Cedar Point is celebrating its 150th Anniversary this year, a year late because of the pandemic. So it’s a good time for me to post this ad, which appeared in the Lorain Times-Herald back on Wednesday, June 23, 1923.
According to an online history of Cedar Point, during this time period the park was still mainly promoted as a bathing resort, even though there were a few rides. The Times-Herald ad above certainly reflects this advertising angle, with its illustration of a typical bathing beauty and the claim of “The Finest Bathing Beach in the World.”
It’s funny, but in all the years that my family went to Cedar Point in the 1960s and 1970s, I don’t think we ever went swimming. I guess it’s because we could do that at East Harbor State Park, or Findley State Park, or even at Tamsin Park. (Lakeview Park in Lorain wasn’t in the best shape back then.)
But plenty of other people took advantage of the beautiful sandy beach at Cedar Point, judging from these vintage postcards from eBay. (Dates are from eBay listings and are approximate.)
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