Journal Business and Industrial Review Page – March 16, 1970

Detail from a Squires Construction Co. ad

The Lorain County Business and Industrial Review page was regular feature in the Lorain Journal for years. It was a very handy feature, with well-written business advertisements and company profiles that resembled newspaper articles. The rest of the page was basically a collection of classified ads of various shapes and sizes. They were probably reasonably priced for the advertisers.

The particular page below ran in the Journal on March 16, 1970. 

It's interesting to me for several reasons. Being a big fan of Sandy's Hamburgers, it's nice to see the big, gaudy sign with Miss Sandy on it. There's an ad for Chuck's Rock & Pet Shop (where my parents bought me my pet hamster) which was located in the Beulah Beach community. And there's an ad for Burge Building & Roofing, who did some fire damage repair work in my house on Nebraska Avenue in the 1990s.

I don't recall Capy's Pizza Parlor, the subject of another article masquerading as an ad. It was located at 1426 Oberlin Avenue. Does anybody out there remember it?

Perhaps you will recognize a favorite company that you did business with. 

There's also some regular editorial content on the page, including a continuation of a front page article about hippies hijacking a U.S. cargo ship near Thailand as part of an antiwar protest.