Did you ever see a ship get launched in the American Ship Building Lorain yards during its heyday?
It's quite a spectacle, and exciting as well, watching a huge ship slide sideways down to the water, followed by a giant splash. Consequently, it's been a favorite subject of Lorain postcards for a long time.
"This method has its disadvantages since it monopolizes the drydock for a lengthy period. But this new 710 foot long freighter is so big that company officials explained there was no other safe way to build it.
"The craft's keel was laid in the drydock early last November. In ten weeks almost the entire bottom, tank top, side tanks, and part of the spar deck were erected. Also in place is the stern frame.
"When the vessel is finished it will be just a few feet shorter than the dock and just a few feet narrower than the dock width."
Elsewhere on that same front page: a robbery at Four Corners Tavern, located at Elyria Avenue and North Ridge Road; vandalism at two schools in the Grove Avenue area in Lorain; a crackdown on Communism in Puerto Rico: and a thief's humorous justification for his crimes.
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That Will H. Hays is the person who came up with the Motion Picture Code of the 1930's.Also known as The Hays Code.It was a set of standards for the motion picture industry brought on by the trial and scandal of comedian Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle.They wanted to improve the image of the motion picture industry by instituting some rules and general standards towards what should be filmed and should not be filmed.As by the late 1920's to the early 1930's,some pretty risque movies were being produced.This later led to the age based ratings we have today.PG-13,etc.
800 bucks seems a lot for a tavern back then. Equivalent to $9200 today.
Wow what memories! My grandfather was a foreman at American until he retired in about 1980. We kids loved the super 8mm films of the launchings my grandmother would make. Especially when he would run the projector backwards!
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