Chronic Illness Recovery-One Step At a Time
5 years ago
Friday, March 16, 2007
"a cool place for shady people"
When we rolled out of Gypsy Beans last night after our MeetTheBloggers talk with Professor Kathleen Engel (a really good one, by the way, so watch for it), Gloria and I decided to head up 65th Street towards the lake to see a place that she remembered from her teaching days, and we found it, over on West 58th, overlooking the lake and the freeway: The Parkview Nite Club. It's a really comfortable, cool place with lots of room, lots of things on the walls, TVs, projection screens, and a history of hosting good bands and good music. The food was most excellent, too, and we ate a lot--killer chili (the best I've had in a while), a great juicy burger, pulled pork, fries, chips, cole slaw--and got out for $25, tip included. We'll be back. We're liking what's going on up around Detroit and 65th.
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Parkview is a cool place - I live a few blocks away and love the area, even with all the murders. I was there for an all day Reggae "brunch" a few weeks ago and it was packed and great. I took East Cleveland CIO Abu Alli to Happy Dog today around happy hour and he was really impressed... many terrific spots in my neighborhood... Abu and I were talking about how East Cleveland can be like that.
ReplyDeleteNorm, I thought you were over in Ohio City--shows how good my intelligence reports are. One thing the area has going for it is Matt Zone and his heritage approach. Also, Ray Pianka, the housing court judge, lives just below 65th, and the same order of priests who also serve at Saint Rocco's brought business sense and balance to the area many years ago.
ReplyDeleteUsed to live on 60th - now up at 45th but its all one walkable neighborhood, which is why it works so well and will work so well forever. CPT is what really brought it around - props to Levin.
ReplyDeleteI forgot to include James Levin in the area's benefactors, and he is certainly one of the most major ones. I guess I forgot him because he's so closely integrated and so unassuming--as a matter of fact, we had run into him on our way out of Gypsy Beans on our way over to the Parkview, and we talked of how this year's Ingenuity Festival is now economic development and not just arts and crafts. I'm reading Toffler's latest, Revolutionary Wealth, and there are a lot of ideas in it that mirror our stages here.
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