Author: Ava Carubia
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A Farm Memory
I recall in the 1950’s how the neighbor’s rooster would crow to announce each new day. Property lines were often shared for the farm animals to have more space, with chickens, ducks, a few cows, goats, and geese moving about. We had a large garden and a fruit orchard as did many families since the…
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Tracing the Davis Family
Roscoe Davis and his wife, Estella, moved to their house on E. 103rd Street in 1919. According to the census records, they were one of the first Black families in the neighborhood now known as Union-Miles. In 1920, E. 103rd Street near Harvard Avenue was working class. The family’s neighbors were laborers, carpenters, and store…
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movie theaters and skating rinks
“On Saturdays during the school year, a short, periwinkle blue bus would pick kids up in front of the Dairy Queen on Harvard and ferry us to a roller skating rink like the Blue Goose or Seven Bells-both outside of Lee-Harvard but a popular destination for the younger set. My small self would skate to…
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hip hop on the southeast side
“…for us to be kids and didn’t have no money, we found a way to express ourselves, to gather, to dance, to dress.” -Mikel Jordan
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The Haynes Family Legacy
“…my father and my two uncles, that was the thing that I was blessed with.” -Huey Haynes II
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A Brief History of Union-Miles and Mt. Pleasant
Although Mount Pleasant was not annexed by the city of Cleveland until 1913, groups of German, Italian and Russian immigrants began to reside in the neighborhood in the mid-1800s.
Southeast Side Stories 