Pilsener on Clark
art nouveau lettering 1914
Metal supports hold nothing now, previously a small roof over the entrance?
Vacant, declared City of Cleveland Landmark August 2020.
This was a well built building, with good brick work, like so many buildings in Cleveland. In different times, in this complex on Pilsener Square (West 65th&Clark), the top selling beer in Cleveland was produced. Pilsener Brewing Company began in 1892 by a brewer, Wenzel Medlin *1849-1912†, from Pilsen in the province of Bohemia. Local Bohemian Czechs ran the company until 1935.
In 1914, Pilsener Brewing opened this large plant on Clark. Their best selling beer they named "P.O.C.", it was never stated what this abbreviated, and people were encouraged to invent words. The most popular were Pride of Cleveland, and Pilsener of Cleveland; some rude names had the 'P' as pee or piss. Then the plague of Prohibition lingered over the land from 1919 to 1933, until Franklin Roosevelt came to office. Duquesne Brewing bought the company in 1963 and closed the Cleveland brewery. Duquense was bought by Schmidt's, Schmidt's brewed beer in Cleveland at the old Carling's until 1984. That ended brewing in Cleveland for several years.
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