Baedeker: Cleveland

In honor of the Bengals win versus the Browns on Sunday at Paul Brown Stadium, I am posting photos from the last of our AFC North divisional rivals. Here is a small tour of Cleveland, Ohio, from a late June 2007 trip. I enjoy Cleveland the city but I despise their football team. This trip took in a concert and a few places I had not been before. We skipped some of the standards like Tower City and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum this time.

Hyatt Regency Cleveland at the Arcade

West Side Market exterior

West Side Market from West 25th Street

Cleveland St. Ingatius in Ohio City

Veteran's Memorial Bridge & Subway Tour

Center Street Bridge

Cruise on the Cuyahoga

West 9th Street

Shaker Heights via RTA

Author's Note: Baedeker was a German-based travel guide begun in 1827 by Karl Baedeker. These comprehensive guides were hugely popular in Europe, the United States, and throughout the British Empire. I have adopted the moniker for all my travel pieces beyond Cincinnati. Given its German history and stately influence, I thought it fitting for the Queen City. I actually first heard of them while watching the movie A Room with a View, where proper, Edwardian English ladies Lucy Honeychurch and her chaperon travel around Florence, Italy, Baedeker in hand.