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02/06/09 11:34 PM

#433

Anne Gutow (Chapman)

Wow! Kenny, that's great! We are all getting to that age ... How's Roni "the cutest IDF soldier" doing?

I also know a few people who are "afraid" to sign in or get involved with the site. I think they're embarrassed about how they look now, what they have or haven't done with their lives, who they are or aren't now. I don't know what part I can play to get them past their barriers.

None of us look like we expected to at the age of 57-8. And at this point in our lives, we have all experienced problems with our parents, plus our own joys, disappointments, and medical issues.
How many of us weigh the same as we did in high school?
How many of us are as limber as we were in high school?
How many of us have accomplished all that we planned?
How many of us have lives that went according to schedule? I always remember the Yiddush phrase, "Man plans and G-d laughs."

Any ideas folks?

02/07/09 12:11 AM

#434

Val Iberall (O'Connor)

I think you got a bullseye on that one Anne...

02/07/09 08:21 AM

#435

Sue Bruder (Wold)

IF ANYONE HAS MISSING CLASSMATES ADDRESSES OR EMAILS PLEASE LET US KNOW....WE ARE SENDING OUT A MAILING THIS MONTH AND STILL CANT FIND APPROX. 430 PEOPLE.

02/07/09 10:52 AM

#436

Kenny Cohen

anne, roni is doing great! yael is planning a bbq for 500 soldiers in israel with the money we raised, purchasing the meat fron the city of sederot (double mitvah).also in my opinion i think we all look better today than 40 years ago, personally i would like to delete high school picture!it is really nice how generous and understanding our fellow classmates have become(very little high schoolish behavior),our generation exemplifies ruchmunus(taking pity on others)

02/07/09 11:20 AM

#437

Shelley Hornik (Lloyd)

I think most of us have matured nicely. I don't WANT to look (or act) like I did in High School. I also don't want to weigh the same amount...I'd look anorexic. But I don't want those high school pictures taken away...for most of you...it's the only way I can figure out who you are. With a class as large as ours, many of you were faces in the crowd. Those pics are a great help!!

The pics *I* would like to see taken away are the junior high pics. Let's face it...NO ONE looked their best when they were 12, 13, or 14...bad hair, bad glasses, bad complexions, gawky looking, you know...preadolescent. In elementary school, we were all darling. In high school, we all looked pretty good...but junior high??? Sorry...bleh.

02/07/09 11:50 AM

#438

Val Iberall (O'Connor)

Alright you guys, enough talk about what pictures you want taken away!!!! I am spending all this time putting the pictures on and you guys are talking about what pictures you want taken off!! Just enjoy them. They are a riot!

02/07/09 11:59 AM

#439

Val Iberall (O'Connor)

I say AMEN to that!!

02/07/09 06:53 PM

#440

Michael Wager

First, Kudos to Val for posting and tagging all of these photos. I share her enthusiasm for the elementary and junior high pics; perhaps, because, I never walked the the halls of CHHS.

Second, my appetite for photos of yore is not yet quenched. Therefore, I humbly request that those who were at Coventry and have additional class photos, please share them (my Belvoir years are covered - don't know what became of the Coventry shots). I remember classes with Miss Bodenweber (2nd?), Miss Oppenheimer (1st?) and Mr. Calendar (4th). I also believe that I shared Kindergarten class with Lizzie Shub. BTW, does anyone have candid photos of the old Coventry playground and building?

Third, I played Tris Speaker baseball for several years but have none of the team shots? I believe that we practiced and played at John Carroll fields. Anymore of those team shots posted would be a treat.

Finally, to add to the food dialogue. I have the best memories of cinnamon candy apples from Mitchell's Candies (On Coventry - next to Merit Drug and the old Heights Art Theater). Of course, it was a bit unnerving to walk a block north and find live chickens being slaughtered at the poultry market!

Roll forward to junior high - Mawby's at Cedar Center was a food mecca.

