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1936-1937 Great Lakes Exposition aerial photo.

View of Burke Lakefront Airport along Lake Erie in Cleveland.

This Plain Dealer cartoon proudly demonstrates the city's use of a former dump as the site of the Great Lakes Exposition.

This 1942 map shows the lakefront in downtown Cleveland. The empty land to the east of Municipal Stadium was the site of the Great Lakes Exposition in 1936 and 1937, but plans to create permanent lakefront recreational areas after the expo did not…

This image of the 1936 Great Lakes Exposition grounds is from the official souvenir book. The expo ran for two seasons, 1936 and 1937, along the Lake Erie shoreline just north of downtown Cleveland.

Cartoon depicting the plans to build a canal from Lake Erie to Rochester, Pennsylvania. The canal has never been built and the cartoon shows some problems with the project.

Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport built in 1948 is in downtown and situated along Lake Erie. The airport was named after Thomas Burke who was mayor of Cleveland from 1945-1953.

Downtown Cleveland in 1942, as shown in the Mountcastle "Official Street Atlas of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County."

Official map of expo grounds and attractions included in the 1936 "Official View Book," a souvenir book that included photographs of many of the attractions at the expo.

This plat map from the G.M. Hopkins company shows the Cleveland lakefront in 1932. Note: the Aquacade stage from the 1937 Great Lakes Exposition is an addendum to the map, but none of the other Expo buildings are included.

G.M. Hopkins &…