2021 Miscellany #21 — probably the last of the year

on Fleet, Cleveland

Cash requested on Ontario.

This do in remembrance of me

former Magyar Baptist 1912-44?, 

former St. Elizabeth Baptist 1944?-2011, 

former Pine Grove Missionary Baptist,

current advancing decay and ruin

Part of St. Patrick's in Ohio City Christmas display are stops for each of the Twelve Days of Christmas song. John and Karma with a partridge in a pear tree.

Much work being done at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist Cleveland. A small part of the work includes: front doors are out to be refurbished, the old steps were removed, and new ones have replaced them, which have wiring to melt snow and ice. One must take in consideration, that, when a parish wants to spend its own money for improvements, they have to get approval from the bishop.

midday, mid-December light around University Circle

One of the great (really) places to walk with or without hounds is around Cleveland Art Museum, Fine Arts Garden, Wade Lagoon.  A truly beautiful building is this Methodist church, which has gone through a few name changes; although it is also called the Holy Oil Can.  We are not at Mont‑Saint‑Michel Bretagne, but this is a Cleveland landmark, and the one to see in University Circle. Yet, some point at Frank Gehry's monstrosity.

In September, the Art Museum had chalk drawings on sidewalks. This is a remnant, with added paw prints.

Night Passing the Earth to Day (but here around noon)

man size claw machine

travelling about the city...

 one can see interesting stuff

Karma sees something novel.

One needs to pull the dragon to enter this building on Clifton, Cleveland.

restaurant dragon on the west side Cleveland

William McVey. Wally. 1980. outside Eastman Branch Cleveland Public Library

‘The time has come,’ the Walrus said,
‘To talk of many things:
Of shoes — and ships — and sealing-wax —
Of cabbages — and kings —
And why the sea is boiling hot —
And whether pigs have wings.
— from “The Walrus and the Carpenter” by Lewis Carroll

on Holton, Cleveland

on Woodhill, Cleveland

St. Theodosius as seen from I-490 exit ramp.

2021 Miscellany #20 — before Christmas

Cleveland's television Santa's elf

"Mr. Jingeling, how you ting-a-ling, Keeper of the Keys!
On Halle’s seventh floor, we’ll be looking for you to turn the keys!"

People who grew up in Cleveland for some decades regard Mr. Jingeling as part of Santa's crew, but i think he is not well known at all elsewhere. Now, the idea came from Chicago. Also in Chicago, in 1939, Montgomery Ward had someone create a character for a Christmas coloring book. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was extremely successful. As the story goes, Rudolph has gone down in history. Pretty much, every kid America knows that Rudolph is the ninth, and youngest of Santa's sleigh crew.

Greg Benedetto is the current Mr. Jingeling. The first one was created for a toy campaign for Halles Brothers department store's 1956 Christmas sales season. The character appeared on radio and television. He was far more successful (even beloved) than expected. Halle's closed in 1982. Jingeling went to Higbee's tenth floor. Higbee's lasted to 1992. I read, department stores hired police for security, and they were used as Santas. The first Jingeling's regular job was a jailer, and he brought his keys in to use as a prop. As a kid, i thought the keys suggested St. Peter.

WEWS-TV5 had Captain Penny's children teevee show from 1955 to 1971. Between Thanksgiving and Christmas Mr. Jingeling was a guest. For some years, the show's producer, Earl Keyes had the role, and is the best remembered. Keyes was Mr. Jingeling for more than twenty years beyond that programme.

Really Christmas begins on the 25th of December, but the United States is a business centered society. So the campaign towards Christmas becomes the season, and there is no Christmas for many people after Christmas Day.

Karma found this display a little too much for her aesthetics.

very little empty space on the lawn

Rudolph Rockefeller at his greenhouse

Christmas Buddha of Old Brooklyn sends happy greetings.

west side Cleveland

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

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.

2021 Miscellany #17

 

A lot of bowling alleys, and bowling shops are gone. There is surplus. Well, they had to go somewhere. -- Cleveland west side

signs on a driveway gate, across the street from the bowling balls

Circleville

A few days ago, one of the Cleveland teevee stations showed people using tan brown paint to cover up a restaurant food advertisement on Broadview in Old Brooklyn. This flower painting is up now, the tan paint remains over the mortar, the brick faces have been painted to look like the other bricks.