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PLANNER PROJECT 2016... THE 50’s & EARLIER!

EDITOR’S NOTE: Listed below are the venues, performers, media, events, and specialty items including automobiles (when possible), highlighting the years 1951 and 1956 in Planner Project 2016! You’ll also find an additional breakdown of items highlighting the years 1851, 1871, 1876, 1881, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1911, 1916, 1921, 1926, 1931, 1936, 1941 and 1946!

1951! 1951 / FEATUREDAREA MUSIC VENUES FROM 1951 / (20)

FEATURED AREA JAZZ / VENUES / (20)

Gleason’s Music Club / Lindsay’s Sky Bar (with new jazz policy) / Marcane Ballroom / Welcome Inn / Circle Theater

FEATURED AREA POP CULTURE VENUES / (20)

Aragon Ballroom / Arena / Hippodrome Theater / Miles Drive-In / Moe’s Man Street / Music Hall / RKO Palace Theatre / Rollercade / Loew’s State / Loew’s Stillman / Superior Ballroom / WestTown Lounge / WHK Radio Cleveland center (5000 Euclid Ave.) [with WHK Auditorium]

1951 / FEATURED ARTISTS / MUSICAL GRPS. PERFORMING HERE IN 1951 / [Individuals: (68) / Grps.: (16)] [(-) NO. OF TIMES LISTED]

FEATURED JAZZ / BLUES ARTISTS HERE IN 1951 [BY PLAY DATE] / [Individuals: (33) / Grps.: (5)]

Sonny Stitt (3) / Flip Phillips / Bill Harris / Roy Eldridge (2) / Zoot Sims / Charlie Parker (2) / Lester Young / Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong (with , , Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines, Vilma Middletown, , ) / Art Tatum / Erroll Garner / Dizzy Gillespie (2) / Lanny Scott / Stan Getz / Eddie Heywood / Meade Lux Lewis / Mary Lou Williams Trio / Gene Ammons / Billie Holiday / Dave Dorn’s Sunday Ad-Lib Jazz Session / Al Hibbler / Clyde McCoy & his ‘Sugar Blues’ Orchestra / Biggest Show of ‘51 (Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Trio) / Count Basie’s Review / ‘Great Mr. B.’ Billy Eckstine / George Shearing & his quintet / All-American Jazz All-Stars / Charlie Barnett

FEATURED POP CULTURE ARTISTS PERFORMING HERE IN 1951 / [Individuals: (30) / Grps: (9)]

Ames Bros. / Ray Anthony / Josephine Baker (2) / Tony Bennett (local debut) / Champ Butler / Tex Cromer / Xavier Cugat / The Dominoes / / Billy Ferrell / Four Freshmen / Buddy Greco (with Dolores Hawkins) / Big John Greer’s Orchestra / Bobby Hansen’s Orchestra / Orrin Ide / Spike Jones and the City Slickers / Sammy Kaye (with Freddy Martin) / Abbe Lane / ‘Mr. Mambo’ Joe Loco / Guy Mitchell / Clint Noble & his Orchestra (with Bob Edwards) / Miss Patti Paige / Johnnie Ray / Debbie Reynolds / Al Serafini & his Orchestra / Jack Teagarden / Tommy Tucker / Angelo Vitale’s Orchestra / 65-member Theater of the Air

FEATURED COUNTRY / COUNTRY ROCK / BLUEGRASS ARTISTS PERFORMING HERE IN 1951 / [Individuals: (5) / Groups: ( 2)]

‘Grand Ole Opry’ @ Cleveland Arena with Hank Williams, Sr., Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb & the Texas Troubadors, String Bean, Annie Lou (Stockard) & Danny, Drifting Cowboys, (also Rainbow Ranch Boys)

FEATURED LOCAL ARTISTS FROM 1951 / (1) Frankie Yankovic

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FEATURED WOMEN IN MUSIC PERFORMING HERE IN 1951 / (10)

Josephine Baker / Dorothy Donegan / Dolores Hawkins / Billie Holiday / Abbe Lane / Vilma Middleton / Miss Patti Paige / Debbie Reynolds / Annie Lou (Stockard) / Mary Lou Williams Trio

FEATURED ROCK HALL INDUCTEES HERE FROM 1951 / (5) Nat King Cole, Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Hank Williams, Alan Freed

FEATURED LOCAL DEBUTS / (1) Tony Bennett (@ Moe’s Main Street)

1951 / FEATURED AREA MEDIA FROM 1951 /

NEWSPAPERS (1) / REPORTERS (2) Cleveland Plain Dealer (George Condon, Harold Sauerbrei)

RADIO LISTINGS FROM 1951 /

FEATURED AREA RADIO STATIONS / (5) WDOK-AM / WERE-AM / WHK-AM / WJW-AM / WTAM-AM

FEATURED AREA RADIO PERSONALTIES / SPORTS ANNOUNCERS / (7)

WDOK-AM (Wayne Mack) / WERE-AM (Jerry Crocker, Phil McLean) / WJW-AM (Jack Clifton, Soupy (Sales) Hines, Alan Freed’s ‘Moon Dog House’) / WTAM-AM (Joe Mulvihill) / SPORTS ANNOUNCERS: WERE-AM (, Jimmy Dudley)

NEW WHK-AM RADIO CLEVELAND CENTER:

WHK-AM1420 christens $1 million Radio Cleveland center at 5000 Euclid Ave. with the Ames Bros., live adaptation of Faust over 400-station Mutual Broadcasting Network by 65-member Chicago Theater of the Air

TELEVISION LISTINGS FROM 1951 /

FEATURED AREA TELEVISION STATIONS / (2) WEWS-TV-5 / WXEL-TV8

FEATURED AREA TELEVISION DEBUTS / (1) ‘I Love Lucy’ debuts on WEWS-TV5

FEATURED AREA SPORTS ANNOUNCERS / (2) WXEL-TV (Hal Newel, )

FEATURED AREA LIVE THEATRE ATTRACTIONS / (4)

Hanna Theatre presents Darkness at Noon, The Guardsman, Romeo & Juliet, Mister Roberts

1951 / FEATURED ENTERTAINERS / AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1951 /

FEATURED AREA AMUSEMENT PARKS:

Puritas Springs Park (6¢ Day-any ride noon to midnight)

FEATURED AREA JAZZ DISTINCTIONS:

Lindsay’s Sky Bar begins new jazz policy with sax man Flip Phillips & trombonist Bill Harris (joins swing circuit of 27 clubs bringing top-flight artists to town)

FEATURED COMEDIANS: George Kirby

FEATURED HOLLYWOOD STARS APPEARING HERE IN 1951 / (11)

Broderick Crawford / Doris Day / John Derek / Jeanette MacDonald / Eleanor Parker / Dick Powell / Gene Raymond / Donna Reed / Edward G. Robinson / Olivia DeHavilland / Henry Fonda 3

FEATURED AREA MOVIES / ARTISTS /

[(11) / World Premieres (2) / Pre-release premieres (1) / Local premiere (3) / Live appearances (6)]

WORLD PREMIERES: ‘Julie’ [Doris Day LIVE] / ‘A Millionaire for Christy’ [Cleveland native Eleanor Parker LIVE] /

LOCAL PREMIERES: ‘Cry Danger’ [Dick Powell LIVE] / ‘The Mob’ [Broderick Crawford LIVE] / ‘Saturday’s Hero’ [John Derek & Donna Reed LIVE] / PRE-RELEASE PREMIERE: ‘An American in Paris’ (with Gene Kelly) / AT THE MOVIES: ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ (with Marlon Brando & Janet Leigh) / ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’ (with Ronald Reagan) / Bowery Battalion / The Day the Earth Stood Still / ‘Frenchie’ (with Joel McCrea & Shelley Winters)

FEATURED AREA MOVIE HOUSES / (9)

Loew’s Allen Theatre / Esquire Theater / Euclid Theater / Hippodrome Theatre / Loew’s Stillman Theater / Loew’s State Theatre / RKO Palace Theatre / Tower Theater / Miles Drive-In (grand opening- [world’s largest screen])

1951 / FEATURED SPECIALTY ITEMS FROM 1951 /

FEATURED AUTOMOBILES / (3) [Found in auto ads that week]

Powder blue ‘50 Cadillac ‘62 convertible coupe w/AC ($3,995-Sun Motors) Horizon blue ‘49 DeSoto convertible Coupe w/white sidewalls ($2,095) Cherry red/black top ‘50 Pontiac ‘8’ convertible w/leather interior ($2,195-Sun Motors)

FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS / (2) Grilled pork steak with sauerkraut, sliced tomatoes, rice pudding at Blue Boar Cafeteria, 643 Euclid (60¢) Royal Castle Birch Beer in the giant stein (5¢)

1951 / FEATURED SPORTS PLAYERS / TEAMS / VENUES FROM 1951 / (7) Luke Easter / / / Bob Waterfield / / Tigers / Municipal Stadium

1951 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1951 / [(36) / Sports: (2)]

1/28 The Aragon hosts Cleveland’s horn man Ray Anthony & his Orchestra ($1.22), 1951

1/30 The Hanna Theatre presents Jeanette MacDonald & Gene Raymond in ‘The Guardsman,’ now in its second night; Olivia De Havilland in ‘Romeo & Juliet’ on February 6th; and Henry Fonda in ‘Mister Roberts’ on Feb. 12th ($1.25-$4.35), 1951

2/10 After a week-long open house attracting 20,000 visitors, WHK-AM christens its $1 million Radio Cleveland center at 5000 Euclid Ave. with a variety show starring the Ames Bros. at 8:30, and a live adaptation of ‘Faust’ at 10 p.m. over the 400-station Mutual Broadcasting Network by the 65-member Chicago Theater of the Air from the soldout 1,370-seat WHK Auditorium (1st show outside of Chicago in its 11-year history), 1951

2/22 It’s Jazz Night tonight with Sonny Stitt at the Welcome Inn, E. 116 & Kinsman, 1951

2/23 Cruising with Phil McLean on WERE in a Horizon blue ‘49 DeSoto convertible Coupe w/white sidewalls ($2,095); the RKO Palace features Rhonda Fleming & Dick Powell in ‘Cry Danger’ (Powell, “an old Clevelander,” appears in person at all shows), 1951

3/25 After seeing ‘Bedtime for Bonzo’ with Ronald Reagan last night at the Esquire on Euclid; Easter Sunday finds Bobby Hansen’s band at the Rollercade on Denison; Tommy Tucker & his Orch. at Marcane Ballroom, & Tex Cromer at the Aragon, 1951

4/16 As Lindsay’s Sky Bar begins its new jazz policy with sax man Flip Phillips & trombonist Bill Harris; Clevelander Billy Ferrell opens a 2-week stand at Moe’s Main, 1951

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5/6 After jamming to Roy Eldridge & Zoot Sims yesterday, Charlie Parker opens at Lindsay’s today; while Xavier Cugat plays the Aragon tomorrow with Abbe Lane, 1951

6/13 You’ll find Josephine Baker with her fabulous $150,000 French wardrobe starring in the RKO Palace stage show; Loew’s State featuring an all-star show starring Miss Patti Paige with ‘new singing discovery’ Guy Mitchell; & Lester Young at the Sky Bar, 1951

6/22 Offering free orchids & the world’s largest screen, the Miles Drive-In opens to the public, featuring Joel McCrea & Shelley Winters in ‘Frenchie,’ & ‘Bowery Battalion,’ 1951

7/9 Last night, Jack Teagarden, Earl ‘Fatha’ Hines, Arvell Shaw, Vilma Middletown, Cozzy Cole & Barney Bigard joined “the trumpet king of swing,” Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong at the Circle Theater; tonight, young Tony Bennett debuts at Moe’s Main Street, 1951

