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BUSINESSESBack To Top

Businesses on Broadway

Businesses on Broadway

American Meat Co.

Central Bank at Broadway and 20th Street

Heilman's Restaurant

Hardware Store

Central Hardware Store

Central Hardware

Central Hardware

Citizens Home & Savings Association

Emmons Pharmacy

Hart's Jewelry

Lorain Creamery

Lorain Creamery

Heilman's Restaurant

Elliot's Drugs, First Federal Savings and Dreamland Theater

Sharrock's Gas Station

Businesses along Broadway

Delis Brothers Furniture

Businesses on Broadway at the railroad tracks

Italia Market

Ameritrust Bank

City Bank building

Puerto Rican Grocery Store

Black River Hardware

Central Hardware

Altens Hall

A crane installs telephone poles

Consumer's Builder's Supply Co.

Creator's Hand Flower Shop

Crystal Clear Cleaners

Crystal Clear Cleaners

Crystal Clear Cleaners

Crystal Clear Cleaners

Dale's Barber Shop

Doing Grocery

Dombrowski & Wohlever Funeral Home

Dovin Funeral Home

Lee Furniture and Lorain National Bank

Businesses on Broadway

National Bank of Lorain

Businesses on Broadway

Broadway businesses

Faroh's Candies

Cigar Store

A cigar store

Home Dairy

Lorain Mill and Supply Co.

Lorain Printing Co.

Drilling rig for gas

Grocery Store and Restaurant

Decorating a window

Rudy Moc Photo Studio

Custer, Schneider & Co.

Spang's Bakery

State Theater

VanWagner's Gulf Service Station

Cynthia's Florist

Dana's Restaurant

DelMonico's Barber Shop

DelMonico's Barber Shop

Desiree Styling Salon

Dianna's Restaurant

DiFrancesco Garage Doors

Spitzer Plaza Hotel

Drawbridge Cove

Drechsler Saloon

Eppy's Furniture Store

Electric Auto Sales

Driver License Time

Fazio's Photography Store

Folkman Plumbing Co.

Geiger Grocery

Geiger Hardware

Gem Pharmacy

Ceramics store

Heilman's Restaurant

Honechker Drug Store

Hotel Herbert

Humiston Pool Hall

Hurst, N. B.

Ideal Laundry Co.

King Law Office

King Law Office

Krebs Brothers Meat Market

Consumer's Builder's Supply

Long's Garage

Lorain Banking Company

The Lorain Journal

Wood Lumber Company

Mars Furniture Store

Mars Furniture Store

Mars Furniture Store

Meyer Goldberg Super Market

Monico's Grocery and Meats

Murphy Radiator Repair

Murphy Radiator Repair

Murphy's Radiator Repair

Opeera House Cafe

Parkside Chapel

Rudy Moc Studio

Schnitzler Grocery Store

Seymour's Jewelry

Standard Hardware Co.

Standard Oil Co. Gas Station

Swamp Lilie Hotel

Employees Transit Bus Co.

Employees Transit

Employees Transit

Lorain National Bank

The Universal Co.

American Shipbuilding Co.

American Shipbuilding Co.

American Shipbuilding Co.

American Shipbuilding Co.

American Shipbuilding Co.

The Wickens Co.

Wicken's Company

Wicken's Furniture Co.

Wonderland Theater

Yockey's Gasoline Station

Yockey's Gas Station

 

1924 TornadoBack To Top

Buildings damaged by the Tornado

First Congregational Church and Fire Station #1

Tornado damage

Houses damaged

The Tornado hits a streetcar

People survived but houses are gone

The beach house at Lakeview Park

Tornado damage on North Broadway

Lorain Hardware Co

State Theater

Damaged businesses on Broadway

Ohio National Guard searches wreckage

Damaged house

Wickens Furniture Store

Damaged houses

Ohio National Guard troops survey damage

Cars were tossed around

Business damage

Damaged houses

Church of Christ (Became Christian Temple Disciples of Christ , 1930)

State Theater

Damage on Broadway

Damage on Broadway

Damaged houses

Damaged houses

Damage near the high school

Houses damaged

Damaged houses

State Theater

Damage on Broadway

Storefronts on Broadway

Destruction on Broadway

Destruction on Broadway

A street in Lorain

St. Mary's Church

Army tents for the National Guard troops

Christian Temple

Destruction

State Theater

Funnel cloud approaches Lorain

 

VESSELSBack To Top

U. S. S. Lorain

Armco

Armco being launched

Launching the Superior City

Superior City

Roger Blough

Rodger Blough

Roger Blough

Roger Blough

Roger Blough

Roger Blough

Roger Blough

Roger Blough and tug, Kentucky

Carl D. Bradley

Carl D. Bradley

Canadian Steamship Lines freighter

Carl D. Bradley

Clarence A. Black enters harbor

Self-unloading freighter in Black River

A sailing ship takes passengers for a ride

A passanger ship enters Black River

A passanger ship on Lake Erie

Carl D. Bradley

Phillip D. Block

Carl D. Bradley

C & D ship

"Eastland"

"City of Mackinac"

Carl D. Bradley

World War 2 Corvette

World War 2 Corvette

Mine Sweeper

Clarence A. Black

Arthur M. Anderson

Carl D. Bradley

John A. Donaldson

Carl D. Bradley

Carl D. Bradley

Armco

Augustus B. Wolvin

Philip D. Block

Philip D. Block

C. Russell Hubbard

Philip D. Block

Philip R. Clark

D. M. Clemson

D. M. Clemson and tug Colorado

D. M. Clemson

Replica of a sailing vessel

Alva C. Dinkey

 

CHURCHESBack To Top

Saints Peter and Paul (Russian) Orthodox Church

Agudath B'nai Israel Temple

Saints Peter and Paul Orthodox Church

Agudath B'nai Israel Temple

Disciples of Christ Church