Case in point: the photo and caption above, which ran in the Journal on July 23, 1972. As the caption notes, " The face of the city is ever changing. This time Lorain National Bank is demolishing two old buildings to provide off street parking for 30 to 40 cars for both its main and East Sixth Street offices. Access to the additional parking, which will be ready in a few weeks, will be through the alley behind Broadway.
"The old buildings were the former Shane Furniture company, next to the bank, and the T. C. Metzger building, to the extreme right or south."
Today the streetscape looks like this (courtesy of Google Maps).
4 comments:
I always found it interesting, whilst observing the changes to the Broadway landscape, how quickly I would forget what had been in a particular spot. In the late Sixties and into the Seventies, Broadway north of the tracks was a kaleidoscope of businesses and concerns, opening, closing, mutating, vanishing, here today, gone by dinnertime. Who remembers that headshop that stood at the NW corner of Sixth and Broadway, the little arcade that predated Wigland, or Seacove?
Last one to D&K is a ghost...
Hey Dan,that car in that black and white newspaper photo looks like a "69 Olds Cutlass coupe.Was that a member of your family cruising down Broadway at the time?
Yup that was probably me, about to pull over and get the very first souvenir brick for my "Demolished Lorain Buildings Collection."
Allan Hopewell, The name of the head shop was called the Stash Box. I think it might be a jewelry store now.
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