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Cleveland's East Side: Vice and Grit in the Roaring Third

Cleveland's East Side: Vice and Grit in the Roaring Third

Kaschalk, Thomas

Paperback

Series: True Crime

20th Century United States History21st Century United States HistoryRegional: Midwest

Publisher Price: $24.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date January 19, 2027

ISBN10: 1467171956
ISBN13: 9781467171953
Publisher: History Press
Published: Jan 19 2027
Pages: 192
Language: English

The story of Cleveland distilled in a single neighborhood--the Roaring Third.

A December 1926 Cleveland newspaper headline declared, 100 Police Mop Up 'Roaring Third'--and the nickname stuck. Cleveland's Third Police District, stretching across the near East Side, earned its reputation through decades of vice, violence, and relentless change. Immigrant families and later Great Migration arrivals built lives in overcrowded, aging homes. Freeways cut through the neighborhood. Suburban flight deepened the damage. Speakeasies, numbers rackets, and sex work thrived in the shadow of Millionaires' Row. Eliot Ness waged war on the East Side's vice and hunted the Torso Killer through its ravines. Don King ran numbers while his Corner Tavern drew crowds for legendary music. Carl Stokes rose from here to become the first Black mayor of a major American city. For all its danger and decay, this was home to those who endured, adapted, and never forgot.

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