More Vermilion Postcards

I really like living in Vermilion. It's been my home since 2018 and I've grown quite fond of the place. As I've told my friends, living in a Lake Erie tourist town is like being on vacation all year 'round. (That is, except during the winter when they roll up the sidewalks and everything seems to be closed, tightly shuttered against the brutal winter gusts coming off the lake.)

Anyway, I'm still in a real summertime mood, so here are some vintage summer postcards of my Vacationland haven. I've done this before with a four-part series back in 2019. But this is a new collection, freshly poached (hmmm, why am I suddenly hungry?) from eBay.

Postcards of Lakeland Lodges usually seem to date from the 1950s and 60s. Here's one from a slightly earlier era, reminding us that it's been there a long time. 

Linwood Beach is still very popular. There are many vintage postcards of the quaint vacation community, but here a few that I hadn't seen. The beach postcard has a postmark of 1964.

For you boaters out there, here are two views of the mouth of the Vermilion River with very similar composition. The top postcard is postmarked 1956.

Here's another river view.

And here's a sailboat coming into the harbor on a postcard that was cancelled (referring to the original meaning of the word) in 1959.

Snider's Shore Acres was a little west of Vermilion. I featured it on its own post back here. But here are a few new views. The back of the color postcard reads, "SNIDER'S SHORE ACRES - Mel and Elvera Paul (Owner-Manager). Modern 15 Unit Motel located on U. S. 6, one mile West of Vermilion, Ohio. 700 feet private sandy beach. Complete facilities for family vacation." The black and white postcard of the cottages is postmarked 1954.

And here's something I didn't have when I did my comprehensive two-part series (here's Part 1 and Part 2) on Cask Villa: a color postcard of the place. It's from 1936.

It had a beach too, of course.