Brady's Bunch of Lorain County Nostalgia

Easter-themed ads in the Lorain Journal during the 1946 holiday season are a mixed bag (or basket if you prefer). The era of the big royalt...

Fisher Foods must have been feeling a little squirrelly when it came time to come up with a theme for its annual Fall Festival promotional ...

The Fourth of July is coming up fast –can you believe it?  For many of us, that means a cookout or perhaps even a picnic (or pic-a-nic, if y...

For more than half a century, grocery stores have used a variety of creative tactics to get shoppers to regularly patronize their establishm...

That's Pat Brady to the left of Roy and Dale Are you old enough to remember watching The Roy Rogers Show on TV?  The Western TV series ...

Sixty years ago this month, the 1964 New York World's Fair opened. (You can read about it and see some great photos here on the NYC Par...

Advertising mascots of the past are one of my specialities here on the blog, with such old friends as Reddy Kilowatt , Speedy Gas Flame and ...

Here’s another vintage ad from the Journal featuring a Walt Disney character. Only this time, it’s a full-page Fisher Foods ad from Novembe...

Fisher Foods was a Downtown Lorain mainstay for decades. The neon sign for the store near the Loop even showed up on a few vintage post...