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Preserving Lakewood by Thealexa Becker “Yesterday’s Lakewood was used Imagine going on the World Wide to gain experience in creating websites Web and being able to find what your and learning the HTML language,” home would have looked like years ago, says Becker of the creation of the site. maybe even before you were born, if “I chose this because of my familiarity there even was a house there. with the subject.” In this age of technology, it isn’t hard “[Yesterday’s Lakewood] is to believe that there would be images designed for physical Lakewood.” In circulating on the web of old places fact, one idea for the growth of the and it is even harder to believe, but it’s site is to attach the images to their fortunately true, that one of these web- corresponding locations on a map of sites is devoted specifically to the city of Lakewood, which Becker said is a fea- Lakewood. If you don’t believe that there sible plan, but one that will require a is a site called “Yesterday’s Lakewood” significant amount of work. The intersection of Detroit and Warren circa 1950. Courtesy of Yesterday’s Lakewood. with over 2,100 images of the city of The photos that comprise the Lakewood, just talk to William Becker, expansive site have come from a Second, the images need to be Society webpage. the site’s creator and 33-year archivist wide variety of sources. The initial scanned onto the computer. They To see if your home, street, or for Cleveland State University. images came from the Special Collec- are then cleaned up so that they can favorite landmarks are on Yesterday’s Becker is a long time resident of tions part of the library. Others have be posted on the web in their high- Lakewood, go to www.clevelandmem- Lakewood, although he grew up in come from people who have pictures est quality. Finally, the images are ory.org/lakewood. the Parma area. He lives with his wife, in their family and were willing to entered into the database and loaded Thea, and their daughter Thealexa. share them. Becker has a partnership on the site. From there, Becker uses In This Issue As the archivist at CSU, Becker’s with the Lakewood Historical Soci- the city directories to try to find addi- job is to maintain records, including ety that gives him access to images tional information of interest about Events & Notices ................ 2 their storage and retrieval. He is also to post on the site. He also borrows each location, such as if there were any Lakewood Hospital News . 4-5 responsible for indexing the minutes of images from the City of Lakewood, stores there at one time. the Board of Trustees, the School Sen- mainly through the Lakewood Police From there, the public can access Lakewood Public Library .... 6 ate, and the Graduate Council. Department. the images at any time, which is one of Lakewood Business News ... 7 An archivist is, as Becker put it, Once he has the physical images, the beauties of the site. Reproductions “The custodian of records.” getting the pictures on the site is a task and copies of the images are also avail- Lakewood Perspective ........ 8 He also works as a part of Special in and of itself. First, the pictures need to able to the public for a nominal fee. Collections by maintaining websites on be identified, a job which Becker spends This ready access has allowed Lakewood Schools ............10 his weekend afternoons doing. He can two Lakewood Elementary Schools, The Cleveland Memory Project, such Lakewood Sports ..............11 as the Cleveland Union Terminal Con- often be seen riding around Lakewood Grant and McKinley, to use the web- struction Photos, the Fenn College page, with copies of the orphan pictures to site for in-depth projects on various Lakewood Calendar ..........11 the images of CSU, and his pet proj- potential locations. It’s usually a hit or aspects of the city. Pulse Of The City ..............13 ect, Yesterday’s Lakewood. Yesterday’s miss. “The hardest pictures to identify Dina Bluemel, one of the Gifted Lakewood is an online collection of are the residential streets,” said Becker Program teachers at Grant, has used The Buck Stops Here .........15 photographs from the city of Lakewood of his ongoing quest to label images the website several times with her dating back to the nineteenth century. appropriately. “I’m always working on 2nd/3rd grade class to do in depth Lakewood Music ...............16 trying to identify photographs. It’s like a projects on the Templar Process and There are over 2,100 images of the city Conservation Corner .........18 on the page sorted into categories by constant project; I’ve got about a dozen Birdtown. Access to those projects is location, usually by street. now that still need to be identified.” available on the Lakewood Historical Real Estate .......................19 Join the Discussion at: www.lakewoodobserver.com Page 2 The Lakewood Observer June 24, 2008 Events & Notices The Lakewood Observer is pleased to publish Notices on a first-come first-serve basis. Please be patient with us as we have a limited amount of free space available for these items. All notices must be submitted through the Member Center at www.lakewoodobserver.com June 28 Cornhole Tournament by Mary Anne Crampton four games. Tournament rules can be downloaded at www.americancorn- Lakewood Community Progress, holeassociation.com. Tournament Inc. (LCPI) will hold its second annual information pick-up will be on Fri- Cournhole Tounament on Saturday, day, June 27 from 4 p.m until 9 p.m. June 28. Play will be at the Around the at Around the Corner Café, located at Corner Café parking lot at the corner 18616 Detroit Avenue. Play will begin of Sloane and Mathew Avenues. Par- at 1 p.m. on Saturday. ticipants can pre-register in person on The entry fee is $50, and prizes of WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25 at Around the $500, $250 and $100 will be awarded Corner Cafe between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. to top finishers. Proceeds benefit A flighted event, this tournament LCPI and the Main Street Lakewood guarantees all players a minimum of program. photo by Kole Miller The Altar Boyz Are Coming Robert and Gary Rice receive their awards from Garfield band director Julie Tabaj, and Garfield principal Mark Walter To Beck Center Robert And Gary Rice Receive by Fran Storch pm Fridays and Saturdays and 3:00 pm Sundays. To request tickets, contact Lakewood Schools Distinguished Beck Center for the Arts presents the Beck Center box office at (216) 521- the rockin’, rafter-raising, soul-saving 2540 or online at www.beckcenter.org. spoof, Altar Boyz on the Mackey Main Beck Center is located at 17801 Detroit Volunteer Service Awards Stage, July 18 through August 17. Win- Avenue in Lakewood, just 10 minutes by Staff Writer his career in Lakewood fifty years ago ner of the 2005 Outer Critics Circle west of downtown Cleveland. this fall. (1958-1983) Gary is a former Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, Retired teachers Robert and son, special education teacher, and is retired Altar Boyz is a fast-paced, booty-swing- Gary Rice, recently received Distin- from the Parma City School District. ing musical comedy about a fictitious guished Volunteer Service Awards The two men had also collaborated in Christian boy-band performing the from the Lakewood Schools for their writing a march for the new Garfield last concert of their “Raise the Praise” tour. Join heavenly heartthrobs – Mat- Your Independent Source for support this year with the Garfield Middle School. Mr. Robert Rice wrote Lakewood News & Opinion and Harding Middle School music “The Harding March” many years ago, thew, Mark, Luke, Juan, and Abraham The LAKEWOOD OBSERVER is pub- programs. The father-and-son team as well. Pictured are (from left to right) as they dance and sing their hearts out lished biweekly by Lakewood Observer, Robert Rice, Julie Tabaj; Garfield band to save the souls of the sinful. Inc., 14900 Detroit Avenue, Suite 309, has volunteered with the Lakewood Lakewood, OH 44107. Schools, in conjunction with the City director, Gary Rice, and Mark Wal- Show times for Altar Boyz are 8:00 of Lakewood’s Division of Aging. Rob- ter; Garfield principal. The photo was 216.228.7223 ert is a former Lakewood Schools band, taken by Garfield student and trumpet Copyright 2006 orchestra, and choral director, starting player, Kole Miller. Lakewood Observer, Inc. Free Meals For All rights reserved. Any reproduction is Annual Lakewood Beautiful Homes Award Contest forbidden without written permission. Nominate a beautiful home that you feel is deserving of an award. 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