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Pick-n-Pay New Year's Eve Ad – Dec. 26, 1962
Does your menu for New Year's Eve (or Day) include special items in honor of the occasion?In the Brady household during the 1960s and 70s, shrimp cocktail (with the horseradish sauce of course) was the...
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Happy New Year From the Ontario Store – Dec. 29, 1962
The Ontario Super Mart (or Ontario Discount Department Store, as it was later known) seems to be fondly remembered by many. Not just in the Lorain area – where the chain started out at 1922 Broadway in...
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New Year's Eve Edition of the Journal – Dec. 31, 1962
Sixty years ago, this was the front page of the Lorain Journal on New Year's Eve 1962. I like the cartoony 'Happy New Year' banner, with the wizened 'Old Year' at the far left, and top-hatted Baby New...
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New Year's Eve 1962 "Don't Drink & Drive" Ad
Well, it's New Year's Eve – and readers of this blog know what that means, heh-heh.It's time for another ghoulish, vintage 'Don't Drink and Drive' ad that appeared in the Journal in years gone by....
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Happy New Year!
Happy New Year to everyone out there! Here's hoping that it's happy and healthy for you and the people you care about.It's hard to believe that it's actually 2023, which for years has been one of those...
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Journal Front Page – January 1, 1963
Sixty years ago, this was the front page of the January 1, 1963 Lorain Journal. There's a lot going on, both around the world and right here in Lorain County, and how all of it is covered is...
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First Baby of 1963
Many of us still remember when the Journal sponsored a contest in which the first Lorain baby born in St. Joseph's Hospital was awarded a variety of prizes. The earliest example that I've ever posted...
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First Baby of 1973
By 1973, the prizes in the Journal's First Baby Contest had been scaled back to a baby-sized portion, relative to the generosity of the merchants back in 1963.Citizens Home and Savings Association was...
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First Lorain County Baby of 1963
We're still toddling along in Babyland here on the blog...For many years, the Journal's "First Baby" contests celebrated the first baby born in Lorain's St. Joseph Hospital after the stroke of midnight...
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Harmon's Beach in Winter – January 1963
Harmon's Beach has washed ashore on this blog as a topic a few times.Back here, I posted a Journal article and photo from March 1956 showing the huge buildup of sand that had accumulated, creating a...
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Lawson's Krazy Kow Karton – January 1973
Back in November on this blog, I featured the Jerzee Moo Cow Creamer– a cow-shaped container that the Ohio-based Defiance Milk Products distributed as a promotional item in the fall of 1972.While the...
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A Gene Patrick Cartoon and the Hot Line – Jan. 12, 1973
It's been quite a while since we last saw Gene Patrick's The Passing Scene on this blog. Gene served up two editions of his weekly comic in the Journal in July 1969, and that was it for the 1960s.While...
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South Lorain's Vine Avenue to Get Modernized – Jan. 1973
For many years, Vine Avenue, south of West 28th Street, was very important to the Puerto Rican community in South Lorain. During the early 1960s, there were a half-dozen blocks of thriving businesses,...
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Kroger Ad – January 28, 1963
Do you still buy most of your food at a grocery store or supermarket? Or do you shop at places such as Walmart or Costco that sell groceries in addition to many non-food items?I still go to the...
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Reddy for the New Year – 1963 & 1973
You might have been shocked that I hadn't posted any vintage Ohio Edison ads featuring our old pal Reddy Kilowatt around Christmas, wearing a Santa cap or pushing electrical gifts. Well, that's because...
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Guide to Dining and Dancing: Corinthian Family Restaurant
Here's yet another of those "Golden Crescent Guide to Dining and Dancing" features that appeared regularly in the Journal in the late 1960s and early 1970s. On the menu this time: Corinthian Family...
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Journal TV Page With Harmonicats and More – Jan. 31, 1963
Here's a vintage TV page from the Journal with plenty of things of interest.First, it was a good day for Lorainites making news for appearances on television. There was Lorain native Don Les appearing...
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Restaurant Ads – Jan. 20, 1973
Here's a mouth-watering serving of restaurant ads appearing in the Journal back on January 20, 1973. As you can see, the dominant ad on the page is for Sveden House and its Smorgasbord (although I'm...
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Lorain Police Dept. Drops Height Requirement – Jan. 1973
Being particularly tall has never been a trait of the males in my family. Why? I guess it's partially attributable to our particular ethnic mix (German and Irish). Neither my father nor my brothers...
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LBJ, Howard Hughes & Lorain City Hall – Jan. 27, 1973
Here's a familiar sight to those of you who read the Journal back in the late 60s and 70s. It's a typical Page Three layout, with its unusual mixture of local, national and international news. This...
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