Interior of a gondola at Killington Ski Resort, Vermont. Classic 1960s 4-seater monocable gondola lift in Emmetten, Switzerland, built by GMD Mueller. This lift was of the same type as the old Whistler, British Columbia gondola.
Despite the discrimination and intolerance that they faced, Ohio Jews succeeded in creating productive lives for themselves. During the late 1800s and the early 1900s, most Jewish immigrants settled in either Cincinnati or Cleveland. Other large Ohio cities also experienced an influx of Jewish migrants, but the numbers were significantly smaller than those Jews flocking to Cincinnati and Cleveland.
Settlement houses were residential community centers located in urban industrial districts. Middle-class young people came to live in these settlements to work with the poor residents in the house's neighborhood. The settlement-house movement in the United States was inspired by the founding of Toynbee Hall in London's East End in 1884. Using recent graduates of Oxford and Cambridge as the resident staff, Toynbee Hall tried to raise the status of the poor by providing tutoring and other services. Development of U.S. Settlement Model