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mahatmakanejeeves

(61,608 posts) Wed Nov 15, 2023, 09:34 AM Nov 2023

Starting on this day, November 15, 1968, you could take rapid transit from downtown Cleveland to the airport.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_15

• 1968 – The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.

How could that have taken this long?

Tue Nov 15, 2022: Beginning November 15, 1968, you could take rapid transit from downtown Cleveland to the airport.

Mon Nov 15, 2021: Beginning November 15, 1968, you could take rapid transit from downtown Cleveland to the airport.

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Starting on this day, November 15, 1968, you could take rapid transit from downtown Cleveland to the airport. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2023 OP

We lived outside of Cleveland in the mid to late 50s. We would take the "rabbit transit" downtown likesmountains 52 Nov 2023 #1

Me too! Living in a close East Side burb, we'd ride "down the hill" to Euclid Ave, then use a transfer. Backseat Driver Nov 2023 #2

Your memories are much more detailed than mine. I do remember getting dressed up and going out to dinner at the airport likesmountains 52 Nov 2023 #3

Lived East Side, a single mile from Cleveland proper, from the time I was Backseat Driver Nov 2023 #4

likesmountains 52

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1. We lived outside of Cleveland in the mid to late 50s. We would take the "rabbit transit" downtown

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 09:41 AM

Nov 2023

to go shopping at all the big department stores. I think I was a teenager before i realized it was rapid, not rabbit!

Backseat Driver

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2. Me too! Living in a close East Side burb, we'd ride "down the hill" to Euclid Ave, then use a transfer.

Reply to likesmountains 52 (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 11:16 AM

Nov 2023

to access the slurred "rabid transit" from that East Side bus hub extension route at Windermere Station, where there was also some all-day car parking in case you chose to skip the bus, to the Terminal Tower and, eventually, beyond to the West Side airport in Brookpark. Think I did that at least a couple times just to look out the windows of the newly opened tracks, try out the new "people mover" conveyors at the airport, then ride back. I was all grown up before my first airline flight. Could also access the "rabid transit" by suburban connecting bus line(s) via the University Circle stop. Private Trailways also ran a commuter bus line into downtown Cleveland in the morning and back at the end of the work day that bypassed the RTA rail service via Euclid Ave/Mentor Ave (Rt. 2/20) into Lake County back in the day.

likesmountains 52

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3. Your memories are much more detailed than mine. I do remember getting dressed up and going out to dinner at the airport

Reply to Backseat Driver (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 12:09 PM

Nov 2023

Back in the day, I guess Cleveland-Hopkins airport was a dinner destination. We were in North Olmstead.

Backseat Driver

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4. Lived East Side, a single mile from Cleveland proper, from the time I was

Reply to Backseat Driver (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 15, 2023, 05:49 PM

Nov 2023

about 2 years old until I married and we moved to a small nearby Cuyahoga County apartment and then to a Lake County condo two years later. Both of our folks and my brother never left their respective first home. I graduated from public schools and the community college in Dayon; DH graduated from Collinwood HS and graduated from an 18-month IT "corporate" education program in downtown Cleveland before there was such a thing as community college in town. There he learned COBOL but shuffled a punch card/tape system at Cleveland City Hall before he got his GREETINGS! letter from the Army.

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