Cleveland Illustrated

Street Railroads

Transportation

Handbook of Cleveland including pictures. This selection, from pages 128-129, describes street railroads in the city.

Page, H.R. & Company

Western Reserve Historical Society. F34ZJA.P346.

1876

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Streetcars in Cleveland

Infrastructure

Suburbs

Streetcars in Cleveland around East 30th street. The newly built Terminal Tower is in background. Until the Terminal Tower construction with its train and transit station in the lower levels was completed, cars of the Shaker Rapid Transit, built by the same development company that built Terminal Tower, ran on surface streets in Cleveland from about East 30th street after using a separate right-of-way from Shaker Square that used natural ravines in Kingsbury Run.

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HABS/HAER Built in America

1929

Ed Pershey

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Cleveland, Ohio

Shaker Heights Rapid Transit

Transportation

Infrastructure

1956 Shaker Heights, Ohio. Rapid Transit train stops along Van Aken Boulevard in Shaker Heights, Ohio, just east of Shaker Square in Cleveland. Shaker Heights was developed in the 1920s and 1930s as a new suburban community marketed to upper middle class white executives who worked in downtown Cleveland. The real estate company that developed Shaker Heights built the streetcar system to bring prospective buyers to the lots in Shaker Heights. The idea was to connect expensive homes on large lots to offices in downtown with a transit time of less than 20 minutes.

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HABS/HAER Built in America

1956

Ed Pershey

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Shaker Heights, Onhio

Euclid Ave. at Night

Streetcars

Euclid Avenue (Cleveland, Ohio)

This nighttime view of Euclid Avenue, with the Old Arcade in the foreground and buildings on the north side of the street to East Ninth Street in the distance, is a retouched photograph.

unknown

J. Mark Souther Postcard Collection

Century Post Card Co., Cleveland, Ohio

circa 1913

J. Mark Souther

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Still Image

Euclid Ave. (Cleveland, Ohio)

Cleveland Public Square, 1920s

Cleveland (Ohio)

Public Square

Cleveland Union Terminal

Caption: " Public Square: looking Southwest showing New Union Depot Site." A view of Cleveland Public Square prior to the construction of the Cleveland Union Terminal (Terminal Tower) , which began in 1924. When it was completed in 1927, the Terminal Tower became the tallest building in the world outside of New York City.

Western Reserve Historical Society. Cuyahoga County Archives collection

circa 1920s

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Cleveland (Ohio)

Euclid Avenue at East 13th Street, circa 1920s

Cleveland (Ohio)

Euclid Avenue (Cleveland, Ohio)

Streetcars

Automobiles

A view looking west down Euclid Avenue from East 13th Street in Cleveland, circa 1920. Euclid Avenue, running east out of downtown, was once one of the most famous streets in the world, home to the mansions of Cleveland's wealthiest residents. 2008 brought the completion of the Euclid Corridor Transportation Project, a major renovation and refurbishment effort on Euclid Avenue undertaken by the city.

Western Reserve Historical Society. Cuyahoga County Archives collection

circa 1920s

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Cleveland (Ohio)

Scranton Rd. Bridge collapse, 1916

Bridge failures

Scranton Rd. (Cleveland, Ohio)

B & O Railroad Bridge

Lower West Third Street Bridge (Cleveland, Ohio)

Streetcars on the tracks of the B&O Railroad after the collapse of the Scranton Rd. Bridge on October 3rd, 1916. The bridge was also known as the Lower West 3rd Street Bridge.

Western Reserve Historical Society. Cuyahoga County Archives collection

1916-10-03

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Cleveland (Ohio)

Detroit Superior Bridge

Detroit-Superior Bridge (Cleveland)

Downtown Cleveland

Aerial photographs

Veterans Memorial Bridge (Cleveland, Ohio)

The Detroit Superior Bridge, also known as the Veteran's Memorial Bridge, runs over the Cuyahoga River in the lower right of the photo while the Main Avenue Bridge is located to the north. Detroit Superior connects downtown with the west side. Opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1917, the two level bridge carried cars and pedestrian traffic on the upper level and electric streetcars on the lower level. A few times each year a tour of the lower level, now closed, is available.

Fuerst, Michael A.

Cuyahoga County Engineer's Photography Collection. Cuyahoga County Archives. Box 28.

Cleveland State University. Dept. of History.

1984-11-14

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