When Mutt & Jeff's Was Penny Morgan's Place

I thought I'd done about a complete a history (here) as I could of the building that houses my favorite Saturday night eatery – Mutt & Jeff's – until I found this great article. It's by well-known Journal Staff Writer Hank Kozloski, and ran in the newspaper on April 2, 1989.

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Oberlin Avenue Tavern has colorful past
By Hank Kozloski

Except for the sign in front of 3700 Oberlin Ave., and maybe an occasional change in paint color, the building now known as Mutt & Jeff's hasn't changed much over the years.

But the building has a colorful and sometimes notorious past.

Today Mutt & Jeff's is a popular weekend haunt. To oldtimers, it will always be known as the Airport Tavern.

But during the Great Depression, when the building was still in Black River Township, it was called Penny Morgan's Place and was the site of a famous Lorain County scandal.

Lorain County Sheriff William F. Grall,who served three two-year terms as Lorain mayor (1920-24 and 1926-27), went to prison in late 1938 for accepting bribes in a sensational grand jury probe of a slot machine and vice racket which operated out of Penny Morgan's Place. Five other Lorain County men were also sent to prison for running the racket and giving bribes to Grall for allowing them to operate.

Grall, who was paroled from prison in 1941, moved from Lorain after being paroled to become editor of the Lake Union Herald, a weekly magazine published by the Lake Union conference of Seventh-Day Adventists at Berrien Springs, Mich.

Former Lorain builder Vlad Nickoloff, now living on Key Largo, Florida, recalled delivering newspapers to Penny Morgan's Place during the early 1930's.

"All the politicians went there," Nickoloff said.

He said Carl Finnegan, who replaced Grall as sheriff, put Penny Morgan's Place out of business.

The list of people who owned a building at that site dates back to 1928 when Celia Florence Chovik acquired it, then lost it to Cleveland Trust Co. in 1936. Gus Gailus Sr. bought it in 1937 and sold it to Alex Hormanski in 1943.

It was Hormanski who named it Airport Tavern, after Mills Airport located on Meister Road. When Hormanski was killed in a car accident, Nettie Sroka took over Airport Tavern in 1954. She later sold it to Bruno Dombroski, a local professional wrestler, in 1959.

The name Airport Tavern disappeared from the building when ownership changed five times since 1959.

Wilma George, the next owner after Dombroski, changed the name to Sherwood Inn. Then former County Commissioner Fred Ritenauer became the owner. He called it The Trademark. It wasn't long after that it became Scardi's under Guy Scardami's stewardship. And now, Mutt & Jeff's under Klaus J. Grm.

Whatever it is called, it will always be a part of Lorain history and Oberlin Avenue history.

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Hey, speaking of Mutt & Jeff's, here's a nice look at how it is today. After watching this, you'll understand why my wife and I are Saturday night regulars. (The only problem with the short video? It doesn't have Brenda, our favorite waitress in it. But it does feature her twin sister Becky.)

And before the Sherwood Inn...

I'm not old enough to remember that even before Mutt & Jeff's was the Sherwood Inn, it was the Airport Tavern.

   The Airport Tavern first showed up in the City Directory in 1942. It must have been the only thing along that stretch of Oberlin Avenue back then. According to the 1945 City Directory, there were no other street addresses listed between the Airport Tavern and 29th street. 

   Also, according to the 1942 City Directory, the airport at that time was called the Lorain Airport and it was located at the northeast corner of Meister Road and Leavitt Road.

    The Airport Tavern became the Sherwood Inn around 1962. Here's a 1942 ad from the City Directory (above). 

Airport Tavern Grand Opening Ad – November 19, 1946

I’ve mentioned the Airport Tavern many times on this blog, as the building (which is currently home to Mutt & Jeff’s) continues to fascinate me with its interesting history as a notorious nightclub.

In the early 1930s it was the 400 Bridge Club, complete with drinking, dancing girls and gambling; by 1935, it was the Country Gardens; a few years later it was Penny Morgan’s Place, a well-known brothel.

Finally, by the early 1940s, it was called the Airport Tavern, named for the Port Mills Airport on Meister Road just a few minutes away.

Well, here’s another piece of the historic puzzle. It’s an ad for a Grand Opening of the Airport Tavern that appeared in the November 19, 1946 Lorain Journal – 69 years ago this month.

The night club’s bar and dance area had just been remodeled and a modern kitchen added.

