Who doesn’t love and remember Christmastime in Cleveland as a kid, that magical season when schools would close, city streets would light up, and decorated trees would adorn nearly every park or plaza?

With the help of these nostalgic photos, collected from the Cleveland Memory Project, take a walk down memory lane to time when holiday consumerism meant window shopping with ma and Google wasn’t around to tell your 7-year-old that Santa Claus doesn’t exist.

What’s your favorite Cleveland holiday memory? 


This article appears in Dec 3-9, 2014.

Alaina Nutile is the Web Editor who oversees all digital content and social media initiatives for Cleveland Scene Magazine and Detroit Metro Times. Before joining the staff in June 2013, she interned at Business Insider in New York City, and at La Hora in Quito, Ecuador. Alaina is a graduate of Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where she double majored in English and Spanish. Her interests include Japanese food, Breaking Bad, and career development advising.

One reply on “22 Nostalgic Photos of Downtown Cleveland at Christmastime”

  1. Thank you for sharing these beautiful photographs. I grew up in Cleveland, and just looking at these makes me miss my “home”. They also make me miss my dad so much, because he would take my brother and I downtown on the bus to look at the Christmas decorations, and the Nativity Scene on Public Square.

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