1974 Euclid Famous Recipe Chicken East 260th Underpass Ad

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!

26000 Lakeshore Blvd - A History with Silver & Gold, Banks & Dentistry

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.

1803 Ad Land for Sale, Euclid Ohio

John Baldwin of Windham, Connecticut ran an ad offering 122 acres of land for sale in Euclid, Ohio, located in Trumbull county. John's ad ran in the Windham Herald for a week at the beginning of September, 1803.

Both Cleveland and the current city of Euclid were located in Trumbull county until 1810 when Cuyahoga county was officially organized. 

Trumbull county was named for Connecticut governor Jonathan Trumbull.

George Michael Hermle, His Subdivision, His Terrible Crime

George Michael Hermle was an early resident of Euclid. His father and grandfather were born in Württemberg Germany, but The Hermle family would leave Germany in the mid-1850's and by the time George was born in 1869, the family were well established land owners in the township of Euclid. 

George Michael Hermle

George's father Simon was a Wagon maker and his grandfather George was a blacksmith. The younger George was the oldest of 4 children, 3 brothers and one sister. His mother Anna Schwab Hermle died shortly after giving birth to the her last child in 1878, when George was 9 years old. His mother's family, the Schwabs, were also German immigrants who came to Euclid Township before 1860.

George Hermle got into farming with one brother, Ernest, while another brother Henry followed grandfather George into blacksmithing. All the brothers were bachelors into their twenties. The only married child was the lone daughter, Minnie, who died in 1895 at the age of 25.

Hermle continued to farm as a bachelor while living on the vast Hermle property located on Cut road in Euclid Township when one day fate decided to intervene. It was 1903 and while a 34-year-old Hermle worked pitching hay in nearby Nottingham, a young woman named Stella Marriott asked of him a unique favor: Her aunt had passed away very recently and she desired to have someone watch the body that evening. Evidently the time spent together (aunt not included) bloomed into a romance. George Hermle and Estella "Stella" Marriott were married in August 1903. It was the first marriage for both bride and groom.

Stella Hermle, nee Marriott

 

Estella is listed as being 18 on her marriage license, but she would have in fact been 16 years old when marrying 34-year-old Hermle.

George Hermle and Estella Marriott Cuyahoga marriage license.

While George may have waited a while to enter into matrimony, he and Stella wasted little time in starting a family. Laura was born in December 1904, Robert in May 1906, Verona "Bessie" in May 1907, and finally Elsie in October 1909.

It was shortly after marriage and the birth of Laura that George got into real estate, which would turn out to be lucrative for the Hermle family.

Many years later when Euclid was being cut into parcels, the area of land his family lived on would become East 200th street and Arbor street. The subdivision is called the "George M. Hermle's proposed subdivision of part of original Euclid Township Lot no. 16, Tract no. 17", although this George in name is likely grandfather Hermle.

In 1903 Euclid Village was incorporated, and Hermle's name regularly showed up under real estate transfers for area properties. Stella stayed at home with the 4 children. Family and friends would later remark that the marriage was not a happy one, however.

George suffered an injury that resulted in the loss of his left arm from above the elbow. He ran his hay rake into a ditch that should have been covered. He took the Cleveland, Painesville, and Eastern Railroad Company to court and won. In February 1910 he was awarded $4,118 in damages, nearly $120,000 in 2021 dollars.

The end of this story began October 1911. Within in the first half of the month, Stella Hermle filed for divorce, alimony, and custody of the four Hermle children. Stella cited George's excessive drinking and neglect. 

Meanwhile, George would gripe to neighbors that Stella would no longer cook his meals or do his mending. He also claimed Stella had let the children go hungry an entire Sunday.

On October 16, 1911, Nottingham Deputy Marshal George Morris served the husband and father with the paperwork. Morris observed the couple quietly discussing their future involving property division and such, and left shortly thereafter.

Nearly half an hour later marshal Morris was interrupted at his home by a frantic pounding on the door - George Hermle claiming his wife has fired a weapon at him. A revolver, to be exact. Marshal returns to the Hermle home to find a hole blown clear through an outside door, and Mrs. Hermle missing in action.

George told marshal Morris his wife had fired the revolver at him after the two fought about her bringing in movers and a moving van to get her things from their marital home to her new home she'd plan to make with friends on Granger road. George Hermle voiced his disapproval of this, and that was when Stella got her gun.

