There’s been plenty of new development in the last year or two at Tower Boulevard and Leavitt Road (the Shell station and convenience store, the car wash, the urgent care) as well as the new stores by Meijer to the south (Chick-fil-A, Biggby Coffee and Five Guys), making that stretch of Leavitt a very high traffic area. So it’s only a matter of time until the old Emerald Valley Golf Course property nearby finally looks very attractive to some developer. The big ‘For Sale’ sign has been up for a while.
But fifty years ago, Emerald Valley was still thriving, and the golf shop was advertising in the winter months. Below is an ad that ran in the Journal back on January 17, 1972.![]()
Emerald Valley has been a favorite topic on this blog. We learned about the history of it back on this post that featured an interview with Emil and Emily Kucirek, the couple who built and owned it.
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It’s interesting that they originally bought the farmland to build houses on it. But, as they noted in that 1969 interview, Lorain wouldn’t give them water or sewer lines, so the couple built a golf course instead, opening it around 1960.
Driving by the aging Emerald Valley clubhouse today brings back a lot of memories of Lorain in the 1960s to anyone who grew up in the area.
Here are some shots from last spring.
