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“Ohio Flying Saucers” documentary to air on Monday nights
GRAPHIC CREATED BY KEVIN KELLY A flying saucer hovers over the City of Cleveland (Plain Press April 2025) A great majority of Cleveland residents do not realize that their State of Ohio is considered a hot spot for Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) sightings. In addition, some of the oldest UFO organizations originated in the…
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Home Video Systems (VHS) usher in the dinner and a movie era
(Plain Press March 2025) Remember the VHS/Beta tape era? Back then, one could rent a motion picture from the nearest video store in your neighborhood and watch it in the privacy of your own home without any interruptions. No longer did you have to go to a crowded theater and fight for a good…
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A look at some of the buildings in Old Brooklyn’s Historic District
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN The H. Krather Building, built in 1895, is one of several historic buildings in the South Brooklyn Historic Commercial District, near the corner of Pearl and Memphis. by Lynette Filips (Plain Press December 2024) This month we continue to look at the history of the…
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How the corner of Pearl and Memphis came to be included in the National Register of Historic Places in 2005
GRAPHIC COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE A map of the South Brooklyn Commercial Historic District from the United States Department of Interior National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places. by Lynette Filips (Plain Press November 2024) This month we continue to look at the history of the northwest corner of Pearl Rd.…
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Greenline Building has housed a wide variety of businesses over the years
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OLD BROOKLYN 1961; Ken Booth’s House of Flowers, 3426 Memphis Avenue, northwest corner of Memphis and Pearl. by Lynette Filips (Plain Press October 2024) This month we continue to look at the history of the northwest corner of Pearl Rd. and Memphis Ave. which the Old Brooklyn…
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Documentary on Ghoulardi to air in October
(Plain Press October 2024) If you were to tune in to channel 8 at around 11:30 PM Friday nights, back in 1965, you would have also seen a funny looking man, wearing a fright-wig and lab coat, smoking a cigarette on live television. His name was Ernie Anderson, and he was a Cleveland sensation,…
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Old Brooklyn’s Brookmere Cemetery included in nationwide cemetery tour
PHOTO BY JOHN RAKAUSKAS Monday, August 5, 2024; Brookmere Cemetery, 3645 Broadview Rd., in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland: Cleveland residents as well as residents of other cities in Ohio and neighboring states attended an outdoor workshop demonstrating how to clean, repair and reposition headstones. The workshop was conducted by Jonathan Appell, founder of…
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Torso Murders: Cleveland’s “Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run”
(Plain Press September 2024) It has been decided by the Cuyahoga Chief Medical Examiner, along with a non-profit organization, the “DNA Doe Project,” to exhume the unidentified victims of the “Cleveland Torso Murderer” to identify them through new DNA testing. Their remains have been buried in the City of Cleveland’s Potter’s Field for almost…
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History of Greenline Building offers a look at the past vitality of the intersection at Pearl and Memphis
by Lynette Filips (Plain Press August 2024) This month we continue to look at the history of the northwest corner of Pearl Rd. and Memphis Ave. which the Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation (OBCDC) is seeking to “revitalize” with a $31 million new construction project. It is the most historic section of Cleveland’s Old…
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