What’s interesting is that the name of the manager (Bruno Dombroski) and proprietor (Alex Hormanski) are listed in the ad. Thus, a few more details in the history of the place are filled in.

Today, the building’s location on Oberlin Avenue – nestled near modern banks, a fast food outlet and retail stores – continues to belie its colorful past.

August 2015 photo

And before it was the Airport Tavern...

The very first topic on this blog (almost a year ago) concerned Mutt & Jeff's (one of my favorite restaurants) and how it used to be the Sherwood Inn. I followed that up a few days later with a second entry noting that before it was the Sherwood Inn, it was the Airport Tavern beginning around 1942.

Well, it took almost a year, but I can now add another nugget of information to the history of Mutt & Jeff's building. I discovered that the 3700 Oberlin Avenue address first showed up in the city directory in 1940 as a place where tourists could rent a room for the night. (See city directory entry at left.) It kind of makes sense, since at time there wasn't much on Oberlin Avenue in that neck of the woods, and besides, it was outside Lorain city limits. (The 3650 Oberlin Avenue address disappeared from the directory by the time that the Airport Tavern was in business, leaving just the tavern and the farmhouse on Oberlin Avenue near the city limits.

The History of 3700 Oberlin Avenue

Ever since I started this blog almost two years ago, I've been feeding you the history of the building at 3700 Oberlin Avenue (above) piecemeal. Of course, many of you recognize it as Mutt & Jeff's. But during my last update, a regular reader of this blog named Bill noticed that I had overlooked two other businesses that had called that address home. So I had to go back and do a little more research.

What follows below is a compilation of my research so far.

I still haven't determined exactly when it was built, since that information for this building is not on the Lorain County Auditor's website. But as early as 1939, it was the residence of Penny Morgan, who rented rooms to tourists.

Listing from 1939-1940 City Directory

An ad in the Lorain Journal in July 1939 for the Hilltop Tavern lists its address as 3700 Oberlin Avenue.

From around 1942 until about 1962 it was the Airport Tavern, taking its name from the airport that was located nearby at the corner of Meister Road and Leavitt Road. At that time, there was nothing out this way (since it was outside the city limits) but farms and the airport.

1942 City Directory ad

April 1958 Lorain Journal ad

Around 1962, the Airport Tavern became the Sherwood Inn. (This is what I remember the place as being while I was growing up.)

1973 Lorain Phone Book ad

From about 1982 to 1983 it was The Trademark.

Next, it was Scardi's in the 1984 phone book.

And since 1984, Mutt & Jeff's has called 3700 Oberlin Avenue home.

Special thanks to Bill for filling in the gap in between the Sherwood Inn and Mutt & Jeff's.

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Most Saturday nights, you can find my wife and me at Mutt & Jeff's, sitting at the same table near the bar, enjoying the great food, the ambience and most of all, the company of the warm, friendly staff. Brenda (our favorite), her sister Becky, Tracy and the rest of the gang make Mutt & Jeff's a special place for their customers and growing group of regulars.

If you've never tried one of their excellent burgers, by all means stop in and try one – or anything on the menu for that matter. You might just get hooked and become a regular yourself. (But please – don't take our table!)

Thanksgiving at the Airport Tavern - 1957

Here's an ad that ran in the Lorain Journal on November 27, 1957, suggesting celebrating Thanksgiving at the Airport Tavern instead of cooking at home. (I don't know if Mutt & Jeff's – current occupant of the Tavern's former digs – offers that same option tomorrow. I'll have to ask our favorite server Brenda.)

I've never really eaten out on Thanksgiving, although the day may come someday. The closest I ever came was one Thanksgiving when I was single. I bought a rotisserie chicken at a Convenient Food Mart (the folks were out of town).

Today, rotisserie chickens (from Apples on Lake Road) are one of the spouse's and my favorite meals when we don't feel like cooking. For a truly Canadian meal (the spouse is a Canuck you know), we mix up some Swiss Chalet sauce to dip the chicken in.

Lenny's Drive-in on Oberlin Avenue

Even though I grew up on the West Side of Lorain, I had never heard of Lenny's Drive-In until I saw this ad announcing its Grand Opening.

The full-page ad ran in the Lorain Journal on July 10, 1956 – 57 years ago today.

