Cleveland

Several U.S. presidents were from the area around Cleveland. One of the best-known people from the Gilded Age of Capitalism was Cleveland's John D. Rockefeller, who started Standard Oil here.

Cleveland was an industrial city and what was likely the turning point in environmentalism took place here. In 1969, the Cuyahoga River, which runs through Cleveland, literally caught fire. There was a vast amount of garbage floating in the river, and liquid waste floating on it's surface, and someone probably threw a cigarette in the wrong place. Around the same time, Lake Erie was declared to be a "dead" lake, due to the pollution.

Things seemed to change after that, and the following year saw the first Earth Day.

Cleveland's professional football team, the Browns, are not among the best teams today, but used to dominate in the 1950s. Like the city being named for a person, surveyor Moses Cleaveland, the Browns were named for the former coach, Paul Brown. The Browns play at First Energy Stadium, and Cleveland's well-known professional baseball team, the Indians, play at Progressive Field.

The first thing that I think of at the name of Cleveland is the Cleveland Clinic:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Clinic#/media/File:Cleveland_Clinic_Miller_Family_Pavilion.jpg

The city is also known for Case Western Reserve University:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Case_Western_Reserve_University#/media/File:Case_western_reserve_campus_2005.jpg

The tallest building in Cleveland is the Key Tower, like the sports stadiums, it is named for a company, Keybank:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_Tower#/media/File:Key_Tower.jpg

200 Public Square is another prominent Cleveland building, built by Standard Oil:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/200_Public_Square#/media/File:200_Public_Square.jpg

From further in the past is the old Terminal Tower:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_Tower#/media/File:Terminaltower1.jpg

In the 1930s, the Great Lakes Exhibition was held in Cleveland. It is now the site of the Great Lakes Science Center:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Lakes_Science_Center#/media/File:Clevelands_Great_Lakes_Science_Center.jpg

And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame#/media/File:Rock_and_Roll_Hall_of_Fame.jpg

Even though I don't listen to rock music anymore, I changed my choice of what is the single greatest song of the rock era. I once chose "Baby Blue" by Badfinger. But now my favorite song of the era is "Summer Breeze", released on the last day of August 1972 and about a happy couple at home on a summer evening. But within a few days of it's release, the massacre of Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics would take place.

Here is downtown Cleveland with the first scene in Public Square, which was the original center of the city. You can see the three tall buildings listed above, Key Tower, 200 Public Square and, the Terminal Tower, which are all close to Public Square. the Terminal Tower is really attractive in the way it is lit up at night. The river is the Cuyahoga River, which is just west of Public Square.

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Most cities have a well-known marketplace. These are some scenes in the area of the West Side Market, starting in one corner of the market. The Cuyahoga River seems to be everywhere in central Cleveland, that is because of how it winds.

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This is the former industrial area to the west of downtown, known as "The Flats", and now home to Progressive Field, where the Cleveland Indians play baseball:

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