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Subject: Re: Cleveland Posted on: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 00:14:57 CDT

jchase wrote:

> JLamm wrote:
>
>> Thanks very much for those with advice. Most hotels were full. We
>> picked the
>> Hyatt.
>>
>> Cleveland's a great city, which is something a lot of folks who actually
>> travel there have figured out. That's why all the hotels are full.
>>
>> Cleveland jokes were last big when Johnny Carson was on every night.

> ...and the river only caught fire once (it was actually a fairly
> localized oil slick from an accidental release). I still wouldn't swim
> in the lower Cuyahoga, but I wouldn't swim in the lower Hudson either.

As I remember the impressive thing wasn't the river catching fire but
that it managed to burn a bridge over the river when it did. But hey
that was only the flats in the old days.