Tuesday, October 2, 2012
100 photographs that define Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights. Today's photograph features conductor George Szell standing with the Cleveland Orchestra. Szell conducted the orchestra from 1946 until he died in 1970. He's credited with making the orchestra one of the best in the world, and among the top five in the nation. He lived on Larchmere Boulevard approximately 20 years. Szell was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1897, but he studied music in Vienna. He was 16 when he debuted as a conductor, and was 18 when he became an assistant conductor at the Berlin Royal Opera. In 1930, he made his U.S. debut …
Saturday, September 29, 2012
100 photographs that define Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights. Today's photograph features Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum, a Shaker Heights resident known for his business acumen and his liberal politics. After finishing Glenville High School, Metzenbaum got his bachelor's and law degree from the Ohio State University. When anti-Semiticism prevented him from finding work with law firms, he returned to Cleveland and began working for labor unions. He entered politics as a candidate in 1943, when he was elected to the Ohio House of Representative. Afterwards, he was elected to the Ohio Senate. …
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
100 photographs that define Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights. Today's photo features Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, an influential religious leader and Zionist who helped establish the nation of Israel. Rabbi Silver came to Cleveland from New York in 1917, to lead The Temple Tifereth-Israel. Within 10 years, the congregation grew into the largest Reform congregation in the country. Throughout his life, Silver was a passionate Zionist: he addressed the Federation of American Zionists when he was 16. He became affiliated with Zionists of America in the 1920s, and headed the organization in 1945. Three years…
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
100 photographs that define Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights. Today's photo features Newton D. Baker, the former mayor of Cleveland who spent his last years as a Shaker Heights resident. Newton D. Baker served as Cleveland's mayor from 1912 to 1916. He was influential in crafting the home rule amendment to the state constitution, and in drafting Cleveland's first home rule charter. During his tenure, Baker secured funding for the construction of a new municipal light plant for the company now known as Cleveland Public Power. After serving two terms, Baker left public life for a short while and helped…
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Saturday, September 22, 2012
100 photographs that define Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights. Today's photograph features Florence Ellinwood Allen, who accomplished a number of firsts during her judicial career. She was the first woman member of the Ohio Supreme Court in 1922 - just a year after the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution gave women the right to vote. She was appointed to the United States 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1934, and became the chief judge of the that court - and the first woman to hold such a position in federal court - in 1958. Before becoming a jurist, Allen studied music at Western …
Thursday, September 20, 2012
100 photographs that define Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights. Today's photo features the Bertram Woods Branch Library. The branch opened on June 25, 1960. It was named for Bertram W. Woods, a farmer who lived on Fairmount Boulevard and Warrensville Road. When Woods died in 1948, he left money and other financial assets to the library, which established a fund in his name. Source: Shaker Heights Library You can join our celebration of Shaker Heights history. Share your memories in the comments. Or upload your photos and we'll feature them in this scrapbook. Follow #ShakerCentennial on Twitter.
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
100 photos that define Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights. Today's photo features the old Shaker Cemetery, where many of members of the North Union Shaker community were interred. The cemetery was located on South Park Boulevard. In 1909, however, many of the remains were removed and re-interred at the Warrensville West Cemetery on Lee Road near Chagrin Boulevard. Sources: "Shakers and Kirtland" - Cleveland Memory Project, "Warrensville West Cemetery" - clevelandhistorical.org You can join our celebration of Shaker Heights history. Share your memories in the comments. Or upload your photos and we'…
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
100 photographs that define Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights. Today's photograph shows a history lesson at Malvern Elementary. Students studying the Shakers tried to replicate the experience of children in the North Union community. The youngsters dressed in traditional attire and were seated according to their gender, just as young Shakers might have been in the mid-1800s. Source: "Shaker Heights, Ohio (Images of America Series)" by Bruce Marshall. You can join our celebration of Shaker Heights history. Share your memories in the comments. Or upload your photos and we'll feature them in this …
Thursday, September 13, 2012
100 photographs that define Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights. Today's photo shows the interior of the Shaker meeting house located near Lee Road and Shaker Boulevard. Worshippers didn't use pews, but sat on benches around the wall. That kept the floor space free for praying, marching and dancing when the Shakers experienced religious ecstasy. According to Shaker and Kirtland, the community held public services every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. from May until September. Wednesday and Thursday nights were reserved for family worship. Source: "Shakers and Kirtland" - Cleveland Memory Project You can join our …
Sunday, September 9, 2012
100 photographs that define Shaker Heights
Shaker Heights Patch is celebrating the 100 years of Shaker Heights history by creating an online scrapbook. Each day for 100 days, we'll feature a photograph that helps tell the story of Shaker Heights. Today's photographs show members of the Shaker Heights police and fire departments from the mid-to-late 1920s. Here's the text from "Shakers and Kirtland," a scrapbook by photographer Louis Baus. The pioneer town hall of Shaker Hgts. stood on Lee Rd. north of Shaker Blvd. on the site of the old Shaker Meeting house. It also housed the police dpt., while the fire dpt. occupied a building in the rear. View shows the n.w. sides and Chief John Irvin (right) with three of his finest..." Baus notes the building was demolished a year after the …
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Michael Baron
11:18 pm on Tuesday, September 25, 2012
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