Larchmere, first time home buying in Detroit Shoreway, self-loathing in South Euclid, troubling developments in Tremont, closed schools in Lee-Miles, and a vineyard in Hough. Bound together, they conjure a Cleveland as complex as are its residents.

Book The History Of Cleveland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Quentin Corsaut
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-07-08
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 164 pages

Download or read book The History Of Cleveland written by Quentin Corsaut and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-08 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This was a neat bit of history about the Chinatown/AsiaTown area. The book goes from the start of the small but impactful Chinese immigrant population in Cleveland to the present day. It highlights past and present businesses and prominent residents. There's a good chapter on the Tong Wars, a sad period in Cleveland history for that area. For years, Cleveland's Chinese residents struggled to find a secure place in the city. Immigrants came with dreams of building a better life, but without English proficiency, prospects dimmed, and emigres often earned poor pay for long hours of strenuous work. In 1925, Cleveland police responded to an especially brutal outbreak of the tong war violence ravaging the community by arresting every Chinese person in the city, creating an international scandal. In spite of the anti-Asian sentiment of the time, the community persevered and paved the way for its current entrepreneurial success. Today, Clevelanders and tourists travel to the growing AsiaTown neighborhood to enjoy authentic Asian dinners, shop at Asian-owned stores, and enjoy Asian-themed karaoke nights in newly built malls and century-old former residential homes. Alan F. Dutka vividly portrays one of the oldest and most culturally diverse neighborhoods in the city.

Book Jagged Secrets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lashell Collins
  • Publisher : Lashell Collins
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 217 pages

Download or read book Jagged Secrets written by Lashell Collins and published by Lashell Collins. This book was released on with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Always the life of the party, Buzzy West is charismatic and fun-loving. Never hurting for female companionship, he’s never lonely. At a glance, he seems like the true love 'em and leave 'em kind of guy. But that’s all an illusion, because the truth is that he just never got over the woman who broke his heart. Janie Kim is a shy, quiet bookworm who spent her high school days as your basic friendless social misfit. That is, until Robby (Buzzy) West came to town. Their innocent friendship quickly blossomed into love – the soul searing, forever kind. But Janie knew that Robby's talent was too good for small town life, so she did what she thought was best and broke his heart right after graduation. Devastated, Buzzy picked up his drumsticks and left town, headed for LA to chase his dream. But years later, when she shows up backstage after a Jagged Ivory concert, Buz can't get her or their romance out of his mind. He needs answers to the questions he's been asking himself all these years. He needs closure. Only when he goes looking for it, he finds that Janie's been keeping secrets. This is the second edition of this book and not a new title.

Book Legacy Cities

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. Rosie Tighe
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2019-06-13
  • ISBN : 0822986884
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Legacy Cities written by J. Rosie Tighe and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legacy cities, also commonly referred to as shrinking, or post-industrial cities, are places that have experienced sustained population loss and economic contraction. In the United States, legacy cities are those that are largely within the Rust Belt that thrived during the first half of the 20th century. In the second half of the century, these cities declined in economic power and population leaving a legacy of housing stock, warehouse districts, and infrastructure that is ripe for revitalization. This volume explores not only the commonalities across legacy cities in terms of industrial heritage and population decline, but also their differences. Legacy Cities poses the questions: What are the legacies of legacy cities? How do these legacies drive contemporary urban policy, planning and decision-making? And, what are the prospects for the future of these cities? Contributors primarily focus on Cleveland, Ohio, but all Rust Belt cities are discussed.

Book Bonita Avenue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Buwalda
  • Publisher : Hogarth
  • Release : 2015-01-13
  • ISBN : 055341786X
  • Pages : 488 pages

Download or read book Bonita Avenue written by Peter Buwalda and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dazzling...Critics hailed Buwalda as 'The Dutch answer to Jonathan Franzen', but his brilliance is entirely unique."--The Times (UK) Siem Sigerius is a beloved, brilliant professor of mathematics with a promising future in politics. His family—including a loving wife, two gorgeous, intelligent stepdaughters and a successful future son-in-law—and carefully appointed home in the bucolic countryside complete the portrait of a comfortable, morally upright household. But there are elements of Siem's past that threaten to upend the peace and stability that he has achieved, and when he stumbles upon a deception that’s painfully close to home, things begin to fall apart. A cataclysmic explosion in a fireworks factory, the advent of internet pornography, and the reappearances of a discarded, dangerous son all play a terrible role in the spectacular fragmentation of the Sigerius clan. A riveting portrait of a family in crisis and the ways that even the smallest twists of fate can forever change our lives, Bonita Avenue is an incendiary, unpredictable debut of relationships torn asunder by lies, and minds destroyed by madness.

Book America the Edible

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam Richman
  • Publisher : Rodale Books
  • Release : 2011-09-27
  • ISBN : 1609611969
  • Pages : 291 pages

Download or read book America the Edible written by Adam Richman and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get ready to devour America. Adam Richman, the exuberant host of Travel Channel's Man v. Food and Man v. Food Nation, has made it his business to root out unique dining experiences from coast to coast. Now, he zeroes in on some of his top-favorite cities—from Portland, Maine, to Savannah, Georgia—to share his uproariously entertaining food travel stories, top finds, and some invaluable (and hilarious) cautionary tales. America the Edible also tells the story behind the menu, revealing the little-known reason why San Francisco's sourdough bread couldn't exist without San Francisco's fog; why Cleveland just might have some of the country's best Asian cuisine; and how to eat like a native on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Unflaggingly funny, curious, and, of course, hungry, Richman captures the spectacular melting pot of American cuisine as only a true foodie and insatiable storyteller can.