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This a photo of the intersection at Euclid and Huron taken in 1949.

This is a photo of pedestrians and a streetcar on Euclid Avenue.

Men and boys pose on a horse-drawn streetcar, part of the Brooklyn Line railway. The first horse-drawn streetcar route to Cleveland's west side was established in 1863. Electric-powered streetcars replaced horse-drawn ones by the final decades of the…

A streetcar on Superior Ave. during a snowstorm in 1913. Cleveland had a full network of electric-powered streetcars -replacing older, horse-drawn ones - in operation by the end of the nineteenth-century, but they soon declined in popularity with the…

A streetcar at East 22nd Street and Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio. Eelectric railways were first used in the city in the 1880s, and Cleveland soon had a dense network of intraurban rail lines. The rails, however, could not compete with the growth…

The lower level of the Detroit Superior Bridge once accommodated street cars that ran back and forth between the east and west sides of Cleveland. This level is closed today but is open twice annually for informational tours.

The Detroit-Superior Bridge is constructed, ca. 1915. Detroit Superior, also known today as the Veteran's Memorial Bridge, connects downtown with the west side. Opened on Thanksgiving Day in 1917, the two level bridge carried cars and pedestrian…

East 71st Street, circa 1920s.

Euclid Avenue after resurfacing. The photo is undated but may have been taken in the 1950s when defunct streetcar tracks were paved over. This is the 600 block of Euclid Avenue.

Automobiles to the right: cars and streetcars run side by side as the Detroit-Superior Bridge rises in the background. Known today as the Veteran's Memorial Bridge, it opened in 1917 and connects downtown with the west side. Cleveland’s…