Code,911054
Subject,Clara Rankin
Date,4/12/11
Interviewer,Mark Souther and Mary Dunbar
Abstract,Clara Rankin describes growing up on Fairmount Boulevard and recalls events from her childhood in Cleveland Heights. 
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Special Notes,Phone rings at 29:25.
Minutes: ,48 minutes
0,Tells how she came to Fairmount Blvd. Came to Fairmount at 11 months old in 1918. 
1,Recalls having fun in the house and exploring the gardens and the woods behind the house. 
2,Line of trees having to do with the Shaker settlement was visible on the property. 
3,Walked through the neighborhood all the time. Would walk to Taplins to see the electric car in the 1920s. 
4,Describes people she would visit on afternoon walks and recalls people that lived in the neighborhood. 
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6,People began developing property farther east. 
7,Would take the streetcar near Fairmount-Cedar and visit Miller Drug. 
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9,Attended Hathaway Brown. 
10,Homes in the neighborhood have accommodations for live-in help. 
11,Rankin grew up with live-in help. Chauffeur lived above the garage. 
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13,"Went to dancing school at Wade Park Manor. Hathaway Brown was located where the Cleveland Clinic is today, moved when she was in 5th grade. "
14,Would go to movie houses on 105th and Euclid. 
15,Mother would go to the 105th Street market where they would kill a live chicken right there. 
16,"Rode bikes a lot down trails- Lee Rd., South Park, and North Park. "
17,Describes popcorn man that would park at North Park where it crosses sloping road between the lakes. 
18,Italian women would come to front door to ask to take dandelions. Recalls ice man that would deliver and place ice in the ice chest. 
19,"Went downtown for major entertainment at the Cleveland Auditorium, the Hanna Theater, the Masonic Auditorium."
20,Shopped at Halley's. Recalls shopping at boutiques for women downtown. 
21,Describes how she and her siblings would practice music. 
22,Ballroom was a perfect play place. 
23,North Shaker Lake was considered dangerous in the winter. Mother's father would get seed supplies from the Shaker community. 
24,"Mother was interested in the Russell burial place and the development of the Shaker Historical Society. South Park was paved, but North Park was still a dirt road. Eventually paved when she was 16 and had her first driving lesson. "
25,"Family doctor took her out to drive for the first time. Father drove with her too, and she took too sharp a turn on Fairmount going into the driveway and scratched the car on a boulder on the corner of the driveway. Father had Packard's and a Pierce Arrow.  "
26,Given a 4-door convertible Buick when she could drive. 
27,Chauffer lived with the family through the 1930s. Mother rented it out after. Didn't take the streetcar often. 
28,Describes when she took the streetcar by herself when she was 8. 
29,Spent a lot of time playing in the backyard. Waded in a decorative pool- describes garden behind the house. 
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33,"Describes the gardener, George. Would play in the sprinkler and with puppies. "
34,Mother attended the Christian Science Church on Overlook. Describes when the church was built. 
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36,Went to Corner and Wood downtown to get books and Sam Borton had antiques upstairs. Borton moved onto Cedar Fairmount.  Went to Damon's Restaurant. 
37,Mother might have called Chandler and Rudd for groceries. McNally Doyle catered Rankin's wedding and made candies. 
38,Doesn't recall Coventry being commercial district the way it is today. 
39,Everyone went to Edmonson for photography- photographed wedding.
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