Formerly the Dead Euclid blog, Euclid Evolution aims to show what Euclid once was in pictures and words, and how Euclid is today. Our focus is on history and architecture. Our goal is to photograph the changing face of the retail and restaurant industry in our Cleveland suburb, because we think that kind of thing is fascinating.
This is a really cool idea- i would be interesting to spread it around us and do one on Wickliffe and that dead shopping plaza next to Giant Eagle that they're turning into condo's and the apartment building across the street that gone torn down to build new apartments... Or the Mentor Restaurants that change weekly because they can't get enough attention to any of them.. Just a thought. This is Bobbi by the way, they won't let me post without an account.
I love the new Dead Euclid website. I linked it to my Ohio Grocery MSN group, http://groups.msn.com/OhioGrocery , where I once had a Euclid Square Mall photo album posted. I was asked, however, by Euclid Square Mall/Outlets USA management to take down the photos. Since Outlets USA is out of business now, there should be no harm in posting Euclid Square Mall photos again. Outlets USA was an attempt to revitalize Euclid Square Mall, mainly by reopening the former Kaufmann's (May Company) store as a furniture outlet as well as other businesses, which included, at one time, Oriental rugs, urban wear, housewares, appliances, tools, DVD's and video tapes, and cell phones/pagers. Food vendors included an Italian restaurant that opened in the former Rogers Jewelers space, as well as a reopened hot dog stand and a vendor selling single serve pieces of "wedding cake". I visited Outlets USA several times between the time it first opened in November of 2004 and just before Christmas last year. Vendors started leaving in the springtime, when I noticed that the DVD/video business was no longer there. The last visit I made there, all that was left was the furniture operation and the urban wear store. Outlets USA closed for good a couple of weeks later. I do give the Outlets USA management credit for trying, and the venture lasted a little over a year. Beyond that, the future of Euclid Square Mall is again uncertain-either it can be,at best, remodeled into industrial/office/warehouse space, demolished and redeveloped, or at worst, become abandoned and vandalized, like Dixie Square Mall in Chicago or River Roads Mall in St. Louis. Again, thank you for documenting the decline of Euclid Square Mall. Your pictures capture a lot of detail.
This is a really cool idea- i would be interesting to spread it around us and do one on Wickliffe and that dead shopping plaza next to Giant Eagle that they're turning into condo's and the apartment building across the street that gone torn down to build new apartments... Or the Mentor Restaurants that change weekly because they can't get enough attention to any of them.. Just a thought. This is Bobbi by the way, they won't let me post without an account.
ReplyDeleteI love the new Dead Euclid website. I linked it to my Ohio Grocery MSN group, http://groups.msn.com/OhioGrocery , where I once had a Euclid Square Mall photo album posted. I was asked, however, by Euclid Square Mall/Outlets USA management to take down the photos. Since Outlets USA is out of business now, there should be no harm in posting Euclid Square Mall photos again. Outlets USA was an attempt to revitalize Euclid Square Mall, mainly by reopening the former Kaufmann's (May Company) store as a furniture outlet as well as other businesses, which included, at one time, Oriental rugs, urban wear, housewares, appliances, tools, DVD's and video tapes, and cell phones/pagers. Food vendors included an Italian restaurant that opened in the former Rogers Jewelers space, as well as a reopened hot dog stand and a vendor selling single serve pieces of "wedding cake". I visited Outlets USA several times between the time it first opened in November of 2004 and just before Christmas last year. Vendors started leaving in the springtime, when I noticed that the DVD/video business was no longer there. The last visit I made there, all that was left was the furniture operation and the urban wear store. Outlets USA closed for good a couple of weeks later. I do give the Outlets USA management credit for trying, and the venture lasted a little over a year. Beyond that, the future of Euclid Square Mall is again uncertain-either it can be,at best, remodeled into industrial/office/warehouse space, demolished and redeveloped, or at worst, become abandoned and vandalized, like Dixie Square Mall in Chicago or River Roads Mall in St. Louis. Again, thank you for documenting the decline of Euclid Square Mall. Your pictures capture a lot of detail.
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