[PRCo] Re: Assorted Photos Off The 'Net

[Herb Brannon]

On the map note the streetcar lines running in/out of Oakland Av to Forbes.
Enlarge the original photo and you can see the overhead running in/out of
Oakland Av at the next car stop westbound where the leading car is stopped.
On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:29 PM, robert netzlof <wb3iqe at rocketmail.com>wrote:

> --- 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.
> >
> >      http://www.carnegiemuseums.org/cmag/bk_issue/1996/novdec/rsrh5.htm
> >
> >      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."  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!
> >  s!
> > >  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
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> Bob Netzlof a/k/a Sweet Old Bob
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Herb Brannon
In Cuyahoga Valley National Park