An oral history of 10 cent Beer Night from 50 years ago, June 4, 1974 in Cleveland: “Any Cleveland police car not on assignment respond to Cleveland Stadium for a riot.” Cleveland police officer Bill Leonard had just pulled out of the Sixth District Jail sally port on June 4, 1974, when that call came over his radio. It was a full moon that night and temperatures were hovering in the 70s. Leonard came west on the Shoreway, exiting at East Ninth Street. Two naked women ran in front of his car. “I thought, ‘Oh, it’s THAT kind of a riot,’” he says. It was a fraught time in Cleveland's history. The city was less than a decade removed from a riot in Hough and a shootout in Glenville. Gangland bombings were increasing, and a mob war was on the horizon. And the Indians, the class of the American League in the early 1950s, had spent most of the ensuing 20 years pondering a move out of town. 🔗 Click the link in our bio to see what they looked like in Cleveland. 🖋️ Vince Guerrier...