Stella and the 4 children, at this time 6, 5, 4, and 2, found lodging elsewhere for the evening and George Hermle stayed in the family home on Cut road.

October 17, 1911: Stella and the children returned as promised the next morning around 10 am, with a moving van and a small crew of able bodied workers. The crew began the heavy lifting and the three oldest children watched and followed them, interested in the flurry of activity. Stella had the 2-year-old in her arms as she uncovered furniture and picked up small objects to move. Things were going smoothly and once the van was properly packed and ready to go, Stella started to dress Elsie, the smallest, for the cool October weather. 

George had disappeared for a while and now threw open the door and entered the same room as Stella and Elsie. He had his only hand hidden behind his back. When he brought it around front, Stella's face fell as she realized he leveled a double-barreled shotgun at her. She leapt up and as she did, he shot her dead. She fell with her body wrapped around Elsie's tiny body. 

A moving man named E. J. Blake had been outside the window of the murder room and and when he heard the shot, ran around to the front. There he saw Hermle exit, shotgun still in hand. He watched Hermle run. Hermle returned his stare and remarked that Blake not, "get too close... this gun is still loaded,".

Meanwhile, Frank Ridsmann, another hired man, heard the shot and found Mrs. Hermle dead. He was startled by the cry of little Elsie as he stared in disbelief. The girl was still holding her mothers hand. He picked up the child, disentangling their fingers and thinking quickly, was able to stop the children from seeing the horrific scene that was their now deceased mother. Ridsmann was able to gently usher them out the back and to a neighbors home.

Rain had begun to fall and Hermle continued across the street from the family home past a grocery store. The grocer saw Hermle running with the shotgun, exited his store in curiosity, and Hermle spared no time in brandishing the shotgun at him.

There are some reports that say there were just a few witnesses to other old newspaper clippings that say Hermle had to fend off a mob of people. There's no doubt Hermle was panicked and brandishing his loaded weapon at anyone who dared go near.

He continued about 50 feet past the grocer and his store and sat down against a tree, where he put the barrel of the gun in his mouth. In a moment that must have been humiliating, to say the least, he could not pull the trigger owing to his arm being missing and the trigger being too far away. 

Hermle angrily dropped the gun, removed his shoes and socks, and this time, pulling the trigger of the shotgun with his toes, fired into his brain. He immediately fell to the side, dead.

Marshal Morris was not home, but his wife was, and she summoned Deputy Marshals Earick of Euclid and E. J. Lawrence of Nottingham upon hearing the news, which reached her only 5 minutes after George murdered Stella. 

Close. Mrs. Hermle shot at Mr. with a revolver. He killed her with a shotgun.

Stella's father and sister were notified. Her father, Charles Marriott, was older and in poor health. They came and watched as the bodies of both Mr. and Mrs. Hermle were placed in ambulance and driven to Nottingham's King's Morgue. They stood and watched as the movers slowly replaced everything back into the Hermle house.

Grandfather Charles took home the 4 children. George's brothers Henry and Ernest were left in charge of the Euclid property.

In an interesting turn, the family decided the two should be buried together.

This was a big story. The entire Hermle family, including the house.

In 1921, this area of Euclid became known as Arbor.

 

No mention of the Hermle name.

This is the corner of Arbor and East 200th (Cut rd) today.

It looks as if 3 of the 4 children (although it's possible all 4) went on to be adopted by different families. The oldest child of the Hermle union passed away only 15 years ago, having seen her 100th birthday.

Estella Marriott Hermle and George Michael Hermle are indeed buried together. You can visit them at any time in our own Euclid cemetery. 

3 of the 4 children are not buried in the same cemetery as their parents.

Euclid, Ohio: July, 1897 Search for a Wild Man

Women in the 1800's were predisposed to bouts of hysteria. Just the women, apparently, because wombs.

Or maybe not.

This article, published in the Logan, Ohio Hocking sentinel in late July 1897 explicitly states that EVERYBODY in Euclid was on edge due to the recent sightings of what then could only be described as a "Wild Man,".

July 29 1897 Logan Hocking sentinel

Farmer's Daughters in Euclid, Ohio: "Republican Simplicity"

This quick historical snippet was published in September, 1849 in The British Banner via correspondent of the Pittsburgh Visitor (perhaps AKA the Pittsburgh Saturday Visiter).

