Coventry Village
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The motion picture Les Amants ("The Lovers"), was first shown locally in 1959 at the Heights Art Theatre, located at Coventry's intersection with Euclid Heights Boulevard. Theatre manager Nico Jacobellis was arrested and convicted on obscenity charges for showing the film. By its decision in Jacobellis v. Ohio, 378 U.S. 184 (1964), the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction. Agreeing that Jacobellis' criminal conviction was improper and that the film was not obscene, Justice Potter Stewart famously described his perspective on obscene material: "I know it when I see it..."
In the autumn of 1967, Coventry became the gathering place for Cleveland's "counterculture," and drug users, owing partly to the popularity of the See Saw bar with bikers.
