“At Willoughby, twenty miles east of Cleveland, Mr. Bleasdale, Mr. Charles Carpenter and a group of reporters eagerly awaited our arrival. How long had they been there?…An interesting innovation in Cleveland was the brick street paving on Euclid Avenue. In the East we were accustomed to the use of brick in the building of houses, but we had never before seen it used for road surfaces.”

Excerpted from the book “Veil, Duster and Tire Iron” by Alice Huyler Ramsey (1961).