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The Ginney Block: Reminiscences Of An Italian-American Dead-End Street Kid, Edward A. D'Alessandro

Cleveland Memory

Long before Progressive Field, the area just south of downtown was the site of the Haymarket district, the Central Market and parts of the Big Italy neighborhood. Edward D'Alessandro lived in "the Ginney Block," an Italian immigrant apartment building, until the new Cleveland Union Terminal construction project demolished it in 1928. Original publication date 1988.

Appendix To The Minutes Of Evidence: Taken Before The Lords Committees To Whom The Bill Intituled "An Act For Improving The Approaches To London Bridge," Was Committed, City Liberal Club

The Wilbur & Sara Ruth Watson Bridge Book Collection

In 1829 legislation was submitted to the British Parliament, regarding improvements to the approaches to London Bridge. Referred to a Lord’s Committee, a report was issued, this being the appendix of exhibits offered in support. Note especially the maps at the end of the report. The original book, offered as an e-book here, is housed in the Wilbur J. & Sara Ruth Watson Bridge Book Collection, in Special Collections of the Michael Schwartz Library of Cleveland State University.

Nine Presidents: Character Sketches From Personal Interviews, Thomas Vail

Cleveland Memory

It has been my privilege to know nine American presidents. These character sketches present my impressions of each of them. (From the Introduction by Thomas Vail, publisher and editor of the Plain Dealer 1963-1991). Original publication date 2002.

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 34, Winter 1991, Cleveland State University

The Gamut Archives

CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 34, WINTER, 1992

Editorial

Louis T. Milic: Not Taking It Lying Down, 3

Medicine

Lawrence Martin: Too Much Sugar, Too Little History, 5

The discovery of insulin

Books

Jack Matthews: Colloquies in a Pagan Land, 14

Opinions of an Ohio frontier preacher

Cleveland

Dan Grayson: Noshing Down East 105^th Street, 27

The sights, sounds, smells, and tastes of a Jewish neighborhood in the 1920’s

Fiction

Patrick Murphy: Tiger, 42

Collecting

An interview with Jack Saul: Over 100,000 Records, 55

Writing

Stuart Kollar: Too Many Writers, 67

Are numbers …

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 30, Summer 1990, Cleveland State University

The Gamut Archives

CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 30, SUMMER, 1990

Louis T. Milic: A Fire in the Kitchen, 2

Leonard M. Trawick: A Place in the Ecosystem, 3

Tenth Anniversary Contest Winners

Jill Wilson Brennan: Terrorism Against Americans, 5

Daniel Hill: The Battle Over Native American Remains, 16

Science, piety, and politics

Todd Lieber: "How Many Acres You Got Out There?", 24

Independent farmers in the age of agribusiness

Eric May: Wood Engravings, 30

Jacque Parsley: Collage/ Assemblage, 35

P.J. Rogers: Aquatint/ Etchings, 40

Richard Kraus: On Vacation, 47

Dashka Slater: Persephone Tells, …

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 27, Summer 1989, Cleveland State University

The Gamut Archives

CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 27, SUMMER, 1989

Louis T. Milic: Editorial, 2

The New Library of the Past

Diana Orendi Hinze: Expiation and Repression, 4

German literature and the Nazi past

J. Heywood Alexander: "Our Redeemed, Beloved Land", 16

Bands, songs, Lincoln! and the Civil War.

Sylvia Whitman: Mountain Nurses, 25

Kentucky's Frontier Nursing Service for mother and child.

Ron Haybron: Fraud in Science, 33

Can we place our trust in the heirs of Galileo and Pasteur?

Pat Martaus: Feminist Literary Criticism, 45

Social reform or academic language game?

J. E. Vacha: Constance and …

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 21, Summer 1987, Cleveland State University

The Gamut Archives

CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 21, SUMMER, 1987

Louis T Milic: Editorial, 3

The North Coast?

James and Susan Borchert: The Bird's Nest, 4

The making of an ethnic urban village

Ethna Carroll: Fiction: The Mortal Cauliflower, 14

Special Section The Great Lakes

Michael J. Tevesz Samuel M. Savin: Lake Shores in Retreat, 21

Interference with natural erosion could cause worse problems

Michael T Gavin: The Great Lakes Exposition of 1936, 37

Fifty years ago, Cleveland's lakefront was a spectacular showplace

Alan MacDougall: Inland Sailor: Poems and Photographs, 44

Thirteen years on the ore boats

Kristin …

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 20, Winter/Spring 1987, Cleveland State University

The Gamut Archives

CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 20, WINTER/SPRING, 1987

Louis T. Milic: Editorial, 2

Virtues of the general interest magazine.

Barbara B. Green: Shattering the Iron Rice Bowl, 4

Educational renewal in China.

J. E. Vacha: The Night It Can’t Happen Here Happened, 14

The Depression’s biggest media event.

The Editors: Trompe L’oeil: The Art That Deceives, 25

Fooling the eye with minute detail and linear perspective.

Lee W. Gibbs: Fasting: Religious Ritual or Definitive Diet?, 30

Diverse rationales for a universal practice.

Ron Haybron: Measuring the Motion That Is Heat, 42

The extraordinary contributions of the ordinary thermometer to modern science. …

The Gamut: A Journal Of Ideas And Information, No. 11, Winter 1984, Cleveland State University

The Gamut Archives

CONTENTS OF ISSUE NO. 11, WINTER, 1984

James Ewinger: Cultural Fisticuffs, 3

In-fighting in public and commercial fine arts radio: a “ring-side” account.

Robert H. Jackson: The Second Greatest Sport, 10

As the number of book collectors has grown, so has the range of collectible books and the variety of dealers.

Herbert Ascherman Jr.: Cleveland Orchestra Portraits, 22

Cleveland photographer captures musicians and their instruments.

Craig B. Shumaker: The American Steel Industry: Embattled Goliath, 28

The steel industry in the United States faces a crisis – the big blast furnaces are being supplanted by more efficient mini-mills.

Elliot and Sandra …