Brady's Bunch of Lorain County Nostalgia

  Sixty years ago, this was the Christmas Eve edition of the Journal on Dec. 24, 1963. The big news, of course, was the impending merger of...

Thew Shovel has been the subject of a few posts on this blog over the years. I posted a 1949 ad celebrating the company’s 50th anniversary ...

I received an interesting email a couple of days ago from a gentleman named Guido. No, he wasn’t threatening to break my legs over somet...

Undated aerial photo of Thew Shovel (Courtesy Dennis Lamont) Courtesy P. C. Campana I guess I would be remiss if I didn’t acknowled...

Add caption I haven't done any 'Then and Nows' lately – probably because I've used up all of the most obvious (and easil...

This past Sunday, I detoured on the way to the grocery store to grab a shot of the Thew Mausoleum in Elmwood Cemetery. It's an imposin...

Here's a reminder of the good old days when Lorain was truly an industrial giant, and its name was known all around the world thanks t...