Abstract
In this 2025 interview, Dan Shields discusses his early life growing up in the Union-Miles neighborhood. He retells the story of his Polish and Irish family arriving in Cleveland in the 1800s, and discusses his parents’ and grandparents’ experiences living along Union Avenue and Broadway Avenue: his grandfather worked at the steel mill in the area. Shields describes his childhood in the neighborhood: specifically memories from Garfield Park and Calvary Cemetery. He talks fondly of his paper route and how it gave him a greater understanding of his community. Shields describes the racial changes that the area saw in the 1960s and how these changes impacted his life. He discusses the neighborhood in the present-day and his hopes for its future.
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Interviewee
Shields, Dan (interviewee)
Interviewer
Carubia, Ava (interviewer)
Project
Union-Miles
Date
10-10-2025
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
43 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Dan Shields interview, 10 October 2025" (2025). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 483028.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/1421
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