Drive around some of Lorain's older neighborhoods, and often you'll see an old, one-story brick building sitting right on a corner, next door to the houses. Today they're usually home to a mom-and-pop grocery or liquor store. And many of them were the same thing seventy or eighty years ago, and the heart of the neighborhood.
Above you see an ad for one of these types of places: D & L Tavern, located on the corner of Lexington and W. 26th Street. It ran in the Journal on January 13, 1965.
It's interesting because it refers to itself as "Lorain's Most Modern and Sunken Bar." I seem to recall someone contacting me at some point to see if I remembered the name of some sunken bar.
At right you see a Google Maps view showing where 2522 Lexington is located.
Anyway, how long had D & L Tavern been there? I found this ad from the Lorain Journal of December 5, 1947. As you can see, Nick Dziama and Peter Lasichak were the proprietors.
D & L Tavern's owners believed in advertising. Here's an ample sample of ads from through the years.
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| April 2, 1948 |