7/11 Cruising home after ‘6¢ Day’ at Puritas Springs Park (any ride noon to midnight), with the top down in a cherry red/black top ‘50 Pontiac ‘8’ convertible w/leather interior ($2,195-Sun Motors), Alan Freed’s on the AM radio in his 2nd week at WJW, 1951

7/22 Lindsay’s Sky Bar hosts piano men Art Tatum tonight, & Erroll Garner the 23rd, 1951

8/18 Cruising tonight, while Lindsay’s Sky Bar hosts jazz great Dizzy Gillespie at 9:30 p.m.; Spike Jones and the City Slickers perform live at the Palace Theatre, 1951

8/26 The Skybar holds over Dizzy Gillespie & his band with Lanny Scott at the piano, 1951

8/30 You’ll find Orrin Ide at the Aragon Ballroom; Al Serafini & his Orchestra at WestTown Lounge on W. 25th; Johnnie Ray at Moe’s Main Street, 7715 Euclid; & at the Sky Bar, it’s Stan Getz tonight, Eddie Heywood & Meade Lux Lewis the 3rd, 1951

9/5 On radio tonight, it’s Joe Mulvihill on WTAM; Wayne Mack on WDOK; Jerry Crocker on WERE & Alan Freed’s ‘Moon Dog House’ on WJW (11:15 p.m.-12:30 a.m.), 1951

9/12 Cleveland-native Eleanor Parker appears live, as the Hippodrome on Euclid presents the World Premiere of ‘A Millionaire for Christy,’ with Parker & Fred MacMurray, 1951

9/18 Cruisin’ for jazz tonight? Lindsay’s Sky Bar features the Mary Lou Williams Trio, 1951

9/26 After cruising to see the pre-release premiere of ‘An American in Paris’ with Gene Kelly at Loew’s Stillman (75¢-$1); Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt play Lindsay’s Skybar, 1951

9/30 While tomorrow finds Billie Holiday opening at Lindsay’s Skybar, 10625 Euclid, & Clint Noble & his Orchestra at the Aragon Ballroom on W. 25th with Bob Edwards; on October 7th, Cleveland’s Sammy Kaye plays the Aragon with Freddy Martin, 1951

10/1 Thirsty? ‘Fit for a King,’ Royal Castle’s Birch Beer in the giant stein is only 5¢, 1951

10/3 After dining tomorrow on grilled pork steak with sauerkraut, sliced tomatoes and rice pudding at Blue Boar Cafeteria, 643 Euclid (60¢); stars John Derek & Donna Reed appear live on stage for both shows, as ‘Saturday’s Hero’ opens at the RKO Palace, 1951

10/7 While Billie Holiday stars at the Skybar in Dave Dorn’s Sunday ‘Ad-Lib Jazz Session’ at 4:15 p.m. before her show that night, as Al Hibbler takes over tomorrow; Clyde McCoy & his ‘Sugar Blues Orchestra’ open at the Marcane Ballroom on Euclid, 1951

10/15 After cruising home in a powder blue ‘50 Cadillac ‘62 convertible coupe w/AC, ($3,995-Sun Motors), Monday TV offers the debut of Lucille Ball & husband Desi Arnaz teaming up in a new comedy series called ‘I Love Lucy,’ at 9 on WEWS, 1951

10/16 After cruising in the afternoon with Soupy Hines & Jack Clifton on WJW vs. Bill Randle on WERE, the ‘Biggest Show of ‘51’ brings Duke Ellington & his orchestra to Cleveland Arena with Sarah Vaughan & Nat King Cole’s trio ($2-$3), 1951 5

10/22 After seeing ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’ tonight at the Tower on Euclid; on the 24th, star Broderick Crawford appears live as ‘The Mob’ opens at Loew’s Allen, 1951

11/4 After seeing Marlon Brando & Janet Leigh in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ at the Allen ($1.10); comedian George Kirby joins Count Basie’s Review at the Circle Theater, 1951

11/6 Cruising to Loew’s State, Debbie Reynolds, MGM’s ‘new bobby-soxers idol,’ headlines the vaudeville revue with Champ Butler, backed by Angelo Vitale’s Orchestra, 1951

11/18 Cruising to Music Hall, it’s jazz at its best, with the ‘Great Mr. B.’ Billy Eckstine, George Shearing & his quintet, & the All-American Jazz All-Stars ($1.85-$3.70), 1951

11/22 As the Arena hosts ‘Grand Ole Opry’ with Hank Williams, Sr., Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb & the Texas Troubadors, Annie Lou & Danny, String Bean, & Drifting Cowboys ($1.50); the Theatrical Grill’s $3.75 Thanksgiving dinner stars Dorothy Donegan, 1951 11/24 While Lindsay’s Sky Bar hosts Charlie Barnett tonight, & ‘Bopra Week’ with Charlie Parker the 25th; Buddy Greco & Dolores Hawkins play Moe’s Main; as the Hanna presents ‘Darkness at Noon’ tomorrow starring Edward G. Robinson ($1.25-$4.35), 1951

12/15 Cruising tomorrow in a Calvin-gray custom 2-dr. ‘50 Ford ‘8’ ($1,395-Ralph Stewart), Josephine Baker, ‘exotic rage in Paris,’ & her revue of 25 play Music Hall ($3.70), 1951

12/30 On New Year’s Eve, you’ll find polka king Frankie Yankovic at the Superior Ballroom; the ‘Dominoes’ & Big John Greer’s Orchestra at Gleason’s Music Club; jazz man Dizzy Gillespie at the Sky Bar with a special ‘Bop Opera’ jam featuring Dizzy today from 4:30-6:30; & the Four Freshmen with Johnnie Ray at Moe’s Main Street, 1951

1951 / FEATURED SPORTS RELATED ENTRIES / (2)

7/2 “Jim called just about a perfect game and I didn’t have to shake him off once,” states 32-year-old Tribe ace Bob Feller, after 42,900 spend their Sunday watching Feller (11- 2), relying on his slider, no- Detroit, 2-1, yesterday at Municipal Stadium (Luke Easter drives in both runs/batterymate Jim Hegan 2 for 3/4th place Tribe wins 2nd game, 2-0/Jack Graney-Jimmy Dudley on WERE/Hal Newel-Mel Allen on WXELTV/ PD’s George Condon estimates 600,000 to a million viewers saw game), 1951

12/23 Plain Dealer reporter Harold Sauerbrei writes the next day, “However fantastic it may seem, Cleveland tonight is without a pro football championship for the first time in seven years,” after the Cleveland Browns lose the NFL title game to the QB Bob Waterfield-led host Rams, 24-17, before 59,473 at the Coliseum, 1951

1956! 1956 / FEATURED AREA MUSIC VENUES FROM 1956 /

FEATURED AREA JAZZ / BLUES VENUES / (6)

Chatterbox Musical Bar / Cotton Club, E. 4th & Huron [jazz corner of Cleveland] / Daffy’s (Star Room, 75th & Euclid) / Loop Lounge / Shaker Village’s Downbeat Room / Herbie Field’s Sky Bar

FEATURED AREA POP CULTURE VENUES / (21)

E. 105th St. Theater / Al’s Lounge Bar & Restaurant / Alpine Village / Aragon Ballroom / Cleveland Arena / Band Box / Chippewa Lake Park / Circle Theater / Cucamonga Lounge / Luccioni’s / Manger Hotel / Mentor on the Lake Ballroom / Michaud’s / Musicarnival / Music Hall / Public Hall / Severance Hall / Slovenium Auditorium / Southgate Shopping Center

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1956 / FEATURED ARTISTS / GROUPS PERFORMING HERE IN 1956 / [Individuals: (151) / Groups: (48)]

FEATURED JAZZ / BLUES ARTISTS PERFORMING HERE IN 1956 [BY PLAY DATE] / [Individuals: (96) / Groups: (17) / Jam Session: (1)]

Brook Benton / Linda Hopkins (2) / Billie Holiday (2) / Choker Campbell & his 6 pieces / Art Blakely and his Jazz Messengers (Horace Silver on piano) (2) / Mr. Billy Taylor / Jerri Winters / George Byas / Gloria Mann / Serge Chaloff / Lou Donaldson / Eileen Rodgers / Buck Clayton & his All-Stars / June Anthony / Lois Powell / Teddy Charles / Sarah Vaughan (2) / Count Basie (with John Williams) / Al Hibbler / Lester Young / Bud Powell / Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop / Tony Scott / Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis & his Hammond organ combo / T-Bone Walker / Terry Gibbs / Terry Pollard / Roy Hamilton / Benny Green & his quintet / Jackie Jocko (& drummer Joe Peters) / Miles Davis & his All-Stars / Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderly (with brother Nat) / Bud Wattles / Lester Young / Wild Bill Davis (with Chris Columbo on drums) / Trio / Calvin Jackson / Kenny Dorham’s Jazz Prophets / Phineas Newborn, Jr. / Nellie Lutcher & her trio / Charlie Parker / Carmen McRae (with Jimmy Smith) / Shelly Manne / Oscar Peterson & his trio (with Ray Brown & Herb Ellis) / Hampton Hawes / Erroll Garner (2) / Bill de Arango Trio / Dinah Washington & her Mercury Recording Trio / Max Roach / Clifford Brown / Anita O’Day / Chico Hamilton / Flip Phillips / Sonny Stitt / ‘Jay Jay’ Johnson / Kai Winding / Modern Jazz Quartet / Dizzy Gillespie / Illinois Jacquet / Jo Jones / Quartet / Jeri Southern & her trio / (2) / Sharkey & his Kings of Dixieland / James Moody / Bud Shank Quartet (Williamson, Flores, Prell) / Dave Brubeck Quartet / Australian Jazz Quintet / Bobby Scott / Buddy & Ella Johnson / Bill ‘Honky Tonk’ Doggett / Art Tatum / Zoot Sims / John Williams / Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five / / Della Reese / ‘Big Jay’ McNeely / Jutta Hipp Trio / Wild Bill Davis / George Shering’s Septet / Muggsy Spanier & his Dixieland troupe / Gerry Mulligan (with Bobby Brookmeyer) / Duke Ellington & his 16-piece Orchestra / Paul Nap’s ‘fabulous’ jam session / Chet Baker / Buddy DeFranco /

FEATURED POP CULTURE ARTISTS PERFORMING HERE IN 1956 / [Individuals: (53) / Groups: (30)]

4 Coins / / La Vern Baker / Barton Brothers / Chuck Berry / / Sal Bucarey / Johnny Burnett / Paul Burton / Paul Buscom Sextet / Bobby Charles / Don Cherry / Rock ‘n Roll Review with Geoffrey Clay / The Clovers / the Colts / Bobby Crewe / Daps / Bobby Darin / the Diamonds / Bo Didley / Lonnie Donegan / / Les Elgart / the Esquires / Five Keys / the Flamingos / Connie Francis / Henry George Orchestra / & his Orchestra (with Martha Tilton, Jackie Cain, Roy Kral) / Bill Haley & the Comets / Russ Harmon’s Band / Woody Herman / Joe Howard / ‘Ivory Joe’ Hunter / the Jewels / the Jodimars / Don Kirshner / La Playa Sextet / & the Teenagers / Carl Maduri (Starlight Waltz) / Tony Marsh / Marvelites / Clyde McPhatter / Mambo Aces / Vaughn Monroe / Beverly Palmer / the Pastels / / Eddie Platt’s Orchestra / Red Prysock’s Orchestra / Little Richard / Beverly Sills / Sam ‘the man’ Taylor / the Teenagers / the Teen Queens / Sonny Til & his Orioles / Mel Torme (with Ralph Wilson’s Orchestra) / Tracey Twins (from Cleveland) / Big Joe Turner / (Champagne Music troupe with Myron Floren) / Billy Wells & the Crescents

