It's always a little sad when a local landmark is lost.
It's not just the physical loss, the disappearance of something – a building, or whatever – that we're used to seeing year after year. It's the memories, especially when they're directly connected with good times.
Suhr's Store in Mitiwanga was one of those landmarks, a favorite stop for seasonal visitors to Vacationland.
As noted in the article below from the June 3, 1966 Journal, "The store is a landmark on Rts. 6 and 2 and has been operated by the Bowen Suhr family of Norwalk for 50 years. They stock nearly everything a vacationer might need – food, sunburn remedies, magazines."
Sadly, 59 years ago this month, the days when Suhr's Store catered to vacationers came to an end when a truck trailer crashed into it. The photo below from the October 14, 1966
Journal tells the story.
A day later, more details emerged in this
Journal article that ran on October 15, 1966.
The following spring, the demolition of the damaged store was completed, as noted in this clipping from May 25, 1967.
As observed in the October 15, 1966 article, "So Suhr's Store seems destined to become only a memory, and pass from the local scene like the old
Ruggles Beach Dance Hall and the
Farmhouse (LSDA Club),
Cicco's Tavern, and the Lake Shore Electric railway."
Thanks, Dan - Mitiwanga was just a name to me on the old road to Cedar Point. I assumed it was of Native American origin. It seems to mean "peaceful shore" or "sandy beach," at least according to a Google search.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in a summer touristy area and it's always sad to go back and see so many things I loved gone from the face of the earth. It's what time does, y'know? If it can get rid of mountains and fill seas, not much hope of any of our stuff lasting.
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