Back in the summer of 1945 – with the war winding down – the Ohio Public Service Company launched an interesting little series of ads. Entitled "Growing With Lorain," the ads provided a historical perspective of how the electric utility was there to share in Lorain's growth and progress.
The campaign apparently ran from July to September and shined the spotlight specifically on Broadway lighting, the YMCA, Lorain's bridges and streetcars & buses. The last ad notes, "By looking ahead and anticipating the needs of the community, The Ohio Public Service Co. is ready today to meet a steadily increasing use of electric power and light in the post war era into which we are now entering.”
I've done a few posts about Lorain's YMCA – the one that opened in 1925 and the one that replaced it on Tower Boulevard.
Those were interesting ads. I didn’t know the YMCA building on 28th wasn’t the original. The street car/bus ad brought memories of my mom taking us on the bus to get downtown, back when we were a one car family.
ReplyDeleteIt's strange that the electric company chose to highlight the replacement of electric streetcars with gasoline powered buses.
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