FEATURED COUNTRY / COUNTRY ROCK / BLUEGRASS ARTISTS PERFORMING HERE IN 1956 / [Individuals: (7) / Groups: (3)]

Hillbilly Jamborees @ Circle Theater (with Clinch Mountain Clan, Stoney Cooper, Wilma Lee [Cooper], Grandpa Jones & Ramona [Jones], Cousin Jody & Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, Shenandoah Valley Trio, Rita Faye [Wilson])

FEATURED LOCAL POLKA ARTISTS FROM 1956 / (2) Kenny Bass / Eddie Habat

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FEATURED WOMEN IN MUSIC PERFORMING HERE IN 1956 / (24)

June Anthony / La Vern Baker / Wilma Lee (Cooper) / Ella Fitzgerald / Connie Francis / Jutta Hipp / Linda Hopkins / Billie Holiday / Ella Johnson / Ramona (Jones) / Nellie Lutcher / Gloria Mann / Shelly Manne / Marvelites / Anita O’Day / Beverly Palmer / Lois Powell / Della Reese / Eileen Rodgers / Beverly Sills / Jeri Southern / Martha Tilton / Tracey Twins / Sarah Vaughan / Dinah Washington / Rita Faye (Wilson) / Jerri Winters

FEATURED ROCK HALL INDUCTEES PERFORMING HERE IN 1956 / (18) La Vern Baker, Chuck Berry, Bobby Darin, Miles Davis, the Drifters, Bill Haley, the Flamingos, Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five, Don Kirshner, Little Richard, Clyde McPhatter, Bill Monroe, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, , Sonny Til & his Orioles, Big Joe Turner, T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington

1956 / FEATURED AREA SPECIALTY EVENTS FROM 1956 / (4)

GIANT ROCK ‘N ROLL REVUE @ THE HIPPODROME THEATER: With Don Cherry, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, Chuck Berry, Billy Wells & the Crescents, Lonnie Donegan, Clyde McPhatter, The Diamonds, Johnny Burnett, the Jodimars, 4 Coins, Sam ‘The Man’ Taylor, Joe Howard, emcee Bill Randle

BILL HALEY & THE COMETS @ CLEVELAND ARENA: Bill Haley & the Comets with Bo Didley, Big Joe Turner, the Colts, Clyde McPhatter, La Vern Baker, the Platters, the Teenagers, Teen-Queens, Frankie Lymon, the Flamingos, the Drifters, Red Prysock’s Orch.

BIRDLAND STARS @ MUSIC HALL: Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie (with John Williams), Al Hibbler, Lester Young, Bud Powell

JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC @ MUSIC HALL: With Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Krupa quartet, the Oscar Peterson trio, Stan Getz, Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Flip Phillips, Illinois Jacquet, Jo Jones

1956 / FEATURED AREA MEDIA FROM 1956 /

FEATURED AREA NEWSPAPERS (1) / REPORTERS (3)

Cleveland Plain Dealer (Tom O’Connell, Harry Jones, Glenn C. Pullen)

RADIO LISTINGS FROM 1956 /

FEATURED AREA RADIO STATIONS / (3) WERE-AM / WHK-AM / WTAM-AM

FEATURED AREA RADIO PERSONALITIES / (6)

WDOK-AM (Norman Wain [with live remote]) / WERE-AM (Tommy Edwards, Bill Randle, Phil McLean) / WHK-AM (Bill Gordon) / WSRS-AM (Bob Forster)

TELEVISION LISTINGS FROM 1956 /

FEATURED AREA TELEVISION STATIONS / (3) WEWS-TV5 / KYW-TV3 (WNBK-TV) / WJW-TV8

FEATURED AREA TELEVISION PROGRAMMING / [Local: (3) / Network: (8)]

LOCAL: Stage Show (Elvis Presley TV debut with Bill Randle) / Bill Randle Show (guests Pat Kirby, Terry Gibbs, Bill Doggett) / Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. debuts, replacing call letters WTAM, WTAM-FM, WNBK-TV, with KYW, KYW-FM, KYW-TV / Higbee’s presents first live local color TV show from special store studio / NETWORK: Annie Oakley / Gene Autry / Beat the Clock / Roy Rogers / Hitchcock Presents / 64,000 Challenge / Elvis Presley sings ‘Love Me Tender’ on Ed Sullivan / Elvis Presley sings ‘Don't Be Cruel’ on Ed Sullivan

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1956 / FEATURED ENTERTAINERS / AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1956 /

FEATURED AREA AMUSEMENT PARKS / (1)

Euclid Beach (5¢ from 1 p.m. to midnight [except Thriller, Dodgem & the ponies @ 10¢]) / Chippewa Lake Park

FEATURED COMEDIANS / (1) Cleveland native

FEATURED ROCK ‘N ROLL DEBATE:

WSRS DJ Bob Forster calls Elvis Presley “a big novelty.”

BEVERLY SILLS @ MUSICARNIVAL / [Individuals: (2) / Productions: (1)] Beverly Sills stars in producer John L. Price’s version of ‘Carmen’ in English @ Musicarnival ($1.50-$3.50)

36th METROPOLITAN OPERA CAMPAIGN @ PUBLIC HALL / [(Individuals: (2) / Productions: (4)] Metropolitan Opera Co. opens with Canton’s Blanche Theborn in ‘Don Carlo,’ ‘La Traviata,’ ‘Fledermaus;’ and ‘Barber of Seville’ with Lilly Pons as Rosina

CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA / [Individuals: (6) / Productions: (3)]

Cleveland Orchestra w/ George Szell marks Severance Hall’s 25th anniversary / Cleveland Orchestra with George Szell & Van Cliburn / Duke Ellington & his men with & Earl Wild join Louis Lane & Cleveland Summer ‘Pops’ Orchestra

FEATURED AREA LIVE THEATER ATTRACTIONS / [Individuals: (2) / Productions: (1)]

Harry Belafonte in ‘Sing Man, Sing’ at Hanna Theatre (with Alvin Ailey)

FEATURED RECORDS / ARTISTS FROM 1956 / [Local: (2) / National: (4)]

LOCAL: ‘Tonight You Belong to Me’ (Cleveland’s Tracey Twins) / Carl Perkins’ ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ WERE DJ Bill Randle’s ‘disc of the week’ / NATIONAL: Flying Saucer / Hound Dog / What Ever Will Be Will Be / My Prayer

FEATURED AREA MOVIES / ARTISTS FROM 1956 /

[(17) / World Premieres (2) / premieres (1) / Local premieres (2) / Live appearances (4)]

WORLD PREMIERES: ‘Autumn Leaves’ (starring Joan Crawford) / ‘Foreign Intrigue’ (with Robert Mitchum) / OHIO PREMIERES: ‘The Searchers’ (, Ward Bond [LIVE]) / LOCAL PREMIERES: ‘That Certain Feeling’ (with Bob Hope [LIVE]) / ‘Picnic’ opens (with Kim Novak [LIVE]) / ‘Benny Goodman Story’ (with Steve Allen) / LOCAL SHOWINGS: ‘Forever Darling’ (with Lucile Ball, Desi Arnez) / ‘East of Eden’ (James Dean) / ‘Battle Cry’ (Tab Hunter) / ‘Rebel Without Cause’ (James Dean) / ‘Bundle of Joy’ (with Eddie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds) / ‘Giant’ (with James Dean, Rock Hudson, Liz Taylor) / ‘Rock Around the Clock’ (with Bill Haley & his Comets) / ‘Love Me Tender’ (starring Elvis Presley) / Earth vs. The Flying Saucers / Invasion of the Body Snatchers / The Werewolf

FEATURED HOLLYWOOD MOVIE PRODUCERS:

Producer Cecil B. DeMille visits here to promote ‘The Ten Commandments’ to area movie men

FEATURED AREA MOVIE HOUSES / (5)

Loew’s State Theatre / RKO Palace Theatre / Allen Theatre / Hippodrome Theater / Hazelwood Drive-In

1956 / FEATURED SPECIALTY ITEMS FROM 1956 /

FEATURED AUTOMOBILES / (4) [Found in auto ads that week]

1956 Chevrolet Belvoir V8 hardtop Coupe in matador red and dune beige ($2,395-Shaker-Lee Motors) 1956 Pontiac Starchief Catalina 2-door Coupe in aqua marine & white ($2,795-Shaker-Lee Motors)

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1956 AUTO SHOW / 255 hp. DeSotos with push button driving / flight-swept Chryslers

FEATURED AREA AUTO PAINTING / (5)

Earl Scheib $19.95 paint job

FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS / (5)

The ‘Squareburger’ at Bonfire Drive-In, Euclid at Green Dining @ Wade Park Spaghetti Inn Dining @ Black Angus, Euclid at 14th Lobster dining at Capt. Frank’s on the E. 9th St. pier

FEATURED AREA RETAIL SHOPPING / (1) Sherwin-Williams SWP paint ($6.60 gal.)

FEATURED AREA RETAIL STORES / (1)

Higbee’s / Southgate Shopping Center

1956 / FEATURED SPORTS PLAYERS / COACHES / TEAMS / VENUES / OWNERS FROM 1956 / (16)

Herb Score / Bob Feller (retires after 20 years with Indians) / head coach Lee Tressel / head coach Tom Harp / Massillon High School / Washington Nationals / Municipal Stadium / Wm. R. Daley buys (with Ignatius A. O’Shaughnessey, Hank Greenberg) / 1956 NFL Draft (Paul Hornung (Packers) / Jon Arnett (Rams) / John Brodie (49ers) / Ron Kramer (Packers) / Len Dawson (Steelers) / Jim Brown (Browns) /

1956 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1956 / [(67 / Sports: (5)]

1/1 men Eddie Habat & Kenny Bass ‘rock’ the Slovenian Auditorium today, 1956

1/3 Replacing Brook Benton & Linda Hopkins, tonight, Billie Holiday rules the Chatterbox Musical Bar; Choker Campbell & his 6 pieces play the Loop Lounge; & at the Cotton Club, Art Blakely & Horace Silver ‘jazzed’ the new year, now, it’s Mr. Billy Taylor, 1956

1/25 Vaughn Monroe hosts the daily stage show, as 255 hp. DeSotos with push button driving & ‘flight-swept’ Chryslers ‘rock’ the Auto Show at Public Hall ($1), 1956

1/28 WJW-TV8 offers ‘Annie Oakley,’ ‘Gene Autry,’ ‘Beat the Clock’ and the TV debut of Elvis Presley on ‘Stage Show’ at 8 p.m., introduced by WERE Radio’s Bill Randle, 1956

2/2 After tonight’s Cleveland Orchestra concert with George Szell conducting marking Severance Hall’s 25th anniversary; WERE’s Phil McLean airs live tomorrow from 7 to 10 p.m., as the ‘Benny Goodman Story’ with Steve Allen opens at the Hipp, 1956

2/6 After Jerri Winters plays the Chatterbox last night with George Byas, as Gloria Mann closes a 3-night stand at the Band Box; tonight, the Circle Theater’s ‘Hillbilly Jamboree’ features Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys with the Shenandoah Valley Trio, 1956

2/9 Al Mariano’s Al’s Lounge Bar & Restaurant opens tomorrow at Richmond and Miles in exclusive Bedford Hts. featuring handsome accordionist Sal Bucarey of ‘Dance on My Pillow’ fame with the Marvelites and Norman Wain’s live remote on WDOK, 1956

