hot advertisements

a restaurant's great advertisement, on West 25ᵗʰ in Cleveland 

Driving north on Cleveland's West 25ᵗʰ, from a distance away a large wide billboard can be seen. Currently this art work is on it. It would be good for it to stay for a long time, i doubt a successor client's message would compare to its aesthetic impact.

Harris Calorific's fire salamander

Ancient Rome believed salamanders were not harmed by fire. I knew the present occupants had nothing to do with this sculpture above their front door on Cass Avenue. The Fire Insulators Union has a fire salamander in its logo. This was not a union hall. It looked like a business headquarters, with a manufacturing plant attached.

 

John Harris invented the oxyacetylene cutting torch in 1899, and showed it to the world at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. He opened a factory in Cleveland 1905, and created more devices. The company was first sold in 1926. Around the time this building was built by 1963?, the company expanded to medical equipment.

gulls on the river

Cuyahoga by Scranton

Great Lakes freighter, Menominee under Eagle Street Bridge

 

messages of our time

Daniel Rothenfeld. Peace. Walford & West 97th. 2020.

Mrs. Clinton was attacked for mentioning a basket of deplorables.  She was mistaken about the size, it is far larger than she suggested.  These trumpster scum are venomous, and very provocative, and they have money to engage their proclivities.  This one is on Snow, and by the intersection with Ridge, near St. Charles Borromeo.   Ghoulardi (local television character in 60s Cleveland) made clean fun about Parma, and people got upset.  Flying a US flag upside down is a signal of distress.  This should be looked into by authorities.

Walk into the Future with Kamala. Clark Avenue in Cleveland.

on Clark and W. 25th

Evangelical Witness

People of certain religious persuasions have their own parallel language. It is not terminology of specifics that do not exist elsewhere. No, it is the same words with different meanings. I read an article about Trump's effect on the evangelicals. He created a disruptive wave among them. This writer says it is lingering, but over all they are as they were. The one area where it has caused a problem is in "witnessing".

When certain Protestants use the word "witness", or "witnessing" they are using internal code. Witness in standard speech refers to attesting to fact as in testimony, evidence, proof, knowledge from being present, and the like. They mean proselytising. They want to recruit converts. To many this is not wanted, it is uncomfortable, irritating, sometimes insulting, especially when it is intrusive, or aggressive.

Outside of religious services, this is the most religious activity they engage in. This activity is verbal, almost exclusively. One does not have to behave as a Christian (they find good works meaningless, faith is expressed in words), one hectors. Many see this as an aspect of conspicuous hypocrisy.

So why is witnessing in the age of Trump more difficult? This is the elephant in the room that is not mentioned, but fully acknowledged silently—credibility. White evangelicals were [and are] so allied with Trump. It was noticed with disgust by the world, because Trump has no positive attributes in common with good Christian living, morality, or ethics. The only thing that is shared is hypocrisy, and unnecessary verbiage. Trump is first, and most of all—a liar. He is a psychopath. This bears a  permanent stain of shame.

Greyhounds on the strait and narrow

by Chestnut Pond, Oak Hill Trailhead, Cuyahoga Valley National Park

see Matthew vii. 14. DRC or KJV 

2021 Miscellany #19

Dante Aligheri and some colors 

Sunday walkies with the hounds at the cultural gardens. Juncos in the Italian garden, adult bald eagle flew over the Hebrew garden, and snow on the walk to the flivver.

Yesterday, in the same game, Baker Mayfield and Brian Hoyer threw touchdown passes. Hoyer is one of several former Browns' starting quarterbacks playing for other teams.

the house on clifton

Very soon after Hallowe'en, this yard was filled with a great, and extravagant plague doctor display. They left this 12 foot skeleton, and we know now. He does have companions. The houses on either side are up for sale, and one next to one of those houses.

Cudell Clock Tower 1917, once the western limit of Cleveland

no sand in the hour glass, no hands on the faces

odd carved ornaments

2021 Miscellany #18

on Detroit & W.65th

on Hough Avenue

Chevy

deer crossing

Carved on a white oak tree, which was 278 years old in 1992.

an abandoned home

photographs of abandoned places #33

 Hillandale Bridge 1911

Euclid Avenue, even beyond Cleveland had money to have estates on. There is a street named Tremaine, there was a millionaire with that name. [link] He had a mansion and died. Turning onto Hillandale there is a winding road, with bevelled bricks, and stone supports on the side (which at least some held lights). Left there is an occupied cabin from that time. The mansion gone. To the right is a city park. In the center there is a fallen tree blocking access, beyond that there is a small guardrail, beyond that there is a once beautiful s shaped bridge. If this was maintained, and it was not, it would be a pleasant spot. There are false stories of a never started subdivision that went bankrupt under Hoover in 1929, and of a gruesome mental hospital.

This late in November and some color is vibrant in some trees.

Karma is not focused on the highlighted lettering.

There is a wide hole at the edge of the bridge, some of the cement railing has fallen below.

Viewed from below, a hole near the center of the entire bridge deck.

A negative of the same foto showing formed cracks. Enjoy this bridge now, while it is still spans.

Some of the grafitti artwork is good. There are less rude profanities than at many sites.

around Lincoln Park

flower crown and ribbons on the Ukrainian Museum annex

Pilgrim Church (Congregational, now UCC), West 14th (formerly Jennings Road)

The third denomination has left this church building. It had been decided, at some point, air conditioning was better than stained glass. Such modifications occur often with later tenants.

Holy Ghost Greek Catholic is being converted to an event center. The cross has been missing for some time on the third dome, the one above the sanctuary. For a long time a decaying blue tarpaulin had been there. Pigeons like to roost here.

Domes are Annunciation Greek Orthodox. The pointy buildings are the former, and current tallest buildings in Cleveland.

Parma Overlook

Parma is Cleveland's largest suburb, and seventh largest city in Ohio; only in the county metroparks are dogs allowed. Parma is not dog friendly. To-day was the return of standard time, and sunny. A good day to have a camera. There were a lot of dogs in West Creek (Parma metropark).

There are many green leaves on the trees.

To-day was cloudless, but not clear. Downtown Cleveland, and the near west side can be seen from the overlook. In the 1970s, it would have been rare to have seen these buildings.

Karma looks through the overlook.

Other people were walking a pair of hounds too.  One of these friendly Keeshounds is named Kuma (bear, Jap.), the other Harley (motorcycle, Amer.).

Hough Library is a museum

Icabod Flewellen *1916, 2001† started his African-American history collection in his home in West Virginia. It was firebombed in 1949. He moved to Cleveland, and started his museum in his home in 1953. In 1968 the museum moved to a classroom at St. Marian's, then it went to the former Cuyahoga Telephone Exchange. In 1984 it came here on Crawford, was closed in 2005, opened again in 2009. It is currently closed, but is used for some events. On October 16th, a debate of the two Cleveland mayoral candidates was held here. There has been sporadic work, and fundraising to rehabilitate the building. The large main room will be used as the Africa room.

Nicholas Hawksmoor. The Orangery at Kensington Palace. 1704.
foto: His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1925.

Cleveland has many fine buildings that are copied, in at least a part, from important European buildings. The first Hough Branch of the Cleveland Public Library was opened in 1907. It was built on a grant from Andrew Carnegie, it was closed in 1984. Some of the elements copied from the Orangery were the columns, alcoves, keystones, and brick work around a large end window. Orangeries were winter greenhouses of palaces, and very wealthy estates in Europe. The first were in Renaissance Italy.

This mural represents the Hough Riots of July 1966.

Perhaps, referring Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.