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Did They Stay or Did They Go?
Remember the Bell family?They were featured in the July 1956 article (back here) in which Brownhelm Township residents were interviewed by the Chronicle-Telegram about the Ford Assembly Plant that was...
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History of Century Park
Here's another one of those series of articles about the history of Lorain parks that ran in the Lorain Daily News back in mid-August 1939. I've already posted the second and third articles in the...
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Water Works Park
Late April 2017 ViewThe building that served as the Lorain Yacht Club’s clubhouse continues to be of interest to me.Recently I discovered that it dates back to at least 1929. An article in the Lorain...
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St. Mary’s Catholic Church – Then & Now
Vintage postcard of St. Mary’s currently on EbayMany of Lorain's beautiful churches have been featured on postcards through the years, and consequently given the “then & now” treatment on this...
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Burger King’s New Retro Look
Burger King on Leavitt Road as it looked last weekendMost of my mid-70s high school fast food hangouts on the west side of Lorain are long gone: the McDonald’s on West Erie; the Hardees on Oberlin...
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Name That Menu
Back in April 2013, I wrote about a 1953 promotional film about Lorain entitled “LORAIN – An Industrial Empire In Ohio’s Vacation Land.” It's full of familiar Lorain landmarks, such as the Easter...
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Zboray Coal Grand Opening – May 23, 1947
As I sit here writing this, it’s 90º outside – not exactly a good time to think about coal. Nevertheless, that’s the focus of this full-page ad for the Grand Opening of Zboray’s Coal, which ran in the...
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Sutter’s Nut Shop
I was happy to find the above Grand Opening ad for Sutter’s Nut Shop, which ran in the Lorain Journal on May 21, 1937. I had only mentioned Sutter’s once previously on this blog, so it was about time...
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Lynn Gardner Trio Plays the Showboat – May 11, 1957
Longtime readers of this blog know that I enjoy posting old Lorain nightclub ads spotlighting the performers that were appearing. Here’s an ad for an appearance of the Lynn Gardner Trio at Gus Athan’s...
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Basement Memories
Writing about coal last week reminded me of the furnace in the first house I ever bought, on Nebraska Avenue in Lorain (in the Hoy-Lo-Mae Allotment).The house was built in the early 1940s and still had...
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For Safety, Health & Economy – Burn Coal!
I thought this full-page ad for the Zipp - Stack - Miller Coal Company of Lorain was rather interesting. It ran in the Lorain Journal on June 21, 1955 and basically makes the case to stick with a coal...
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Vintage Coal Bills
It's funny that although the Zboray Coal ad that I posted recently was originally just a filler, it seems to have kindled (or stoked, if you prefer) some readers' memories, and generated some...
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Memorial Day 1947
Seventy years ago, it was Memorial Day 1947.As you can see from the front page of the May 28, 1947 Lorain Journal, the city was getting ready for the solemn holiday. One article describes how a rainy...
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Lofton Henderson Monument
You may not have noticed it, but there’s a new historical monument in town.The monument located next to Lorain’s World War II Memorial on the eastern approach to the Lofton Henderson Memorial Bridge...
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Herbert Follansbee’s Summer Cottage
Since Memorial Day is the start of the unofficial summer vacation season, it’s a good time for this post. It was contributed by Rick Kurish, who has generously researched and provided many interesting...
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Dodge City Sarsaparilla
Lorainites must have really enjoyed their sarsaparilla in the old days – because the city had not one, but two different hometown western-themed sarsaparillas, pardner.I’ve written several times about...
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Follow-up Friday: St. Mary's
Since my Then & Now post about St. Mary's Catholic Church, I've accumulated a few odds and ends about its history.Although the Lorain Public Library's microfilm collection did not include any...
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Brady’s Chuckwagon – Part 1
Food trucks seem to be all the rage these days, providing a wide variety of delicious and inexpensive foods to communities full of people in a hurry.How did food trucks get so popular? Well, sometimes...
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Brady’s Chuckwagon – Part 2
1972 Brady's Chuckwagon Menu(Note that Wild West Sarsaparilla is on there!)Here's the second part of the article about Brady's Chuckwagon Catering that ran in the Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine back on...
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Toledo Road Church of Christ – Then & Now
I saw this vintage postcard for the Toledo Road Church of Christ recently on Ebay and thought it’d make a good addition to my "Then & Now” Lorain church series.The church is located at 5075 Toledo...
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