2/10 As sax men Serge Chaloff & Lou Donaldson play the Cotton Club; Eileen Rodgers plays The Cabin Club; as Geoffrey Clay brings his Rock ‘n Roll Review to Michaud’s, 1956

2/12 Les Elgart plays the Aragon tonight; Little Richard the Band Box on the 15th, 1956

2/13 Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. debuts today on the local media scene, replacing call letters WTAM, WTAM-FM & WNBK-TV, with KYW, KYW-FM and KYW-TV, 1956

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2/17 As Loew’s State offers Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz & James Mason in ‘Forever Darling;’ the Palace counters with James Dean in ‘East of Eden’ & Tab Hunter in ‘Battle Cry,’ 1956

2/18 Carl Perkins’ ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ is WERE DJ Bill Randle’s disc of the week, as trumpeter Buck Clayton & his All-Stars play the Loop Lounge; June Anthony & Lois Powell play the Band Box; Teddy Charles headlines the Cotton Club; & at the Circle Theater, it’s country star Stoney Cooper with Wilma Lee & the ‘Clinch Mountain Clan,’ 1956

2/24 After seeing Kim Novak live on the 22nd as ‘Picnic’ opens at the Hippodrome, while Music Hall hosts ‘Birdland’ stars Sarah Vaughan, Count Basie (w/John Williams), Al Hibbler, Lester Young & Bud Powell ($2-$3.75); tonight, Connie Francis plays the Cabin Club; the Loop Lounge hosts the Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop; Tony Scott plays the Cotton Club; and it’s dancing to Paul Burton at the Aragon Ballroom, 1956

2/26 After dining on a ‘Squareburger’ at Bonfire Drive-In, Euclid at Green last night before seeing Pete Seeger play to 300 during a fund raiser at Masonic Temple ($1.50); tonight, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers (‘Why Do Fools Fall in Love’), the Teen Queens, ‘Ivory Joe’ Hunter, Five Keys, Jewels, Daps, Bobby Crewe, & Bobby Charles (‘Later Alligator’), headline a ‘giant’ rock ‘n’ roll revue at E. 105th St. Theater with WERE’s Phil McLean, 1956

3/3 As the Circle Theater’s Hillbilly Jamboree stars Grandpa Jones & Ramona; Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis & his Hammond organ combo play the Loop Lounge ‘til 2:30, 1956

3/5 Cruising to the Chatterbox Musical Bar on Woodland Ave., after the Drifters headlined last night, tonight, the Paul Buscom Sextet joins bluesman T-Bone Walker, 1956

3/8 If Earl Scheib’s $19.95 paint job isn’t the answer, Shaker-Lee Motors offers a 1956 Chevrolet Belvoir V8 hardtop Coupe in matador red and dune beige ($2,395), & a 1956 Pontiac Starchief Catalina 2-door Coupe in aqua marine & white ($2,795), 1956

3/10 As Terry Gibbs plays the Loop Lounge with Terry Pollard, & Roy Hamilton plays the Band Box; Cousin Jody & Rita Faye play the Circle Theater’s Hillbilly Jamboree, 1956

3/17 After the annual St. Pat’s Day parade, Benny Green & his quintet plays the Loop Lounge; the Cabin Club hosts Jackie Jocko & drummer Joe Peters; and the Cleveland Orchestra with conductor George Szell features Van Cliburn at Severance Hall, 1956

3/24 Tonight, Miles Davis & his All-Stars play the Loop Lounge on Prospect, as Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderly plays the Cotton Club w/brother Nat on trumpet; on the 26th, it’s vibe man Bud Wattles at the Cotton Club, Lester Young at the Loop Lounge, 1956

4/1 Billie Holiday plays the Loop Lounge; Louie Armstrong & Woody Herman play Music Hall; Harry Belafonte stars in ‘Sing Man, Sing’ at the Hanna with Alvin Ailey; and at the Manger Hotel, it’s the fabulous ‘Diamonds’ with Eddie Platt’s Orchestra, 1956

4/10 As Wild Bill Davis plays the Cotton Club with Chris Columbo on drums; The Loop Lounge presents Art Blakely and his Jazz Messengers (Horace Silver on piano), 1956

4/18 As the Metropolitan Opera Co. opens its 36th season at Public Hall with Canton’s Blanche Theborn in ‘Don Carlo’ the 16th, ‘La Traviata’ the 17th, and ‘Fledermaus’ tonight; Lilly Pons stars as ‘Rosina’ in ‘Barber of Seville’ tomorrow ($1.70-$7.50), 1956

5/3 It’s the Teddy Wilson Trio at the Loop Lounge; Calvin Jackson at the Cotton Club, 1956

5/6 Tonight, the Cabin Club hosts the Tracey Twins, as Mel Torme plays the Band Box with Ralph Wilson’s Orch.; tomorrow, Kenny Dorham’s Jazz Prophets & Phineas Newborn, Jr. play the Cotton Club, as Nellie Lutcher & her Trio play the Loop, 1956

5/8 Bill Haley & the Comets rock the Arena with Bo Didley, Big Joe Turner, the Colts, Clyde McPhatter, La Vern Baker, the Platters, the Teenagers & Teen-Queens, Frankie Lymon, the Flamingos, the Drifters, & 11

Red Prysock’s Orch. ($1.50-$3); as the Allen Theatre hosts the World Premiere tomorrow of ‘Autumn Leaves’ starring Joan Crawford, 1956

5/12 As the Hipp features ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers;’ cruising in a red-ivory top ’54 Bel Air Sport Coupe w/powerglide, radio, whitewalls ($1,495-Southeast Chevy); there’s a jam session at 4:30 with Charlie Parker at Herbie Fields’ Sky Bar; before Bobby Darin, Don Kirshner & the Henry George Orchestra play the Cabin Club, 1956

5/12 As the debate over rock ‘n roll continues among local jocks, WSRS DJ Bob Forster tells the PD’s Tom O’Connell, “Elvis Presley is a big novelty. When all the fuss is over, Presley will be back yodeling up a canyon, or at barn dances singing his straight material. But I do a request show and if people want to hear it, I’ll play it,” 1956

5/15 After picking up Sherwin-Williams SWP paint ($6.60 gal.), you’ll find Carmen McRae with Jimmy Smith at the Cotton Club; and Shelly Manne at the Loop Lounge, 1956

5/19 As fans 15 to beat the Nationals, 5-1, at the Stadium, setting a MLB record with 24 strikeouts over 2 games; Southgate Shopping Center marks its first anniversary with remotes by WERE’s Phil McLean & WHK’s Bill Gordon; a parking lot dance tonight with WERE’s Tommy Edwards; & Bill Randle’s dance party tomorrow, 1956

5/22 After cruising to see actors John Wayne & Ward Bond live during the Ohio premiere of ‘The Searchers’ at the Allen; Oscar Peterson & his trio with Ray Brown & Herb Ellis play the Loop Lounge; Hampton Hawes subs for injured Erroll Garner at the Cotton Club; the Bill de Arango Trio plays the Shaker Village Inn’s Downbeat Room on Kinsman; as Sarah Vaughan headlines the Band Box, 2902 W. 25th, on the 27th, 1956

5/23 Robert Mitchum stars in the World Premiere of ‘Foreign Intrigue’ at Loew’s State, 1956

5/29 Tonight, Dinah Washington ‘The Queen’ & her Mercury Recording Trio play the Loop Lounge; as drummer Max Roach plays the Cotton Club with Clifford Brown, 1956

6/9 Tonight, the Barton Brothers play Herman Pirchner’s Alpine Village in Playhouse Sq.; Mentor on the Lake Ballroom offers Russ Harmon’s Orch.; Tony Marsh plays the Band Box on W. 25th; the ‘Esquires’ play the Cabin Club with the area’s largest night club dance floor; and it’s dancing to the ‘Pastels’ at the Cucamonga Lounge on Miles, 1956

6/16 The doors opened at 11:15 a.m., as the Hipp, 720 Euclid, hosts the 2nd of three ‘Giant Rock ‘n Roll Revues’ with Don Cherry; Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers; Chuck Berry; Billy Wells & the Crescents; Lonnie Donegan; Clyde McPhatter; the Diamonds; Johnny Burnett; the Jodimars; ‘Sam ‘the man’ Taylor; Joe Howard & emcee Bill Randle, 1956

6/17 Cruising in a red V8 ‘56 Corvette convertible ($2,395), as Anita O’Day replaces Chico Hamilton at the Cotton Club; it’s sax men Flip Phillips & Sonny Stitt at the Loop, 1956 6/23 Today, Benny Goodman & his Orch. play Chippewa Lake Park w/Bill Randle, 1956

6/28 It’s the trombone twins ‘Jay Jay’ Johnson & Kai Winding at the Loop Lounge tonight until 3:30 a.m., as the Modern Jazz Quartet plays the Cotton Club (no cover), 1956

6/29 Mentor-on-the-Lake Ballroom hosts Pat Boone backed by Russ Harmon’s Band, 1956

7/8 After dining at Wade Park Spaghetti Inn before seeing Bob Hope live during the premiere of ‘That Certain Feeling’ at soldout Loew’s State on the 5th; tonight, Dizzy Gillespie plays the Cotton Club; as Gene Krupa’s Quartet plays the Loop Lounge, 1956

7/10 After selling out last night, Jeri Southern & her Trio return to the Cotton Club, 1956

7/15 Last night, Carl Maduri sings ‘Starlight Waltz’ at the Cabin Club with Beverly Palmer & Henry George’s band; tonight, Ella Fitzgerald headlines at Cotton Club, 1956 12

7/23 As Sharkey & his Kings of Dixieland replace James Moody at the Loop; & the “West Coast cool” Bud Shank Quartet (Williamson, Flores, Prell), succeeds Ella Fitzgerald at the Cotton Club; top singles include ‘Flying Saucer;’ ‘Hound Dog;’ ‘What Ever Will Be Will Be;’ ‘My Prayer;’ & ‘Tonight You Belong to Me’ by Cleveland’s Tracey Twins, 1956

7/24 Playing composer, pianist & conductor w/Johnny Hodges & Earl Wild, Duke Ellington & his men join Louis Lane & Cleveland Summer ‘Pops’ Orchestra at Public Hall, 1956

8/6 The Dave Brubeck Quartet replaces Sonny Til & his Orioles at the Cotton Club, 1956

8/17 As the Hippodrome gives away free rock ‘n’ roll records to the first 500 at the opening of ‘Earth vs. The Flying Saucers’ & ‘The Werewolf;’ Beverly Sills stars in John L. Price’s version of ‘Carmen’ produced in English at Musicarnival ($1.50-$3.50), 1956

9/3 “Lawrence Welk Thrills 9,600,” reports The Plain Dealer, after the band leader brings his ‘Champagne Music’ troupe with Myron Floren to Public Hall ($2 to $5), 1956

9/4 “I was virtually put on the jukebox map by Cleveland’s deejays,” 22-year-old Pat Boone tells the PD’s Glenn C. Pullen, as Clevelanders spent $7 million on disks last year, 1956

9/9 Sunday night offers ‘Roy Rogers’ on TV-3; & Bill Randle with guests Pat Kirby, Terry Gibbs & Bill Doggett at 10:30 on TV-5; as TV-8 features ‘Hitchcock Presents,’ ‘64,000 Challenge’ and Elvis Presley singing ‘Love Me Tender’ on Ed Sullivan at 8 p.m., 1956

9/11 It’s Terry Gibbs tonight, the Australian Jazz Quintet tomorrow at the Cotton Club; Bobby Scott at the Cabin Club; & Buddy & Ella Johnson’s 16-piece orchestra replacing Bill ‘Honky Tonk’ Doggett tomorrow at the Loop Lounge from 8 p.m.-3:30 a.m., 19

