Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Century Park Then & Now


I had seen this postcard before on several occasions, either online or in an antique shop. It's labeled "LAKE VIEW PARK BEACH, LORAIN, OHIO" and I had always thought that it depicted the pre-tornado Lakeview Park bathhouse.

However, the recent article in the Morning Journal about residents having to maintain Century Park on Lorain's east side (because the city wasn't) sent me looking for a vintage postcard of the park online. When this one came up, I disregarded it as being Lakeview Park – until I took a closer look and realized it was Century Park all the time.

Here's my shot from last night. (I couldn't duplicate the postcard view exactly because I was already at the far western end of the park.)

Here's a closer look at the Harbor House beach house to compare with the vintage postcard.

According to the above article, the beach house has been there since 1928.
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousSeptember 29, 2011 at 7:26 AM

    Hey Dan
    Local residents could take the East Erie streetcar and not wait for an interurban. After the streetcars on East Erie quit they were replace by a bus. Of course by then a lot of people were driving.
    Dennis

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  2. Dan BradySeptember 29, 2011 at 8:27 AM

    Thanks for pointing that out, Dennis! As you can see by today's post, I forgot about the local streetcars, lumping them all under the 'interurban' description--oops!

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