History
Then & Now: Photos
Places now gone
Memories/Comments
The 1953 Tornado
Spotlights:
Places of Interest
Almost West Park
Sources
Feedback
Contents
History of the
West Park
Neighborhood
Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio
SPECIAL EVENT
This is a totally independent endeavor. It is not a commercial site and is not affiliated with any neighborhood organization.
Residents may
wish to consider participation in the
Visit their website at
www.westparkhistory.org
For further details contact:
Christine M. Rafalke
Membership Chairperson
cmr@neighborhoodprogress.org
or
Peggy Cecora, President
Phone 216-941-9730
wphsmember@sbcglobal
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Created by:
Updated:
03 May
Charles C. Chaney
and
Gary Swilik
Number of visitors:
The West Park Historical Society TRIBUTE TO PURITAS SPRINGS PARK
Sunday, 8 June 2008 at the 100th Bomb Group Restaurant, 20920 Brookpark Rd. Free Admission.
Click here for details.
The purpose of this site is to provide an informal site concerning the history of the area and to share personal memories of the neighborhood. The West Park community, as considered here, consists of four neighborhoods located west of West 117th Street including the Jefferson, Kamm's Corners, Riverside and Puritas-Longmead areas. This approximates the original composition of the neighborhood.
This site is not intended to serve as a neighborhood directory but to be simply a place to share some of some of its history, images and memories. This site is not affiliated with any neighborhood organization. Please remember that this site predates and is completely independent of the West Park Historical Society. Visit their webpage at West Park History.org and consider giving the West Park Historical Society your support.
If you have memories and photos of your experiences in the West Park neighborhood that you would like to share please feel free to Email Charles Chaney and Gary Swilik. ("Click" the names to send an email.) If you have a website which you think would be relevant please feel free to let us know about it so we can provide a link to it on this site.
RECENT ADDITIONS
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Bono's Barber Shop
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Possible Toll House
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West Park Theatre
photos (two additions)
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Teare Farm
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Dryer's Pond
General Index to Contents
(partial)
Visit the
Kamm's Corners Development Corporation
web site for information on the present neighborhood that includes much of the western part of the original West Park area.
FROM ROCKPORT TO WEST PARKby Ralph A. Pfingsten.
This is a long overdue source of information about the area. It will certainly be used to help develop this website. Hats off to Mr. Pfingsten and the John Marshal Alumni Association that published it. For more information logon the to the Kamm's Corners Development Corporation at http://www.kammscorners.com/historybook.html or go to The John Marshall High School Alumni Association
(Note that the above organizations are not affiliated with this site.)
This web site is maintained by the following:
Charles C. Chaney,
webmaster, and
Gary Swilik
who lives in West Park and does most of the active research.
Unless stated otherwise, most photographs were supplied by
Gary Swilik.