HISTORIC GREAT DEPRESSION PROJECT - GLENDALE STEPS - AKRON , OHIO

Hey guys, I'm at the Glendale Steps in Akron, Ohio, built in 1936 to 37. These were a public works project and they were built to connect two neighborhoods that are separated by this giant hill and they actually look pretty intimidating. It's a historical marker site. So yeah, let's go walk around and see if we can find it. So here it is, the Glendale Steps marker built over a two-year period from 1936 to 1937 by the Federal Works Progress Administration. The Glendale Steps survive as a monument to the work of stone craftsmen during the Great Depression. Spanning a 200-foot slope, the purpose of the Glendale Steps was to enable Akron residents to descend from South Walnut Street to a city park along Glendale Avenue. The 242 sandstone steps were dressed on site and hand laid by WPA laborers at a cost of $22,000. Depression-era budget problems prevented the city of Akron from completing planned improvements to the park. So this is not done, but yeah, look how just one of those projects to create jobs during the Great Depression. Looking at them actually is, it almost scares me even though I I'm not really afraid of heights, but like, I don't know, there's something intimidating looking about these steps. Oh wow, oh they're full of weeds and vines. Oh there's like a, is there a mural on there or is that graffiti? It's kind of hard to tell. Whoa, I don't know if at one point you would have been able to walk through that. Some kind of protest going on in downtown Akron today. We just drove by it. I do not know what it's about, but I was like, oh that is too many people for me. I'd rather be like alone on the steps. They all suck. Wow. I don't think anybody even uses these steps. They were supposed to, they're supposed to integrate the neighborhoods, but I don't even think that ever happened. Like, I mean people visit to for the historical thing, but as far as like, do people use it for the neighborhood? I don't really think they do. Wow, and this is the, this is the top. So they have a little design on this one. It's faded, but it's pretty cool. I was surprised. I kind of thought there would be designs on more of this, but that's the view. This is a nice, that's amazing, nice brick road. Wow. It appears that someone did use the steps. Who? OLHQ. Who the hell is that? Torrell HQ? Ohio Looker. Oh, Ohio Looker. Okay, so now we got to go down. 90 years old. They're in pretty good shape still. I think that they should paint a nice mural over this or just, or just paint over it because, I mean come on, this is a historical marker site. Just, you know, it would be better if there wasn't graffiti here. Covered in vines. There's Akron, the skyscrapers. Now we're at the bottom again. That's the best view. All right, and that will complete my look at the Glendale Steps in Akron. I hope you guys enjoyed this and I'll see you on the next video.