Brady's Bunch of Lorain County Nostalgia

Although I finished up my blog series on Vian’s yesterday, I realized that I forgot to give it the “then & now” treatment, even thou...

Throughout the 1970s, Vian's On the Lake Motel Plaza was still promoted in ads in the phone book as "the Commercial Man’s Haven i...

During the 1960s, Nicholas Vian continued to regularly promote his restaurant and motel in the Journal and the Lorain Telephone Company dire...

The 1957 Lorain Telephone Company directory was the first edition to carry an ad ( shown above ) for the new motel that was part of the Vi...

Ad from the January 18, 1950 Lorain Journal By the early 1950s, Vian’s had been open for more than ten years. Ads for the restaurant wer...

Nicholas Vian apparently believed in the power of advertising and promotion, as a second series of postcards were issued promoting his bar...

Like many savvy highway entrepreneurs in the 1930s and 40s, Nicholas Vian supplemented his restaurant business with cabins that were avail...

Nicholas M. Vian was the man behind Vian’s. He was born in Greece in the early 1890s, and came to this country as a child. Before moving ...

1969 Phone Book ad For decades, the highway known as U. S. Route 6 and Ohio State Route 2 (6 & 2) was the main east-west route throu...

If you were looking for a place in Lorain County where you could celebrate New Year's Eve 1958, these ads – from the December 30, 1958 L...

While preparing Monday's post about the old Sheffield Lake Fire Station on Lake Road, I poked around in the vintage Lorain City Direct...