Seventy years ago, the year 1953 was coming to a close.
The Lorain Journal celebrated the occasion with a detailed month-by-month recap of Lorain news over the past year with its "City News Parade of 1953" feature. It's a pretty fascinating read (with many of the stories appearing as the subjects of blog posts here over the past year). Nine of the year's top news photos were also featured.
As to be expected, in the same New Year's Eve edition there was the obligatory "Don't Drink and Drive" full page sponsored ad. As I mentioned on a previous post, the image of the merrymakers seems to be at odds with the safety theme.
Lorainites didn't have to wait very long to find out the winner. On the front page of the January 1, 1954 Journal, the first baby was revealed to be the as yet unnamed son of Dorothy and Aloysius Prosak of 2602 Elyria Avenue.
In a nice touch, the front page also featured photographs of three "First Babies" of previous years (much like they followed up a year later on my brother Ken, the First Baby of 1958).
