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More Ore Bridge Lore… and More – Part 1
As Dennis explains, the ore bridges traveled around the semi-circleformed by the dock line on rails that were about 600 feet apart.(Postcard Courtesy Dennis Lamont)Archivist and historian Dennis Lamont...
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More Ore Bridge Lore… and More – Part 2
In his email, Dennis Lamont also had some insights on the Huletts and their gradual phasing out at the Lorain steel mill.“Lorain's curved dock was a marvel, and the Huletts made it even better,” he...
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1946 B&O Ore Bridge Demo Revisited
Courtesy Cleveland Memory ProjectSince my last few posts have been about the ore bridges at U. S. Steel, I thought I might as well post a few articles that I recently found about the 1946 demolition of...
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Five Small Lorain County Communities – January 1967 – Part 1
I don’t do too much on this blog about the southern part of Lorain County, even though it’s a area that I enjoy for its rural charm. To remedy that neglect, here’s a great article that ran in the...
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Five Small Lorain County Communities – January 1967 – Part 2
Here’s part two of that great article that ran in the Journal on January 2, 1967, profiling five small Lorain County communities – Pittsfield, Rochester, Brighton, Huntington and Penfield.****Where...
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Signs of Distress – January 1947
Here’s an interesting little article that appeared on the front page of the Lorain Journal back on January 15, 1947 – 70 years ago this month.Back then, the Journal was truly a Lorain paper and a...
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Signs of Change in Huron – 1968
Twenty-one years after the subject of Monday’s blog post about the 1947 Lorain street signs, the Journal was still patrolling the local highways in search of signs that weren’t doing their job.On...
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Pete & Millie's
I recently ran across a couple of vintage newspaper ad’s for Pete & Millie’s, a Lorain restaurant that I’d never heard of before. It was located on the southeast corner of West 21st Street and...
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Happy Groundhog Day!
Vintage postcardAlthough the movie Groundhog Day features the same day repeating over and over again, the holiday is actually pretty different every year.Some years, Punxsutawney Phil is covered by the...
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O’Hara’s Revisited – Part 1
O’Hara’s Beverage Spot as it looked in September 2016On Wednesday’s post, I mentioned that there wasn’t much out there on Leavitt Road near W. 21st Street back in the late 40s and early 50s. But there...
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O’Hara’s Revisited – Part 2
Vintage O’Hara Business Card from the early daysAfter my tour of the O’Hara’s property, Ralph O’Hara invited me inside his family home to enjoy a cool drink and examine some cherished mementoes of the...
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Leavitt Road Gets Widened 1964-65 – Part 1
My post about O’Hara’s yesterday mentioned the paving of Leavitt Road in the 1960s, so it’s a good time for this historical material. It’s all about the transformation of Leavitt Road into a four-lane...
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Leavitt Road Gets Widened 1964-65 – Part 2
As it turns out, the widening and repaving of the portion of Leavitt Road from W. 21st Street to North Ridge Road took a little bit longer than the estimate of one year. But it made the excitement and...
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Penfield Avenue Bank – Then & Now
Last month, regular contributor Rick Kurish emailed me with a suggestion for a post. He wrote, "As I was looking through Ebay today, I ran across an old postcard of the Penfield Avenue Bank (shown...
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Old Vermilion Railroad Article – Feb. 13, 1952
The Lorain Journal of the 1950s were full of interesting little historical tidbits. These short articles are important in that some of the information contained in them is not readily available today –...
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Wellington Man’s Lincoln Medal – Feb. 12, 1952
From Lorain Journal of Feb. 12, 1952Well, yesterday was Abraham Lincoln’s Birthday, so it’s a good time for this post. It’s about a Wellington man with a special keepsake: an original medal struck in...
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Sick in the Sixties
As I write this, I’m just getting over being sick with the latest virus or bug that's been going around my work since December. It's worse than a cold, but not quite the flu.It did cause me to miss...
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Bye Bye Bait Shop
The view on Tuesday nightI read in the Chronicle-Telegram last night (here) that Lorain is planning to tear down the city-owned Hot Waters Bait & Tackle building.It’s been decided that given the...
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Early History of the Bait Shop
A 1930s view of the Lorain Yacht Club headquarters (at right)with the Lorain Waterworks behind it(Courtesy Al Doane Collection – Lorain Public Library)As Al Doane pointed out to me yesterday, the small...
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Greetings From Lorain
Ebay continues to be a fertile supply of vintage images for this blog, and this week is no exception. I found two new “Greetings from Lorain” postcards that I’d never seen before and added them to my...
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