CLEVELAND.... In the best way....

[Brian Kevin]

http://www.homesnacks.net/if-youre-from-cleveland-this-will-be-the-best-thing-you-watch-all-day-guaranteed-123586/

 

Alot of us joke about Cleveland (I'm the guiltiest)

 

BUT..... This video-- from The West Side Market, to W.25th st,Battery park, Edge-water, Metro Parks Police and Edge-water Live! If you grew up in Cleveland... watching this video.... will bring back memories from people who have passed away (friends, grandmothers, other family) and will remind you of memories you've shared with family and friends who are still alive.

 

Cleveland is always thought of negatively, when some people hear the word "Cleveland"all they can do is laugh (me included), but this video will put water in your eyes, a ball in your throat and you'll swear someone is holding your hands with the amount of butterflies you'll feel.

 

Turn your sound up, and get lost in the music and video features!

 

P:S: I wish they included the Cleveland Zoo, Terminal Tower, The Botanical Gardens, University Circle AND Me in this video, as they are all a vital necessity of Cleveland

 

FOR all the things you've herd of Cleveland, this video will change your mind a bit, give you hope for us ! I know someone you live in NYC, LA, LV and much better and bigger cities-- We're a forgotten once leading importing/exporting capital of the MID-WEST, when Cars and AirPlanes came forward, we were slowly forgotten about and everyone moved West! That gold rush fucked Clevelands' butt!

 

 

While the rest of the country who could afford to move, moved, the poor and "middle class" was left behind, The stone churches (every block) and old stone buildings are BEAUTIFUL and Cleveland just PAINTS over the stone work, the blacksmiths work in iron and other metals that decorate The Terminal tower, people spiting, putting out cigarette butts and PISSING on what took someone HOURS, DAYS and EVEN WEEKS to complete, left in tact for hundred of years only to be destroyed by un-educated trash that lives all over Cleveland.

 

Let me stop-- I'm going from all positive to negative now--

[tyro]

I WUV Cleveland. As a NE Ohio native, the "big city" wiill always hold a special place in my heart. For anybody who hasn't read it, I strongly recommend Lebron James's letter in Sports Illustrated. It pretty well nails the spirit of Northeast Ohio. The video of The Cleveland Orchestra playing Orff's Carmina Burana for the Cavs is also worth a look and listen. I was disappointed that this video didn't show Severance Hall. At all. Or the magnificent Cleveland Public Library downtown. :-(

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[Brian Kevin]

Severance Hall. At all. Or the magnificent Cleveland Public Library downtown.

 

+1 !!!

[Guest countryboywny]

Alot of us joke about Cleveland (I'm the guiltiest)

 

Oh pulleez.. try being from Buffalo! LOL

[Brian Kevin]

Oh pulleez.. try being from Buffalo! LOL

 

 

The night life is better there, much better. Plus they're redeveloping both of our cities, very slowly. You know what i mean about how our cities were so busy then the turn of the century which got our city so populated also pulled everyone out of the city. Only the really rich and really poor stayed . lol

[Rudynate]

Oh pulleez.. try being from Buffalo! LOL

 

 

Great town - Buffalo. I spent my childhood in Batavia. My parents actually drove all the way from Batavia to go to Brownrout's fish market. Batavia was such a small town, that anytime anyone needed something from the Big City, they turned to Buffalo. If you needed any kind of specialist medical care, you went to Buffalo; big city shopping - Buffalo. If you had business with the federal gov't. - Buffalo, etc., When Batavia lost all of its industry, people started commuting to Buffalo to work.

 

Sad what it became.

 

When I last lived in Rochester in the late 80's I would go to Buffalo frequently to go to a restaurant called Lord Chumley's. I think it was on Delaware Avenue. I went specifically for the mid-century ambiance and menu. It reminded me of a restaurant we would have gone to when I was a little kid.

[Guest countryboywny]

Great town - Buffalo. I spent my childhood in Batavia. My parents actually drove all the way from Batavia to go to Brownrout's fish market. Batavia was such a small town, that anytime anyone needed something from the Big City, they turned to Buffalo. If you needed any kind of specialist medical care, you went to Buffalo; big city shopping - Buffalo. If you had business with the federal gov't. - Buffalo, etc., When Batavia lost all of its industry, people started commuting to Buffalo to work.

 

Sad what it became.

 

When I last lived in Rochester in the late 80's I would go to Buffalo frequently to go to a restaurant called Lord Chumley's. I think it was on Delaware Avenue. I went specifically for the mid-century ambiance and menu. It reminded me of a restaurant we would have gone to when I was a little kid.

 

Ahhh, Lord Chumley's! Now that brings back memories. Do you remember "The Cloister" ? It was a little further up Delaware Avenue. One doesn't see restaurants like that anymore, quiet elegance with a dash of hometown! As Brian Kevin notes, Buffalo is going through a bit of a renaissance now-a-days. 4 new downtown hotels, harbor front development, the Harbor Center, comedy clubs, bars, etc. There's a brand new Marriott Hotel attached to the Harbor Center and the First Niagara Center. It's good to see after such a long period of malaise. Thanks for the memory jogger Rudy!

