Step lively! Keep to the right! Just days before Christmas 80 years ago, Euclid Avenue's slippery, snowy sidewalks were clogged with shoppers as a city of 900,000 converged on downtown's department stores. Customers barely squeezed through the doors of F. W. Woolworth's at Euclid Avenue and East Fourth Street, a building that houses the House of Blues and the Bodies exhibit today. Toys cluttered a storefront window at the current site of the Corner Alley. Although the Great Depression was a year old, gift buyers still thronged the newly opened Terminal Tower, the post office and stores. What was on shoppers' gift lists? The May Co. advertised three-piece women's pajama ensembles for $5.95 and a bird cage and stand for $4.95, while the Higbee Co. across Ontario Street sold chiffon stockings for $2.95 and eight-button French suede gloves for $6.
The arena, which helped solidify the Cavaliers in Cleveland, was built in Summit County and hosted top-flight acts until it closed in 1994. By Vince Guerrieri
The mission of Lewis Research Center, now NASA Glenn Research Center, was to research and develop rocket fuel and propulsion systems. By Vince Guerrieri
