Vogt Oldsmobile Then and Now

Back here in October, I had featured the building shown at left (located at the corner of Broadway and W. 30th Street) in a post that listed some of the various automotive companies that had once called it home.

To refresh your memory click here.

Anyway, while flipping through some old Lorain Journals in the library this past weekend, I saw an ad for Vogt Oldsmobile in the June 21, 1955 edition. Included in the ad was the photo below, showing the building right in its heyday.

It's nice to see these old buildings in their prime, when they were a part of a thriving Lorain neighborhood, instead of looking like a walled-up fortress as they do now.