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From City Magazine's January/February 1971 issue on "The Suburban Frontier of the 70s," an article titled "Cleveland. More and more, the suburbanites 'are reacting to their troubled mother city with a thumb to the nose.'" The article describes…

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…

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…

Verso: "Diagonal parking on Kinsman road just west of Lee road in Shaker Heights." The snowy Shaker Heights shopping center seen here has a mix of national chain stores and locally-owned businesses. Kinsman Road is now called Chagrin Boulevard…

Verso: "35 ton elm tree, Shaker Heights" One of the storefront signs reads "The Van Sweringen Co Sales Dept." Shaker Square, actually an octagon, was built by the Van Sweringen brothers in the late 1920s as one of the first suburban shopping centers…

An aerial view of Cleveland Heights High School, taken in 1936. Located six miles east of downtown, Cleveland Heights - incorporated as a village in 1903 - became one of Cleveland's largest suburbs in the decades before World War ll and continued to…

Verso: "Heights pool take from S end." This photograph shows children enjoying the Cleveland Heights Cumberland Pool in 1927. In the background is the bathhouse. Located six miles east of downtown, Cleveland Heights - incorporated as a village in…

In 1966, highway construction on Interstate 77 was nearly complete in the area where it meets up with Interstate 90 just southeast of downtown. In the foreground is the future sight of Cuyahoga Community College. In the 1950s and 60s, the…

This photo from April 1978 shows the shops lining Coventry Road in Cleveland Heights, looking north down Coventry Road from its intersection with Euclid Heights Boulevard. A center of the "hippie" movement in Cleveland in the 1960s, Coventry Village…

In this photo from November 1965, people are seen gathered in a section of Shaker Square to celebrate the annual lighting of the Christmas tree. Shaker Square, actually an octagon, was built by the Van Sweringen brothers in the late 1920s as one of…