If you were looking for gambling action in Northeast Ohio in the years leading up to World War II, you had no shortage of opportunities. The most well-known was the Harvard Club, on the street of the same name in Newburgh Heights. Not even a raid by new Cleveland Public Safety Director Eliot Ness could keep the place out of business. Lake County had the Mounds Club, Geauga County had the Pettibone Club and Trumbull County had the Jungle Inn. On Jan. 22, 1938, that number was one less, as Cleveland police raided the Monticello Club on Euclid Avenue. The club consisted of three rooms on the second floor of what was then the Lake Theater, including an “ultra-modern cocktail bar,” as the Plain Dealer described it. Police ended up confiscating nine slot machines, for five-, 10- and 25-cent plays, and an indeterminate amount of gambling tables. 🔗 Click the link in our bio for the full read. ✒ vguerrieri 📸 cle_state #cleveland #cle #history #coolfacts #euclid #MonticelloClub #gambling 7...