[PRCo] Re: Assorted Photos Off The 'Net

[robert netzlof]

--- On Wed, 11/14/12, Herb Brannon <hrbran at cavtel.net> wrote:
> Enlarge the photo and look at the street sign on the corner. You can see
the "et" which, to me anyway, are the last two letters in the word
"Bouquet". The intersection is Forbes, looking West at Bouquet. Oakland
Avenue is the next "car stop" sign where the first leading car is stopped
and Atwood is the next westbound car stop by the Iroquois Building.

Snippet of 1923 Hopkins map being handed to Ecartis, which will store it away where some may view it.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>wrote:

> OK, my friend.   Easy for you.   I see the "-UOIS" on the roof of a
> distant building but it is no longer on the building to confirm it.  There
> is a building of similar height across the street.
>
> I take it you are suggesting that we are looking west on Forbes St. from
> Oakland toward Atwood.  The problem I have with the street view in Bing
> maps is that it doesn't show any of those buildings nor does it show the
> hump in the street today.   You worked in that part of the city.
>
> For those who don't appreciate the Iroquois Building, here are a couple of
> links.
>
>Â  Â  Â  http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1996/novdec/rsrh5.htm
>
>Â  Â  Â  http://www.tour.pitt.edu/tour-500.html
>
> But it does suggest that the 5th Ave.jpeg on the original picture is false.
>
>
>
> On Nov 13, 2012, at 4:20 PM, Derrick Brashear wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 4:13 PM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
> wrote:
> >> The real gem is the first one … the picture of the rear of the 4000
>  (Brill 1909) on one of the Highland Park lines probably around 1920.  I
> printed it but I still cannot read the street name behind the tree above
> the man.   I drove my Google-Mobile over all the logical streets and I
> cannot locate those buildings … i.e. Highland, Negley, Centre, lower Fifth,
> lower Forbes.   I know the caption reads 5th Avenue but South Highland ran
> via Forbes so my first instinct was to try all sorts of combinations.
> Nothing works today because too many buildings have been torn down.  I
> would relish having a 110 year old geezer tell me, "I know where it is … I
> lived there."Â  Unfortunately a lot of the heart of East Liberty was been
> demolished by Urban Ruinall.   Lower Forbes was wiped out by the Crosstown
> Expressway and the Boulevard of the Allies.  Many of the homes on very
> lower Herron Hill disappeared in the Civic Arena project.   Since then the
> next mile has had many of the old home!
>Â  s!
> >Â  r!
> >> eplaced by newer ones.   And farther out Centre more than half the
> buildings simply disappeared …looks like Euclid Avenue in Cleveland.  The
> hill does feel right for lower Forbes or lower 5th, however; it's just that
> the buildings are there today.
> >
> > Oh, that's easy. It's Forbes in Oakland.
> >
> > Notice the Iroquois Building behind it, on the left? Building's still
> there.
> >
> > --
> > Derrick
> >
> >
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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park



Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
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