9/15 Cruising on Sunday, all rides are 5¢ at Euclid Beach from 1 p.m. to midnight (except Thriller, Dodgem & the ponies- they’re 10¢); while at the movies, the Colony Theater offers a James Dean play with ‘East of Eden’ and ‘Rebel Without Cause,’ 1956

9/16 After cruising to see blues queen Dinah Washington at the Loop Lounge; tomorrow, jazz pianist Art Tatum replaces Zoot Sims & John Williams at the Cotton Club, 1956

9/19 Norman Granz brings ‘Jazz at the Philharmonic’ to Music Hall with Ella Fitzgerald, the Gene Krupa quartet, the Oscar Peterson trio, Stan Getz, Sonny Stitt, Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Flip Phillips, Illinois Jacquet & Jo Jones ($2.75-$4.75), 1956

9/21 As sax man Louis Jordan & his Tympany Five play the Loop (Lionel Hampton the 24th); the ‘La Playa Sextet’ & ‘Mambo Aces’ bring mambo mania to Luccioni’s, 1956

9/29 After lobster dining at Capt. Frank’s on the E. 9th St. pier; cruising in a red & white ’53 Bel Air V8 convertible w/whitewalls ($1,795-Shaker-Lee), the Hazelwood Drive-In, Mayfield & Rt. 44, offers Bill Haley & his Comets in ‘Rock Around the Clock,’ 1956

9/30 Tomorrow, Della Reese & Linda Hopkins play the Chatterbox Show Bar; the Loop Lounge presents ‘Big Jay’ McNeely; & it’s the Jutta Hipp Trio at the Cotton Club, 1956

10/12 While ‘Mr. Mambo’ Joe Loco plays the Loop Lounge; Ohio-native Doris Day appears in person at both shows, as Loew’s State presents the World Premiere of ‘Julie,’ 1956

10/14 After dining at the Black Angus, Euclid at 14th, Music Hall swings to Benny Goodman and his Orchestra with Martha Tilton, Jackie Cain and Roy Kral ($2.25-$4.50), 1956

10/17 Wild Bill Davis plays the Loop; George Shearing’s Sextet plays the Cotton Club, 1956

10/23 As trumpeter Muggsy Spanier brings his talented Dixieland troupe to the Loop Lounge; the Cotton Club hosts sax man Gerry Mulligan with Bobby Brookmeyer, 1956

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10/24 “Haley’s Comets Rock Arena in Noisy, High-Geared Show,” reveals the Plain Dealer headline, after Bill Haley & the Comets, Chuck Berry, The Platters, Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers, Clyde McPhatter & The Clovers play Cleveland Arena ($2-$3), 1956

10/28 After watching Elvis Presley sing ‘Don't Be Cruel’ on Ed Sullivan tonight; tomorrow, Higbee’s presents the first live local color TV show from a special store studio, 1956

10/30 “The biggest single problem we had was the voice of God,” states Cecil B. DeMille to theater men at Hotel Statler, as ‘The Ten Commandments’ opens here Nov. 15th, 1956

11/1 You’ll find Duke Ellington & his 16-piece Orchestra tonight at the Cotton Club, 1956

12/6 While James Dean, Rock Hudson and Liz Taylor, star in ‘Giant’ at the Allen Theatre, Erroll Garner plays the Cotton Club at E. 4th & Huron, ‘the jazz corner of Cleveland;’ the Chatterbox Show Bar on Woodland presents Al Hibbler with nightly dancing; and at Daffy’s, E. 75th & Euclid, it’s Paul Nap’s “fabulous” jam session; 1956

12/14 Tickets are 75¢-90¢ as ‘Love Me Tender’ starring Elvis Presley opens at the Allen, 1956

12/18 Trumpeter Chet Baker plays the Loop; Buddy DeFranco plays the Cotton Club, 1956

12/31 After seeing Eddie Fisher & Debbie Reynolds star in ‘Bundle of Joy’ (1st time together) at the Hipp; Dizzy Gillespie & his 17 men ‘rock’ the New Year at the Cotton Club, 1956

1956 / FEATURED SPORTS RELATED ENTRIES FROM 1956 / (5)

2/1 After leading the Mentor Cardinals to 34 straight victories, 30-year-old head football coach Lee Tressel becomes the 11th head football coach at Massillon High School, succeeding Tom Harp, with a three-year contract worth $6,600 a year, 1956

3/29 Cruising home in a blue & white ‘54 Buick Riviera hardtop w/Dynaflow ($2,095- Harmon Pontiac); at 11 p.m., local TV reports the Cleveland Indians have been sold for $3,961,800 to Wm. R. Daley, Ignatius A. O’Shaughnessey & Hank Greenberg, 1956

5/29 As Herb Score fans 15 to beat the Nationals, 5-1, at the Stadium, setting a MLB record with 24 strikeouts over 2 games; Southgate Shopping Center marks its first anniversary with remotes by WERE’s Phil McLean & WHK’s Bill Gordon; a parking lot dance tonight with WERE’s Tommy Edwards; & Bill Randle’s dance party tomorrow, 1956

11/25 In tomorrow’s NFL draft, after the Packers pick Paul Hornung; the L. A. Rams pick Jon Arnett; the 49ers pick John Brodie; the Packers pick Ron Kramer; & the Steelers pick Len Dawson; the Cleveland Browns draft Syracuse FB Jim Brown as the 6th pick, 1956

12/28 “A glorious chapter in the history of Cleveland baseball came to an end yesterday-the Bob Feller era,” writes Plain Dealer reporter Harry Jones the next day, after the Tribe ace announces his retirement at Municipal Stadium after 20 years with the team, 1956

THE EARLIER YEARS / 1851 to 1946

FEATURED AREA VENUES FROM 1851 to 1946 /

Allen Theatre / Bamboo Garden (E. 200 & Euclid) / Central Skating Rink / Hotel Cleveland / Colonial Theater / Cotton Club / Dance halls / El Dumpo Cabaret / Euclid Opera House / Euclid Theater / Hanna Theatre / Hippodrome Theater / Hotel Hollenden Vogue Room / B. F. Keith’s downtown theater / Keith’s 105th Theatre / Kelly’s Hall / Lindsay’s Sky Bar / Masonic Hall / Mayfair Casino / Metropolitan Theater (new vaudeville & photoplay policy) / Music Box / Music Hall / RKO Palace Theatre / Parma Theater (grand opening) / Prospect Theater (with vaudeville show) / Public Hall / Severance Hall / Loew’s State Theatre / Loew’s Stillman Theatre / Trianon Ballroom / Wurlitzer Music

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1921 PLAYHOUSE SQUARE OPENINGS:

(Loew’s State Theatre, Ohio Theatre, Allen Theatre, Hanna Theatre)

FEATURED ENTERTAINERS / ENTERTAINMENT GROUPS PERFORMING HERE FROM 1851 to 1946 /

Theda Bara (LIVE) / P. T. Barnum (with Tom & Mrs. Thumb) / Barnum & Bailey Circus / Sarah Bernhardt (Farewell tour) / comedian Joey Bishop / Chang the Chinese Giant / Ruth Chatterton (LIVE) in ‘Mary Rose’ / Col. W. F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody’s Wild West show (with Miss Annie Oakley) / George M. Cohan / Maury Cross / Lotus Dubois / magician Harry Houdini / Al Jolson [1916 / 1936] / Helen Keller (with Anne Sullivan Macy) / Kellogg Grand English Opera Company / Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo) / Mae Murray (LIVE) / Ray Pearl & his Orchestra / George Raft / Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson / Will Rogers / N. Y. Yankee slugger (with Wellington Cross) / John Philip Sousa / Maurice Spitalny / Three Stooges

LOEW’S STATE THEATRE OPENING @ PUBLIC SQUARE [1921] / (With Marcus Loew, Marguerite Marsh, Montague Love, Rex Ingraham, Lillian Walker, Hope Hampton, Ruth Roland, Bert Lytell)

FEATURED ARTISTS / MUSICAL GROUPS PERFORMING HERE FROM 1851 to 1946 /

Marian Anderson / Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong & his men / (& Cotton Club Orchestra [1936] & his Cotton Club Review (with Avis Andrews, Cozy Cole) [1941]) / Buck Clayton / Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club men (with Ive Anderson) [1931 – local debut / 1936 / 1946] / Roy Eldridge / Father Flanagan’s Boys Town Choir / Benny Goodman and his men (with the Cleveland Orchestra) / Ace Goodrich / Cleveland Grays & Germania bands (Grand Masquerade Carnival) / Connie Haines / Coleman Hawkins / Chubby Jackson / Art Jarrett / Kay Kayser / Jenny Lind / & his Royal Canadians [1926 / 1946] / Jimmy Lunceford’s Orchestra / Dean Martin (with Sammy Watkins’ band) / / Mills Brothers / Woody Herman & his Thundering Herd / Helen (Be-Babba-Leba) Humes / Illinois Jacquet / Kenneth Kersey / Gene Krupa / Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis / Jimmy Lunceford’s Orchestra / Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra / Louis Prima (with Peggy Ryan) / Django Rinehardt (American debut) / Paul Robeson / Gene Rodgers / Mickey Rooney / Artie Shaw & his 32-piece Orchestra / Rex Stewart / Dave Tough / Josh White / Trummy Young / George Szell (debut as Cleveland Orchestra’s new musical director)

FEATURED AREA 1921 SILENT MOVIES (8) / ARTISTS / (9)

‘Dangerous Business’ (with Constance Tallmadge) / Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘Forbidden Fruit’ / ‘Gypsy Blood’ (with Pola Negri) / ‘The Kid’ (with Charlie Chan) / ‘The Love Light’ (with Mary Pickford) / ‘The Greatest Love’(with Vera Gordon)/ ‘The Sheik’ (Rudolph Valentino with Agnes Ayres) / ‘The Three Musketeers’ (with Douglas Fairbanks)

FEATURED AREA MOVIES / ARTISTS / THEATERS FROM 1926 to 1946 / (9)

Dracula’ with Bela Lugosi / ‘City Lights’ with Charlie Chaplin / Joan Crawford & Robert Taylor in ‘The Gorgeous Hussy’ (@ the new Parma Theater) / Our Gang comedies / Humphrey Bogart in ‘The Maltese Falcon’ (@ the Palace Theatre) / Bette Davis in ‘Little Foxes’ (@ the Allen Theatre) / ‘Tars & Spars’

FEATURED MUSIC FROM 1851 to 1946 / (2)

Mood Indigo / Black & Tan Fantasy

FEATURED AREA TRANSPORTATION RELATED ITEMS FROM 1851 to 1946 / (9)

Carriage from J. Lowman & Son 1904 Winton ($800) 1916 Gasoline prices (20-22c a gallon) Standard Oil ‘19 Peerless Chummy Roadster ($1,200) ‘19 Stearns 3-door ‘Chummy’ w/spot light, stop signal ($950) ‘40 Chevy Club Coupe with push-button radio

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FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS FROM 1851 to 1946 /

Stein & Co. restaurant, beer, wine hall & billiard parlor Beer / Sunday saloon laws Puritas Springs Co. Gold Seal brand ginger ale Bamboo Garden at Euclid & E. 100th (lunch 50¢/dinner $1) Blue Boar Cafeteria for Irish Lamb Stew (12¢) Christmas dinner of music, flowers & the holiday spirit (@ Hotel Cleveland Bronze Room)

(1921 - INAUGURAL SWEETEST DAY IN CLEVELAND) / First Sweetest Day featuring Mary Lincoln Candy Co., Crain’s Chocolates, Marshall Drugs, Phelp’s Candy, Chandler & Rudd, Euclid Candy Co.

