Memories of Cleveland's Fairfax neighborhood in the 1950s 

Yes❤

More like politicians on both sides not caring about communities of color due to white flight. It’s amazing how Ohio city and tremont didn’t get revitalized until white millennials moved in. Same thing will happen with Cedar, Central, Hough, Lexington and Quincy. Give it til about 2030 and those areas will be completely gentrified due to the opportunity corridor bringing in white people from the western and southern suburbs who’ve never driven thru the city of Cleveland. They’ll need nice gas stations, markets, restaurants, walking trails, etc. it’s not like the current black and brown residents have demanded those things for decades.

@@antoniobrooks1113 Blah blah blah...same old song. If you want your neighborhood to be nice, do something to improve it. Don't depend on politicians or anyone else to do it for you, because they won't -unless it serves their interests.

Very well said!

I hung with some of my soul brother classmates and partied with them down there too and got the nickname "superfly"!!!!! This was because I was told "you must think your superfly going down in the hood and coming back alive!!! This was in the late 60,s early and mid to late seventies ..........!!

My family home was on East 79th St. between Cedar & Central Avenues. My family owned & lived in our house from 1938 -2015. I was born in the early 80s. I spent my whole life on Cedar. It was Not a scary movie scene in the 80s ..... So I know it definitely wasn't in the 70s. The elders always talk about how much the neighborhood had going on in terms venues, safety, community & family in the 70s. Maybe it was scary to white ppl (who think all things involving Blackness are ominous) or those who think that everything except the suburbs are horror movies 🙄 That neighborhood did not get bad until the crack epidemic.... which hit the entire nation hard, not just the Fairfax neighborhood

@@ampollard7041 I totally agree with you. Do you know some of the buildings in this video of Cedar is still standing until this day?

@@ampollard7041 "Cleveland...its jus lyke Compton-Fool."

@@doctorzoloft7587 Props to East 92nd and St. Clair...Birthplace of Bones, Thugs, and Harmony.

Maybe, but after WWII, dozens of bars and taverns opened up all over Cleveland, near where the factory workers lived. Unfortunately, more money was spent on liquor than on fixing and maintaining those older wood frame homes. Later, in some older neighborhoods, money was used for weed instead of a bucket of paint and a ladder.

Amen.