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Cleveland Curiosities
Eliot Ness might come busting in and take all of you crooks to jail—or more likely he won’t, even if you’ve been robbing banks all over Cleveland and bragging about it to the media, like self-proclaimed “last of the big-time bank robbers” Eddie Watkins. This isn’t your Kevin Costner version of Eliot Ness, and this isn’t your standard collection of Cleveland eccentrics. Join author Ted Schwarz on this romp celebrating bizarre misdeeds and noteworthy accomplishments of Clevelanders large and small. Learn of the burlesque star who created the striptease and the con woman who claimed to be Andrew Carnegie’s illegitimate daughter. Get to know present-day street musician Maurice Reedus Jr. and the remaining cast of loving souls, offbeat characters and one-of-a-kind Clevelanders.
131 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 3, 2010
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June 3, 2020
Non-fiction. Short essays about people who lived in Cleveland. The book includes Eliot Ness (who knew he was a drunk driver who did a hit-skip?), a burlesque queen, and the “sax man” who spent most of his career playing on downtown street corners. An interesting book but not particularly well-written or edited. Note: of the eight essays, only the sax man was born in Cleveland; the others only passed through or lived here for a short while.
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