Friday, July 7, 2017

Avon Lake – “Our Town” – July 1957

To close out the week, here’s a full-page photo spread that should be of interest to my Avon Lake readers. It ran in the Saturday, July 27, 1957 edition of the Lorain Journal.

There’s plenty of charming shots of subjects found around 1957 Avon Lake: the freight agent at the train station; the new 400-foot smokestack of the CEI plant; the new municipal building on Avon-Belden Road; the city’s first church; the city’s fully-equipped fire truck in front of the fire station on Lake Road; the roller ramps at the Avon Lake Boat Club docks; and of most interest to me, B.F. Goodrich (where my father worked for more than twenty years).

Gerry Vogel’s Avon Lake book in the Arcadia Images of America series includes some great photographs for comparison with their 1957 counterparts here, including this shot of the “first church building in Avon Lake” in 1896.


2 comments:

JIM said...

Very cool find! I have not been able to find much on that particular addition at CEI.

Larry P said...

Love the old photo of BF Goodrich. My dad worked there for 38 years. When we were kids he would occasionally bring home cans of liquid polymer, which we used as a cheap Plastic Goop substitute for our Mattel Creepy Crawler Thingmaker. I ended up working there as well in the 90s