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  • HISTORIC MOVIE THEATERS OF DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND
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    HISTORIC MOVIE THEATERS OF DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND
    ALAN F. DUTKA
    The first movie theaters in Cleveland consisted of converted storefronts with sawed-off telephone poles substituting for chairs and bedsheets acting as screens. In 1905, Clevelanders marveled at moving images at Rafferty's Monkey House while dodging real monkeys and raccoons that wandered freely through the bar. By the early 1920s, a collection of marvelous movie palaces like t...

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  • ASIATOWN CLEVELAND
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    ASIATOWN CLEVELAND
    ALAN F. DUTKA
    For years, Cleveland's Chinese residents struggled to find a secure place in the city. Immigrants came with dreams of building a better life, but without English proficiency, prospects dimmed, and emigres often earned poor pay for long hours of strenuous work. In 1925, Cleveland police responded to an especially brutal outbreak of the tong war violence ravaging the community by...

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  • MISFORTUNE ON CLEVELAND'S MILLIONARIES' ROW
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    MISFORTUNE ON CLEVELAND'S MILLIONARIES' ROW
    ALAN F. DUTKA
    Extreme wealth could buy a mansion in Millionaires' Row but not immunity from unsavory business dealings or shameful behavior. May Hanna gave her millionaire ex-husband's hired Pinkerton detectives the slip to sneak out of the country. To escape financial embarrassment, James Potter, the manager of a prominent Euclid Avenue apartment building, gave his family cough medicine lac...

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