It reads:

Republican Simplicity. -- A correspondent of the Pittsburgh Visitor writes of Euclid, Ohio: “No young lady here is ashamed to work for a living; the daughter of the most wealthy farmer (if she be in health) scorns to wear an article of dress which is not the product of her own industry, although the ‘whereas’ may have been earned at the washtub of a neighbour whose pecuniary resources are much inferior to those of her parents.”

 What a lovely, if random, observation of Euclid 170 years ago.

25 High Quality Pictures from Chase Copper and Brass Productions in Euclid, Ohio Circa 1942

Because it's important to keep dirt and moisture from refrigeration tube, it is packaged in individual envelopes.

Flashback Friday: 1900's Euclid Postcard with house and horses

Do you recognize this house? I bet it may still stand!

Euclid, Ohio, circa early 1900's. A woman stands outside her two-story home with 2 children and 3 horses.

July 31 1947: Assistant Euclid Service Director and Boy Killed in Crash at Gettysburg, PA

70 years ago today 2 lives were lost on a rainy day in a head-on collision.

Ronald Sabine, 12, and William Harry Stoneman, 43, assistant Euclid service director and president of coalition club were passengers in a Hudson owned and driven by Paul Hewitt Torbet, 45, Euclid city solicitor.

The threesome were on their way back from a business trip in Washington D.C.. Sabine was traveling with the men he referred to as "uncles". Torbet befriended the young Sabine after his father, Frank Sabine, died of meningitis 2 years prior. The boy had gone on previous trips with Torbet. On this trip Torbet and Stonemen decided since the boy had never seen Getttysburg, they would take him there.

321 East 241st St. and Maplewood in Euclid, where young Ronald F. Sabine lived in 1947.

The accident occurred about 8 miles south of Gettysburg, PA on Route 15, just minutes from their destination.

Paul Torbet was driving the 1947 Hudson when he attempted to pass another vehicle on a hill. It was rainy and they collided with a flat body tractor truck hauling 13 tons of brick driven by Walter Buhl of Vienna, VA. No one in the truck was injured.

Emmitsburg road hill, just north of the MD/PA border

12-year-old Sabine ended up beneath the wheels of the truck, dying instantly. It took some time for the body of the boy to be coaxed out of the car, which itself was pinned under the truck.

Stoneman died some twenty minutes after being admitted to Gettysburg hospital suffering from head injuries, a crushed chest, and fractures to both legs.

Torbet suffered a fractured right leg and shoulder, but survived.

Buhl was absolved of any blame in the crash, while the coroner said the blame should be shared between drive Torbet and an unidentified driver. Torbet said he and Stoneman had agreed to pass a slow motorist, and that said motorist sped up when Torbet attempted to pass. When Torbet was the oncoming truck, he attempted to swerve out of the way, but the truck driver swerved that same direction, causing the fatal collision.

The truck driver and Air Corps veteran Buhl stated that two hitchhikers he was carrying took off into a cornfield after the crash occurred. Buhl said he had a clean driving record; Torbet made the same claim about his own history.

Ambulance driver Luther Topper made a statement saying that Torbet insisted Stoneman was removed first, as the man was more seriously injured. 

Torbet was released from Warner hospital in late October, several months after the accident. He paid a $10 fine on the charge at the same time.

William Harry Stoneman is buried in Euclid cemetery.
Ronald Sabine is buried in Calvary cemetery.
Walter Buhl died in 1977 and is buried in Idylwood, Virginia.

Paul H Torbet, who drafted the charters for Bratenahl, Eastlake, Linndale, and Willoughby Hills in addition to Euclid, retired to Florida in 1973 and died in Fall of 1981, at the age of 81.

Euclid-Richmond Shopping Center Opens - September 18th, 19th, & 20th 1952

On September 18, 1952 the Euclid-Richmond Shopping Center opened on the corner of East 260th and Euclid Avenue. It was quite the event that morning with Euclid Mayor Kenneth J. Sims leading the ceremonies that showcased the new plaza with city officials from Wickliffe, Willowick, Willoughby, and Richmond Heights making appearances.

Euclid Ohio Sesquicentennial Commemorative Plate!

