Description: Night view of theaters on Euclid Avenue near E. 14th Street, Cleveland, Ohio ca. 1940. In the photograph, Allen, State, and Palace Theaters, three of the original theaters still in existence that make up Playhouse Square Center, can all be seen. All three playhouses were opened in the early 1920s, closed in the 1960s, and reopened in the 1980s and 1990s. Playhouse Square Center is the second largest theater complex in the U.S. behind New York's Lincoln Center. This photograph was to be included in the Cleveland Guide, one of several guides on selected American cities to be published by the Federal Writers Project. The Federal Writers Program was a depression-era program created to employ writers. Most of the work for the Cleveland Guide was complete when the program was abolished in 1943. The Cleveland Guide was not published. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03287
Subjects: Federal Writers' Project--1930-1950; Theaters--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century; Euclid Avenue (Cleveland, Ohio); Great Depression and the New Deal; United States. Works Progress Administration; Playhouse Square Center
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Night view of theaters on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, ca. 1940. In this photograph, the Allen, State, and Palace Theaters, three of the original theaters still in existence that make up Playhouse Square Center, can all be seen. All three playhouses were opened in the early 1920s, closed in the 1960s, and reopened in the 1980s and 1990s. Playhouse Square Center is the second-largest theater complex in the U.S. behind New York's Lincoln Center. This photograph was to be included in the Cleveland Guide, one of several guides on selected American cities to be published by the Federal Writers Project. The Federal Writers Program was a depression-era program created to employ writers. Most of the work for the Cleveland Guide was complete when the program was abolished in 1943, but the Cleveland Guide was never published. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03288
Subjects: Federal Writers' Project--1930-1950; Theaters--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century; Euclid Avenue (Cleveland, Ohio); Great Depression and the New Deal; United States. Works Progress Administration; Playhouse Square Center
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Haltnorth's Garden gates at Woodland and E. 55th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, from the collection of Louis Baus. Haltnorth's Garden was a German beer garden that also hosted light opera performances in an outdoor covered theater. The signs on either side of the gate advertise regular concerts on Thursdays and Sundays, or Fridays in case of inclement weather, while the name of the proprietor, Charles Hogg, dates this photograph to between 1879 and 1887. Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B02_A05_486
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Theaters--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century; Beer; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; German Americans;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Haltnorth's Garden gates at Woodland and E. 55th Street in Cleveland, Ohio, from the collection of Louis Baus. Haltnorth's Garden was a German beer garden that also hosted light opera performances in an outdoor covered theater. The signs on either side of the gate advertise regular concerts on Thursdays and Sundays, or Fridays in case of inclement weather, while the name of the proprietor, Charles Hogg, dates this photograph to between 1879 and 1887. Baus, a native of Cleveland, Ohio, was born in 1875. He began his career as a professional photographer doing studio work before becoming a staff photographer for the Cleveland Advocate in 1911. Baus worked for the paper, which was later purchased by the Cleveland Plain Dealer, for thirty-eight years until his death in 1949. He was also an avid collector of historic photographs. The Louis Baus Collection consists of over one thousand photographs mounted in eleven albums, showing historic Cleveland, the village of Zoar and Ohio covered bridges and mills. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: P223_B02_A05_490
Subjects: Cleveland (Ohio)--Buildings, structures, etc.; Theaters--Ohio--Cleveland--History--20th century; Beer; Cultural Ohio--Popular Culture; German Americans;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)