FEATURED AREA RETAIL SHOPPING FROM 1851 to 1946 /

$20 blue serge wool suit / $3.85 pure silk shirt @ May Co. Raccoon coat ($400 @ Halle’s Dept. store) ‘46 model Martin D-28 Dreadnought guitar @ Shubert’s on Prospect ($144)

FEATURED GENERAL HISTORY FROM 1851 to 1946 / (3)

President Wm. McKinley shot in Buffalo (1901) Pearl Harbor (1941) ‘God Bless America’ replaces ‘Auld Lang Syne’ on Near Year’s Eve (1941)

FEATURED AREA MEDIA FROM 1851 to 1946 / (5)

Cleveland Leader Cleveland Plain Dealer (W. Ward Marsh) The Cleveland Press WHK-AM’s new studios in new Higbee Bldg. WERE-1300AM sportscasters (Jack Graney, Jimmy Dudley)

FEATURED SPORTS PLAYERS / TEAMS / VENUES FROM 1851 to 1946 / (-)

Denton (Cy) Young (complete game) / Cleveland Spiders / Cincinnati Reds / League Park @ E. 66th & Lexington (debut game/ last Indians game) / Jimmy McLeer / Cleveland Blues / / Debut / 1916 Olympic Games / Babe Ruth (as pitcher) / / Cleveland Indians / League Park / Jim Thorpe (Capt. of NFL Cleveland Tigers) / Cincinnati Celts / Dunn Field (League Park) / Night football @ Municipal Stadium / (National Professional League) NPL Cleveland Indians / Pennzoils / Denny Galehouse / Bob Feller’s debut (1936) / Cleveland Indians / St. Louis Browns / Philadelphia Athletics / Harrison Dillard (East Tech) / Bill Weaver (West High) / 1936 Berlin Olympic Games (with Clevelanders Dave Albritton, Teddy Kara, Lou Laurie, Jesse Owens, Teddy Wilson)

1851! FEATURED AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1851 / (1) Jenny Lind

FEATURED AREA VENUES / (1) Kelly’s Hall

FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS / (2)

Fresh oysters & wild game @ Cozzen’s Marble Hall (Dunham House) Alligator pudding & elephant pie @ M. Cozzen’s Saloon (under the Franklin)

1851 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1851 / (2)

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4/26 Hungry? A. Cozzens’ Marble Hall under the Dunham House offers patrons fresh oysters and wild game made to order; while M. Cozzens’ Saloon under the Franklin features delicious alligator pudding, elephant pie and drinkables of all kinds, 1851

11/7 “You might study a musical dictionary for 6 months & fail to describe the fascination of her melody,” as 1,125 see Swedish songstress Jenny Lind at Kelly’s Hall ($1-$3), 1851 1871! FEATURED AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1871 / (2)

Cleveland Grays & Germania bands (Grand Masquerade Carnival)

FEATURED AREA VENUES / (1) Central Skating Rink

FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS / (1) Stein & Co. restaurant, beer, wine hall & billiard parlor

1871 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1871 / (2)

1/19 With over 500 costumes on the ice, Central Skating Rink presents a grand masquerade carnival tonight with music by the full Cleveland Grays & Germania bands, 1871

2/25 Billiards anyone? Stein & Co. having leased Richardson’s Block, No. 51 Public Square, announces they have thoroughly renovated it with modern improvements featuring a first-class restaurant, lager beer & wine hall, ballroom & upstairs billiards parlor, 1871

1876! FEATURED AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1876 / (4) Kellogg Grand English Opera Company (@ Euclid Opera House) [Mignon / Bohemian Girl]

FEATURED TRANSPORTATION / (1) Carriage from J. Lowman & Son

1876 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1876 / (1)

11/10 ‘Cruising’ tonight to the Euclid Avenue Opera House in a new carriage from J. Lowman & Son, the celebrated Kellogg Grand English Opera Company presents the opera ‘Mignon,’ for the first time in English (tomorrow’s matinee is ‘Bohemian Girl’), 1876

1881! FEATURED AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1881 / (2) P. T. Barnum with Tom & Mrs. Thumb / Chang the Chinese Giant

FEATURED AREA NEWSPAPERS / (1) Cleveland Leader

1881 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1881 / (1)

8/11 “Barnum Draws the Crowd,” reports the Cleveland Leader headline, after master showman P. T. Barnum (who appears in person), brings his traveling menagerie with 20 elephants & 20 camels to town drawing some 13,000-15,000 at his two shows, featuring Gen. Tom Thumb & his wife, & ‘Chang,’ the tall Chinese giant (50¢), 1881

1891! FEATURED AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1891 / (1) Medium Shopping with Madame Miller

FEATURED SPORTS PLAYERS / TEAMS / VENUE OPENING / (4)

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Denton (Cy) Young (complete game) / Cleveland Spiders / Cincinnati Reds / League Park @ E. 66th & Lexington (DEBUT GAME)

1891 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1891 / (2)

5/2 It was the perfect opening yesterday for League Park, the city’s new stadium at E. 66th & Lexington, as music, flowers, & nearly 9,000 spectators brightened the day for the 1st-place Cleveland Spiders who beat the Cincinnati Reds, 12-3, led by spitballer Denton (Cy) Young, who pitched a complete game in only 1:58 for the win, 1891

10/21 Medium shopping? Try celebrated clairvoyant Madame Miller with no equal in telling past and future names, ages, satisfaction given, located at 116 Prospect, 1891

1896! FEATURED AREA ENTERTAINMENT / (2) Col. W. F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody’s Wild West show (with Buffalo Bill / Miss Annie Oakley)

FEATURED AREA FOOD / LIQUOR LAWS / (2) Beer / Sunday saloon laws

1896 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1896 / (2)

5/23 Crave a cold beer? Head downtown where the bars are open, but not to the outlying areas, where the city police will be strictly enforcing their Sunday saloon laws, 1896

7/21 Col. W. F. (Buffalo Bill) Cody’s Wild West show came to town yesterday for 2 days, 2 shows daily, at Cedar & E. Madison, with horse racing, trick riding & the marksmanship of Miss Annie Oakley, “an astonishing piece of work for a woman,”-all seats under canvas for some 15,000 the first day (50¢ - bicycles cared for and checked 10¢), 1896

1901! FEATURED AREA NEWSPAPERS / (1) Cleveland Plain Dealer

FEATURED SPORTS MANAGER / TEAMS / LEAGUES / (4) Manager Jimmy McLeer / Cleveland Blues / Chicago White Sox / American League Debut

FEATURED GENERAL HISTORY / (1) President Wm. McKinley shot in Buffalo, New York

1901 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1901 / (2)

4/24 When rain postpones all other games, an 8-2 Opening Day loss by manager Jimmy McAleer’s Cleveland Blues to the host Chicago White Stockings becomes the first baseball game played in ’s fledgling American League, 1901

9/7 The Cleveland Plain Dealer headline reveals “President McKinley Shot Twice at the Pan-American Exposition by Leon Czolgosz,” after Pres. Wm. McKinley is shot in the stomach while at the Pan-American Expo in Buffalo, but resting after surgery, 1901

1906! FEATURED AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1906 / (2)

Barnum & Bailey Circus / Sarah Bernhardt (Farewell tour)

FEATURED AUTOMOBILES / (1) 1904 Winton ($800)

FEATURED AREA VENUES / (1) Colonial Theater 18

FEATURED AREA FOOD / (1) Puritas Springs Co. Gold Seal brand ginger ale

1906 / ENTRIES FEATURED FROM 1906 / (2)

6/29 After the Barnum & Bailey Circus stops here the 26th (50¢); tonight, celebrated actress Sarah Bernhardt brings her farewell tour to the Colonial Theater ($1-$4), 1906

8/15 While drinking Puritas Springs Co. Gold Seal brand ginger ale (they make sarsaparilla & birch beer, too!), you find a 1904 Winton for $800 at Boulevard Garage, 1906

1911! FEATURED AREA ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1911 / (2)

Will Rogers / Dance Halls

FEATURED AREA VENUES / (1)

Prospect Theater (with vaudeville show)

FEATURED SPORTS EVENTS / (1)

1916 Olympic Games

1901 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1901 / (2)

2/8 After learning a large Cleveland delegation is in Washington D. C. hoping to host the 1916 Olympics over Baltimore, New York & Philly (city to build $200,000 stadium); it’s only 10¢ to see the Prospect Theater’s big vaudeville show with Will Rogers, 1911

2/12 Hoping to quash “dance hall evils,” City Council reviews an ordinance requiring all dance halls to be licensed and sanitary, and permits be secured to host a dance, 1911

1916! FEATURED AREA ENTERTAINMENT / (2)

Magician Harry Houdini / Al Jolson (in Robinson Crusoe Jr.)

FEATURED AREA THEATERS / (3)

Colonial Theater / Hippodrome Theater

FEATURED TRANSPORTATION RELATED ITEMS / (3)

Gasoline prices (20 to 22 cents per gallon) / Standard Oil

FEATURED AREA RETAIL SHOPPING / (3)

$20 blue serge wool suit / $3.85 pure silk shirt @ May Co.

SPORTS PLAYERS / TEAMS / VENUES FEATURED / (4)

Babe Ruth (as pitcher) / Boston Red Sox / Cleveland Indians / League Park

1916 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1901 / (3)

1/24 With local gas prices ranging from 20¢ to 22¢ per gallon in a market controlled by Standard Oil, horses become a viable option, as thousands of auto owners have yet to take out 1916 licenses, & are having their cars permanently stored in garages, 1916

6/5 Cruising to the game in a $20 blue serge wool suit & a $3.85 pure silk shirt from May Co., the 1st-place Cleveland Indians lose to Boston, 5-0, at League Park behind the solid pitching of left-hander Babe Ruth, who throws a 6-hitter, striking out 4, 1916

12/21 As Al Jolson appears live with his famous beauty chorus in ‘Robinson Crusoe Jr.’ at the Colonial ($1.50-$2.50); Harry Houdini brings his magic to the Hippodrome, 1916

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1921 / FEATURED AREA VENUES / (4)

Loew’s State Theatre / Loew’s Stillman Theatre / Keith’s 105th Theatre / Masonic Hall / B. F. Keith’s downtown theatre

1921 / FEATURED ENTERTAINERS / GROUPS PERFORMING HERE IN 1921 / (16)

Theda Bara (LIVE) / John Philip Sousa (with his band) / Mae Murray (LIVE) / Helen Keller (with Anne Sullivan Macy) / N. Y. Yankee slugger Babe Ruth (with Wellington Cross) / Ruth Chatterton (LIVE) in ‘Mary Rose’ /

LOEW’S STATE THEATRE OPENING / (with Marcus Loew, Marguerite Marsh, Montague Love, Rex Ingraham, Lillian Walker, Hope Hampton, Ruth Roland, Bert Lytell)

1921 / FEATURED AREA MEDIA / ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1921 /

FEATURED THEATRES (6) / ARTISTS (1)

PLAYHOUSE SQUARE OPENINGS: (Loew’s State Theatre, Ohio Theatre with David Warfield in ‘Return of Peter Grimm,’ Allen Theatre, Hanna Theatre) / Metropolitan Theater (new vaudeville & photoplay policy) / Euclid Theater

SILENT MOVIES (8) / ARTISTS (9) ‘Dangerous Business’ (with Constance Tallmadge) / Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘Forbidden Fruit’ / ‘Gypsy Blood’ (with Pola Negri) / ‘The Kid’ (with Charlie Chan) / ‘The Love Light’ (with Mary Pickford) / ‘The Greatest Love’ (with Vera Gordon) / ‘The Sheik’ (Rudolph Valentino with Agnes Ayres) / ‘The Three Musketeers’ (with Douglas Fairbanks) /

AUTOMOBILES / (2) [Found in auto ads that week]

‘19 Peerless Chummy Roadster ($1,200) ‘19 Stearns 3-door ‘Chummy’ w/spot light, stop signal ($950)

FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS / (1)

(INAUGURAL SWEETEST DAY IN CLEVELAND) / First Sweetest Day featuring Mary Lincoln Candy Co., Crain’s Chocolates, Marshall Drugs, Phelp’s Candy, Chandler & Rudd, Euclid Candy Co.

