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Walt Disney Place Mats at Gulf – Dec. 1970
These days, The Walt Disney Company seems to own just about everything in the entertainment industry. You head can spin just trying to take it all in. There are the studios (its own namesake studios as...
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Fisher Foods Ad With Donald Duck – 1950
Here’s another vintage ad from the Journal featuring a Walt Disney character. Only this time, it’s a full-page Fisher Foods ad from November 16, 1950 and the highlighted products are Donald Duck Brand...
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Superhost & Operation Toothbrush – Dec. 1970
Here’s an odd little article that appeared in the Lorain Journal on December 2, 1970. WUAB-TV (which is still licensed to Lorain, Ohio) was promoting its “Operation Toothbrush,” with the goal of...
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OSU Clobbers Michigan – 1970
My souvenir photo of Coach Woody Hayes. The Columbus Dispatch sold them through the mail after he was fired in 1978.Well, the big game between the Buckeyes and the Wolverines may be cancelled this...
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On Area Movie Screens – December 1970
It’s always fun (for me, at least) to see what was playing on area movie screens back in the days when we had area movie screens. Even without the pandemic, there simply aren’t a lot of options these...
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Paige’s Sohio Car Wash – Dec. 1970
I’m not sure why, but car washes continue to show up regularly on this blog. And here’s another one, which is the subject of the article above, which appeared in the Lorain Journal on December 6, 1970....
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Hawkins Chevrolet Campaign – Dec. 1950
If you’re a fan of the various home remodeling shows on television, you know that the ‘big reveal’ at the end is the highlight of the programs, where everyone oohs and aahs over the changes that took...
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Santa Arrives in Lorain – 1960
Well, Christmas Eve is only a week away – so I’d better get going with the inevitable parade of Christmas-themed posts. I guess it’s appropriate to kick off the holiday hoopla with a pair of 1960 ads...
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Christmas Club Ads – 1970
The concept of Christmas clubs is a topic that I’ve pretty much beaten to death (with a club, natch) annually over the years on this blog. I’ve done about eight different posts, with a sampling of ads...
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Christmas Ads – 1950
Well, it’s Christmas week. Let’s start the celebration by taking a look at some ads from the pages of the Lorain Journal in December 1950, and get a taste of the city of seventy years ago. Speaking of...
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Mary Lee Tucker Christmas Show – 1960
Although these days the Mary Lee Tucker effort at the Morning Journal is focused primarily on the Clothe-a-Child donation program, back in 1960 the big Christmas benefit show featuring local talent was...
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O’Hara’s Beverage Spot Sleigh – Dec. 1960
Here’s a nice little article circa December 1960 about well-known Lorain business O’Hara’s Beverage Spot and its unique Christmas decoration: an 150-year-old sleigh.The article ran in the Lorain...
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Lorain Banking Co. Christmas Club Ad – Dec. 1960
How would you describe Santa Claus?Most people would probably say that he has a a red suit and cap, a white beard, and leave it at that. I’m not even sure that they would describe him as fat any more,...
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Christmas Ads – 1970
Well, the Christmas Cavalcade of newspaper ads and articles continues – we’re up to 1970 now.It’s a real mixed bag of old fashioned ads, and “hip” ones that reflected the (ugh) changes in fashion that...
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Christmas Eve – 1970
Well, it’s Christmas Eve 2020. For those of you that were reading the Journal fifty years ago today, then the above front page reproduction should look familiar. It has the traditional decorative...
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Merry Christmas!
Here’s wishing all of you a very Merry Christmas, and a safe and Happy New Year.I might take a few days off from blogging during the holidays. We’ll see.As you can see, the Hot Dog Heaven Santa Claus...
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Lorain’s “Christmas Story” Connection
Did you know that Lorain has a connection to “A Christmas Story,” the holiday movie classic?I didn’t either, until Russ Andorka (whose father was well-known bowling kingpin Frank H. “Hank” Andorka)...
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Happy Birthday to The Pit!
In a couple of days, it will be New Year’s Eve. If that’s not exciting enough, it will also be the birthday of The Pit!Yes, it was back on December 31, 1968 that the barbecue restaurant founded by Mr....
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Lorain’s Comfort Station Torn Down – Dec. 30, 1970
As the year 1970 was drawing to a close, so was the era of the old Lorain City Hall.Demolition was just beginning to get underway at the end of December, clearing the properties on the northwest corner...
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Spang Bakery Torn Down – Dec. 31, 1970
Ask a Lorainite to name a long-gone local bakery that they remember fondly, and they’ll probably bring up DeLuca Bakery, Hough Bakeries, or maybe even Bob’s Donuts.But there’s one bakery that only a...
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