5 Places To Visit With Your Family This Holiday Season

CLEVELAND, OH -- There are some really neat local businesses in the city that have staked their claims to being "must see" establishments this Holiday Season. You can take your whole family -- grandma and grandpa, too. These stores offer a wide variety of things to do as a group.

Visible Voice Books

This one-of-a-kind bookstore is in the upstairs of a former funeral home on Professor Avenue in Tremont. It used to be closer to Lincoln Park, but it just re-opened in the new space. Buy a book between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Nov. 25 (Small Business Saturday), and you get a free small cup of tea or coffee. While you're there, check out Crust, a pizza kitchen on the first floor.

2258 Professor Avenue

Cleveland, OH 44113

B.A. Sweetie Candy Company

Your teeth may start to hurt when you walk up and down the aisles of this candy and sweets warehouse on Brookpark Road just east of Ridge Road. Candy, candy, candy, in large quantities for you and yours. It can't get any sweeter than this.

6770 Brookpark Road

Cleveland, OH 44144

Sweet Moses

If you're old enough to remember soda fountains, you'll love stepping back in time at Sweet Moses in the Gordon Square Arts District of Detroit-Shoreway. Vintage soda fountain equipment is used to concoct the most delectable offerings with a squirt of whipped cream and a cherry on top.

6800 Detroit Avenue

Cleveland, OH 44102

sweetmosestreats.com

A Separate Reality Records

Vinyl is back. A new generation has re-discovered the pleasure of listening to a spinning disc on a record player and holding a 12-inch square album cover in their hands. A Separate Reality in Tremont is not just a used record store. It's practically a museum to the album as a piece of art. Most of the albums are in excellent shape and reasonably priced. They'll buy your old albums, too. Just don't bother bringing your Loverboy or Foreigner LPs.

2678 W. 14th Street

Cleveland, OH 44113

Big Fun

This Coventry Road landmark is owned by the irrepressible Steve Presser. Old and new toys and collectibles abound throughout the jam-packed shelves, and you can find Ghoulardi memorabilia, too. It's a fun place to browse on a weekend afternoon.

1814 Coventry Road

Cleveland Heights, OH 44118

bigfuntoystore.com