1921 / FEATURED SPORTS PLAYERS / TEAMS / VENUES FROM 1921 / (3) Jim Thorpe (Capt. of NFL Cleveland Tigers) / Cincinnati Celts / Dunn Field (League Park)

1921 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1921 / (11)

2/6 The 22 “film folk” at the opening last night included Marcus Loew, Marguerite Marsh, Montague Love, Rex Ingraham, Lillian Walker, Hope Hampton, Ruth Roland and Bert Lytell, as Loew’s State becomes Playhouse Square’s first major theatre, 1921

2/14 Possessing the largest lobby of any dramatic theater in the world, the Ohio Theatre opens as the second major theatre at Playhouse Square, and first devoted to drama & vaudeville, with tickets $7 to see David Warfield in ‘Return of Peter Grimm,’ 1921

2/29 After cruising to Keith’s 105th on the 27th to see Helen Keller with Anne Sullivan Macy headline the vaudeville show; today, Mary Pickford stars in ‘The Love Light’ at new Loew’s State; as Loew’s Euclid offers Cecil B. DeMille’s ‘Forbidden Fruit,’ 1921

4/3 Following the Hanna Theatre ‘s opening on March 28th; Cleveland’s newest photo play theater, the $1 million Allen Theatre, developed by Canadians Jules & J. J. Allen, celebrates its first week after opening on Playhouse Square April 1st, as thousands turned out to see Vera Gordon in ‘The Greatest Love,’ & dance in the rotunda, 1921

10/3 On Sept. 23rd, Mae Murray appeared live at Loew’s State; today, it’s Theda Bara, while Douglas Fairbanks stars in ‘The Three Musketeers’ at Loew’s Stillman (50¢-$1), 1921

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10/6 Mary Lincoln Candy Co.; Crain’s Chocolates; Marshall Drugs; Phelp’s Candy; Chandler & Rudd; & the Euclid Candy Co. are among the retailers joining forces to make October 8th, “The Sweetest Day of the Year” (the start of Sweetest Day), 1921

12/10 Cruising in a Hudson Super ‘6’ ($1,895), after the last showing of ‘Dangerous Business’ with Constance Tallmadge, the Metropolitan Theater, Euclid & E. 55th, starts its new vaudeville & photoplay policy with Charlie Chan in ‘The Kid’ & 5 vaudeville acts, 1921

10/14 While Ruth Chatterton appears live at the Ohio Theatre today in ‘Mary Rose’ (50¢-$2); tomorrow, march master John Philip Sousa & his band play new Masonic Hall, 1921

10/23 Cruising to Dunn Field in a late ‘19 Stearns 3-door ‘chummy’ w/spot light, stop signal ($950), the Cleveland Tigers beat the Cincinnati Celts, 28-0, in pro football action, but lose Capt. Jim Thorpe at halfback, who cracks a rib making a sensational catch, 1921

11/21 B.F. Keith’s downtown theater hosts a vaudeville slate featuring N. Y. Yankee slugger Babe Ruth dressed in a baseball suit, performing skits with Wellington Cross, 1921

12/1 At the movies you’ll find heartthrob Pola Negri in ‘Gypsy Blood’ at Loew’s Park; & Rudolph Valentino starring in ‘The Sheik,’ with Agnes Ayres at Loew’s State, 1921

1926! FEATURED AREA MUSICAL VENUES / (1)

Music Box (with special $2-$2.50 Christmas dinners)

FEATURED MUSICAL ENTERTAINERS / (1)

Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians (@ Music Box)

FEATURED AREA RETAIL SHOPPING / (1)

Raccoon coat ($400 @ Halle’s Dept. store)

1926 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1921 / (1)

12/22 After ordering a $400 raccoon coat at Halle’s; the Music Box restaurant offers special $2-$2.50 Christmas dinners with dancing to Guy Lombardo’s Royal Canadians, 1926

1931! 1931 / FEATURED MEDIA / ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1931 /

FEATURED AREA NEWSPAPERS (1) / REPORTERS (1)

Cleveland Plain Dealer (W. Ward Marsh)

FEATURED AREA RADIO STATIONS / (1)

New WHK-AM studios in new Higbee Bldg.

FEATURED ENTERTAINERS / (1)

Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club men with Ive Anderson (LOCAL DEBUT)

FEATURED MUSIC / (2)

Mood Indigo / Black & Tan Fantasy

FEATURED AREA MOVIES (2) / ARTISTS (2)

‘Dracula’ with Bela Lugosi / ‘City Lights’ with Charlie Chaplin

1931 / FEATURED SPORTS EVENT / TEAMS / (3)

Night football @ new Municipal Stadium / (National Professional League) NPL Cleveland Indians / Pennzoils

1931 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1931 / (3) 21

9/9 After 1,000 celebrate the opening of WHK Radio’s new studios yesterday on the top floor of the new Higbee Bldg.; 35,000 see the first night football game at new Municipal Stadium, as the NPL Cleveland Indians beat the independent Pennzoils, 10-0, 1931

3/15 As the RKO Hippodrome presents ‘Dracula’ with Bela Lugosi ‘the new Lon Chaney’ in its 2nd big week; ‘City Lights’ with Charlie Chaplin opens at Loew’s Stillman, 1931

7/4 “Here is the hottest band I’ve ever heard,” writes the PD’s W. Ward Marsh, as Duke Ellington & his Cotton Club men debut locally at the RKO Palace with vocalist Ive Anderson, as ‘Mood Indigo’ & ‘Black & Tan Fantasy,’ “swell through the house,” 1931

1936! 1936 / FEATURED AREA VENUES / (5)

Bamboo Garden (E. 200 & Euclid) / Hanna Theatre / Mayfair Casino / Palace Theatre / Trianon Ballroom

1936 / FEATURED MUSICAL ARTISTS / COMEDIANS PERFORMING HERE IN 1936 / (10)

Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong & his men / Cab Calloway & Cotton Club Orchestra / Maury Cross / Duke Ellington / Kay Kayser / Al Jolson / Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo) / Ray Pearl & his Orchestra / Maurice Spitalny / Three Stooges

FEATURED ROCK HALL INDUCTEES PERFORMING HERE IN 1936 / (1)

Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong

1936 / FEATURED AREA MEDIA / ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1936 /

FEATURED AREA RADIO STATION / (1)

WHK-AM

FEATURED LIVE THEATRE ATTRACTIONS / (2)

George M. Cohan in ‘Dear Old Darling’ / Al Jolson live at the Hanna in ‘The Wonder Bar’

FEATURED AREA MOVIES / ARTISTS / (2)

Joan Crawford & Robert Taylor in ‘The Gorgeous Hussy’ / Our Gang comedies

FEATURED AREA MOVIE HOUSES / (1)

Parma Theater (GRAND OPENING)

1936 / FEATURED SPECIALTY ITEMS FROM 1936 /

FEATURED 1936 AUTOMOBILES / (1) [Found in weekly auto ads]

‘36 Chrysler Business Coupe w/hot running water ($795-Dowd-Feder)

FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS / (1) Bamboo Garden at Euclid & E. 100th (lunch 50¢/dinner $1)

1936 / FEATURED SPORTS PLAYERS / TEAMS / OLYMPIC GAMES FROM 1936 / (11)

Denny Galehouse / Bob Feller (debut with the Cleveland Indians) / Cleveland Indians / St. Louis Browns / Philadelphia Athletics / 1936 Berlin Olympic Games (with Clevelanders Dave Albritton, Teddy Kara, Lou Laurie, Jesse Owens, Teddy Wilson)

1936 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1936 / (13)

1/11 The Hanna Theatre features George M. Cohan tonight in ‘Dear Old Darling,’ 1936

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2/29 Sunday cruising with WHK on the radio in a polo green ‘36 Chrysler Business Coupe w/hot running water ($795-Dowd-Feder); the Mayfair Casino at Playhouse Sq. offers an 8-course dinner-dance revue with Maurice Spitalny & Maury Cross ($1.50), 1936

3/16 At the Palace, you’ll find Cab Calloway & his celebrated Cotton Club Orchestra, 1936

8/1 The Olympic games start tomorrow in Berlin with Cleveland represented by tracksters Dave Albritton & Jesse Owens; & boxers Ted Kara, Lou Laurie & Jackie Wilson, 1936

8/2 As Jesse Owens sets a 100-meter record, & Dave Albritton wins high jump silver in Berlin; Duke Ellington plays the Palace; & it’s the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo), at Loew’s State with cast of 45 including ‘gorgeous Hollywood beauties,’ 1936

8/4 Berlin update: After running a 10.3 yesterday to win gold medal in the 100-meter dash; Jesse Owens captures gold in the broad jump, shattering the Olympic record, & wins 200-meter gold tomorrow for first U.S. Olympic gold in 32 years, 1936

8/9 Berlin update: U. S. relay team of Metcalfe-Owens-Draper-Wykoff wins the 400-meter relay giving Owens a coveted 4th gold medal (the United Press article states- “Adolph Hitler rose with the throng and joined in the lusty cheer for the star-spangled athletes who captured 12 out of 23 titles, tying their own record made at Paris in 1924.”), 1936

8/10 After the three Marx Brothers play Loew’s State last week: the comedy continues with the Three Stooges beginning a week-long engagement at the Palace Theatre, 1936

8/15 Berlin finals: Bantamweight Wilson wins boxing silver & Laurie flyweight bronze, 1936

9/13 After beating the St. Louis Browns, 4-1, in his first major league start on Aug. 23rd, 17-year-old Iowa farmboy Bob Feller breaks an American League record striking out 17 Philadelphia Athletics for a 5-2 win before 6,500 during a League Park Sunday doubleheader, while Denny Galehouse beats the A’s, 5-4, in the second contest, 1936

10/17 After being among 30,000 fighting rain last night to see Pres. Roosevelt during a brief train stop; tonight, the Parma Theater opens at Ridge & Snow, with Joan Crawford & Robert Taylor in ‘The Gorgeous Hussy;’ Our Gang comedies; & cartoons in color, 1936

11/29 After Ray Pearl & his Orchestra play the Trianon Ballroom, Euclid & E. 100, the 26th; tonight, it’s Louis ‘Satchmo’ Armstrong, ‘the Gabriel of the trumpet,’ & his men, 1936

12/24 As Kay Kayser & his Orchestra play the Bamboo Garden at Euclid & E. 100th (lunch 50¢/dinner $1); Al Jolson appears live at the Hanna in ‘The Wonder Bar’ ($1-$3), 1936

1941! 1941 / FEATURED AREA VENUES FROM 1941 / (10)

Allen Theatre / Loew’s State Theatre / Cotton Club / Lindsay’s Sky Bar / Music Hall / RKO Palace Theatre / Public Hall / El Dumpo Cabaret / Hotel Hollenden Vogue Room

1941 / FEATURED ARTISTS / MUSICAL GROUPS PERFORMING HERE IN 1941 / (13)

George Raft / Cab Calloway & his Cotton Club Review (with Avis Andrews, Cozy Cole) / Mills Brothers / Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson / Velma Middleton / Jimmy Lunceford’s Orchestra / Dean Martin (w/ Sammy Watkins’ band) / Artie Shaw & his 32-piece Orchestra / Benny Goodman and his men (w/ the Cleveland Orchestra)

