Race Dairy: A Tasty Treat for Christmas 1963

A tasty treat for Christmas 1963! Did you SPRINT to Euclid-Race Dairy to grab your Tree Center ice cream roll? And what beats a cup of Euclid-Race Egg Nog, except maybe spiked Euclid-Race Egg Nog?

Don't forget ice cream Santas, ice cream trees, ice cream snow balls, and do-it-yourself Baked Alaska.

 

Spudnut Euclid: 3 Locations Spanning 40 Years

In 1946 brothers Al and Bob Pelton of Salt Lake City, Utah began one of America's favorite food confections, a chain of Spudnut Donut Shops spanning Alaska to Mexico.

1967: Chicken Bait at E. 200th St. and Cherokee

Kids walking in the street and being irresponsible with cars - a problem in Euclid. Go to any of those cancerous Euclid Facebook groups and see for yourself. Evidently, this problem goes back many years, despite being hotly debated by every third Euclid resident to this day.

I give you: Chicken Bait.

Do you know where your children are at 9 or 10 p.m. every night of the week? Do you know your children's friends so you can tell what kind of examples your children have to follow? Do you know what your children do for excitement and thrills each high during the week? Do you really care if maybe some night the phone rings in your comfortable, warm house to let you know that your son or daughter is now dead-that he or she has just been hit by a car?

Many parents in this area must not be able to answer these question very successfully. They must not really care about the physical, mental, or moral welfare of their kids.

ANY WEEKNIGHT (or weekend) why don't you jump into your car and take a ride down 200th street near Cherokee to see if your children are standing in that crowd? Please drive carefully, because you are sudden bait for the current new games that go on each night. You are an excellent prospect for the game of "chicken."

Your children find it great fun to run into the middle of the street in front of an oncoming car to see how fast the driver can push on the brakes.

This has happened to us and we were lucky enough to stop. When you hear the screech of the brake and feel your heart pounding, your knees weaken and hear the roar of laughter from the "audience" please keep your temper because you can do nothing to step this game.

DURING THIS WEEK there has been more than $300 worth of damage done in one parking lot on Cherokee ave. Did you give your children the switch blade that was used to slit three brand new tires Wednesday night? Did you maybe give your kids the BB gun that has been used to shoot out the light in the parking lot so the police or residents couldn't catch your child?

Euclid Township Hall and Euclid City Hall

On the afternoon of April 12, 1929, Euclid's city hall on North Street was ablaze and would soon burn to the ground. Fire Chief Ernest Earick blamed the fire on faulty wiring, specifically a short circuit that sparked tarred hemp used by the water department to pack pipe joints. Chief Earick was on the first floor of the two story building, built in 1894, and had the misfortune of falling through the burning floor into the basement. He was rescued, revived and remained on scene.

Talk about hardcore.

Having no city hall, everybody (even the police) moved over to the "old hotel" (The Euclid Inn) on Chardon road, near Euclid ave. The depression made rebuilding a slow process, and the temporary city hall ended up being a 9 year solution.

Plans were completed in 1934 and construction of the new "old" Euclid city hall began in 1937. There was a bit of back-and-forth about the location, though.

Here's a photo of the newly constructed hall in 1938. It was completed by WPA workers and cost $100,000.

City Hall still stands today, but was outgrown in the mid 1980's. The basement of this building was actually the police department until 1950.

It currently sits right next to the current (municipal center) city hall, completed in 1989.

Bonus: Showing off a 4 year old city hall in the 1942 Euclid city directory.