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| A recent view of the trailer park |
That's why I was happy to see the article below about the place, which appeared in the Lorain Journal on July 7, 1954. It provides a favorable look at the park, as well as an explanation as to why it is there.
It notes, "A tiny village, population 41, has sprung up within three short months north of the town's limits along Route 58. It is the Wellington Trailer Park.
"Last fall when the village passed an emergency measure prohibiting establishing a trailer park within the corporation limits, Mr. and Mrs. Dellen Brouse abandoned their plans to open one within the village and started their project at the present site.
"The land, three acres in all, was leased from Clyde Ray. Gravel streets were laid, light poles erected, lots laid out for trailer parking and a utility building constructed. On April 15 they were ready for the business and the first trailer made its appearance.
"Capacity of the park is 24 trailers which is expected to be enlarged to 30 by next spring.
"Each lot is grass covered and the trailer-owner is permitted to plant flowers at this discretion. Awnings are allowed and nice cabanas.
"Those with children are parked at the rear of the property away from the busy road and where their play hours will not annoy the older residents who are parked nearer the front. A playground for the youngster's convenience is in the making and now boasts of a sand-box, teeters and slide.
"The utility building is equipped with shower and toilet facilities, a furnace room, telephone pay station, mail boxes and laundry room.
"At the present time most of the trailer-owners are employed out-of-town. Three of them are employed on the turnpike and one on Rt. 224."
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It's kind of interesting how Dellen Brouse made his dream come true to open his trailer park, even as the village was doing its best to scuttle his plans. I went back and retrieved this article from the November 12, 1953 Lorain Journal to get a little more information about how it all went down.
3 comments:
Today you will see one of the front mobile homes along 58 is gone due to a recent fire. (last 6 mos or so)
The article... "furnace room" - I presume that's the room where the hot water is made for the communal facilities.
Gramma lived in a trailer park in Titusville Florida, right on the Indian River. You could sit in her back yard and watch rockets being launched from the Cape!
We thought the place was really cool, and while her single-wide had its own amenities, she much preferred everyone, especially us kids, to use the communal ones. Meant she didn't have to clean so much.
Once, while I sat on the commode, the hugest spider that ever lived in the history of the entire world came a'crawlin' over the top of the stall. I was in the right place to sh!t myself but couldn't for the fact that every orifice I owned clamped shut in fear.
Except my mouth. I screamed bloody murder and Dad came running. When I pointed out the fearful arachnid, he laughed and said, "It's just a banana spider. They won't hurt you."
Yeah. Sure. Go look up images of "banana spider" and tell me what you think.
I still don't like spider very much.
I like that the Trailer Mart ad touts its slab-sided vehicle as "authentic early American" - like Ben Franklin and John Hancock drove around the colonies in 1776, apparently.
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