was born in parma back in 1966. parma hospital. lived on orchard st. my dad, who lived on the east side, moved and grew up in parma. he says over the years how much parma has changed but it is still relatively the same. he cant remember what he did this morning, but he has vivid memories of parma. what i find so interesting with this area is how original it is. to me, returning here is like going back in time. parma still has the first fire department. where i grew up in boston area, their on their third. someone said parma is a shithole now...maybe to them. i will say, circumstances being different i'd move back to parma in a heartbeat. boston area is a shithole. rude and entitled people everywhere now. everything that is over 20 yrs old has to be razed for new. keep doing what your doing parma...proud to to say i was born there.
I’m from Shaker Heights, but I taught second grade at Thoreau Park school in the early 70’s. People in Parma were very nice. Most were ethnic and had strong values. Parma has gone downhill these days as have all the inner ring suburbs of Cleveland. 1950’s were the best years for these suburbs. Good times, good people.
That would be cool but make it like a modern production using modern production techniques so the two can contrast each other as representations of the development of culture and technology over time that would be cool
My parents moved to Parma around 1940 or so.my siblings and I grew up by Snow and Ridge rds.I fished in Evergreen Lake and played in the surrounding woods.I got to know Frank Johnson fairly well.I was just a kid looking for worms so i could go fishing.he showed me his compost pile (worm mine) and told me i could get worms any time i wanted.very kind people.his son Frank Jr. lived just down the street at 8501 evergreen I believe.Frank SR. was the mayor of parma around 1929. his home still stands as part of the Zabor funeral home .
I'll have to go check out that swimming hole. I've lived in Parma since 1955 and I never knew it existed! This is great. Nice to see how Parma used to be! My father was advised by a real estate agent friend to buy there because it was supposed to turn into a phenomenal city.......Then came Goulardi. :-(
Shi almost made me cry and I was born in 2005 in Parma and it’s wild to see the schools left alone and my own Parma Senior High fall😢 just this last year
The old swimming hole is just south of the bridge over West Creek, on Snow road, just west of Midtown Shopping Center. There is a small park with a picnic pavilion at the street level. The swimming hole is down in the creek. When this film was made Snow road did not connect to Broadview Rd.
I thought it looked familiar, used to go swimming down there a lot as a kid. I used to swim in the big pool about 150 feet from what is now ravine falls. Crazy to think that people have been swimming down there for centuries.
So durring this massive expansion the highway was suppose to have a exit right on ridge and ridgewood by the mall. So tons of infrastructire was built up the mall was built but it was canceled in the 70s. Thats why parma has a bunch of areas with tons of shops and stores with no easy highway access. The highway would have run through parmatown up through parma hts where the sears is.
First United Brethren in Christ Church is now Good Shepherd United Methodist Church -- west side of State Road just south of Snow Rd. I think Ridgewood Methodist Episcopal is Ridgewood United Methodist Church, 6330 Ridge Road. I get confused by the church mergers. Pearl Street Bank is at Pearl Road and Broadview Road in Old Brooklyn. At 9:57 the section on Parmadale starts, though I didn't see a title card for it. I'm really curious where that swimming hole was!
+Tracymmo, The old swimming hole is just south of the bridge over West Creek, on Snow road, just west of Midtown Shopping Center. There is a small park with a picnic pavilion at the street level. The swimming hole is down in the creek. When this film was made Snow road did not connect to Broadview Rd.
