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The Story Behind the Buildings – Part 3
While the Honecker Building is going to be renovated for use as a candy store, gift shop and 22-unit residence, the building next door at 436-440 Broadway (above) is not so lucky.It's going to be torn...
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The Story Behind the Buildings – Part 4
A plastic owl glares down from his perch on the Honecker BuildingKnowing that 436-440 Broadway will soon be history, and that 444-448 Broadway was going to undergo big changes, I couldn’t resist poking...
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The Story Behind the Buildings – Part 5
Believe it or not, I never intended to spend the whole week on the Honecker Building and its neighboring structures. But I had no idea that longtime contributor Rick Kurish was working between the...
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Lorain Creamery Ad – May 11, 1968
Although it was downright cold this weekend, it was pretty hot a few weeks ago. As a result, I’ve already paid one visit to K Cream Parlour on West Erie Avenue this season.Well, another Lorain ice...
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Ahoy, Lorain!
As any regular reader of this blog knows, I’ve posted a lot of Gene Patrick’s Passing Scene comic strips from the Lorain Journal over the years. The weekly cartoon first appeared in the Journal in the...
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Bob Evans to Enter Restaurant Biz – May 1968
Fifty years ago this month, Bob Evans Farms, Inc. finalized its plans to enter the restaurant business. Here’s the story as it appeared in the business pages of the Lorain Journal on Thursday, May 30,...
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Elyria Sandy’s Opens – May 1962
Fifty-six years ago this month, the first area Sandy’s held its Grand Opening in Elyria the weekend of May 19 and 20, 1962. The ad above ran in the Elyria Chronicle-Telegram on May 18, 1962. (Lorain’s...
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The Passing Scene – May 1968
I wasn’t quite done cleaning up these The Passing Scene comics in Photoshop® when I wrote about the Ahoy Lorain feature earlier in the week. But they’re ready now, so here they are: all four Passing...
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New Marathon and L-K for Amherst – May 1968
I admired the architectural rendering of the proposed Marathon Oil service station shown in this small article that ran in the Lorain Journal on May 30, 1968. The station was being planned for Amherst...
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Skylite Memories
July 7, 1966 Journal adA few months ago, I received a nice email from a gentleman named Scott. He had found my blog while looking for pictures of some of the long-gone Lorain establishments that he...
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New Sandy’s sign – June 17, 1968
Last week I did a post on the Grand Opening of Sandy’s in Elyria back in May of 1962.Regular blog reader Lisa left a comment on that post, recalling that the restaurant sign with the likeness of...
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Former Baetz Dairy Bar – “New" Then & Now
Since I started doing this blog back in 2009, I’ve done lots of “Then & Now” photo compositions.I guess that it’s inevitable then, that sooner or later I would be updating some of the “Now” photos...
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Lawson's Dutch Loaf Ad – May 20, 1968
I still can’t believe some eagle-eyed readers saw that tiny Lawson’s sign in the Sandy’s photo from a few days ago.Anyway, here’s yet another ad for Lawson’s Dutch Loaf. It ran in the Journal back on...
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Kipton Civil War Soldier Monument Stands Tall
About a month ago, I received an email from Bill Stark of Cleveland. He was wondering if I had heard that the Civil War Soldier Monument out in Kipton had been fixed so that it no longer was leaning...
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L&K and Leavitt Road Revisited - Part 1
Another reproduction of the architectural rendering of the new Marathon station and L&K Restaurant(Courtesy Amherst News-Times) The reaction to my post last week about the L&K Restaurant in...
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L&K and Leavitt Road Revisited - Part 2
Consolidated Foods of Akron made an interesting decision when it was time to name its new restaurant and motel on Leavitt Road in Amherst in the early 1970s.Although Consolidated Foods owned both the...
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L&K and Leavitt Road Revisited - Part 3
The 1980s brought more national chains to Leavitt Road in Amherst near the intersection of Cooper Foster Park Road.As you can see from the 1980 Lorain City Directory listing below, Dunkin Donuts and Mr...
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New U.S. Highway Signs for Norwalk – 1968
Although it's June at last, here's a small leftover from May that I didn't have time to post.It's a small photo with caption from the May 29, 1968 Lorain Journal – 50 years ago. It depicts a simple...
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The Restaurants of Richard W. Head – Part 1
The original Hoop Drive-in on Henderson DriveSince I started writing this nostalgia blog back in 2009, I’ve written about Lorain’s iconic Hoop Drive-in Restaurants many times.I featured a 1956 St....
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The Restaurants of Richard W. Head – Part 2
The Hoop Drive-in on Henderson Drive(Courtesy Richard C. Head)After the Lorain Diner, Richard W. Head’s next big endeavor was the Hoop Drive-in. He started out with the single restaurant on Henderson...
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