Ohio

My Dad grew up in Cleveland and we lived an hour away, but he told so many stories and we went there for games and shopping enough that I felt like I knew what was what pretty well.

I too remember Halle’s department store. I remember those vacuum tubes the clerks used to send your payment to the office.

When my dad would bring us into downtown for Indians games, my 8-year-old self used to love gazing at the beautiful old English Tudor mansions in Shaker Heights. To me each one looked like a castle.

Those telegrams and memorabilia you have are really something special, birdographer.