Home from NORTHEAST!
May 17-19 2023
PART 6
I-90 in Cleveland! In addition to the strangely squat numerals on the Interstate shields, note that south appears misspelled. But that's because it's on the edge of a plate covering part of the sign.
I-90 has a hard left as it loses OH 2.
This is called the Wall of Whales and is visible from I-90.
I-90 again.
This highlights the hard left on I-90.
I-90 forms a tunnel under some rail.
I-90 sprouts I-77, which runs to the hometown of Devo and James Ingram. Also, a TV documentary exposed the fact that Akron was the biggest American city with no local TV news.
A look back at Cleveland. I was reminded of the time in 1990 when we drove to Cleveland and back in one day, and some little kid scratched a globe at a Rand McNally store.
Another view of Cleveland. I think the map store may have been in one of these buildings, but I'm not sure.
I-90 also splits off our old friend I-71.
Bye Cleveland! Thanks for ruling!
At I-71 & 490, I-90 actually uses this ramp to exit onto itself.
I also got this during my 2015 trip. This is west on I-90 in Lakewood, and what you see at left is the Hilliard Road bridge over the Rocky River.
That I-490 shield has seen less ridiculous days. I-490 is a 2-mile freeway link that was designated in 1973 and completed in 1990.
Another Interstate shield that looks like it's been outright blowtorched.
OH 21 (old US 21) & Rockside Road in Independence, Ohio. The building at left is the famous McDonald's in a mansion with brass chandeliers. This fast food restaurant has a second floor where you can supposedly dine with a view, but a 2023 review said the second floor had been chained off and the chandeliers removed. Another 2023 review said, "Hamburger looked like someone drove over it with their car." This McDonald's was built to look like a mansion because of the city's building requirements. Independence is often called Cleveland's Silicon Valley. Uh-oh, that's not good.
Canal Road in Cuyahoga Valley National Park. I also saw this great park during my 2015 trip. During the government shutdown battle of September 2023, the media was rubbing their paws together in excitement at closing all the national parks, and the Department of the Interior irresponsibly scrapped the contingency plan that kept them open in the 2018-19 shutdown. But you can't shut down an idea.
A view of the Hillside Road bridge over the Cuyahoga River.
Canal Road under Pleasant Valley Road.
Canal Road again.
We dip outside the park, and this is Valley View Road going under a cycling and walking trail. The brown sign was pretty new but already faded.
Back in the park, this is Brandywine Falls. Wikipedia says the rock layers of this great waterfall "can be read like a book." Don't tell that to my old high school classmates, considering the way they treated books. There was once a village here called Brandywine.
The electric companeeeeeeeeee! Pow! A sign said these are the ruins (the magic word!) of Champion Electric Company, which made restaurant appliances until it was destroyed by lightning in 1937.