[Rudynate]

Ahhh, Lord Chumley's! Now that brings back memories. Do you remember "The Cloister" ? It was a little further up Delaware Avenue. One doesn't see restaurants like that anymore, quiet elegance with a dash of hometown! As Brian Kevin notes, Buffalo is going through a bit of a renaissance now-a-days. 4 new downtown hotels, harbor front development, the Harbor Center, comedy clubs, bars, etc. There's a brand new Marriott Hotel attached to the Harbor Center and the First Niagara Center. It's good to see after such a long period of malaise. Thanks for the memory jogger Rudy!

 

People talked about the Cloister, even in Rochester - the last word in elegance and sophistication, but I never went there.

 

When I lived in Rochester in the 80's, everyone in Buffalo was hoping that NAFTA would bring a lot of international shipping to the port of Buffalo and help revive the economy. I don't know whether that ever happened. I left that part of the country in 1990 and have only been back twice. I have a strange craving to go back, but there would be no point. There isn't anybody that I want to see.

[seaboy4hire]

I've been hearing Cleveland is getting to be quite the place for foodies lately. And @Brian Kevin there's more to food than buffets, Melts and McDonald's

 

Hugs,

Greg

[Brian Kevin]

more to food than buffets, Melts and McDonald's

 

Since when?!

Have you gone to Vegas? EVERY. HOTEL. HAS. A. BUFFET.

[Guest countryboywny]

I have a strange craving to go back, but there would be no point. There isn't anybody that I want to see.

 

WTF? Don't you want to meet me? I'm available at a deeply discounted rate! :eek:

 

Seriously, if you ever come to town, let me know, I'm always up to meet other forum members. ...and since when does there need to be a "point" to travel anywhere? If you want to visit the area again, then do it, satisfying your craving is as good of a reason as any, IMHO.

[Rudynate]

WTF? Don't you want to meet me? I'm available at a deeply discounted rate! :eek:

 

Seriously, if you ever come to town, let me know, I'm always up to meet other forum members. ...and since when does there need to be a "point" to travel anywhere? If you want to visit the area again, then do it, satisfying your craving is as good of a reason as any, IMHO.

 

 

Very thoughtless of me, Countryboy. My apologies. Actually, there does need to be a point to travel to Western New York. Because it is "off the beaten track" and isn't a popular tourist destination, travel there is always expensive and somewhat of an ordeal.

[N13]

Has anyone else noticed that in a crowd of people of 5 or more there are usually more people from Ohio than from any other single location? Of course, it helps if you, yourself, are from Ohio. The operative word being "from."

[+ azdr0710]

The video of The Cleveland Orchestra playing Orff's Carmina Burana for the Cavs is also worth a look and listen.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjiVua6RLho

 

[+ quoththeraven]

Ahhh, Lord Chumley's! Now that brings back memories. Do you remember "The Cloister" ? It was a little further up Delaware Avenue. One doesn't see restaurants like that anymore, quiet elegance with a dash of hometown! As Brian Kevin notes, Buffalo is going through a bit of a renaissance now-a-days. 4 new downtown hotels, harbor front development, the Harbor Center, comedy clubs, bars, etc. There's a brand new Marriott Hotel attached to the Harbor Center and the First Niagara Center. It's good to see after such a long period of malaise. Thanks for the memory jogger Rudy!

 

I have fond memories of Buffalo (and Rochester) from state church youth conventions held there (I remember going to the Albright-Knox museum during a free afternoon) and from travel there at my second post-law school job. We did training annually in the major cities in the state, and I always was sent to Buffalo and Rochester. The deputy director where I worked was from Buffalo, and he took me to the Anchor Bar, where Buffalo chicken wings originated. So delicious.

 

We present and former upstate NYers need to stick together. I know Rudynate doesn't miss it. While there are many good things to living where I do, I do miss upstate NY.

[AdamSmith]

Severance Hall.

Standing joke among musicians is the place was aptly named if you were playing under George Szell and chanced to make a mistake.

[Rudynate]

Very thoughtless of me, Countryboy. My apologies. Actually, there does need to be a point to travel to Western New York. Because it is "off the beaten track" and isn't a popular tourist destination, travel there is always expensive and somewhat of an ordeal.

 

 

I don't know how Cleveland and Buffalo are, but I noticed in Rochester, that in restaurants, there were either coffee-shop type restaurants or high-end restaurants. Not much in the middle ground. It was strange not being able to find a moderately-priced place for dinner.

[Traveler North]

Oh pulleez.. try being from Buffalo! LOL

While I now live in Florida 8 months of the year, I spend my summers in Buffalo. The place is undergoing a great rebirth with with waterfront development, a medical center which takes up many city blocks, a thriving cultural life with a fabulous orchestra, over a dozen good theaters, and fine museums plus many top notch restaurants in the area. This is in addition to a higher education complex of many schools with around 50,000 students. While Biffalo itself has under 300,000 people, the metro area has around 1,000,000. Thus not a bad place to live.