Here's some mall eye candy for you ESM junkies.

Click them and they get heap big.


This is from some sort of promotional pamphlet. 1977. I love that "may co." can be seen in the background.


This is from the same pamphlet. It's hard to believe now that the mall had so much to offer.

I've got a few more things to put up here eventually.

Now onto something I personally found to be rather amusing.

Checking my traffic tracker I see 3 consecutive links from http://www.middlebass.org/News.shtml!

I go to check it out thinking I'm in trouble AGAIN and what do ya know. Turns out I was providing a forum for fans of Ed!


Yes! Click here is the Dead Euclid blog!

Now it wouldn't be so funny if all 6 comments were pro-Ed but only one is and the moment I got it I though honestly he, or a close buddy, wrote it. Just sayin'.

I got a brand new camera (the best one ever, an SLR, not a point and shoot) and I totally know what I'm doing with it now. Once the powers that be get done with me, I'll try to get out and shoot some stuff. Lots has changed (the Dollar General complex got a new facade. Weee hee!) and there's stuff I never got around to shooting in the first place.

Finally, a whole new layout is in the works, so click those freaking feeds for a change.

Thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Oh, and... Hi Chuck and Christine! I'll put some thought into those Dead Euclid t-shirts ;)

Write-in 1080, of course, being Christopher Litwinowicz.

I breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest. I'm sorry to the Middle Bass Island people who voiced an almost giddy hope that Ed Gudenas might be out of their hair if he were elected Mayor of Euclid.

I'm sure the Canadians, though, are also relieved... and can we ask for much more than happy Canadians?

I just don't think so.

;)

This is my first text contribution to the deadeuclid blog as a longtime collaborator and factfinder as well as driver and photography apprentice I decided now was the time to let you all hear my voice concerning the current Mayoral debaucle.

I received my mail as usual this afternoon and placed in amongst the typical issues of "Gold Clipper" and my last cable television bill were the typical (at least for the last two weeks) campaign ads. One ad showing former Euclid Mayor Tony Sustarsic and the new Euclid Senior Center, the other a bucket of what appears to be straw filled feces with a "Re-Elect Mayor Cervenik" sign poorly photoshopped over it. I was intrigued, to say the least. The back sides of these humble pieces of equally sized paper propaganda intrigued me further. Cervenik's advertisement featured in bold lettering "The Difference is Clear". Gudenas's piece featured most prominently a black and white photo of a rather bothered-looking Bill Cervenik with the text "Don't Stand for the Dirty Tricks".

I have a few complaints about both of these pieces of free mailbox literature:

1. Bill Cervenik's advertisement features some honest looking faces and quotes about how he has seemingly single-handedly brought the city out of a longstanding debt, attracted strong businesses and jobs, strengthened our safety forces, and destroyed the eyesores and safety hazards around our city. The ad continues by stating he "Expanded vital senior service programs" and "helped create a vibrant new senior center".

The fact of the matter is, and what should be pointed out is WE as Euclid residents paid for that "vibrant new senior center", we as Euclid residents who pay our taxes, are bankrolling our fire and police departments, and that we as Euclid residents are the ones ultimately responsible for our further development. This, however does not a mayoral campaign make.

2. Ed Gudenas's advertisement, besides featuring a nice big bucket of you-know-what on the front, also shows us that he is endorsed by the Euclid Sun Journal. Not the most reputable publication in the cuyahoga county area by any means, the Euclid Sun is owned and operated by a much larger company and after a dealing or two with them in the past it is obvious to me that nobody is actually captain of that ship. Some Endorsement! The next part troubles me the most, paying no mind to the black square of "poo slinging" at our current mayor, the next blurb states Gudenas is "Endorsed by 8 out of 9 Euclid City Council members".

EUREKA!

This at long last explains part of Euclid's problems. Any candidate that is a current member of Euclid City Council and has the support of that many consider worries me. It also gives a good reason why the city is falling into decline, despite all the flag-waving and hot air ballooning by the candidates. The problem does not fall into the executive branch of our government as our candidates would have you believe, the problem lies in the legislative branch. EIGHT out of NINE council members get along with Ed Gudenas more than they get along with Bill Cervenik. This explains things stalling out despite debates continuing long and hard. This explains why we didn't just settle out of court in our case against the United States Justice Department that eventually broke our city into 8 wards. Cervenik saw the initial plan laid out by the Justice Department made sense, Gudenas and City Council did not, chose to stalemate against mediation and send it to court, where it eventually ended up costing the city, the Euclid residents, SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

This is the same city council that was still licking it's wounds after a failed recall election of Bill Cervenik showed that he indeed had the popular vote. It is obvious that these past 4 years have had no real results for Cervenik and ultimately our city because our own legislative and executive branches of local government cannot come to amicable solutions to problems, even amongst themselves.

There's been a lot of activity on the blog lately, and it is nice to see that both sides have come out and shown their positions, but after seeing and reading what I have I've come to an interesting idea. Perhaps the problem isn't the mayor after all. Perhaps a big shakeup in city council is needed. Perhaps every council person should stop trying to push their own agendas and attempt to focus on the elephant in the room. Rather than backbiting and pushing each other all year only to put their hopes on the guy who doesn't even own property in the city, they should have focused on working with their current mayor, like him or not, to see that repairing an already broken city is brought to the forefront.


Vote for Gudenas or Vote for Cervenik, chances are, you're not going to see a really big difference either way.