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| Vintage ad from the August 17, 1951 Lorain Journal. Shorter fair back then! |
There was no Fair for the general public last year, thanks to the pandemic. Like many of you, I really missed it. Let’s hope that the various Covid strains eventually go away, so next year we can make it two Fairs in a row.
I’ll be out at the Fair later in the week. I can just taste that Rutana’s Hot Apple Dumpling (with extra sauce but no ice cream) already! And the skinny French fries in a paper cup, dripping with vinegar and coated with salt. And the hot Italian Eatery Stromboli covered with sauce, and enjoyed at one of the booth’s pic-a-nic tables.
I reckon I’d better start saving up calories now. Oh well, it’s only once a year – right?
The Fair runs August 22-29th at the Lorain County Fairgrounds in Wellington.
To put you in a nostalgic mood for some Fair Fun, here are a few items that ran in the Journal fifty years ago in August 1971. Here’s the full-page ad that ran on August 23, 1971.
5 comments:
Talk about music royalty in Lorain County,Roy Clark had to be the best guitar/banjo player in the world.Self taught,he could pick anything.I remember seeing him on the Beverly Hillbillies.He also drag raced a couple of super stock 1965 Plymouths/Dodges on the side called the Hee Haw Hemi and the Super Picker.
So I wonder how many people,after they saw Roy Clark burn the house down,went to the Foursquare Gospel Church and saw the Billy Graham show?Then before they called it a night,went to the Grape Vine Lounge and saw a top less Go Go Dancer?That is quite an impressive entertainment section that The Lorain Journal had going on there.All the entertainment anyone could ask for!
They might have stopped for a hot dog steamed in beer at Lum’s, too!
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Where was that O,Henry's Pub located in the Midway Mall?That spaghetti dinner for $1.99 sounds good.Was this pub a good place to go or was it in there 1 year and gone the next?
Judging by some old C-T ads on newspaper archive websites, it appears that O’Henry’s Pub lasted at Midway Mall at least until the early 1980s.
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