The front page of the August 14, 1970 edition of the Journal included the photo above of the house at 1872 E. 30th Street being demolished.
As the article written by Staff Writer Pam Robinson noted, “This is the house where Mrs. Maria Feliciano brought up her children.
“They came to Lorain in 1957 from Puerto Rico and it was the first home in the United States for the tiny widow and her family of six, ranging then in age from five to twenty.
“Mrs. Feliciano’s children grew up in the Puerto Rican neighborhood. Her oldest children married and moved away to other parts of Lorain.
“She and her son, Anibal, now reside in a bright pink house two blocks away from their first home.
“Yesterday, as the bulldozer destroyed her home of 13 years, her mind was filled with memories of her home and her first years in this country. Her children grew up in the hone demolished by urban renewal.”
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I wrote about this particular South Lorain urban renewal project before. Back here, I posted a 1969 Journal article (in two parts) in which several past and present residents of East 30th Street were asked how they felt about the urban renewal project that was going to displace many of them.
