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New U.S. Highway Signs for Norwalk – 1968

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Although it's June at last, here's a small leftover from May that I didn't have time to post.

It's a small photo with caption from the May 29, 1968 Lorain Journal – 50 years ago.  It depicts a simple event (the routine installation of new highway signs) but commemorates something much bigger: the opening of the U. S. Route 20 Bypass around Norwalk.

The construction of these new, limited-access bypasses around cities during the 60s and 70s made it much easier to get around, but it forever changed small town American life. Without that steady flow of traffic through the heart of a city, downtowns deteriorated as businesses suffered and eventually closed.

It's no coincidence that the beginning of Lorain's decline in the 1960s coincided with the opening of the new Route 2.

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