The smallest mobile home parks seem to be most prevalent in Lorain and along its outskirts. Vermilion has a few big ones that look pretty nice, including Harbourtown and Shore Acres. And a few are located on the outskirts of Huron, including Queen Of The Lakes, and Vacationland.
Anyway, once you are used to driving by a mobile home park for decades, it's a bit jarring when it suddenly disappears. Only recently, I noticed that the Lakeshore Mobile Home Park property at 2928 West Erie (located just a little west of Chris' Restaurant) has been entirely cleared of its homes. Earlier this year I saw that a gate had been erected.
The mobile home park had been at that location since at least 1950. I found it in that year's edition of Polk’s Lorain City Directory listed as "Lakeshore Trailer Court." Mrs. Fern J. Isaac was the manager.
Here’s a shot courtesy of Google Maps showing the property how it looked for many years from Route 6.
And here are a few aerials, also courtesy of Google Maps.
Just as Sheffield Lake is slowly losing its cottages to new development (which I wrote about here), Lorain may eventually see more of these small trailer parks disappear.
