Cleveland Thanksgiving foto safari

Thanksgiving, most of the city's streets and sidewalks are with little or no traffic. So many of Cleveland's turkey days are in dismal, grey weather. To-day was such, but at 50°F. Driving downtown, idiots were running their own turkey trot races oblivious, or contemptuous of car traffic and stoplights. Coronavirus stopped an organised affair with police shutting off traffic, and protecting runners; instead they could run anywhere.  There were police about the traffic at St. Augustine's food give away. 

Some of the overcast gray light really made for bad photographs. Certain things did not, or could not be pictured well. A woman was walking her big dog downtown, who was wearing a turkey costume. Around St. Augustine it was an almost colorless tableau other than car lights, it was a long line. People were waiting to deliver meals to the home bound.

Two of four of the granite eagles that were part of the demolished Chamber of Commerce building on Public Square, are now at the entrance of the old Post Office building.

A trompe-l'œil, Euclid Avenue downtown, which viewed from the street appears as several faded streaks.

Recently, Woodland Cemetery has finished work on the rebuilt entrance. For years, original stones were in a mound in the interior of the cemetery. Some pieces were stolen by landscapers. Cleveland's Erie Street, and Monroe Street have similar entrances. Because of the coronavirus estrangement, no grand public reveal has been done. Perhaps next year for Memorial Day?

one of two top stones from the original gate, now behind the gated entrance

Tim Willis' robot and his dog

Chinese Cultural Garden is across the Art Museum. It has a platform reached by steps. Cassius enjoys it.

a view of the Art Museum's fountain

bike rack

post about the Art Museum

2020 Miscellany #17

28 October 2020 Clague Park

7 November 2020 wasp nest on a linden tree

This was not very apparent, until some of the top leaves were blown away, and fell.
 

Hermes (Mercury)

Pennsylvania Railroad had a station on Euclid Avenue at E. 55th in Cleveland. Some years ago it was demolished. Some of the ornamental figures are now outside the Rockefeller Greenhouse. This one sits proudly on someone's porch.

 

I recently found this. In so many places  buildings of architectural interest are destroyed. Some items in, or on the buildings were well made, and worth saving and seeing. Many churches, and other buildings are gone. Some people remember objects, and wonder where are they. Sometimes one can come across them. Saloons, and restaurants sometimes have miscellaneous stuff just so there is decoration for customers to look at. And some stuff is just destroyed. I have been on jobs, where the order is "everything in the dumpsters now".

  A small Buddha with electrical power lines behind, at Bharatiya Hindu Temple Powell Ohio.

photographs of abandoned places #27

an old mill
 

 a window into the past

 Entrance to an old mill

There are four strong limestone walls remaining. The building is called Bieber's Mill. On the east bank of the Olentangy in Delaware County Ohio, in 1843-4 a grist mill was built, a wooden building. It was sold, and it was expanded with a saw mill of native limestone [an active quarry is nearby] was built in 1876-7. This building was three and a half stories high, with a basement. The first floor was used as the mil. Sometime after 1900, the wooden building caught afire, and the adjacent limestone building also. The wooden roof, floors, and beams went up in smoke, leaving the limestone behind. The property has had several owners, the current is Ohio Department of Natural Resources.

The settlement was originally called Middlebury in 1801, after Connecticut. It became Powell before the War for the Union.  The 1880 census, the population was 131. The censuses from 1950 through 1980 the population held steady at under 400. Then Columbus began to expand into the county. The last census [2010] pegged at 11,500. Currently a boom of vinyl clad mini-mansions are being built, one sign said starting in the "300s". Also a lot of new road work is being done. And the Columbus Pike, and elsewhere are the same chains of stores, and fast food restaurants that cover the rest of the state.

the Olentangy 

The river floods the mill, and over the years mud has covered much of the basement. 

The wall facing the river is largely in tact. The foto does not show some graffiti closer to the ground. The other three walls have crumbled somewhat.

The hulk is impressive. The regular geometry of the window placement pleasures the eye. It sits like a ruined bombed out church, or an abandoned abbey of ages past after despoilment. The woods have come back to the inside of the building. From the road across the river, it is visible; from the road it sits on it is virtually invisible even through bare trees. 

Mayfield Hill

 

Chiesa S. Giovanni

In the decades around 1900, Protestants evangelised [the mostly Catholic] immigrants. From 1907 to 1962 this building held a Presbyterian congregation. It was a mission church to 1955, and as an independent church until c.1962 when it closed, and the property sold in 1963. It is now an art gallery. The stone reads in Italian, "Church of St. John". In local writing it is called, St. John Beckwith (Memorial Church). There is no "St. John Beckwith", money came from from the bequest of T. Sterling Beckwith. Beckwith was the second owner of the first mansion on Millionaire's Row, which now houses the Children's Museum.

 just before Ford Drive ends to become Mayfield Road

Corner of Mayfield and Euclid, in front of MOCA 

There is an exhibit of losing presidential campaign signs. Next time, trump pence can join the losers.

As Mayfield rises, there are two extended murals on a retaining wall. The older one is of the area around the nearby university, and of the sights of downtown. It is marked, "Art Education CWRU 1996 Tim Shuckerow". There is a stegasauraus (which has been repainted a new color) outside the Natural History Museum, and skeleton models inside of other dinos.

 

The other is a story of Italian Americans, and of the neighborhood of Pico Italia; and painted in it are two major buildings on near Euclid Avenue, one is a hospital cancer building opened in 2011. Mural ends at the entrance of Brush Park, and is kitty corner to Holy Rosary campus.

 SPQR = Senatus Populusque Romanus = The Senate and  People of Rome

bicycle racks outside RTA train station on Mayfield, across from the Italian mural

the day after

 

companionship

It is a fine picture when walking with greyhounds. This year the oaks have produced a plentiful acorn crop. Acorns fit between the toes of the hounds and nestle up to the pads, and the hounds tolerate it. You have to notice them limping, or sitting fussing with their paw.

 for tongue out Tuesday

 a team of hounds ready to pull an imaginary coach

O yeah!!!