Here's a vintage postcard showing the view looking east down Ninth Street from Long Avenue. It's where Ninth makes a dogleg as it heads towards Broadway.
Driving over there this past weekend to photograph it (since there wasn't any snow on the ground), I wondered if the homes would still be there. I was surprised to see that the whole block was still intact.
I was even more surprised when I realized that I go down this very street each week on the way home after picking up my Selenti's Pizza every Friday night, and didn't recognize the homes on the postcard.
Here's the current view, complete with a dismal, colorless winter sky that makes the whole proceedings depressing.
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| Photographed January 2, 2012 |
2 comments:
You're not gonna believe this....
I wanted to write a PTC on the Slattery house, which is the name I knew it by, but I couldn't find a picture....then, I go to your blog, and there it is!
Thanks, Dan!
Lotsa changes in that old 'hood.
I've always known it as the Slattery house, too. It was coming up for sale on a fairly regular basis for a few years. It's on my short list of Lorain dream houses. I'm glad to see that someone (or something?) has taken care of the monster that hung from the porch roof for the l o n g e s t time.
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