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Documentary airs in recognition of history Cleveland’s “Shock Theater”
IMAGE CREATED BY KEVIN KELLY This January marks the 63rd anniversary of Shocker Theater where Ernie Anderson as the host “Ghoulardi” offered commentary on featured horror shows from 1963 to 1966 on WJW-TV8 in Cleveland. (Plain Press January 2026) January 18, 2026, marks the 63rd anniversary of Shock Theater. The show aired in 1963, at 11:20…
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All storefronts in Greenline Buildings at Memphis and Pearl are empty
HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN MUSEUM AND MARIA THE BARBERETTE WERE EVICTED LAST MONTH by Lynette Filips(Plain Press December 2025) In the article about the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation’s (OBCDC’s) Memphis Pearl project in the April 2025, issue of the Plain Press, I wrote some commentary about Ward 13 Councilman Kris Harsh’s visit to…
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Trip to Montgomery commemorates Cleveland man murdered in 1911 over a handful of cherries
by Randy Cunningham (Plain Press December 2025) The National Memorial for Peace and Justice, a project of the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama is a complex of sites dedicated to commemorating the black experience in America from slavery and segregation, up to today’s New Jim Crow of mass incarceration. I think it is…
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Tamir Rice Butterfly Memorial designated as Cleveland Landmark
(Plain Press November 2025) At its October 20th meeting, Cleveland City Council approved designating the Tamir Rice Butterfly Memorial as a Cleveland Landmark (Ord. No. 1084-2025), sponsored by Councilmember Jenny Spencer.
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Documentary about John F. Kennedy to air on Mondays in November
(Plain Press November 2025) On November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Over the years, there have been numerous books, documentaries and movies that were made putting forward different theories about who was behind it. One of the 1st major motion pictures about the JFK assassination that reached the theaters…
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Councilman Kris Harsh urged to honor promise to delay demolition of Pearl and Memphis corner until funding for proposed project is secured
by Lynette Filips (Plain Press November 2025) Longtime Greater Clevelanders will no doubt remember the years shortly before and after 1970 when the lights were permanently off at Playhouse Square. The once-glorious theaters were slated for demolition because downtown Cleveland was not the entertainment epicenter of the region that it once had been. But…
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News from Old Brooklyn and update on status of Memphis and Pearl project
PHOTO BY CHUCK HOVEN Monday, September 22, 2025, Brookmere Cemetery, 3645 Broadview Road: Entrance to the City of Cleveland’s Brookmere Cemetery. by Lynette Filips (Plain Press October 2025) Another month has passed and once again there are new developments in the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation’s (OBCDC’s) Memphis Pearl project. Interestingly, I was recently…
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Effort to preserve Old Brooklyn’s history continues
by Lynette Fillips (Plain Press September 2025) Over a year and a half ago when I started writing these articles for the Plain Press, I visited the Historical Society of Old Brooklyn’s (HSOB’s) museum, 3430 Memphis Ave., to check some historical information in their files. While there I met a thirty-something year old man…
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Documentary recounts history of the Cleveland Airshow
(Plain Press August 2025) The “Cleveland Airshow” initially began back in 1929. It was held at the Cleveland Hopkins Airport which is just west of Parma. The main event was the different divisions of plane races that took place over the surrounding neighborhoods during the Labor Day Weekend. Amateurs and professional pilots would fly…
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