Monday, October 10, 2011

New Lorain – 1977

Last week, while browsing in the Local History section of the Lorain Public Library, I found another one of those books full of proposals for the redevelopment of Downtown Lorain that never took place (similar to this one, which I blogged about back here). This one was produced by the New Lorain Association in November 1977.

Like the 1978 book with the same theme, this one has many photographs of Lorain sprinkled in with the text. A few of them, reproduced from the book, are below.

Kline's Department Store, which was closed by the time of the book
Note the Eagles Aerie 343 was still at 575 Broadway back then 
Hot Waters
Looking West on Sixth Street from Broadway; note the now-gone houses next to the Lorain Public Library