In addition to the usual suspects consisting of now-extinct Lorain businesses, the listing of ad sponsors include some Amherst companies: Arnold's Cookie Jar, Amherst Food Fair, Essig's "Carry-Out" Beverages, Cherry Knoll Spring Water, Garland Funeral Home, Gerbick Pontiac, Dewey Road Inn and C. J. Springer - Real Estate Broker.
This ad for Central Bank ran in the same edition of the Journal.
(These days, the 1814 date shown in the ad is no longer used for when the city was founded. Instead, 1818 is now the generally accepted date, based on when Josiah Harris settled in the present-day Downtown area.)
The Journal covered the first day of the 1964 celebration with the front page article below on August 3, 1964.
