by Erik Weber | Jun 1, 2018 | 1913 + Earlier: Before Beachwood, 1914-1919: Early Beachwood, 1920-1929: Roaring Twenties, 1930-1939: Great Depression, 1940-1945: World War II, 1946-1959: Postwar + Parkway Boom, 1960-1969: Space Age + Spaced Out, 1970-1979: Protest to Punk Rock, 1980-1992: Electronic Age, 1993-2000: WWW + New Century, 2001-2020: Terror Panic to Pandemic
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by Erik Weber | Jun 1, 2018 | 1913 + Earlier: Before Beachwood, 1914-1919: Early Beachwood
The text below has been taken straight from William Mill Butler’s Beachwood Directory and Who’s Who, 1924. Life Work of the Founder of Beachwood Bertram Chapman Mayo, son of Noah and Eveline R. Mayo, was born March 23rd, 1865, in Boston,...
by Erik Weber | Jun 1, 2018 | 1913 + Earlier: Before Beachwood, 1914-1919: Early Beachwood
The following was created for local elementary and middle school students interested in the town’s history and/or needing a subject for a class report. Over 100 years ago, in 1913, a man named Bertram C. Mayo traveled all the way to California to meet an old...
by Erik Weber | Jan 1, 1913 | 1913 + Earlier: Before Beachwood
Bertram Chapman (B.C.) Mayo (middle) traveled to Los Angeles, California, where Addison Doane (A.D.) Nickerson (left) was staying with his family at 142 North Kingsley Drive, to propose the newspaper-backed promotion resort development that would become...
