then and now

Union-Miles and Mt. Pleasant have changed, but they still hold reminders of the past. These pictures document what has changed and what has remained.

Broadway & Harvard Avenue, Cleveland State University Library, 1930.

Broadway & Harvard Avenue, Google Maps, 2021.

Kinsman Road & E. 118th Street, Cleveland State University Library, 1946.

Kinsman Road & E. 118th Street ,Google Maps, 2019.

Miles-Park Library Branch, Cleveland Public Library Digital Archives, 1906.

Union Miles Development Corporation, Flickr Courtesy of Tim Evanson, 2017, https://flic.kr/p/XM1gpi.

Kinsman Road & E. 140th Street, Cleveland State University Library, 1960.

Kinsman Road & E. 140th Street, Google Maps, 2020.

The Avalon Theatre, 4134 E. 131st Street, 1938. Photo source located here.

The Avalon Theatre, 2021. Photo source located here.

3804-3810 E. 131st Street, facade of Holy Trinity Baptist Church, 1969. Image courtesy of Cleveland Public Library Digital Gallery.

Holy Trinity Baptist Church, 2022. Courtesy of Google Maps.