Starting on this day, November 15, 1968, you could take rapid transit from downtown Cleveland to the airport.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_15

• 1968 – The Cleveland Transit System becomes the first transit system in the western hemisphere to provide direct rapid transit service from a city's downtown to its major airport.

How could that have taken this long?

Tue Nov 15, 2022: Beginning November 15, 1968, you could take rapid transit from downtown Cleveland to the airport.

Mon Nov 15, 2021: Beginning November 15, 1968, you could take rapid transit from downtown Cleveland to the airport.

[likesmountains 52]

1. We lived outside of Cleveland in the mid to late 50s. We would take the "rabbit transit" downtown

to go shopping at all the big department stores. I think I was a teenager before i realized it was rapid, not rabbit!

[Backseat Driver]

2. Me too! Living in a close East Side burb, we'd ride "down the hill" to Euclid Ave, then use a transfer.

to access the slurred "rabid transit" from that East Side bus hub extension route at Windermere Station, where there was also some all-day car parking in case you chose to skip the bus, to the Terminal Tower and, eventually, beyond to the West Side airport in Brookpark. Think I did that at least a couple times just to look out the windows of the newly opened tracks, try out the new "people mover" conveyors at the airport, then ride back. I was all grown up before my first airline flight. Could also access the "rabid transit" by suburban connecting bus line(s) via the University Circle stop. Private Trailways also ran a commuter bus line into downtown Cleveland in the morning and back at the end of the work day that bypassed the RTA rail service via Euclid Ave/Mentor Ave (Rt. 2/20) into Lake County back in the day.

[likesmountains 52]

3. Your memories are much more detailed than mine. I do remember getting dressed up and going out to dinner at the airport

Back in the day, I guess Cleveland-Hopkins airport was a dinner destination. We were in North Olmstead.

[Backseat Driver]

4. Lived East Side, a single mile from Cleveland proper, from the time I was

about 2 years old until I married and we moved to a small nearby Cuyahoga County apartment and then to a Lake County condo two years later. Both of our folks and my brother never left their respective first home. I graduated from public schools and the community college in Dayon; DH graduated from Collinwood HS and graduated from an 18-month IT "corporate" education program in downtown Cleveland before there was such a thing as community college in town. There he learned COBOL but shuffled a punch card/tape system at Cleveland City Hall before he got his GREETINGS! letter from the Army.