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Hallmark Cleaners Grand Opening – Jan. 9, 1961
Here’s an ad that should bring back some memories for you Lorain westsiders. It’s for the Grand Opening of Hallmark Cleaners in the Lorain Plaza Shopping Center. The half-page ad ran in the Lorain...
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Dial it Yourself – Jan. 30, 1971
We’ve all seen reruns of The Andy Griffith Show in which Sheriff Andy Taylor is making a phone call, and chit-chats with Sarah, the telephone operator.It’s funny to many of us who remember when we...
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Van Wagnen’s Hardware Ad – Jan. 31, 1950
Here’s a sure sign of winter from the pages of the January 31, 1950 edition of the Lorain Journal: an ad for Van Wagnen’s Hardware promoting a sale on professional hockey sticks.Van Wagnen’s Hardware...
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Amherst’s Triangular House Gets National Attention – 1961
Did you know an home in Amherst was featured in the October 1960 issue of American Builder, and the January 1, 1961 edition of the New York Times because of its unusual design?The house is triangular...
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Happy Groundhog Day!
This isn’t Phil; it’s an anonymous groundhog in Shenandoah National ParkHey, this isn’t Phil either. It’s just someWisconsin groundhog.Longtime readers of this blog may feel like they’re experiencing...
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Bob Beck Chevrolet Ad – Feb, 1, 1971
Remember my post from early December about the out-of-state gentleman looking for a vintage Bob Beck Chevrolet keychain? He had purchased a 1965 Corvette that had originally been delivered to the Bob...
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City Bank Ad – Feb. 1, 1971
Here’s a great example of how much advertising changed in only a few short years to reflect the massive cultural shifts taking place in American society in the early 1970s.The City Bank ad above, which...
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Journal Ad Featuring Dennis the Menace – Feb. 12, 1971
Here’s an cute ad that the Journal ran back on Feb. 12, 1971. The nearly 3/4 page ad promoting the newspaper itself features the comic strip character Dennis the Menace.The tousle-haired tyke had first...
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I’m going to be taking a little break from blogging. Sorry about that, Chief.Devoting the necessary attention to some personal matters is going to completely tie me up for the next few weeks, so I’ll...
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Green Acres Home – Feb. 3, 1971
Mention the phrase 'Green Acres' to any Baby Boomer, and they would probably think of the 1960s rural comedy featuring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as the city couple that moved to a farm in Hooterville...
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Oberlin in the News – Feb. 1961
Yesterday’s post was about the old Green Acres Children’s Home, which as located in Oberlin. Well, here are a couple more Oberlin news items of a historic nature that made their way into the Journal...
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Last Rites for St. Joseph Hospital
Over the last couple of months, a monumental demolition has been taking place in Lorain, largely unnoticed: the knocking down of the old St. Joseph Hospital. As noted in a comment left on a previous...
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U. S. Steel Shuts Down Last Open Hearth Furnaces – Feb. 25, 1971
For many older people that lived in Lorain all their lives, the sight of a sky filled with orange-colored smoke coming from “National Tube" was just part of day-to-day life. I remember seeing it as a...
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Lorain Aviator “Bill” Long Passes Away – Feb. 9, 1971
As I’ve mentioned a few times, the early 1970s were a time of great change in Lorain. It was like the city was getting a major makeover, and quickly transitioning from the Lorain that our parents grew...
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Bill Long & His Airports – Part 1
I’ve accumulated several news clippings about “Bill” Long and his Lorain airports (yes, he had two of them). My acquisition of these small articles and ads date back to when I first started doing...
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Bill Long & His Airports – Part 2
Older Lorainites (like me) remember Long’s Airport on the Northeast corner of Meister and Leavitt Roads. How long was it there? The article below from the July 30, 1945 Lorain Journal notes, “Lorain...
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Bill Long & His Airports – Part 3
By the late 1960s, Bill Long was well-established as Lorain’s aviation pioneer. He had already been the subject of a 1959 article in the Lorain Journal when he was 74 years old. Thus by 1967, at the...
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Smith & Gerhart Expansion – Feb. 11, 1961
Most old-time Lorainites remember Smith & Gerhart, a popular Downtown store that's been the subject of many posts on this blog. As you can see in the photo above, sixty years ago the store was...
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Lorain Skyport Building
Did you know that a remnant of Lorain’s high-flying airport days is still out there on Leavitt Road?Well, although the hangar and other buildings of Long’s Airport are long gone, across Leavitt Road is...
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Enchanting No More
Do you remember the House of Enchantment?I wrote about it back here. It was a 1964 model home located on Leavitt Road that, according to the Ohio Fuel Gas Company which sponsored it, was “the pattern...
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