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The 1953 Tornado
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This is an independent
endeavor. It is not a commercial site and is not affiliated
with any neighborhood organization such as the
West Park Historical Society.
Learn about the
Email The West Park History Website
Created by:
Updated: 7 August 2013
Charles C. Chaney
and
Gary Swilik
Cuyahoga Co.Weather
Number of visitors:
History of the
West Park
Neighborhood
(Not associated with the
West Park Historical Society)
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
The purpose of this site is to provide an informal site concerning the history of the area and to share personal memories of the neighborhood. The West Park community, as considered here, consists of four neighborhoods located west of West 117th Street including the Jefferson, Kamm's Corners, Riverside and Puritas-Longmead areas. This approximates the original composition of the neighborhood.
The name was derived from a wooded park with a lake that John West operated a wooded park with a lake on his property at Lorain Avenue roughly between West 138th and 140th Streets. It was known as "West's Park" but evolved into "West Park" for the short-lived town that developed in the area.
This site is not intended to serve as a neighborhood directory nor as a totally complete listing but to be simply a place to share some of its history, images and memories.
If you have memories and photos of your experiences in the West Park neighborhood that you would like to share please feel free to Email this West Park History website. ("Click" the name link to send an email to this website.) If you have a website which you think would be relevant please feel free to let us know about it so we can provide a link to it on this site.
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The Baskerville Hounds with Doug McCutcheon
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The
Oldest Bars & Taverns in West Park by Ross E. Bassett
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The Code
Family of St. Patrick’s Cemetery by Peggy Calvey Patton
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West Park's Jazz Age Speakeasy: Rainbow Gardens
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History Comes to Life: Mr. Kamm Returns to West Park
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Rexall Drug. 14701
Puritas. By Jim Baechle.
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Local Man
Unearths Rare Piece of West Park History
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Hogan's
Corners
(Skyway Tavern, La Conga)
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At Home on Lena Avenue. By Carol Nichols
Henninger
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Photo
Gallery of George Washington Elementary School Teachers - 1955
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Photo
Gallery of Newton D. Baker Junior High School Teachers - 1956
Riverside Hardware and John Luekens
Stranahan Hill
Walker's Store (partial)
website for information on the present neighborhood that includes much of the western part of the original West Park area.Visit the
Kamm's Corners Development Corporation
FROM ROCKPORT TO WEST PARK, by Ralph A. Pfingsten.
This is a long overdue source of information about the area. It will certainly be used to help develop this website. Hats off to Mr. Pfingsten and the John Marshal Alumni Association that published it. For more information logon the to the Kamm's Corners Development Corporation at http://www.kammscorners.com/historybook.html or go to The John Marshall High School Alumni Association
(Note that the above organizations are not affiliated with this site.)
Michael Koryta's Lincoln Perry Mystery Series
with a West Park setting
Learn more at Michael's web site.
This website was created and maintained by the following:
Gary Swilik
who lives in West Park and does most of the active research.
Charles C. Chaney maintains this
site.
Unless stated otherwise, most photographs were supplied by the Gary Swilik Collection.
Some images on this site have invisible watermarks.
Please request permission to use any of them.