Brady's Bunch of Lorain County Nostalgia

The Peanuts comic strip by Charles Schulz was very likely the most popular comic strip in America back in its heyday of the 1960s. Even tho...

It's Friday, so many of us are thinking about the various entertainment options for the weekend. Fifty years ago this month, you had the...

Yesterday's post featured popular comic strip character Li'l Abner being used in a 1962 newspaper ad to sell Frankies wieners. Ten y...

My last surviving Peanuts book Although Charles Schulz passed away twenty years ago, his Peanuts comic strip remains in the public eye, wi...

I've mentioned several times how as a kid I used to look forward to the arrival of the Journal each day. Besides the two full pages o...

A few days ago I mentioned how the once mighty A&P chain of grocery stores went kaput.  Well, here’s another national brand that adver...

When I was a kid in the 1960s, the surest sign of the holiday season was the appearance of the animated Christmas specials on TV. At f...

Courtesy DenisKitchen.com I’ve mentioned Li’l Abner , the classic comic strip created by Al Capp on this blog a few times ( here and he...

Remember the Sears Wish Book? That's the subject of today's ad, which in the Lorain Journal on November 4, 1954. It's inte...

Here's wishing all of my readers and fellow local history buffs a most Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  After all the activity her...