Thanks for sharing - nostalgia is good.

MW

02/07/09 06:57 PM

#441

Shelley Hornik (Lloyd)

Re: Elementary schools....Taylor is VERY underrepresented. If my memory serves me correctly (up for debate), there were SIX of each grade at Taylor. Right now...there is one third grade, one fifth grade and one sixth grade. Where are ALL the others??? (I moved there in 6th grade and only have my 6th grade picture which I'll try to find and scan to Val).

02/07/09 07:39 PM

#442

Val Iberall (O'Connor)

Michael, hopefully everyone will listen to you and send in their photos you requested. But remember this, this is a total team effort, all of you have been so helpful, I certainly cannot do this without all of you helping me! Keep up the great work! There are still a lot of question marks on the pictures...

02/07/09 08:48 PM

#443

Scott Poffenberger (Poffenberger)

God bless you all fellow posters! I thought of you all today as I "walked down memory lane". I picked up my Dad (age 88) who still resides in the house we moved into in 1963. It is wonderful to be able to wander around the house I moved into at age 12.

I picked him up and took him grocery shopping at "Zagara's", a lovely grocery at Lee and E. Overlook. We drove down Lee past HHS and memories flooded. I remember lunch at "Mawby's" (I still eat my burgers "grilled dill") and the delicious hotdogs at Hirsch's Deli. ("Mit skins" as Mrs. Hirsch used to say) The Kensington bar became the "Autoglass" and now houses the "Tavern Company" where Dad goes most Tuesday nights for "Jazz Night" with the George Foley group. Franklin ice cream is now a Subway. Oh, the Saturdays I spent at the Heights YMCA... Does anyone remember "The Foodery"... I ate my very first french fry there in 1959. How do forty years go so fast?

After we dropped off his food, we drove down to Cedar & Fairmont and had lunch at "The Mad Greek"... An Indian/Greek restaurant where "Damon's Golden Eagle" and the "Brown Derby" used to serve. I remembered buying doughnuts from the Hough Bakery at Cedar/Fairmont at sunrise after delivering the Plain Dealer. Miller Drug had a soda fountain. I would hit the barber shop upstairs (when I had hair) and get my shoes shined for fifty cents. Remember the "Toddle House" just east of Delaware?

Time has taught me what a special experience we all shared back then. I enjoy all your reminesces (sp?) and look forward to reading more soon.

02/07/09 09:13 PM

#444

Shelley Hornik (Lloyd)

I LOVE the Mad Greek. I've been there a few times on my (annual) trips to Cleveland. When I think of Cedar and Fairmont, I think of Best and Company. Wasn't that the small department store there? My mom would take me there once every couple of years (when I was really little) to buy me a new winter dress coat. It was a major outing.

I agree with Scott. I have an appreciation for visiting the places that were important when I was younger. It disappoints me that both Taylor (and the other Cleveland Heights elementary schools) has been replaced....and Roosevelt is gone. Heights looks so very different. Cain Park, however, still looks pretty much the same.

Remember when we could take the bus downtown and roam around? Remember when Severance was a "go to" place every Saturday? Remember going to the movies on Lee and Cedar for a quarter and eating lunch at Royal Castle afterward? Remember that birch beer, and the potatoes??

02/07/09 10:06 PM

#445

Val Iberall (O'Connor)

Sounds like so many of the old landmarks are gone. What is still around anyways? What happened to the May Company? I remember the bowling alley at cedar center. I remember seeing the Beatles first album in the window and thought whoa they have long hair! Boy, that was another day. Little did we know then...

02/07/09 11:38 PM

#446

Charles, (Chuck) Balcher

We had our first cold spell, here in Hawaii, in three years. It got down to 68 degrees and some people were tempted to wear a jacket. Problem is, no one owns a jacket.

