{"id":30604,"date":"2023-07-19T08:13:33","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T12:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=30604"},"modified":"2023-09-28T16:08:35","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T20:08:35","slug":"the-tour-guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/19\/the-tour-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"THE TOUR GUIDE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>I put<\/strong><\/span> up signs on the bulletin board at the downtown Y, offering tours of Cleveland. I was expecting some Danish girls. Maybe Dutch. (I got neither.) I checked out some other Cleveland tour companies. I went on a Grey Line bus tour. &#8220;Best water in America &#8212; Cleveland&#8217;s tap water!&#8221; the guide said. Good to know. I rode Lolly the Trolley. <\/p>\n<p>My itinerary of Cleveland was better than these guys. Roll a few bowling balls at that four-laner in Fleet-Broadway, followed by duck at John\u2019s Caf\u00e9 on E. 52nd Street. Visit the abandoned power plant in the Flats. (This was approximately 1975, amigos.) Explore the subway route under the Detroit-Superior bridge. Sniff unfiltered steel-mill air atop the scenic Clark Avenue bridge.<\/p>\n<p>No tourists came by. Not even one. Cleveland is not the greatest tourist town. Don&#8217;t blame me.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>Thirty-six<\/strong> <\/span>hours in Cleveland . . . The Rock Hall, Severance Hall, the art museum. And if you want to see the Roxy Burlesque and Jean&#8217;s Funny House, contact me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_30805\" style=\"width: 261px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30805\" class=\"wp-image-30805 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/roxy-burlesk-photo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"201\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30805\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Roxy on E. 9th Street, Cleveland. (It closed in 1977.)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I put up signs on the bulletin board at the downtown Y, offering tours of Cleveland. I was expecting some Danish girls. Maybe Dutch. (I got neither.) I checked out some other Cleveland tour companies. I went on a Grey Line bus tour. &#8220;Best water in America &#8212; Cleveland&#8217;s tap water!&#8221; the guide said. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cleveland-full"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30604"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30840,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30604\/revisions\/30840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}