By the 1960s, the New Amsterdam was showing its age. It stood in the midst of a downtown fringe area then known for its mix of bars, lunch counters, flophouses, and parts supply stores, and was only a block away from Prospect Avenue which was a notorious "skid row" at the time. | Source: Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special CollectionsDownload Original File
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Cleveland Memory Project, Cleveland State University Library Special Collections