1941 / FEATURED AREA MEDIA / ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1941 /

FEATURED AREA NEWSPAPERS / (1) 23

The Cleveland Press

FEATURED AREA CARTOONISTS / Superman comic creators Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster @ May Co. (Cleveland natives)

FEATURED AREA MOVIES (2) / ARTISTS (2) / AREA MOVIE HOUSES (2)

Humphrey Bogart in ‘The Maltese Falcon’ (at the Palace Theatre) / Bette Davis in ‘Little Foxes’ (at the Allen Theatre)

FEATURED AREA SPECIALTY PERFORMANCES FROM 1941 / (2)

Comedian Joey Bishop @ El Dumpo Cabaret / Lotus Dubois @ Roxy Burlesque

1941 / FEATURED SPECIALTY ITEMS FROM 1941 /

AUTOMOBILES / (1) [Found in auto ads that week]

‘40 Chevy Club Coupe with push-button radio

FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS / (1) Blue Boar Cafeteria for Irish Lamb Stew (12¢)

1941 / FEATURED SPORTS PLAYERS (2) / SCHOOLS (2) / VENUES / (1)

Harrison Dillard (East Tech) / Bill Weaver (West High) @ Cleveland Arena

1941 / FEATURED GENERAL HISTORY FROM 1941 /

Pearl Harbor / ‘God Bless America’ replaces ‘Auld Lang Syne’ on New Year’s Eve

1941 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1941 / (8)

1/12 It’s 39¢ ‘til 1 p.m. to see George Raft and ‘his big stage show’ live at the Palace, 1941

1/30 ‘The Highness of Hi-De-Ho’ Cab Calloway brings his Cotton Club Review with Avis Andrews and Cozy Cole to the RKO Palace with the Piqua-born Mills Brothers, 1941

3/29 Bill Weaver’s record-setting 880-yd. run helps West High win the A division; while East Tech wins the B side aided by Harrison Dillard’s record-setting 50-yd. high hurdles win during last night’s 18th indoor scholastic track carnival at the Arena, 1941

6/19 Today at May Co. downtown, you’ll find Superman comic creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster live from 2 to 4 p.m. in the store’s 7th floor toy department, 1941 10/20 While Bette Davis stars in ‘Little Foxes’ at the Allen; the Palace presents tap sensation Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson with Velma Middleton & Jimmy Lunceford’s Orchestra, 1941

12/7 After watching Humphrey Bogart in ‘The Maltese Falcon’ at the Palace Theatre, you’ll find comedian Joey Bishop featured at the El Dumpo cabaret, 2119 Prospect, 1941

12/8 “1500 Dead in Hawaii Raid - F.D.R. Asks War on Japan,” offers today’s Cleveland Press headline, after President Franklin D. Roosevelt asks Congress to declare that, “a state of war has existed between the and the Japanese Empire,” 1941

12/24 After cruising in a ‘40 Chevy Club Coupe with push-button radio to the Blue Boar Cafeteria for Irish Lamb Stew (12¢), the Hotel Hollenden brings in Christmas with crooner Dean Martin singing with Sammy Watkins’ band in the Vogue Room, 1941

12/31 As war-torn locals replace ‘Auld Lang Syne’ with ‘God Bless America’ at midnight, Artie Shaw & his 32-piece Orchestra play Public Hall (99¢-$1.25); while on the 4th, Benny Goodman and his men join the Cleveland Orchestra at the venue (55¢-$1.65), 1941 1946! 1946 / FEATURED AREA VENUES FROM 1946 / (8)

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Loew’s State Theatre / Hanna Theatre / Hotel Cleveland / Lindsay’s Sky Bar / Music Hall / Palace Theatre / Severance Hall / Wurlitzer Music

1946 / FEATURED ARTISTS / MUSICAL GROUPS PERFORMING HERE IN 1946 / (32)

Marian Anderson / Buck Clayton / Roy Eldridge / Duke Ellington / Father Flanagan’s Boys Town Choir / Ace Goodrich / Illinois Jacquet / Connie Haines / Coleman Hawkins / Woody Herman & his Thundering Herd / Helen (Be-Babba-Leba) Humes / Chubby Jackson / Art Jarrett / Kenneth Kersey / Gene Krupa / Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis / Guy Lombardo & the Royal Canadians / Monroe & his Orchestra / Louis Prima with Peggy Ryan / Django Rinehardt (American debut) / Paul Robeson / Gene Rodgers / Mickey Rooney / Rex Stewart / Dave Tough / Josh White / Trummy Young / George Szell (debut as Cleveland Orchestra’s permanent musical director)

FEATURED WOMEN OF MUSIC PERFORMING HERE IN 1946 / (3) Marian Anderson / Connie Haines / Helen (Be-Babba-Leba) Humes / Peggy Ryan

FEATURED AMERICAN DEBUTS FROM 1946 / (1)

Django Reinhardt with Duke Ellington @ Music Hall

1946 / FEATURED AREA SPECIALTY EVENTS FROM 1946 /

JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC @ PUBLIC HALL:

With Chubby Jackson, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Dave Tough, Roy Eldridge, Buck Clayton, Rex Stewart, Kenneth Kersey, Trummy Young, Helen (Be-Baba-Leba) Humes

1946 / FEATURED AREA MEDIA / ENTERTAINMENT FROM 1946 /

FEATURED AREA BURLESQUE / LIVE THEATRE ATTRACTIONS / (2) Lotus Dubois @ Roxy Theater / Gloria Swanson live in ‘A Goose for the Gander’ at Hanna

FEATURED AREA RADIO STATIONS / (1)

WERE-1300AM

FEATURED AREA SPORTS ANNOUNCERS / (2)

WERE-1300AM (Jack Graney, Jimmy Dudley)

FEATURED AREA AUTOGRAPH SESSIONS / (1)

Louis Prima @ Wurlitzer Music

FEATURED AREA MOVIES / (1)

‘Tars & Spars’

1946 / FEATURED SPECIALTY ITEMS FROM 1946 /

FEATURED AREA FOOD / RESTAURANTS / (1)

Christmas dinner of music, flowers & the holiday spirit @ Hotel Cleveland Bronze Room

FEATURED AREA RETAIL SHOPPING (MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS) / (1)

‘46 model Martin D-28 Dreadnought guitar at Shubert’s on Prospect ($144)

1946 / FEATURED SPORTS OWNERS / PLAYERS / TEAMS / VENUES / LEAGUES FROM 1946 / (22)

Dan Reeves / Dan Sherby / Bob Feller / Frankie Hayes / Lou Groza / Don Greenwood / Ray Terrell / Tommy Colella / Cliff Lewis / Mac Speedie / / Dante Lavelli / Cleveland Browns / Cleveland Rams / Los Angeles Rams / Miami Seahawks / Cleveland Indians / Detroit Tigers / League Park (last Indians game) / Municipal Stadium / All-America Football Conference (Browns debut / win title) / 1946 / FEATURED ENTRIES FROM 1946 / [(11) / Sports: (6)]

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3/19 Tonight, Louis Prima and his band play the Palace Theatre with Peggy Ryan (‘Tars & Spars’ on screen); on the 21st, Guy Lombardo & the Royal Canadians take over, 1946

5/8 The Hanna offers Gloria Swanson live in ‘A Goose for the Gander’ ($1.20-$3), 1946

5/25 As Louis Prima ‘the torrid trumpeteer’ & his Orchestra headline the RKO Palace, you’ll find him today at 11:45 a.m. autographing records at Wurlitzer Music on Euclid, 1946

10/17 Severance Hall is ‘packed to the doors,’ as musical director George Szell makes his triumphant debut as the Cleveland Orchestra’s permanent conductor, offering a program of Beethoven, Weber, Debussy & Strauss with 94 (7 new) musicians, 1946

10/26 Tonight, Lindsay’s Sky Bar hosts piano men Gene Rodgers and Ace Goodrich, 1946

11/5 The Plain Dealer headline reads “French Guitar steals Duke’s Concert,” after Duke Ellington plays to 1,800 “addicts of jive music” at Music Hall last night with noted French guitarist DJango Reinhardt, making his American debut, as his guest, 1946

11/5 It’s $1.80-$3.60 to see Jazz at the Philharmonic at Music Hall the 9th with Chubby Jackson, Coleman Hawkins, Illinois Jacquet, Dave Tough, Roy Eldridge, Buck Clayton, Rex Stewart, Kenneth Kersey, Trummy Young & Helen (Be-Baba-Leba) Humes, 1946

11/11 As Gene Krupa & his orchestra play the Palace, & Cleveland’s ‘Lotus’ Dubois stars at the Roxy; upcoming Music Hall concerts offer Father Flanagan’s Boys Town Choir Nov. 15 ($1.80-$3.60); Marian Anderson Nov. 17 ($1.20-$3); Woody Herman & his Thundering Herd Nov. 23 ($1.20-$3.50); & Paul Robeson Nov. 24 ($1.80-$3.60), 1946

11/29 After buying a ‘46 model Martin D-28 Dreadnought guitar at Shubert’s on Prospect ($144), next stop is the Palace, where Vaughn Monroe & his Orchestra headline, 1946

12/7 As Mickey Rooney brings his big stage review with Connie Haines to the Palace; Meade ‘Lux’ Lewis, the ‘Boogie Woogie Man,’ plays Lindsay’s Sky Bar, 10625 Euclid; & on the 12th, Music Hall welcomes ‘blues ballads master’ Josh White ($1.20-$3), 1946

12/25 After unwrapping gifts, Hotel Cleveland offers a traditional Christmas dinner featuring music, flowers & the holiday spirit served in the Bronze Room at 5 p.m., with dancing to Art Jarrett from 7-9 p.m., & supper with more dancing 10 p.m. to closing, 1946

1946 / FEATURED SPORTS RELATED ENTRIES / (6)

1/10 The National Football League’s annual draft meeting opens in with 33-year-old Cleveland Rams owner Dan Reeves flatly denying rumors that the payroll- laden NFL champion Rams are considering a move west to Los Angeles, 1946

1/11 Facing a $940,000 loss as a championship team, and a move to much smaller League Park, Cleveland Rams owner Dan Reeves announces the team is headed to L. A., stating, “Los Angeles has the greatest football future of any city in America,” 1946

1/14 Asked about Reeves moving the Rams to Los Angeles, Cleveland Browns co-owner Dan Sherby states, “In the first place we’ll have the highest payroll in either league. Secondly, we have Paul Brown, the greatest coach in the country. And, we have signed some of the most brilliant college and professional players to be had,” 1946

4/30 Listening to Jack Graney and Jimmy Dudley call the game on WERE-1300AM, a 9th homer by battery-mate Frankie Hayes gives the 5-5 Cleveland Indians a 1-0 win over the N. Y. Yankees before 37,144 at Yankee Stadium, as Tribe right-hander Bob Feller hurls his second no-hitter on only 133 pitches with 11 strikeouts, 1946

9/6 Cleveland Browns play their inaugural All-America Football Conf. contest, beating the Miami Seahawks, 44-0, before 60,135 at Municipal Stadium on Lou Groza’s 3 FGs & 4 PATs; TD runs by Don Greenwood, 26

Ray Terrell & Tommy Colella; & TD passes by Cliff Lewis (1st TD) to Mac Speedie, & Otto Graham to Dante Lavelli ($1.80-$3.60), 1946

9/21 Calling the field home since 1910, the 6th-place Cleveland Indians bid farewell to League Park, losing the last game played there to the Detroit Tigers, 5-3, in 11 before 2,552; moving to Municipal Stadium for the final home games of the year, 1946