Who doesn’t love rifling through a box of old postcards, especially ones depicting vintage Cleveland scenes such as Wade Park circa 1920 or the old Municipal Stadium ’round the mid 1900s?

We’ve spent the last few days perusing the Cleveland Memory Project‘s virtual postcard collection (do check it out, it’s really quite impressive), and have compiled a selection of our favorites to share with you.

Enjoy.

This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2014.

Anne Nickoloff, a blogging intern, helps produce online content for Scene Magazine. She studies English and Psychology at Case Western Reserve University, and is involved with campus media. In her free time, Anne enjoys skiing, knitting, and exploring Cleveland.

4 replies on “Wish You Were Here: 20 Vintage Cleveland Postcards”

  2. I worked at and swam in that pool from beaumont scout camp i never would have guessed they had post cards

  3. Number 9 makes me want to cry…or curse. The powers-that-be repeatedly promised to preserve the lakefront’s Donald Gray Gardens (image 9) when the new stadium was built. They lied. The gardens were destroyed in order to save the name and the colors of the Browns.

    If Soldier Field was saved and upgraded for the Bears, why couldn’t the old Stadium have been saved and renovated (for the New Browns) with the 175 million that voters approved on the VERY DAY that Modell bolted for Baltimore?

    Not only would it have saved the gardens, the renovations would have saved the taxpayers over 300 million dollars. And the old dump probably could have been retrofitted for a dome eventually.

    So now? Read it and weep…no gardens, a crumbling POS that is used ten days a year, with no possibility of a roof, ever. And an expansion team that still plays like one. After the last fifteen years of Clowns foo-ball, I’d rather have the gardens back. To look at them again is to weep for what might have been.

    Chuckles the Clown

  4. Art Modell once proposed a renovation plan for Cleveland Stadium – which would have been comparable to future renovation blueprints for Soldier Field, Ohio Stadium and Notre Dame Stadium – but the major press conference inside the facility became one huge dud when Mayor George Voinovich and City Council President George Forbes essentially flipped off Modell by cancelling their planned appearances at the event. If anything, this snub set in motion the issues which found Modell as an outsider in the political game…..and ultimately found him moving the original Browns to Baltimore.

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