Courtesy www.gono.com

Lenny's Drive-In was in fact a Richardson Root Beer stand. In addition to the 'rich' root beer, the menu also featured 12 inch hot dogs, hamburgers, french fries and super shakes.

So where was Lenny's Drive-In located? The answer: right next door to the Airport Tavern (now Mutt & Jeff's) at 3730 Oberlin Avenue. That's the Airport Tavern's siding visible in the photo.

Unfortunately, Lenny's Drive-In didn't last very long, which is why I never heard of it.

By the 1962 City Directory, it was gone and replaced at that address by the Corral Drive-In run by Bob H. Knight. The Corral Drive-In advertised steakburgers, shrimp and Southern fried chicken.

But despite its mouth-watering menu, the Corral Drive-In headed for the last roundup and was not in the 1964 City Directory. The address was simply listed as "No Return."

Very briefly, a final attempt was made to try and make a success out of a drive-in at that location. In the 1965 Directory, Mike Adams Drive-In Restaurant made its only appearance. But it too was gone in the 1966 Directory.

Finally, in the 1967 Directory, the well-known DeLuca Bakery made its appearance at that location with a 3780 Oberlin Avenue address. It's a possibility that the rear portion of the drive-in was incorporated into the larger bakery building that replaced it (see recent photo below).

In this view from the rear of the properties, that's Mutt & Jeff's
on the left and the former DeLuca Bakery building (now Rite-Nau Beverage) on the right

Today Rite-Nau Beverage Drive-Thru occupies the former DeLuca Bakery building, and carries on the drive-in tradition by providing frosty beverages to people behind the wheels of their cars.

Note the same window of Mutt & Jeff's that is visible in the Lenny's Drive-In photo

To see some still existing Richardson Root Beer stands, drop by the great Roadside Architecture website (here).

Oberlin Avenue Commercial Strip Pioneers – March 1952

Anyone familiar with Lorain history knows that Meister Road used to be the southern City Limits, and that for decades there was very little out that way except for farmland (including the Neuman dairy farm), some scattered homes, the Airport Tavern and, at the very end of Oberlin Avenue, the Old Stone Villa nightclub.

Well, that all started to change beginning on Thursday, March 6, 1952. That’s the day that Jay’s IGA Foodliner celebrated its Grand Opening at 3270 Oberlin Avenue. It was followed by the Grand Opening of Lezber Floors the following day on March 7, 1952.

Both were built by Steve Navalinsky, who also built Willow Hardware (which opened exactly a year later).

Here’s the full-page Grand Opening ad for Jay’s. As you can see, the small building was originally all by itself.

A year later in March 1953, Jay’s was joined by neighbor Willow Hardware (below).

And in 1955, Jay’s moved into a new and bigger space within the shopping center (which I wrote about here). (This space would later become Willow Hardware’s home.)

By 1961 Jay would leave the shopping center and construct a new store further south on Oberlin Avenue (that would later become a Meyer Goldberg store).

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Lezber Floors was owned by Ralph Lezber. It was located at 2311 Oberlin Avenue prior to its move to 3300 Oberlin Avenue.

Here’s its Grand Opening ad, which ran in the Lorain Journal on the eve of its March 7, 1952 opening.

Here’s a 1956 Lorain Telephone book ad, with a nice line art rendering of the building.

And here's a 1957 ad from the phone book with another nice illustration.

By the time of the 1954 City Directory, Lezber Floors and Jay’s had been joined in the listings by Willow Hardware, Willow Tavern (run by Edward Toth), RCA Service at 3330 Oberlin Avenue, and the Knights of Columbus Council at 3350 Oberlin Avenue.

Lezber Floors appeared in the city directories until its listing disappeared beginning in the 1984 edition. Today its distinctive building is the home of DiFrancesco Garage Doors & Openers. (Click here to read about the late Paul DiFrancesco, the man behind the business.)

Sherwood Inn Ad – July 28, 1962

Let's stay on Oberlin Avenue in 1962 for another day – shall we?

Just a few blocks north of the Putt-R Golf course on the same side of the road was Sherwood Inn. The quarter-page ad below ran in the Journal back on July 28, 1962.

The ad, highlighting the Sunday morning breakfast menu, makes a very convincing case to drop in. I especially like the description of the 'delicious buckwheat pancakes swimming in butter and hot syrup.' And the free cup of coffee, "whether you have breakfast with us or not," sounds pretty good too.

