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Solon, Ohio is located about 18 mile south east of Cleveland and was ranked the 42nd bets place to live in 2005 by Money magazine. I had worked in Solon for 5 years and loved the city. The schools are great and was ranked as on of the top 75 schools in 2001 by Newsweek magazine and is still up and coming. There is lots of shopping with two of my favorite store being the Talbots Outlet for you ladies and the Mustard Seed Market. The Mustard Seed is a great place to shop and eat with their organic and vegitarian selections and the have a wonderful cafe upstairs that has all you can eat crab legs on Friday nights. You must also try the Carrot cake, the best. I bought that as my wedding cake from them. Solon is also looking to build some new shopping in the area will make the city bigger and better. Solon has also produced some great people such as Kim Herring, Former NFL safety, Cincinnati Bengals and Drew Carter NFL wide receiver, Oakland Raiders. Both where members of the Solon Comets foot ball club. If you want to see some good High School football come to Solon for one of their home games it is a sight to see. The people of Solon love their football.

Euclid Heights Blvd. is the street that Dr. Sam Shepard grew up on. Most people know him as the doctor that was convicted of killing his wife Marilyn in the 1950's. This story has been featured in many books and on TruTv on many occassions. If some of you crime buffs are in the Cleveland area you must check this out.
This is a very prestigious neighborhood that is quite, but has so much history

East Blvd, I the one place you can go in Cleveland and get culture on just one street. You can visit the Natural History Museum, The Institue of Music, Western Reserve Historical Museum, Cleveland Botanical Gardens and the Cleveland Art Institute all on East Blvd. You have to pay to see these things but they some time have specials and free days, You just have to keep looking to see when they have those special. This is an excellent place for families to spend the day.

This area is awsome if you are Italian or just would like to get a little taste of Italy. This street has lots and is called Little Italy with great cannollis and great food you can not go wrong. If you want some awsome food try Gusto! around the corner on Mayfield Rd and If you want to get a feel for the area come here in August for the Feast of the Assumption. They have parades, food, costumes, and church services. It is just a sight to see and it is free to show up but it costs to eat and try the food. A must do if you are in the area in August.

East 4th Street use to be a dangerous street dark with lots of pawn shops and then Cleveland took over and revamped the whole street and made it a safe happining place. East 4th is a short walking distance to Tower City and Progressive Field. East 4th now is a party street there is a bowling alley that is very modern and state of the art called The Corner Alley and Grill. The address is actually Euclid but it is on the corner of Euclid and 4th. Then there is Pickwick and Frolics/ Hilarities Comedy Club. These are in one building and you can spend thew whole night there. East dinner, go see a show and then go to there lounge for drinks a must see. Also, on the other corner of 4th and Euclid is House of Blues with awsome shows, the resturant enterance is on 4th and the show enterance is on Euclid. The really cool thing is the street is really well lit and the make it hard for car to get down so you are not dodging many cars for that reason. Must do in town

Canal Rd use to be just fields and farms and now it has grown to a Wednesday hang out. With Quaker Steak and Lube in the valley now things are crazy there for Classic Car night every Monday and every Wednesday bike night. The wings are good and the company is great, there is also a movie theater and a little famers market that is fun named Foote's, I use to go there all the time when I was little so if you want t take a walk and see some classics and get some good wing Check it out on one of there even nights you will meet lots of people and maybe see some one you have not seen in a long time if you are from Ohio.

Brookpark road has its nice places and its bad places. Brook park Rd is the street that goes by Cleveland Hopkins Airport and has a great resturaunt called the 100th Bombers Group. It has great food and a wonderful atmospher and you can see the planes taking off and go dancing at the club they have inside at night. But getting there could be really nasty because Brookpark Rd if filled with lots of nudy bars and adult book stores so if you can avoid that area of road from about west 130th to I 77 you will be in good shape.

East 9th is the street that if you want to see it all. You can pick up east 9th right off of 77 and it takes you right through down town to Lake Erie. While passing lots of Cleveland landmarks such as, Progressive Field, Paninni's Bar ( which has rocking sandwiches), The Galleria at Erie View, The Rock Hall, Great lakes Science Center and the free stamp. Once at the end you can talk a walk, jump on the Rapid to see the rest of the town or take a ride on the Goodtime 3. You can not go wrong if you start at one end of East 9th and go to the other end.

If you are visiting the West Side of Cleveland you must stop and pay a visit to Lorain and West 25th and go to the West Side Market it is open mon : 7 - 4 wed : 7 - 4 fri : 7 - 6 sat : 7 - 6
and there are many stores to visit like Ohh Fudge and Grandma Freda's Baked Goods. Get there early so you get the first fresh pick of the goods and it get crowded on the weekends. This place is a has been a Cleveland land mark since 1840. A must see!!!

Rock side Road is a wonderful road to know about in the Cleveland area because there is so much to do on this street from shopping, good eats like Aladdins and Winking Lizard in Independance to shopping for a car in Bedford. But on of the best thiongs about this road is that it runs side by side to 480 and if traffic is bad you can get ooff the interstate and drive from Bedford Hts all the way to the airport on this street. At Broadview Rd in Seven Hills the name changes to Snow Road but it is a good thing to know with the Valley View bridge back ups around rush hour.

If you like the theater scene, Euclid Ave is the place to be there are several theaters on Euclid Ave. They show wonderful shows from Rent to Barry Manilow at one of the theaters Cleveland Play House is a bit down the road but Ohio Theater, State Theater and Palace are all with in walking distance from each other. If you want to get a bit to eat before or after the show there are many placed to do that such as Acappella Restaurant italian resturant and a Starbucks nearby.

Twinsburg is located about 20 miles southeast of Cleveland, Ohio and about 20 miles northeast of Akron, Ohio. Twinsburg is very centrally located between two big cities with lots to do. I have live in Twinsburg for 27 years and just recently moved because of my husbands job.

Twinsburg has a wonderful school system with a new high school that was built and opened in 1999 that is a state of the art school with the top of the line computer equipment with about 4,000 students.

Twinsburg is also the home of the worlds largest twins gathering in the world and is in the Guinness Book of World Record for it. The Twins Days Festival started in 1974 and is every summer on the first weekend of August. The festival has had over 2,000 sets of twins in attendance over the course of the weekend.

Twinsburg is not to good with the night life but has some good eats with Blue Canyon Resturaunt and Beef O' Brady's. I highly reccommend Blue Canyon, very tasty.

Twinsburg is also the home town of Dan Miller of O'Town and James Posey of the Boston Celtic.

Twinsburg is a small town but if you come to visit the first weekend of August you will not be disappointed.