View from the plant toward the old bridge into Cuyahoga Falls.
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Ohio Edison (Gorge) Plant pre 1945 (or so the photos say)
View from the plant toward the old bridge into Cuyahoga Falls.
View from the plant toward the old bridge into Cuyahoga Falls.
Wow, what memories… thank you so much. At 9 months of age my family moved with me and two siblings to Cuyahoga Falls, in about Sept. 1944. We rented an apartment on Front St, where we grew up. In fact, our place was directly across the street from Prospect St., where the old High Glens Bridge Park was. I have crawled and climbed virtually every inch of that river from Broad Blvd all the way to the old “High Level Bridge” (State Rd bridge) on BOTH sides. There were sights never to be seen again on the east side of the river, from the American Legion on south where horizontal crevices that went deep into the rock on the east side. Stalagtites and Stalagmites were visible, but not accessible, even as small as we were then. An earthquake 20-30 years ago caved in that part of the cliff. Wow, thanks again….
Bill
Thanks for sharing your memories. I, too, grew up on Front Street – across from the American Legion. I spent many years playing along the Glens Trail. I’m not quite sure how I survived looking at that trail now 🙂
William Crawford’s comments are my childhood too. I grew up around Front and Sackett in the 50’s. Like he says we roamed up and down the trails on the river from there to State Road. Did a lot of death defying cliff climbing too.
I went back to the Gorge a couple of years ago after many years. I was shocked at how they have let it go to pot.
My parents married and rented an apartment right where Mr. Crawford says that he lived. I was born in 1941, just before Pearl Harbor. During the war, around 1944, my parents bought a house on 15th street. My first memories are at that house. Which cost $12,500. So many memories. During the war, the scrap drives recovered the rails from the NOTL to make tanks and battleships.