And since some of you have expressed an interest in seeing the whole Journal page from whence I extracted my articles, I included it here.
Among the ads is one for the Holiday Inn Steak House, which I wrote about back here, and the Sky-Lite Bar, subject of this post. There's also an ad for McGarvey's Party House, located in the O'Neil-Sheffield Shopping Center, with my fellow Biz Grove bandmate Kenny Lorence performing with his Trio.
The Howard Johnson's on West Erie (now home to Chris' Restaurant) was serving up a roast chicken dinner with potato, vegetable, rolls, beverage and – natcherly – your choice of Howard Johnson's famous ice cream. And the 333 Bar had a fish fry featuring fresh caught Lake Erie Fish (wonder what kind?) with golden brown French Fries, Cole slaw, bread and butter for 65 cents.
There's plenty of juicy news if you like to know about local break-ins (Crime Report) or who was in a fender bender (City Traffic Accidents).
But there's also some very tragic news about a Sandusky toddler who choked to death on some marbles and a Cleveland girl who died from injuries apparently caused by a parent. (My heart goes out to both families who undoubtedly don't want to be reminded of these sad events of sixty years ago.)
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Back then, despite its size, Lorain was a small town and the Journal covered all of its goings-on, including an upcoming Christmas party for the Lake Erie Chapter of Ohio Credit Unions, as well as local attendees of the Ohio Civil Defense Council meeting of a few days earlier in Delaware, Ohio.
On area movie screens, we have Jackie Gleason starring in Gigot at the Tivoli. I remember seeing this on TV and not liking it too much. I'm not a big fan of pathos. (And I've never liked it when comedians such as Jackie Gleason or comic actors (such as Robin Williams or Tom Hanks) decide that they want to be dramatic actors and never make a funny movie again.)
There's also Geronimo with Chuck Connors (hey, that was on GRIT TV recently) at the Dreamland; No Man is An Island and Man in the Moon at the Ohio; and The Manchurian Candidate at the Palace.
Dan:
ReplyDeleteI'm sure with all your reading of old papers, whenever anybody says, "Things like this didn't happen in the past" you think or say, "Oh, yes they did."
You're right, Don. As you know better than anyone with your research and books on local crimes, people and the awful things they do or have happen to them haven't changed over the last 100 years –– only the way it is reported.
ReplyDeleteHey Dan - Check out the book the "Vagabonds" chronicling the road trips of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison.
ReplyDeleteIn the year 1919 the following events were going on: America debating entering the League of Nations (globalism). 1918 flu pandemic was over and no one sure why. Prolonged labor strikes. Race related riots. Protests in front of the White House (women's right to vote). Fear of Communists posing as immigrants pouring into the US inciting unrest. Scandal in sports (1919 Black sox).
Sound familiar?
Todd