Lakewood rolled up the streets decades ago:
East Rockport (Lakewood), OH
http://www.lkwdpl.org/history/0.htmsource of article is Cleveland Plain Dealer
While the two burgs still were a stretch of country homes, I remember driving through there, turning on what must have been Warren Road, and continuing southwest through farms and woodlands.
Suddenly I reached old Rockport Driving Park that years ago stood at the northeast corner of Lorain Avenue and Riverside Drive. Its high-board fence, grand stand top and ticket windows were desolate, indeed, that late fall day, while the last leaves rustled in the nearby woods. Now that busy corner is occupied with business blocks: where once was the race track are streets and homes, but it retains the
name of Kamms Corners.
Driving through East Rockport and Rocky River in the late '70's you passed Highland Avenue, to come
to a toll house on the north side of the road. A quarter mile farther west was Dr. Richard Fry's home, with its 27 acres stretching to the lake. Henry Beach's fruit and vegetable farm was followed by Dr. Scott's, the Hunter, Allen and Kinney homes, and George Saal's Melrose House. Between that and the school lived the Whitehalls and Marshalls. From the schoolhouse, the Nicholson tract, one third mile wide,
crossed Detroit Road from the lake to Madison Avenue. The farm extended more than a mile, and through its
north half center ran what is still Nicholson Avenue. John Kidney built a residence at its west corner on
Detroit Road, and a fortnight ago I received a letter from his grandson, George E. Kidney of Ravenna, Oh.
