Local historian and archivist Dennis Lamont emailed me this last "Greetings from Lorain" postcard to go along with the rest of the collection. It has the tagline that Lorain used for a while: An Industrial Empire in Ohio's Vacationland.
I wonder if the real Vacationland region – which includes Vermilion, Huron, Sandusky, Oak Harbor and all points south down to Norwalk and Fremont – would object to Lorain joining the party?
The postcard is great because it includes the Lakeview Park of my 1960's youth, with its skimpy beach and view of the B&O coal-loading docks in the background.
Thanks, Dennis! I think the postcard collection is complete!
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Development of the Waterfront to become a first class tourist destination would be worth millions to the area. Everything is there and waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting ...oops the record is stuck.........
I can show anyone that is interested a one hour presentation how one of our "sister" cities converted an industrial wasteland into a $250 million dollar waterfront development ......Two groups from Lorain have visited the place that has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last 10 years ....in a duplicate dying state.
Hi Dennis,
I assume you're talking about Toledo.
I'm afraid that my beloved hometown will never prosper and truly transform itself as long as the behind-the-scenes scheming by the same old people continues to take place, and the pubic has no real voice even as they are being asked to PAY for it. The riverfront high school debacle is the most recent example.
How will people ever vote for a bond or surtax for waterfront redevelopment if they suspect that it is all orchestrated to profit a specific few. The answer: they won't.
Here's hoping that your vision happens in our lifetime. My current town, Sheffield Lake, is slowly transforming itself--maybe there is hope for Lorain! I think there is.
A lot of good things have happened in Lorain the past 10 years down by the river. Let's hope and pray it keeps happening.
Maybe by the time I'm an old geezer they'll be NEW postcards of a Lorain that really is part of Vacationland!
Lorain should've begun preparing for the loss of heavy industries in the late sixties, rather than waiting until it was upon us.
My 7th Grade GenScience teacher, Mr. Rogers, told us in 1968 that those jobs wouldn't be there much longer, and he was right- if HE knew, who else did?
Wow this was interesting
When the shipyard shutdown, that started the domino effect in Lorain losing major jobs.
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