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Harbor View Motel Part 2
After driving by it for years on the way to work, it was strange to pull into the driveway of the Harbor View Motel in Rocky River, and follow the narrow road past the beverage store leading back to...
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Lakewood Manor Motorist Motel
Several miles east of the Harbor View Motel in Lakewood was the 66-room Lakewood Manor Motorist Motel, shown above in a vintage postcard.The motel was quite large, with entrances on both Lake Avenue...
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Vintage U.S. Federal Highway Shield Sign
If you're an old road buff like me, then you can imagine how surprised I was back in the 1990s to see this old style U.S. Federal Highway shield sign on W. 28th Street in Cleveland near Detroit Avenue....
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The Last Word on Green Lantern Camp
Well, I think I finally have an answer as to the location of Green Lantern Camp, thanks to the folks at HistoricAerials.com.My obsession with the location of Green Lantern Camp has been going on since...
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Polansky's Market Locations – Then & Now
I've mentioned many times that I stop at Polansky's Market on Dewey Road about once a week to buy something to put in my crock pot on Sunday. Well, I recently remembered that I had an ad for Polansky's...
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Cleveland Browns vs. Yankees Ad – Dec. 17, 1946
We’re all still happy that the Cleveland Browns snapped their losing streak last Sunday, so it’s a good time for me to post this Richman Brothers ad dating back to the team’s very first season as a...
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Lorain’s B&O Ore Bridge Comes Tumbling Down – Dec. 20, 1946
It was 69 years ago this month that an article on the front page of the Friday, December 20, 1946 Lorain Journal reported that the old Baltimore and Ohio ore bridge had been demolished.Photos...
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"Charlie Brown Christmas" Ad – December 9, 1965
When I was a kid in the 1960s, the surest sign of the holiday season was the appearance of the animated Christmas specials on TV.At first, there was just Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol (which I wore about...
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Reddy Kilowatt Christmas Ads
Well, Christmas is almost here – so you know it’s time for a visit on this blog from that eternally cheerful character with the red stocking cap who always works hard to make your holidays bright.No, I...
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O’Neil - Sheffield Shopping Center Ads Featuring Li’l Shef – December 1965
I must not have been reading the Journal yet in 1965, or I’d probably remember these ads. They were part of a series of half-page holiday advertisements for the O'Neil - Sheffield Shopping Center done...
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Lorain Stores Christmas Ads – December 1965
As long as I seem to be stuck in 1965, here are a pair of ads from the pages of the Lorain Journal that December – 50 years ago.First up is an ad for Sam Klein that ran on December 17, 1965. It...
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Passing Scene Christmas Edition – 1965
Here's some more 1965 holiday fun from the pages of the Lorain Journal.Continuing in my unwitting effort to reproduce every one of Gene Patrick's Passing Scene comic strips, here are two more from...
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Santa Claus Comes to Brownhelm Twp – 1947
Each Christmas, my heart is gladdened that Brownhelm Township's wonderful tradition of having a real live Santa Claus visit each house in the area lives on through its Community Christmas program.I...
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Merry Christmas!
I hope all of my readers and friends have a safe, wonderful and blessed Christmas! I'll be taking my usual holiday break from the blog beginning today, but I'll be back on New Year's Eve.****By the...
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1958 New Year's Eve Nightclub Ads
If you were looking for a place in Lorain County where you could celebrate New Year's Eve 1958, these ads – from the December 30, 1958 Lorain Journal– might have helped you make a decision.Sadly, all...
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If You Drink, Don't Drive Ad – December 31, 1956
Well, it doesn't have the Grim Reaper in it, but here's another vintage newspaper ad discouraging people from drinking and driving on New Year's Eve.This full-page ad ran in the Lorain Journal on...
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Lorain’s First Baby of 1963
To kick off 2016 on the blog, here’s another one of those full-page ads announcing the goodies that would be awarded to the first baby born after midnight in the New Year at St. Joseph Hospital.This...
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Vian’s Part 1
1969 Phone Book adFor decades, the highway known as U. S. Route 6 and Ohio State Route 2 (6 & 2) was the main east-west route through Lorain and Sheffield Lake.The road was eventually overshadowed...
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Vian’s Part 2
Nicholas M. Vian was the man behind Vian’s.He was born in Greece in the early 1890s, and came to this country as a child. Before moving to the Lorain area, he lived in Erie, Pennsylvania.By the late...
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Vian’s Part 3
Like many saavy highway entrepreneurs in the 1930s and 40s, Nicholas Vian supplemented his restaurant business with cabins that were available to weary travelers, as well as those seeking a lakeside...
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