There may be nothing worse than plates and other bric-a-brac. It collects dust, you're not really supposed to touch them, and most knick knacks are just hideous.

But a commemorative plate with a whole list of notable historical moments that happened in (and what would become) Euclid? Get out the wall anchors because this piece of Grandma's collection is going up on this blogs wall!

The city of Euclid Sesquicentennial was held in 1959, and celebrated 150 years of existing. This seems like an excuse to have a little festival and mint some coins and fire some plates. But what a plate it is! Green print, roughly 10.25" features a nice pictorial of Euclid's yesteryear.

Old Stop 10 - corner of Euclid Ave. and Chardon Rd.

Euclid Town Hall - erected 1894, burned down 1929.

Euclid High School c. 1900. I wonder if they were warm, safe, and dry?

Euclid Ohio Band c. 1908

The back of the plate features a long list of remarkable Euclid events.

With the epic title "Saga of an Industrial Empire", the timeline starts many years before Moses Cleaveland even ventured over this way.

I've typed out what I could. Read along below!

• 1662: Northwest Territory given by King Charles II to Connecticut through Governor John Winthrop which united all the English settlements under one government.
• 1701 to 1728: Initial treaties with Indian tribes headed by the Iroquois, of all lands east of the Cuyahoga River to the whites. 
• 1785: Treaty with separate tribe - Chippewa, Delaware, Erie, Ottawa, and Wyandot to relinquish all lands east of Cuyahoga River.
• 1795:Treaty finalized with Iroquois Nation.
• 1796:General Moses Cleaveland and 66 surveyors set out for the Western Reserve Territory.
• (a) Mutiny at Conneaut Creek where camp was established.
• (b) Township 5 miles square laid out and sold at $1.00 per acre.
• (c) Township christened "Euclid" in honor of surveyors patron saint.
• 1797: First permanent settlers built homes (11 in number).
• 1798: 18 others to build homes and sew wheat as previously agreed.
• 1799: Last 12 families build and settle.
• 1803: First mail route, Cleveland to Warren, passing through Euclid.l
• 1809: Euclid Township incorporated and officers duly elected.
• 1815: Euclid had 42 qualified ?? voters and was larger than Cleveland.
• 1820: Organization of Baptist Church.
• 1840: Lake county organizes - Willoughby transferred from Cuyahoga to Lake county, Euclid lost its best harbor possibility.
• 1845: German Lutheran Church organized.
• 1852: Opening of Cleveland, Painesville, and Ashtabula Railroad - now a part of the New York Central System.
• 1861: Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad purchased and operated the C. P. and A. mentioned above.
• 1861: St. Paul's Catholic Church organized.
• 1868: First High School opened - enrollment 5 pupils.
• 1878 - First references to taxes for ??, roads, sidewalks.
• 1883: December 15th - warmest day on record temperature 69 F.
• 1896: High School chartered.
• 1897: Graduating class of 6 from Euclid High School.
• 1903: Euclid incorporated as a village.
• 1904: Discontinued use of toll gate on Euclid Avenue.
• 1908: Speed law passed - 8 miles per hour.
• 1914: Beginning of industrial growth.
• 1929: Old Town Hall on North Street burned to ground destroying many old records.
• 1930: Euclid incorporated as a city.
• 1932: Addressograph-Multigraph moved from Chicago to Euclid.
• 1938: Kenneth J. Sims assumes mayor's responsibilities.
• 1941: Thompson Products built multi-million dollar manufacturing plant.
• 1943: Opening of present Euclid Senior High School.

1897: Love, Euclid Style

Here's a cute little love story plucked from a summer 1897 edition of the Wichita Beacon.

As this tale of love goes, a lonely gal by the name of Maggie Fritchkorn worked in a vineyard owned by her brother-in-law [John Marshal] near Euclid. She had a wild idea to write a note and stick it in with a basket of grapes, and she asked whoever received the note to write her back, regardless of gender.

The grapes and subsequent note ended up being purchased by Mary Wolf in St. Louis and her brother-in-law, J.H. Wolf, went ahead and answered Maggie's letter.

After a few exchanges back and forth of letters and photos, J.H. Wolf came to Euclid to meet Maggie Fritchkorn. Evidently things went well as after one week of courtship, the couple were married.

Like I said, a happy little tale written in a paper from Kansas about events that took place in Ohio and Missouri. Probably just a tale, right?