Sherwood Inn has long been a favorite topic on this blog. In fact, it was the subject of the very first regular post back on April 3, 2009.

Since then, I've written a lot about the various establishments that called that building home, including the 400 Bridge Club (early 1930s), the Country Gardens (mid-1930s), Penny Morgan's Place (late 1930s), Hilltop Tavern (1939), the Airport Tavern (1942-1962) and finally, Sherwood Inn (1962-1982). After that, it was the Trademark (1982-83), Scardi's (1984) and then Mutt & Jeff's (since 1984). You can find ads in chronological order for some of these businesses on this post, and read an excellent history of the building and its various occupants (including Penny Morgan) by well-known Journal Staff Writer Hank Kozloski here.

Memorial Day 1954

From the pages of the May 30, 1954 edition of the Lorain Sunday News comes this two-page spread commemorating Memorial Day 1954.

It's got a nice sentiment. It reads, "The finest Americans are those who have given their lives for their country. The nation should not forget their sacrifice, nor should the people fail to remember that sacrifice every Memorial Day. Those who lost their lives defending this country are our greatest heroes, and without their sacrifice, no American would today be free. That is something worth remembering – and to be thankful for."

It's a good reminder that while it is always good and proper to honor all veterans, today is the today we remember those who gave up their lives while serving their country.

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The list of sponsors of the Lorain Sunday News ad is interesting in that it isn't the same old names found in similar Lorain Journal ads.

There are quite a few that I've never heard of, including: Dubble Dip Drive In (4079 Broadway); Connie's Restaurant (2941 Grove Ave.); Tel-Rad Television (3169 Globe Ave.); Varela Restaurant (1547 E. 30th St.); Flossie Trebus Beauty Shop (828 Highland Park Blvd.);

There are also many that were mentioned on this blog, including: J. Spang Baking Co. (522 W. 22nd); Duskey Bros. Pure Oil Station (Broadway at 19th St.); Gilbert's Food Store (Garfield and Missouri Aves.); Carl R. Johnson Trailer Court (Stop 112 - W. Lake Rd.); Airport Tavern (3700 Oberlin Ave.); Bob's Do-Nut Shop (1782 Broadway); Kucirek Construction (2904 Oberlin Ave.); and Polansky Meat Market (1376 Long Ave.).

Dubble Dip Drive In at 41st and Broadway was connected with the Service Creamery and carried its milk.

October 1, 1954 Lorain Journal Ad

What used to be in that building?

I haven’t done one of these types of posts in a while, so it’s about time.

Recently I noticed by the sign out front that this attractive brick building towards the southern end of Oberlin Avenue in Lorain had recently sold. (I always liked the fedora-wearing dog logo on those BARCK Realty signs.)

Do you remember what business was at this location for decades beginning in the mid-1950s?

Anyone who lived on the West side of Lorain would probably instantly recognize it as the home of Stanley’s Garden Center, owned by Stanley and Helen Zadekas.

Although it might seem a little unusual location for a business like this (in the old days you might have to go out into the country to find one), in this case it makes sense.

Back in the 1950s, this area was still “out of town” when it comes to Lorain. It wasn’t yet part of the city.

It was beginning to open up, however, with the explosion of homes that was beginning to occur on the west side (which my parents were a part of). Businesses began to pop up on Oberlin Avenue south of Meister Road to provide families with the things that they needed for their new homes.

So what was out in that neck of the woods around the time when Stanley’s Garden Center opened?

Looking at the 1957 City Directory, there were several businesses mixed in with the homes. There was the Airport Tavern (today’s Mutt & Jeff’s), Lenny’s Drive-in and Shield’s Rest Clinic (today’s Sprenger Health Care Autumn Aegis).

And although Tower Boulevard wasn’t built yet, the Lorain Animal Clinic was already there at 4205 Oberlin Avenue. Further down was the Italian American Veterans at 4645 Oberlin Avenue. Near the very end there was the Four Winds Drive-in (more about it tomorrow) and Stone Villa. (No Rebman’s yet.)

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Stanley’s Garden Center had an impressive run until it closed in the early 2000s. Kelly Heating and Air Conditioning then called the location home for many years, followed most recently by Ink Shop.

Loss of Driving Ranges is Par for the Course

While out in Olmsted Township a few weeks ago, I noticed that Golden Tee Golf Range located on Bagley Road at Stearns was for sale, and I felt a little wistful.