02/08/09 08:04 AM	#447
Joyce Shrallow (Presser) Does anybody remember Clarks restaurant-if you were a member of the "clean plate club"(I'd have no problem with that today!) you got to go to the treasure chest full of goodies(crap!) and pick out whatever you wanted! How about Mills cafeteria downtown- as a kid I was so impressed that you got to pick out dessert first-little did I know that thats what cafeterias do!

02/08/09 08:09 AM

#448

Sue Bruder (Wold)

MOST OF ALL THE OLD PLACES ARE GONE. MAY CO. FOR VAL IS NOW MACY'S. AFTER MAY CO. IT WAS KAUFMANS AND NOW IT IS MACY'S. HIGBEES IS NOW DILLARDS AND NO MORE HALLE'S.
HOUGH BAKERY USED TO BE THE BEST BAKERY. IT'S GONE TO.
THERE IS A PLACE CALLED ARCHIES THAT MAKES THE HOUGH BAKERY CAKES. I ORDERED ONE FOR MY SON'S GRADUATION FROM COLLEGE ABOUT 6 YEARS AGO. ITS STILL THE SAME.
I THINK THAT ITS GREAT EVERYONE IS GOING DOWN MEMORY LANE.AT THIS POINT OF OUR LIVES WE NEED TO DO ALITTLE MEMORY REFRESHING.

02/08/09 10:57 AM

#449

Val Iberall (O'Connor)

I have an admission to make. DuDuDuDummmmm....

6th Grade. Belvoir. Dead of Winter. We were all in the gymnasium, must have been recess or something and they wouldn't let us outside because it was too cold or too much snow. No teachers, just us kids. Outside door of the gymnasium was open or ajar.

So me being the tomboy that I was and avid baseball player, scooped up a bunch of snow by the door and packed it down into a firm snowball and threw a fast ball across the gymnasium, I had quite an arm back then, right at Larry Shyatt and hit him square on his body..well he never knew where it came from but proceeded to throw another one at someone else and before long the entire gymnasium was filled with everyone throwing snowballs!

Then the real dududum comes in, we got CAUGHT!! And before we knew it the place was swarming with ADULTS! Boy did we get in trouble. Then Mr. Berger, the Principal and the vice and the teachers came in and we had to single file go up to them and apologize! The place was a mess! Wet snow everywhere! Oh the days....

I never admitted it of course but at the 20th I went up to Larry Shyatt and admitted it to him. Had to get it off my chest.

How cool is that! I started the whole damn thing!

02/08/09 11:19 AM

#450

Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer)

Does anyone remember Taylor Rd, between Superior Rd.and Severn Rd.?

We had live theater at Cain Park, where you could see Paul Peterson and Tony Dow in a musical for a few dollars, and then sneek down to the expensive seats and intermission, while sweating that we were going to get thown out and have to explain that to our parents.

Other than Shelley Hornik(because she grew up over this strip of stores)

There was Faragher's Back Room, where Bill Cosby, Mama's and Papa's, Kingston Trio, Lovin Spoonful performed. Heiser Drug store where they had a soda fountain and penny candy, Gordon's Superette(Rosalie Gordon) where the kids got thrown out of the store everyday. Heights Toy and Furniture where parentless kids could walk around and fantasize for hours without getting thrown out and last but not least....Amsters Bagels.

02/08/09 11:24 AM

#451

Sheryl Winer (Lessens)

Talk about food memories...(that is a very common psychological idea..) Does anyone remember the original Jayson's when it was across the street from Heights? I have some vague memory of taking the PSAT in 10th grade there. Is that possible??
Last summer, after my Dad's unveiling when I knew I may never return to Cleveland, I went with my brother wandering around Cain Park. That place had so many memories for me, from being a little kid in the kiddie pool to sled riding during vacation from college. I even got up early during spring vacation in high school ( or maybe Roosevelt) to play tennis. Who went with me?

02/08/09 12:10 PM

#452

Bill Kent

Joyce...

