Thu 2/12 @ 7PM
Former Plain Dealer editor/writer Laura DeMarco has long had a serious interest in history, especially Cleveland history. It’s led to a series of books on the vanished past and its lingering remnants and artifacts. She’s the author of Lost Cleveland, Cleveland Then and Now, Mark Twain’s America Then and Now and Lost Civil War.
This week at the Music Box Supper Club, she’ll be talking about Lost Cleveland as part of the Cleveland Stories storytelling series. She’ll be sharing photos as she talks about some of the city’s once beloved landmarks that are now gone — places such as Leo’s Casino, which hosted all the soul/R&B greats of the 60s; the old Cleveland Arena where wrestling cards took place in the ’60s; and Luna Park, an amusement park on the corner of Woodhill and Woodland that closed in 1929 — and how some parts of the city have been reinvented, or not. The program, which is free, starts at 7pm. Doors open at 5pm for dinner; table reservations are required. Go here.