You see, many years ago when I was trying to become a golfer, I used to enjoy hitting a bucket of balls at these little practice ranges, which were all over Northeast Ohio. They were often located in a quaint rural setting or on the outskirts of town, where land used to be cheap.

It was an easy seasonal business to get into. All you needed was some acreage, distance markers, lots of golf balls and maybe a roof over the tees.

Now with the land on which these ranges were located becoming valuable thanks to urban sprawl, driving ranges are being, well, driven out much like drive-in movie theaters.

With the former Golden Tee property located so close to the Ohio Turnpike and I-480, and offered for sale along with a huge adjoining piece of land, I’m sure that the days of working out the kinks in a golf swing there are gone forever.

West Pines Golf Range on Chester Road over in Avon is another one that area golfers will miss. It sold just before last Christmas for $4.5 million to a developer who plans to build an office park on the site.

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Golf practice ranges have been around a long time.

In Lorain, the listing first appeared in the phone book in the 1948 edition. There were two listed.

One was located on the east side of Oberlin Avenue, near the Airport Tavern (today’s Mutt & Jeff’s). Back then, that area was pretty much out in the country, well past the city limits at Meister Road. The other golf range was on US 6 on the outskirts of Vermilion, just east of where the Vermilion Farm Market is today.

It took a while for other practice ranges to show up in the phone book. By 1970, Hillcrest Golf Range (at 32625 Detroit Road in Avon) and Midway Golf Club & Driving Range in Amherst on Leavitt Road were the only two listed.

June 8, 1969 ad from the Chronicle-Telegram

Others followed in the later 1970s, like Tiny Pines on Lake Avenue and Pheasant Run in LaGrange.

Ad from the 1975-76 Lorain Phone Book

Aqua Marine in Avon Lake advertised its own lighted driving range in the 1980 phone book.

The 1980s and 90s saw a slow, gradual increase in the number of local practice ranges. Here’s the listing from 1990.

1990 Listing

One of the biggest and nicest local ranges was The Range at Avon at 1325 Center Road, with 115 practice tees. Today, its former location is home to the Avon Crossing shopping center.

Many of the old ranges have closed; Hillcrest Golf Range is now the home of Hope Christian Church. Others have thrived under new ownership, especially when part of an established golf course. 

One of the oldest – the former Midway Golf Club and Range (later Deer Track Golf Club) is still around. Today it is known as Dragon Ranch Golf Club. Click here to read a nice history page on its website.

Oberlin Avenue Farmhouse

Here's an interesting photo that was part of a huge ad for the Kucirek Construction Company that ran in the Lorain Journal on July 18, 1959. (Click on it for a super-sized view.)

According to the ad copy, the company had recently renovated the 'old farmhouse' at 29th and Oberlin Avenue and included the photo as the 'before' shot. Since the ad did not contain an accompanying 'after' shot, I drove over with my camera to take one. (Actually I drive by the house all the time, since the house is on my 'flight path' to Yala's Pizza.)

Although my library research revealed that the house first appeared in the city directory in 1940, the Lorain County Auditor's website has the year of construction listed as 1900, which usually means it was before 1900. Nevertheless, if one was driving south on Oberlin Avenue in 1940, this house was probably the last one you would have seen before you hit the city limits at Meister Road, as well as the last one on either side of the street before the Airport Tavern (the present day Mutt and Jeff's) at 3700 Oberlin Avenue. (It's hard to tell if there were other old homes out there with no address.)

It's hard to imagine a time when there was nothing out there in that part of Lorain – no Lorain Plaza, no Willow Shopping Center, no St. Peter's – but this old photo helps to visualize it. The Lorain Images of America book (that I refer to so often) says that there used to be a big dairy farm at the northwest corner of Oberlin Avenue and Meister Road.

The house changed hands a few years after it was built, but by 1947 was curiously back with the earlier owner. By then, another house had been built in the 3400 block of Oberlin Avenue. So now there were two houses on Oberlin Avenue in that neck of the woods!

Around the early 1950's, Kucirek Construction Company acquired the house and renovated it by the time of the 1958 advertisement.

And here is what it looks like today. Through the years, I knew that this house didn't quite fit in with all the 1950's ranches in the area. Now I (and you) know why!

This and That

I found this ad photo of the iconic Sherwood Inn sign while (what else?) looking for something else on newspaper microfilm. It's from June 1969. (Give it a click for a closer look.)