Pre-1900's Euclid: 780 East 250th Street

Euclid has a wide variety of housing stock. Take a drive up and down a few streets and you'll see it change in size, style, and decade several times over.

The population in Euclid jumped considerably between 1920 and 1930, the population nearly quadrupling (3,363 people in 1920 compared to 12,751 in 1930) and again, in 1940 through 1950, going from 17,866 to roughly 41,396.

Myself, I live in a 1940's era cape cod, and across the street and a block over, the houses are 1960's bungalows. And whilst there is plenty of variety, it is within those decades of growth that most of our homes were erected.

This entry and this home will be the first in a series of homes that have withstood time and hundreds of chilly winters and still stand today in Euclid. Pre-1900's Euclid. Enjoy.

780 East 250th Street

In 1874, Henry Devoe (b. abt. 1841) owned the parcel that is now 780 East 250th street, along with a large chunk of the area around it. He was a farmer and had a wife, Sarah E. Devoe (nee Snyder, b. abt. 1850), and two children; Frank E. Devoe (b. 1872) and Mina Augusta Devoe (b. 1874).

Henry L. Devoe circa God knows.

1979: Former Cleveland Indian Luscious "Luke" Easter Murdered

Luscious "Luke" Easter was a baseball player, playing with the St. Louis Titanium Giants and the Homestead Grays, both negro league teams before finding a spot on the Cleveland Indians in 1949. He was a power-hitter who performed well, and even though his major league career ended in 1954 due to injury and aging, he remained active in baseball and didn't retire completely until 1963, aged 48.

Fazio's Stop N Shop and Pick N Pay

In late April 1963, Fazio's Stop N Shop opened at 22840 Lake Shore Blvd. It was a supermarket very similar to a modern supermarket of today. Besides food on the shelves, it had a bakery, butcher, and a huge produce department. It also made hot meals. The food was made ready to eat. It sold food made in Italy, Denmark, and England.

Peter Dichmann was a pastry chef from Copenhagen who ran the bakery department at Fazio's. He would make 1500 loaves of bread, cupcakes, donuts, and pies. They were especially known for their strawberry pies.

This was Fazio's 6th supermarket and the largest to date. It had a huge produce section. They had a cheese section with over 125 different types of cheeses. The butcher had a meat counter with a 160 feet of space. They had steaks, pork chops, veal, and chicken.

In 1964, the Pick and Pay located at the Euclid-Richmond Shopping Center remodeled the whole store. It expanded to 10,275 feet of space. Pick and Pay had been located at the same shopping center since 1952.

This Pick and Pay had a bakery department which was delivered from Pick and Pay's own bakery, a big frozen food department and butcher. It did not seem as large as the Fazio's on Lakeshore. My parents would take me shopping at this location when I was a kid. It closed sometime in the early 1990's. It was there about 40 or more years.

Big Boy at 263 Babbitt Road Says Goodbye

Andrew wrote a fantastic history of a little known restaurant by the name of Lawson's that turned into a Big Boy.

As a Euclid transplant, I don't have as many personal memories as others do, but I remember the last time I ate at Bob's Big Boy on Babbitt. After Homecoming, 1994 at Eastlake North High.

Courtesy of the Euclid Sun Journal, October 2000.

History Lesson: 22481 Shore Center Dr. Part III - Unique Thrift Store

22481 Shore Center - 1957 -1971
22481 Shore Center - 1972-1983

The third and final tenant at 22481 Shore Center Drive in Euclid, Ohio, was Unique Thrift store.

1983

My brother loves thrift stores, but I REALLY dug going to this place, from when I was a kiddo to my high school years. They had furniture, toys, movies, and a ton of clothes. I think half my 10th grade year outfit came from this store. It was the shangri-la of used crap. To this day, the best thrift shop ever, and way better than the Willowick location now.

They had a rocky couple of months after opening, though. For starters, in March of 1983 a guy met his girlfriend at her job at Unique and then went ahead and pulled a gun on her and well, kidnapped her.

Koren Hamula, the victim, got away, but then her gun-wielding beloved, Michael Imburgia, snuck into her basement later that night. Police found him hiding with a knife.

And they say all the good ones are taken. Two months later, there was a fatality when a woman crashed her car into the wall of the building.

