Book Title: My Recollections of Old Cleveland

Book Description

My Recollections of Old Cleveland is a first person account of Cleveland’s gilded age by Warren Wick who lived it.  My Recollections begins with a brief history of the Wick family coming to Cleveland from Youngstown by wagon in 1847 at a time before there were trains along with the role Wick banking interests played in Cleveland’s growing prosperity.  A section on Mansions is  walking tour of houses on Millionaires Row as the tree lined, park like Euclid Avenue was called. It is hard to believe a time when some homes on Euclid Avenue had 100 rooms, some could seat 50 for dinner, and almost every home had a ballroom until one realizes John D. Rockefeller lived just up the street from where the author grew up.

My Recollections with sections on social Manners of the day, Mischief as only young boys could invent, Membership in exclusive clubs many of which no longer exist, Migrations to summer enclaves on a very clean, swimmable Lake Erie, and Memories about others who lived this charmed life, makes this book replete with pictures a treasure and delight.