Don-
Here are the old Cleveland Circles near the end of one of the Hopkins Airport runways. I lived here twenty years unaware of the CL activity and of these circles, but the older members of the North Coast bunch remember them well, one of the nearer ones having been nicknamed the "Werwage Circle". Now I use this image each month in our newsletter as a memorial to a time when the city encouraged model aviation by furnishing this wonderful facility and through Charles Tracy's Press column, the civic leaders and business pitching in to promote the Junior Air races, and apparently much else. The second image, from an American Modeler cover, says it all about those times. I discovered CL people in Cleveland just after the nefarious mayors White (Cleveland) and Coyne (Brook Park) conspired to bulldoze the field in a trade that allowed a lengthened runway and planted a now empty office building right where these circles were. I never got to see them. Fortunately our three grass circles further south in Berea are pleasant places to meet and fly, but the speed guys who owned so many records have moved on.
SK