A month after the Lorain
Journal ran the story on the front page about the several hundred teens that congregated at Lakeview Park each night (which appeared on this blog yesterday), the article above appeared. The follow-up article ran on September 10, 1970 and gave some of the kids that enjoyed hanging out at the park a chance to reply to their critics.
What’s interesting is that in this article, the teens – who didn’t give their last names in the first article – were happy to cooperate with Staff Writer
Tom Oney.
As the article notes, “Some have also come forward to present their views face-to-face and these, along with their names, appear on this page.”
One of the
Journal photos (at left) is attributed to our old friend,
Passing Scene cartoonist
Gene Patrick.
Anyway, it’s a nice little piece of journalism that illustrates that the fear of these average Lorain kids was largely unwarranted.
