It’s the 80th anniversary for Dickey’s Lanes (3275 W 25th St.)!
Dickey’s Lanes has been “Bringing Beer and Bowling to Cleveland since 1946.”
Don’t forget Dickey’s is open at 1:00pm on Saturdays and Sundays–and stays open until they run out of bowlers.
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On Saturday, our Morning Crew at Civilization was enjoying a beautiful morning in Tremont.
by Bruce Checefsky
Tremont Functional Rehab and Health Collaborative at 2401 Scranton Road began with Dr. Alex Frantzis, a chiropractic physician, and Dr. David Perse, a general surgeon who had the idea of combining their practices in a single site to handle chiropractic, physical therapy, and general surgical needs.
The collaborative believes it has recently realized its original vision with the addition of Dr. Joy Marshall’s general practice.
Bruce Checefsky, a writer for both Plain Press and The Tremonster, interviewed Dr. Joy Marshall in the Tremont neighborhood for an in-depth story. The following is a joint report published in The Tremonster, Plain Press, and La Villa CLE.
Dr. Joy Marshall, from Cleveland Heights, attended medical school at the age of 36. By most standards, starting medical school at that age can be a significant challenge. Before then, while supporting her two children on welfare, she earned income in the local restaurant scene. Married at eighteen, she lived in Oaxaca, Mexico, for a year.
Returning to Cleveland, she and her husband started a restaurant in University Circle called Fantomas (now L’Albatros). Two children later, they ended up divorced and she began working as a barmaid and specials cook at Nighttown on Cedar Road.
One day, the president of Case Western Reserve University, Louis A. Toepfer (presidency years 1970–1980), came to lunch as he often did and struck up a conversation with Marshall. He asked her what she was doing with her life. “I know it sounds ridiculous,” she told Toepfer, “but I want to try to go to medical school and I am thinking about doing the undergraduate work at Cleveland State.” He told her, “We have a nice little university down the hill (CWRU).”
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The Tremonster, Plain Press, and La Villa Cleveland will host a community-media-only roundtable interviewing candidates for Ward 7 (Austin N. Davis, Mohammad Faraj, and Mike Rogalski) and we want to hear from you.
Submit your candidate question at bit.ly/Ward7CLE by Monday, July 14th, at 3:00pm.
Your voice can help shape the conversation.
Tim Herron and participant Duane Dickson spoke with The Tremonster when we stopped in on The Pretentious Cleveland Portrait Artists for their 20th anniversary during a regularly scheduled portrait artist and model break.
by Timothy Herron and Brian Pierce
In June/July we will be our 20th year, beginning in 2005 in the back of a small bar in the Tremont area of Cleveland called the Literary Café, which was run by Andy Timithy and Linda Baldizzi. Brian Pierce and I just wanted steady practice drawing portraits and offered the patrons our drawings in exchange for posing in order to save some money and not toss the drawing in the basement or closet. Overhearing a fellow patron explain to his friend in a private conversation that Tremont was filled with pretentious artists provided us with a name for our drawing group.
Continue reading‘I expect we will face this uncertainty, time and time again, until eventually it does not end in our favor.’
by The Tremonster
Tremont West Development Corporation held its annual meeting on Thursday, May 15. The buffet dinner supplied by Cilantro Taqueria was outstanding, votes were cast for a slate of Tremont West board candidates, and there was the comfort of annual routines like scanning the room for your block club table sign. But in her Director’s Report for the Tremont West 2025 Annual Meeting, Julie Dahlhausen sounded an alarm.
“Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funding continues to be Tremont West’s most significant and vital source of support. For months, our team has carried the heavy concern that these funds could be reduced—or eliminated entirely,” she said. “Such a loss would result in substantial cuts to our programs and to our staff.”
Continue readingRoosevelt Post 58 has a new home in the American Legion (Post 627, 3935 E. 42nd St.), Newburgh Heights.
The longtime Tremont institution, the Polish Legion of American Veterans Roosevelt Post 58, sold its Tremont building and closed its doors in December of 2022.
“Ever since we sold that building two years ago, we’ve been looking for a place we could call ‘home.’ We finally found it,” said Terry Zacharyj, Post 58 Commander.
Continue readingKeri November held a reunion of friends and students from her ongoing 8-week American Sign Language class, held at the Cleveland Public Library (CPL) Jefferson Branch semi-annually.
Below is a 2022 article submission to The Tremonster from Keri November describing the class and her own journey as a deaf person, finding her way to Tremont, and her American Sign Language class offering.
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Dave Witzke, aka The Sign Guy, is the muralist who paints bird and cat murals (and stickers) all over Tremont. Luke Purcell is part-owner and brewmaster of Collision Bend Brewing Company. They have collaborated to create a new beer for Collision Bend’s “artist series,” transforming one of Dave’s murals into a beer can. Natasha Pogrebinsky is a celebrated Cleveland chef, reporting for The Tremonster. The original painting for the design for the Collision Bend beer can art work will be sold to the highest bidder. Proceeds will be donated to the Cleveland APL. Search “The_Sign_Guy_1972” on Instagram for updates.
