cleveland 2004

Cleveland Skyscraperpage.com meet - Sep 4, 2004

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I drove to Cleveland on Friday afternoon, and stayed with friends David and Bob on Mapledale. There was a neighborhood yard sale on Saturday, so
David and I walked over to Archwood to check it out. There are some great houses on Archwood.

I scored a free bike at a yard sale across the street. It's a decent city bike, a Zebrakeno Golden Sport with 25" frame, Sugino crankset, Suntour
derailleurs, and Dia Compe brakes, and all it needed was new tires and brake pads and a good clean-up and lubrication. It had been left behind by a
previous homeowner and had languished for many years in a garage attic.

At noon, about a dozen of us met up at the West Side market and walked up West 25th Street to the
Detroit-Superior (Veterans Memorial) Bridge to tour the lower deck and former subway stations

From the bridge's completion in 1917 until the end of service in 1954, streetcars between downtown and the West Side crossed the Cuyahoga River
on the lower deck of the Detroit-Superior High Level Viaduct. Twice a year, the county engineer opens the lower deck to the public for self-guided
walking tours.