Cleveland's Southside--Photos

"The Ziats Cousins" Photo was probably taken
on the "Abbey Road Bridge" overlooking the "Flats",
circa about 1936.
Top left: Andy, John holding Eleanore. Center left: Joe
and Jimmy. Bottom left: Dorothy, Frank and Margie.

Anna Petranyin Zajacz with her
daughter-in-law Anna Godochik Zajacz
and the younger Anna's children; Paul,
Jr. (author of Cleveland, Ohio's
Southside,) Helen, Anna and Mary.
About 1920, Sheffield, Pennsylvania

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Dorothy Senal Palveka
a contributor to the Lincoln
High School site.

Original 605 Railway Avenue facing
away from "Flats." Enlarge to see
start of alley behind telephone pole.
See Pauline Knish in Memories to see
what she said about this alley,

Lincoln Park, looking southeast, early
1900's. In the center of the Park there
was a fountain with a shallow wading
pond surrounding it.

"Little Russia", view of Tremont from Clark Avenue

Bridge

by Ora Coltman, 1858-1940. Painted in 1926.

"The painting was

a gift from Coltman who was also the

architect/artist consultant of

the Jefferson Branch Library

of the Cleveland Public Library

system. The child in the

foreground was modeled from a

photograph of Coltman's

granddaughter Alice." Photo courtesy

of the Cleveland

Public Library, Preservation Department. Used

with

permission. Painting is currently hanging in the

Jefferson

Branch Library.

Please see Paul Ziats in Memories.
Photos donated for use with permission by
Dennis Kowallek. Permission must be obtained
from him if you wish to copy or use his photos.
Visit his website for the Ziats' family history.

"Flats" from upper
window of 605 Railway
Avenue, early 1930's.

Postmortem photography,

photographing a deceased person,

was a

common

practice in the nineteenth and early to mid-twentieth

centuries.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, funeral images started

depicting the

casket

elaborately draped with flowers and other props.

"Some wakes and

funerals were

held

at funeral homes, but many

families instead chose to use

the deceased home

as a

setting."

While it can be a startling experience to

find postmortem images in

family

collections, it is not unusual. In fact, these

images were part of

most family

photograph

albums and displayed

alongside images of

living family members.

These photographs were a part of the mourning and remembering

process.

Surviving

families were proud of these images and hung

them in

their homes, sent

copies to

friends and relatives or wore

them as lockets.

Today, there is no normal

response to

postmortem

photographs. If you do

not have any in your family’s

collection,

someone

may have thrown them

away. "We are accustomed to

images of

death as part of our

daily news; but

actual death, as a part

of private lives, has become

a shameful and

unspoken subject. "

Southside resident from
West 7th Street, 1947.
Used with permission from immediate
family member.
Reproduction not allowed.
Photo taken by True Tone Studio, 3574
Fulton Road, Cleveland 9, Ohio.

Mary Mae Kranides
Catalano
a contributor to the Lincoln
High School site and the
Memories page.

Contributors to this Web Site

John Bender, III.
a contributor to the Lincoln
High School site and the
Memories page.

Helene Maloy Cushenan
a contributor to the Lincoln High
School Memories

Robert Leech
a contributor to Memories

Present day Lincoln Park, West 14 Street, Cleveland, Ohio

Railway Avenue and the "Flats"

Original Jennings Theater

1201 Starkweather Avenue. The Jennings moved to West

14th and

Fairfield Avenue into a bigger more modern building in the early to mid 1930's.

The second

Jennings Theater building was torn down for the Innerbelt Freeway in the late

1950's. This

building on Starkweather was used by another theater in the 1930's and the

upstairs was rented

out to various organizations such as the Lemkos, who may have also

used the downstairs for

meetings.

See

writeup in

Bits of Info

Then and Now

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Lincoln Park Conservatory, early
1900s, exact date unknown. May have
been maintained by the Beautification
Society of the South Side.

Gazebo in Lincoln Park
This gazebo is a recent
addition. It replaced the
wading pond which had
stood empty for many years.
The fence and fountain of
the original pond were taken
out before 1950.

Then and Now