The report focused on Washington Park and the nearby Broadway shopping district, and it proposed various ideas on how it could be redeveloped. It was part of a series of five reports that together provided a blueprint for a New Lorain.
The study was pretty interesting and had a lot of great ideas that unfortunately never came to fruition. What was especially interesting to me, though, were the photos used to accompany the text. They provided a look back at the Lorain of the 1970's.
Here are a few of them. Click on each for that you-are-there feeling!
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Palace Theater before restoration  |
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| Right above Faroh's Candies was Alex Visci's Music Instrument Repair Shop |
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The Fish House |
I think that was LaGana's Fish House
ReplyDeleteYou know, you're absolutely right! (I just remember it as LaGana's, but I went with the book's caption since I don't trust my rusty memory any more!)
ReplyDeleteTed Jacob's My Favorite Store In the Day.... :)
ReplyDeleteSpent Way Too Much Money There >>>> LOL