Grand Opening of Brady's Dairyland – June 1962

The name 'Brady' has been associated with the area around Leavitt Road and West 21st Street for some time. Back when there were just two Brady families on the west side of Lorain, it was the other Brady Bunch that owned a lot of land near that intersection.

Brady's Restaurant (which was located just north of where Burger King is today) has been a favorite topic on this blog – even though it's becoming increasingly difficult to find anyone who remembers this well-named restaurant. Brady's Chuckwagon Chicken House was another business owned by John Brady. It was located next door to Brady's Restaurant to the north, in the building where Marco's Pizza is located today.

But did you know there was a third Brady standalone food enterprise near that intersection?

Brady's Dairyland was located "Just Around the Corner From ... Brady's Restaurant" as the Grand Opening ad below says. It ran in the Lorain Journal back on June 5, 1962.

(Brady's Dairyland had actually opened in late May 1962 as noted in this post.)

Like all of John Brady's businesses, Brady's Dairyland was well-promoted, with the nearly full-page ad touting "Olde Type" Frosted Malts, Brady's Fresh Hawaiian Pineapple Barge, and "home made ice creams packaged for carry out." As an added incentive to drop by, a prize was awarded with every order over a dollar.

I like the fact that John Brady tied together all of his businesses with the same mascot, a caricature of his father (who started Brady's Restaurant) as a chef on a unicycle, delivering food.

As I noted in this post, Brady's Dairyland added donuts to its menu in 1966. But by 1970, the store disappeared in the city directory and was replaced at its 2511 W. 21st Street address by Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips.