The derelict Alhambra Theater, once a favored haunt of Bob Hope, could not survive the forces of suburbanization and urban disinvestment. If the Euclid-East 105th area called to mind the tawdriness of New York's Times Square in the 1970s, Cleveland's East Side could not leverage anything approximating the restoration of Times Square's theater district--or Cleveland's Playhouse Square, whose downtown location and grander theaters invited the kind of reinvestment that the riot-stricken eastern Hough area failed to match. The Alhambra met the wrecking ball in 1976, soon after this slide was made. The site is now home to the Ronald McDonald House. | Date: 1976 | Source: Cleveland State University. Special Collections. Cleveland Memory ProjectDownload Original File
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Cleveland State University. Special Collections. Cleveland Memory Project
