I like my corned beef with a good horseradish and a pickle. Rye bread of course. - dr.Ozda
"The Waitress" (below), that would be Vicky.
[I'm not much of a food photographer, but you get the idea.]

"This is the place you take out-of-towners to impress them, though, granted, when you walk in the door, the decor is very, well, 1973. But one bite and you will be bowled over. They've got, hands down, the BEST corned beef sandwich you will ever eat. This is not hyperbole here. I don't know what they do to their meat-- something in the spices or in the cooking or what-- but it has an unbelievable almost buttery flavor that no other sandwich shop can touch. The sandwiches are huge-- maybe 4 or 5 inches thick with beef on fresh soft rye. Denny's the guy carving up your lunch, and you might catch his father Saul there, still running the cash registers at age 94. The waitress cracks bawdy jokes and slides cans of soda down the lunch counter like they do in movies. Seating is limited, but stop in on a sunny day (the waitress insists the place fills up on rainy afternoons-- "People are like ants," she says, "they come out after the rain") or during off-hours if you're in a hurry or don't want to sit elbow-to-elbow with salt-of-the-earth West siders." (cleveland.citysearch.com/profile/8012042/cleveland_oh/goo...)

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When we were kids Loew Pool at about one mile away was the closest public pool to our house in Parma. Problem was the pool was in Cleveland, a neighborhood known as Old Brooklyn, and only open to Cleveland residents. Being creative kids we quickly learned to give fake addresses so that we could swim.

It was fun and interesting to visit some of these places with my sisters on a recent trip to Cleveland. We all agreed the pool seemed a lot bigger back then. This neighborhood has held up very well, and the school behind is also a very nice building.

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Parma, Ohio. Shot in 2009. Now closed.
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Beech Tree Graffiti. Above Coe Creek, Fairview Park, Ohio.

Olympus XA2, Tri-x.

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