Beachwood

Beachwood- a heavily Jewish second ring suburb

Chagrin Falls homes

Chagrin Falls nanny school

Chagrin Falls- a "Main Street U.S.A" small town/outer suburb (walkable like traditional small town, rich, safe, WASPy)

Cleveland Halloween

Cleveland Heights kosher store

Cleveland Heights- a heavily Jewish and heavily black inner ring suburb

Cleveland Heights- Taylor Road (the main street of Orthodox Jewry in the inner suburbs)

Cleveland's industrial heritage

Downtown- Arcade

Downtown- Arcade (kind of a 19th c. shopping mall)

Downtown- Euclid Avenue on a Sunday morning

Downtown- Halle Building at 12th and Euclid - where I worked (former site of dept. store, now offices- in fact, Drew Carey show set there)

Downtown- my apt, viewed from Euclid Avenue at dusk)

Downtown- my apt. (the Chesterfield, 12 @ Chester)

Downtown- my apt. viewed from the north

Downtown- Public Square (pocket park that separates city into E and W sides)

Downtown- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Downtown- Tower City (downtown mall)

Downtown- Warehouse District (just W of Public Square, a residential and entertainment area)

Euclid house

Euclid restaurant

Euclid- a working class inner suburb

France or Euclid? You guess

Gates Mills house

Gates Mills street

Gates Mills- a very rich outer suburb (NOTE: this sort of anti-pedestrian design much less common in Cleveland than in Atlanta; in Cleveland you have to go out to Gates Mills to find this sort of thing, in Atlanta you can find it intown)

Hunting Valley

Hunting Valley- a suburb even richer than Gates Mills

I clown around

interestingly colored house in Collinwood (far E side of city on Lake Erie; working class, racially mixed)

Lakewood - luxury on lake (a few blocks west of high rise area)

Lakewood - more luxury on the lake

Lakewood luxury on lake

Lakewood- a inner ring West Side suburb with nice parts on Lake Erie

Lakewood- the bad part of town, very far south of Lake Erie

Little Italy

Little Italy

Little Italy (on E edge of city)

Only in Cleveland (Euclid)

Only in Cleveland (though unfortunately Parma Pierogies went out of business)

Pepper Pike- an outer suburb, a bit richer than any inner suburb, not as rich as Gates Mills

Polka Hall of Fame in Euclid

Rapid station ("Rapid" is colloquial name for Cleveland's light and heavy rail system; one heavy rail mostly going through city, two light rail going through Shaker Heights)- this is heavy rail in working class West Side city area

Rapid stop in Shaker Heights- no real stations, just tracks

Shaker Heights mansion

Shaker Heights- an inner suburb with some fabulously wealthy areas (and others not so nice at all)

Slavic Village (a Polish area), at southern fringe of city

Slavic Village grocery

Slavic Village houses

Solon

Solon subdivision

Solon- a new sprawlburb, not as rich as Gates Mills or Hunting Valley, but whiter than inner ring burbs

Tremont (gentrifying area on Near West Side)

Tremont - Ukrainian museum

West Park

West Park (only homogenously middle class part of city; a few miles W of downtown)

West Side Market in Ohio City- full of treats, mostly Eastern Europe-oriented

Yugoslav area

Yugoslav area (64 @ St. Clair)

Yugoslav area at St. Clair/E 50s and 60s (well, formerly Yugoslav area; now majority black but still a few Yugoslav-oriented stores)

Zero Zest- a fitting name for lots of places in Cleveland