mzpro5 wrote: 
I had relatives from there. There is/was a house there that had no corners, everything was rounded, inside and out. I'm from Cuyahoga Falls. and Beanie and I like to kid about Parma. Ghoulardi and all!

Before the aforementioned Major League movies, the only claim to fame the Cleveland Indians had was a racist mascot. But on June 4, 1974, Ohio's weaker baseball franchise decided to try and fill their stands by offering all-you-could-drink beer for the lip-flappingly insane price of ten cents a cup.

Where It Went Wrong

Bottomless beer cups at a dime a piece will bring people back from the grave. They might as well have offered buried pirate treasure to everyone that bought a ticket. 25,134 rowdy friends showed up to Cleveland Municipal Stadium that night and, unsurprisingly, proceeded to behave like drunken retards. Pot and firecrackers were being lit before the first at-bat was over, and by the fourth inning two people had run naked onto the field.

The visiting Texas Rangers were pelted with everything from batteries to wine jugs, but things didn't really get out of hand until a fan landed in the outfield and attempted to steal the cap of Ranger Jeff Burroughs. Texas Manager Billy Martin picked up a bat and exited the dugout to protect his player in a display of steel-balled awesomeness. Both team's benches followed Martin, and what ensued was one of baseball's most dangerous and drunken riots.

The Backlash

The game officially ended when a hunting knife pierced the ground next to an umpire. He called a forfeit in favor of the Rangers and then rushed into the locker room to shake the terror-poop out of his pants. Future beer nights at Cleveland Municipal were changed from unlimited amounts to four cups per customer, which research indicates is the precise amount of alcohol required to actually enjoy three hours of baseball.

 mzpro5 wrote: 
Not a problem.

Actually,the Ford engine was totally taken apart by the Italians,lightened,balanced and equipped with a carburetor of their own.A friend of mine scared his engine up to 600 and some Hp.

I never drove my car on the track but twice the speedometer to the bottom.    + 200mph

 katzendogs wrote: 
It's "Elyria" - a small city 25-30 miles west of Cleveland (i live there too)

A couple contributions from a friend

Marty Sullivan
Superhost

 buzz wrote: 
Duh! Cleveland has Beanie! or is it Parma?

 mzpro5 wrote:  

And let's not forget The Deerhunter.

The Tremont section has the church for the wedding scenes, where the above house for The Christmas Story is located several blocks away.



And Sokolowski's University Inn where many of the interior bar scenes were filmed.

 buzz wrote: 


cold stuff.

Cleveland's got stuff? Who knew?

 HazzeSwede wrote: 
It is called a Cleveland engine because it was made at the large Ford complex in a suburb of Cleveland - Brookpark,.  The complex included two engine plants and Ford's primary casting foundry.

My Dad worked as a pattern maker in the foundry, eventually becoming General Manager of the Pattern Shop several years before he retired.,

My brother has worked there as an electrician for 31 years and his wife is retired from the line in Engine Plant #1.

EDIT: I wrote the above before reading the link, sorry.

 hippiechick wrote: 
Nah,car in the picture is Elvis' De Tomaso Pantera,the fastest car in the 70'.
It was powered by a Ford 351 "Cleveland" engine.

 hippiechick wrote: 
Actually it's the name of engine not the car.  There is also a 351 Windsor which is supposed to be the same but for some reason just didn't have  the zip of the American built one.  I used to have one in  '72 Cougar in my younger days.  It still amazes me that I actually lived through having a car with an engine and blind spot like that in my 20s.

 

 HazzeSwede wrote: 
There's a car called the Cleveland? Whaddaya know?

                                351 Cleveland..I once had one.
 

I don't think I knew Harvey Pekar and R. Crumb, although I spent a lot of time hanging out in Coventry. I sure remembering heading to the local Comics store to pick up the new Fritz the Cat of Zap comics.

I really loved Cleveland! It's a great city!

And don't forget Cleveland, the home of the creators of Superman and Harvey Pekar, continues it's relationship with comic books

Downtown Cleveland transformed into Hollywood stage for The Avengers

And we also have



The Christmas Story House and Museum

Cleveland is so awesome, it deserves its own thread

Cleveland: The Superman house

And another:

Cleveland: The Shawshank Redemption prison