I still can't remember if I ever went in there when it was the Sherwood Inn, but that really doesn't matter. Nowadays, my wife and I spend a lot of time in there on Saturday nights enjoying the Mutt & Jeff's atmosphere. Our favorite waitress Brenda always takes good care of us, and the food is really fantastic. The burgers are great too. 

We never stay for the bands, because that just isn't our thing – we like to eat and run. But if enjoying some great local bands appeals to you, Mutt & Jeff's has an all-day end-of-summer event calling Mutt-Fest coming up next on Sunday, September 26 featuring a lot of local bands and the delicious great food. The event is a benefit for the American Cancer Society.

Here's a link to the Mutt & Jeff's Facebook page.

Mutt & Jeff's/Sherwood Inn/Airport Tavern is rapidly becoming one of my favorite topics on this blog, as it was the subject of my very first post back here, and some follow-up posts here and here.

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Loyal reader of this blog (and fellow Admiral King High School alumni) Jeff Rash left a comment last week about my 'virtual trip' on the sidewalk over to the former Charleston Elementary School (which I posted here). He remembered a 'very small creek' on the west side of the sidewalk and noticed that I did not include a photo of it.

I felt a little guilty that I had rushed through that part of the tour, so I went back with the camera to see what Jeff was talking about. Sure enough, there was a small ditch leading to a storm sewer right where he remembered it. It was dry that day, but I am guessing that this is what he remembered.

Here are the photos of that missing portion of the tour, which starts right at W. 28th Street. (Click on each for a larger view.)

Looking back towards 28th Street you can see the sewer grate.

Thanks, Jeff for pointing that out!

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My blog entry about Johnny Appleseed in Lorain County has caused me to think more about apples, and I've been plowing through the bag of Honeycrisps I bought last week at Shipula's. 

So Saturday morning I headed out on Route 113 to another favorite roadside stand, the Grobe Fruit Farm to get even more apples and a few bottles of apple cider.

Grobe Fruit Farm is also where I've been getting my pumpkins for about the last twenty years.

Here's a link to their page on the Ohio Apple Association website.

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Lastly, I was driving over the Bascule Bridge today and looked over at the harbor and saw some of the first local Autumn color. So, of course, I had to capture it photographically for all you homesick Lorainites living in western states!

Early 1960s Lorain Promotional Brochure Part 1

I bought this vintage Lorain promotional brochure on eBay a few months ago. My best guess is that it dates from the very early 1960s. (That's because McDonalds on West Erie – which first showed up in the 1960 city directory – and the Ford Assembly Plant – which opened in 1958 – are both mentioned, and there are no zip codes listed in the business address listings, since zip codes weren't introduced until 1963).

The brochure is kind of a snapshot of the Lorain of my youth – and yours as well, probably.

The 'Points of Interest' page is interesting because mixed in with the usual Lorain attractions is one I've never seen promoted before: the world's largest tower type windmill. I'm assuming that the brochure is referring to the one on Kolbe Road that's just north of Jaeger Road. (More about it in a later post.)

Next is the "Places to Dine" page.

Plenty of well-remembered Lorain establishments mentioned on this blog are represented, such as the Airport Tavern, Brady's Restaurant & Drive-in, Castle-on-the-Lake, Heilman's Marine Room & Grill, Hoop Drive-in, Howard Johnson's, McDonald's, McGarvey's and even Urbas Cafe (which I blogged about last week).

Sadly, almost every single Lorain restaurant is either long gone or renamed. Of course, the Castle is still around as El Arrierio Mexican Restaurant. And Rosie's Pizza is still in the old location of the Pizza House. (By the way, I had a Rosie's pizza this past weekend and it was great!)

Note how someone really liked Merkle's Kitchen – enough to pencil it in on the brochure!

The "Places to Stay" page is similar in that with the exception of Motel Plaza in Vermilion and Kayann Apartments in Lorain, most of the businesses are gone; only a couple are still around with new names or new functions. (The Grandview Motel is now the Parkview Motel; Beth Shan Motel & Trailer Court is now the Shoreway Motel & Trailer Park; the 5100 W. Lake Road address of Johnson's Trailer Court is now the home of Jack & Diane's Lounge.)

There's Merkle's again – this time as scribbled in as Merkle's Manor. By George, that place must have had a good P.R. agent!

Next: the rest of the brochure, along with an unbelievable map