It's always fun to take a look at Lorain's other local newspaper, the
Lorain Sunday Times for an alternate view of what was going on in the city during the 1940s and 50s. The above front page from January 3, 1954 reveals that the paper had its own baby contest to coincide with the New Year. The difference was that the
Lorain Sunday Times celebrated the
last baby of 1953.
Judith Ann Visco, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Visco, was "the recipient of a horde of loot donated by business firms in Lorain" according to the article. It's interesting that some of the gifts (such as a photographic portrait and a deposit to a bank account) are the same as what the first baby received, but with different Lorain businesses. And a few of the companies (Ideal Dairies, Schwartz Home for Funerals) worked both sides of the street, supplying gifts to both babies.
Elsewhere on the page is an article about state liquor enforcement agents making arrests for after-hour sales at Richi's Tavern, Club 10 (at Routes 10 and 301 in Carlisle Township) and Timbers Cafe (at State Routes 58 and 113).
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Timbers has always interested me, as it resembled a log cabin and it's way out there in the country by itself. For a while in the 1990s, I was somewhat acquainted with the then-owner. But I've long wondered: how long it had been there?
A look at the Morning Journal's online archives reveals that the Timbers Night Club opened in November 1940.
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| November 15, 1940 ad from the Lorain Journal |
Within a few years, it seems to have been in the news for various liquor violations, and even an almost-fatal stabbing in the parking lot in October 1944.
Anyway, here are some more Lorain Journal ads from the early days of the Timbers Night Club.
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| May 29, 1941 |
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| October 30, 1941 |
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| October 23, 1942 |
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| November 15, 1947 |
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| June 29, 1950 |
And here are some fairly recent photos of how the Timbers looks today. It's currently closed for business. It's kind of sad, because it sounds like it was a real happening place when it opened.
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| 2016 |
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| 2019 |
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| 2023 |
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| Courtesy of the Lorain County Auditor Website |