Unique stayed at this location until the late 1990's. This building and couple others were razed.

The top is from 1970 - the bottom from 2006. Notice the green buildings on the left are still there. The large green building in 2006 is Dave's. The red outline in 1970 is 22481 Shore Center. The section with the darker roof, shaped like an "L" was Kroger's, Minnesota Fabrics, and Unique.

History Lesson: 22481 Shore Center Dr. Part II - Minnesota Fabrics

Did you check out Part I of 22481 Shore Center Drive?

Here's one that I don't remember at -all- Minnesota Fabrics.

They became the name on the building at 22481 Shore Center Drive in 1972 - And stayed until 1983.

June 1972 - Now there are FOUR Minnesota Fabrics stores!

In 1976 there are seven stores, and it was Marlo Thomas week.. the whole damn week!!

I'm so happy that 1977 ushered in an official logo and font change. While not fantastic, at least it's better than stock Cooper, and adding a sew-through button seems natural enough.

But by 1980 the button's kind of gone again.

The last ad is from February 1983, and we have one final logo :)

Also they were advertising custom drapery, and calling themselves "Home Deco Center".

I can't say I know much about them, or recall ever hearing of them. I did a single Google search and didn't come up with anything.

Memories, anyone?

History Lesson: 22481 Shore Center Dr. Part I - Kroger's

Today, if you found yourself at 22481 Shore Center Dr. in Euclid, you would most likely be parking your car. The reason for that, is this location is now the parking lot for Dave's Supermarket.

However, if you found yourself back in, oh I don't know... the summer of 1957, you'd be ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the new Kroger grocery store.

Everyone loves the charm of these vintage ads - but this one is really something... I personally appreciate the mention of the "soft music" and "magic carpet doors".

Although there are no mentions of improvements from the following ad in Spring 1963, Kroger on Shore Center decided to throw a grand re-opening. How serendipitous for people who live for grocery store openings!

This Kroger grocery closed sometime in 1971, give or take a few months.

Above, a shot taken for the Cleveland press in 1957, showcasing the produce department of the new Kroger.

History Lesson: 263 Babbitt Rd. - Lawson's Restaurant - Manners Big Boy

I was looking through the Euclid News Journal and found this picture. It was from June 10, 1971 talking about a new restaurant named Lawson's. I grew up in Euclid and had never heard of a restaurant named Lawson's. Growing up, the only Lawson's I had known of was the Convenient store. They sold bread, milk, and other food. They were most famous for their French Onion dip and chipped chop ham. They had a commercial in the 1970's talking about the freshness of their orange juice. This was before refrigerated trucks.

This help wanted ad for Lawson's in October 1972 lists the address of the restaurant as 263 Babbitt Road. The Lawson's Convenient store was only about 10 feet around the corner from the restaurant.

"LAWSON'S RESTAURANT & MOTELS 16201 Euclid Avenue Cleveland, Ohio 44112, Phone 216-851-2600; Restaurants and Motels in Ohio, Motels in Stow, Montrose, North Canton, Amherst and Macedonia. Swimming pools; Color T.V. and phones in all rooms." According to this postcard from the Cleveland Memory project 4 locations had Lawson Hotel-Restaurants.

By January 1973 the Lawson's at 263 Babbitt had become a Manners Big Boy restaurant. In 3 months the Babbitt location had changed names. Manners-Big Boy was founded by Robert Manners. Manners and his wife in the late 1930's had the first Drive-In in Cleveland. A Drive-In was a restaurant were you would park your car and a waitress would come and take your order. You would never get out of your car. When the food was done, a tray would be placed and attached to your window. You would never go inside which was a revolutionary idea back then. Manners-Big Boy was known for its double-decker hamburger and milkshakes.

In 1956 Manners bought 7 new restaurants. This brought the number of restaurants that Manners owned up to 38.

In 1968, Robert Manners sold his 38 restaurants plus 2 being built to Consolidated Foods of Chicago. Consolidated Foods of Chicago also owned Lawson's Milk Company which ran Lawson's Convenient store. This explains why the quick transition was made in only 3 months from Lawson's restaurant to Manners-Big Boy. The Manners name was dropped from the Big Boys in Northeast Ohio sometime in the late 1970's.

In 1995 Robert Manners died at the age of 90. Today there are only a few Big-Boys left in Northeast Ohio.