Euclid Square Mall: A Glimpse into its Culinary Beginnings
For the bibliophiles and melophiles among us, Euclid Square Mall offered several places where books and music could be browsed, enjoyed, and purchased.
Well, I guess in this era of Facebook and other super cringe social media, Happy Heavenly Birthday, Euclid Square mall, because they knocked it down over half a decade ago.
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26010 Euclid Avenue was trees until the very early 1980s. In 1983, after the building of Arby's and Taco Bell to the west, Pizza Hut was built there. The building was a traditional red roofed structure, which today is still very recognizable.
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| February 1985 Pizza Hut ad including the Euclid, Ohio Pizza Hut on Euclid Avenue. |
Happy first Friday of the best month, October! Frightening Friday is back, and today, we're looking at a couple of Halloween 1954 ad's from Euclid, Ohio.
Butler Brothers at 22300 Lakeshore Blvd thought you ought to come in and pick up some candy beans (?) and candy kisses (??). Think those are Boston baked beans and those terrible peanut butter kisses?
In October 1974 Famous Recipe Chicken in Euclid had a lot to celebrate! You see, the East 260th underpass was OPEN! No longer did you have to take some backwards roundabout way to get your hands on some delicious chicken, mashed potatoes, cole slaw, or buttery rolls!
Pictured in this ad is the gleaming new underpass on the southern end of East 260th street. This underpass allowed traffic to flow freely and safely, unencumbered by the frequent trains above.
Euclid leaders cutting the ribbon is pictured to the right. I think my favorite is the little Beetle heading towards the camera.
For a neat $1.25 you could score yourself a regular chicken dinner with 3 pieces of chicken, potatoes, cole slaw and 2 rolls AND! A red and yellow ball point pen emblazoned with the Famous Recipe Chicken logo!
On June 23, 1962, 26000 Lakeshore Blvd. opened it's doors for the first time as St. Clair Savings. Mayor Kenneth J. Sims performed the ribbon cutting and special guests included superintendent of Ohio Building and Loans association Andrew Putka, City of Euclid administrative director Michael Spino, Euclid municipal Judge William Burns, attorney Joseph Bergeron, retired physician Frank Kern, director of finance for the city of Cleveland Edward Knuth, director of public service for the city of Cleveland Louis Drasler, St. Clair Savings president Paul Schneller, St. Clair Savings secretary treasurer Don Schneller, and all Euclid city councilmen.
Thanks to Reddit user Sn00byD0 here's a couple of quick shots of the Hulu film Stickshift filming on Lakeshore blvd. between East 264th and East 266th streets.
Stickshift has been described as "a Feature-Length High-Budget Subscription Video On Demand Program, STICKSHIFT, to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures intended for initial release on Hulu." A casting call went out during summer 2023, and filming locations are all over Cleveland and the suburbs.
26410 Lakeshore Blvd was most recently a US Bank location, which closed sometime in 2012 or 2013.
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| 26410 Lakeshore Blvd, a Stickshift filming location |
A century ago, a farm called Braeburn (alternate spelling Brae Burn) was situated at 25000 Euclid Avenue. This property saw many church related events, and Mayor Sims campaign headquaters. In the 1930 and 40s there was a hospital for the "nervous" on the grounds.
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| For sale ad, 1946 |
According to Reddit user Presexual, multiple winter storms in Cleveland uncovered this Jackshaw Chevy/Geo billboard.
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| Original photo u/Presexual, AI enhancement by me |
"Every Hand is a Winner" exclaims the top of the billboard, with playing cards featuring the Blazer, Geo Prizm, Lumina, and Cavalier, with another card being unreadable.
A little tiny bit of research on these automobile models puts this recently uncovered billboard between 1989 and 1994.
Before you go, if you like old billboards that used to be hidden, go here for a Euclid Square Mall Red Lobster treat!
Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Cleveland/comments/1awug1k/every_hand_is_a_winner_at_jackshaw_chevy_geo/
