A yellow brick market hall with a clock tower on West 25th Street, used as itself in Telling Lies in America and Jenny's Wedding.
What Ohio City looks like
West 25th Street and meet at the , a yellow brick hall under a 137 foot clock tower visible from most of the surrounding blocks. Inside, close to 100 stalls sit under a vaulted ceiling finished in white tile. An 85 stall produce arcade wraps around the building's side and rear under a run of steel and glass canopies.
Across West 25th Street, three and four storey brick buildings carry rounded corners, cast stone cornices and rooftop billboards. The same storefront pattern continues a few blocks north to , red and tan brick buildings with some ground floors shuttered behind steel gates and others still fitted with awnings over plate glass.
Side streets off the market carry two and three storey wood frame houses with covered porches and small front yards behind low fences, the porches repeating down the block. sits nearby behind a lawn, a squat building in light stone with round arched windows set into its front.
Farther out, brick storefronts line Lorain Avenue under painted parapets and a mix of hand-lettered and neon signs, doorways set back under narrow window bays. , off to the west, holds four storey brick apartment buildings with stone lintels and round arched window heads over each opening.
Shot in Ohio City
Telling Lies in America and Jenny's Wedding both used the West Side Market for scenes set in Cleveland itself. Both productions shot at the same yellow brick hall on West 25th Street rather than building a set to stand in for it.
Telling Lies in America, 1997
West Side Market
Telling Lies in America filmed at the West Side Market during a 24 day shoot in August 1996, for a story set in Cleveland in 1961. The market and the surrounding Ohio City streets play Cleveland itself, with no dressing to stand in for anywhere else.
Jenny's Wedding, 2015
Jenny's Wedding filmed a scene at the West Side Market during production in late 2013, with Katherine Heigl's character walking through the stalls. The market appears as itself, the same building on West 25th Street that still trades most days of the week.
What Ohio City can double for
Over-the-Rhine in Cincinnati, Ohio
Three and four storey Italianate storefronts line block after block of Over-the-Rhine under cast iron cornices, close to Findlay Market's own nineteenth century market house. The scale and the corner storefront block match what Ohio City has around its own market. Over-the-Rhine's cornices run taller and more ornamented than Ohio City's, so a wide shot needs careful framing to keep the tallest blocks out of frame. Try searching corner storefront block now.
The Strip District runs its own produce stands and a market house among brick warehouse blocks, a similar mix of food retail and worked brick storefronts to the streets around the West Side Market. Loading docks and rail sidings sit behind the block, which Ohio City does not have. The Strip District's warehouses run wider and taller than Ohio City's storefronts, so tighter frames at street level hold the match best. Try searching worked brick storefronts now.
Bay View's worker cottages and duplexes run two storeys in cream brick and wood siding, close in scale to the wood frame houses on Ohio City's side streets. Nothing in Bay View matches the market hall, so a frame that stays on the wood frame houses works better than one reaching for the commercial corner. Keep the market and its clock tower out of frame, since nothing in Bay View matches it. Try searching wood frame houses now.
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