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Hidden Cleveland: Whiskey Island Coast Guard Station

The script Cleveland logo on the former station's roof is rarified air in the selfie game.

by Jasmine Gallup | Dec. 27, 2016 | 7:00 PM

Rachel Exley

Rachel Exley

The city’s selfie skills got a big boost this summer thanks to a trio of script “Cleveland” signs at Edgewater Park, North Coast Harbor and in Tremont. But one script Cleveland isn’t as easy to access. The Cleveland Metroparks with help from Sherwin-Williams Co., painted the familiar logo on the roof of the former 1940-built U.S. Coast Guard station on the tip of Whiskey Island. It’s only visible by air (unless you know somebody, who knows somebody), but it’s Instagram-worthy nonetheless. “It’s an iconic structure on Cleveland’s lakefront,” says Joseph Roszak, Metroparks chief operating officer. Whiskey Island, Cleveland,
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