A vintage look at one of Cleveland’s most recognizable and trafficked streets.

Photos courtesy of the Cleveland Memory Project and the Cleveland Public Digital Library Gallery

Aerial view from Carnegie and East 107th Street, looking west; taken July 2, 1946.
American Amoco Gas, Auto Wash, and motor truck corp. factory branch on Carnegie Avenue, 1938
Carnegie Ave. facing north, 1946
Carnegie Ave. near East 69th St.
Carnegie Avenue 1896
Carnegie Avenue 1930
Carnegie Avenue near East 100th Street, showing billboard at left., 1938
Carnegie Ave. at night
Construction crews widen Carnegie Avenue, 1931
Construction on Carnegie Avenue looking east from E. 21st, 1938
Corner of East 9th Street and Prospect Avenue, with YMCA building at right, 1890
Crosby’s Restaurant on Carnegie Ave., 1940
Dangerous intersection at Carnegie Avenue and East 55th Street, 1941
Eastbound traffic during the late afternoon rush home, 1940
Front view of the apartment house Hart Hall
Home’ for 15 families at 6917 Carnegie ave., 1944
Looking northeast towards the corner of Carnegie Avenue and East 105th Street, 1940
Looking west from East 90th street.
Lorain Carnegie Bridge, 1937
Sears Roebuck and Company store at the left. , 1941
The Hope Memorial Bridge (formerly the Lorain–Carnegie Bridge)
Traffic along Carnegie Avenue, 1979

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