Brady's Restaurant Ad – October 1957

Here's a cute ad for Brady's Restaurant (one of my favorite topics for this blog, natch) that ran in the Lorain Journal on October 30, 1957 – 55 years ago today.

I love the stylized black cat clip art.

The ad hearkens back to an era where the Halloween parade was a pretty big deal in Lorain, along with the Downtown window-painting contest. Things like that really united the city back then.

As for Brady's, I'm constantly impressed by the creativity that went into the restaurant's promotions (such as the "Lucky Chair" mentioned in the ad). The owners ran a lot of ads and the restaurant must have really achieved top-of-mind awareness for so many people to remember it fondly.