As usual, I spent part of yesterday laboring over what to post today. Over the years, the Lorain Journal didn't always feature one of those typical full-page ads with lists of sponsors at the bottom every year. Plus, I already used up a lot of the ones from the late 50s and early 60s.
But I did manage to find one from the August 30, 1958 Lorain Journal. Sorry, no Grim Reaper in this one. But we do get an illustration of working men in a generic industrial environment that would have accurately reflected Lorain in its heyday.
What would the same kind of Labor Day ad in the Journal look like today? I'm not sure.
As usual, it's interesting to see the listing of the 1958 ad sponsors. A few businesses are still around, including Amherst Memorial Studio and National Waste Paper (now doing business as National Material Recycling). Predictably, the other survivors are successor companies, consisting mostly of insurance companies, funeral homes and banks.
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Ah, Labor Day. End of the summer job and the start of skool. Never celebrated it much. I was always working making tourists happy!
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