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Jim Ptacek "Central Market" Lithograph

  Lot # 021
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22 1/2" x 16" Print
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Lot # 021
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 Jim Ptacek "Central Market" Lithograph Print. Hand Signature & Print Signature at bottom right. This is taken from the artist's 1989 International Printing Calendar. 

Opening in 1856, the publicly owned Central Market near Ontario Street and Carnegie Avenue served a huge, mostly immigrant population living near or around the area. Central Market was only one of several competing entities until 1891 when the privately owned Sheriff Street Market at Bolivar Street and Huron Road just one block north competed with Central Market and then when the West Side Market opened in 1912. In December, 1949, Central Market went up in flames due to a gas leak. Within six months, on March 24, 1950,  a new six-story Central Market opened at East 4th Street between Bolivar and Huron which is where the Arena now stands. In the 1980's due to loss of business due to mass migration to the suburbs, huge electric and steam heat bills and it was time to pull the proverbial plug in the 1990's. Cleveland commissioners agreed to remove the New Central Market and build a massive sports complex on the land.