I do remember Clark's and the "clean plate club." The toys were probably crap although at the time they seemed pretty cool. The restaurant was down by Shaker Square and it's now (or was) a CVS drug store.

Does anyone remember "Hobo Lunches" served at either the Halle's or Higbees's restaurant on Public Square? These were kid lunches like a PB&J sandwich that were wrapped up in a red bandanna tied to a stick which the waitress brought to the table.

Any Oxford kids remember Rukasin's drug store on the corner of Roanoke and Noble? It was a classic, family-owned store complete with a soda fountain. We usually stopped off at "Rukkie's" on the way home from Monticello to buy candy and other junk. Don't know if it's still there or not.

02/08/09 07:23 PM

#453

Shelley Hornik (Lloyd)

>>Tony Dow in a musical>>

He was in Bye Bye Birdie. It was a hoot. Cain Park was loads of fun. I remember going to Faragers LONG after my mom moved off of Taylor Road. It was a great place, lots of fun. I loved Lax and Mandel bakery on Taylor. I thought they had terrific pasteries. And I do remember that drug store on the corner. It had a soda fountain in it and we used to get malteds there on the way home from school. We Taylor kids walked between Taylor School and Severence A LOT!!

02/09/09 01:39 AM

#454

Anne Gutow (Chapman)

I agree that we need to keep as many photos as we can on the site.
It's true, though, what Shelley was saying about junior high. I watched this in my kids and I bet you did too!. G-d gave us these beautiful cherubs who we fed, watered, and coddled. Then, aliens attacked our peaceful homes and injected alien-creating (adolescent) hormones into the children and all their cherubic friends. This triggered alien behaviors, gave them polka-dot zitty faces, and turned their graceful athletic bodies into clumsy lanky bodies. Then, we parents gave them eyeglasses and braces. AND, we parents were, ourselves, experiencing "perimenopause" insanities at the same time. Everybodies' self-esteems got knocked down!
A local rabbi, who spends more time with 12-13 year/olds than any other age because of Bar and Bat Mitzvoth lessons, said to me (honest!), "The reason they made middle schools was so as not to contaminate the elementary and high schools with these kids".

Mitch, Great to have you with us!!!

Louie, Would you please send Chuck that foot of snow that you offered us last week? He needs a reality check so he can buy his children some jackets.

Val, I love your snowball fight confession!

I remember the chickens! My friend just sent me some Mitchell's candy last month. They're on Lee Road now. Check out: http://www.mitchellscandies.com/
Does anyone remember Heights Variety? It was a small hardware store by Heights Furniture that had whole aisles of candies, 10 cent toys, and various trading cards. We'd leave Heights Variety and roll and/or run down Cain Park hill. Either way, by the time we hit the bottom of the hill, our new toys were in pieces or we had to pick up our trails of trading cards.
What about Fairport Bakery? Is Harry's Delicatessen still around?

02/09/09 07:48 AM

#455

Sheryl Winer (Lessens)

Heights Variety, yes!! That was the place we all walked to after the first day of school, with our list of needed supplies in hand to make our annual purchases. We all sound like we could do a sound bite of "old CH memories from the 60's." I think rocking chairs would add to the ambiance... I'm one of the locals who remember Taylor Road before it was widened for Severence Center. What a hang out that place was! For a quarter we could bowl a game and get an excuse to wander the mall. For two dollars you could get a deal at that gift store in the middle of the mall. Was is Diane's, or something??

02/09/09 08:32 AM

#456

Bonnie Hirsch (Lauer)

Shelley

I don't remember your mom living anywhere other than over that strip of stores above the drug store. I know Faragher's and the King's Pub VERY well, because my mom was the barmaid in both those bars.

I do remember the hardware store and how my parent thought that it was very overpriced for school supplies so my dad went to the dime store and Revco to get school supplies.

02/09/09 08:51 AM	#457
Steven A. Greenberger And what about "Royal Castle"! Best birch beer ever and those burgers were tastier then the food in the cafeteria.

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