Best Location in the Nation
From "Cleveland Caught in Long Decline" in the New York Times, 13 November 1978, pg. 1, cols.2-3: The best location in the nation" was the way the Cleveland Electric Illuminating…
Big Plum (“New York may be the Big Apple, but Cleveland’s a Plum”)
"New York may be the Big Apple, but Cleveland's a Plum" (occasionally, "The Big Plum") was meant to answer Cleveland's fiscal crisis in the 1970s, just as "the…
Forest City
"Forest City" was an early Cleveland nickname. It is seldom used today (if at all). 5 March 1851, Ohio Repository (Canton, Ohio), pg. 2?, col. 2:The Queen City and the Forest City -…
Full Cleveland (clothing term)
The "full Cleveland" is a dress suit that's very 1970s. The tacky term is sometimes applied to the city itself. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=full+cleveland full…
Mistake on the Lake
"Best Location in the Nation" was soon ridiculed with "Mistake by/on the Lake." This nickname was popular in CB slang in the 1970s, during Cleveland's fiscal crisis. These…