Corner Grocery Stores and a Childhood Walk in Elyria
A Chronicle-Telegram reminiscence recalls Elyria's south side in the 1950s and 60s with eight small grocers along Middle West and East avenues. The author remembers South End Market at 1415 Middle Ave, buying Wonder Bread bologna celery and iceberg lettuce, and a Popsicle, noting the street life and local safety town memories from age five in 1963.
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Elyria
17Th Street
7Th Street
West
East Avenues
East 15Th Street
South End Market
Middle Ave
Middle Avenue
Safety Town
B&b
Lake Ave
Billow’s Variety
Clark St
Block's Grocery
West Ave
C&j Superette
Hilliard Road
Cascade Grocery
West River Road
Dodsley’s
Cleveland St
Don's
East Side Food
East River St
Eastgate Variety Store
Prospect St
Elyria Dairies
Evergreen Food Store
East Ave
Fells Market
Grafton Road
Frank’s Foodway Market
Griswold Road
W. Griswold Road
Family owned markets in Elyria 1963 directory list
A compact listing of family owned dairy grocery and meat markets in the 1963 Elyria City Directory. Excludes corporate chains and North Ridgeville stores, notes Italy's as family owned, and lists markets with street addresses in Elyria.
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Elyria
A&p
Lawson’s
Fisher Foods
Kroger’s
North Ridgeville
Italy’s
Abookire
List of local grocery markets compiled by Man of Bick
A compiled directory lists numerous neighborhood grocery stores with addresses across Ilsaly Lindale Lindway Madara O'Brien and surrounding streets. The index includes Hales Finer Foods Ilsaly's Cleveland St. Elslay's Dairy Store Norris and many others, concluding with Compiled by Man of Bick.
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Hales Finer Foods
Middle Ave
Ilsaly’s
Cleveland Street
Cleveland
Elslay's
Broad St
Lindale Food Market
Lindway Market
Lake Ave
Madara’s Creamery
East Ave
Masher’s Grocer & Meats
Courtland
McDonald's Grocery
West Ave
Molosky's Grocery
Norris Grocery & Meats
O'Brien's Food Fair
Cleveland St
Packinghouse Market
Pallas Dairy
West River Road
N. I Pete’s
Oak St
Phil & Harve's Foodway
Rolings Food Market
E. Broad St
Ross Grocery
18Th St
Salyi’s Market
Furnace St
Schmidt's Food Market
East River St
Smith G. A
G.A. Smith Grocery
Irondale
South End
Vargo's
Wooden's Food Market
Wycosky’s Fine Foods
Lodi St
Rock Hall Induction Ceremony Opens With Bon Jovi Honor
Cleveland hosts the 33rd Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction at Public Auditorium with a sold out crowd. The Killers perform a Tom Petty tribute as Bon Jovi receives the honor with a lengthy, memory filled speech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
I.M. Pei
Killers
Tom Petty
Flowers
Bon Jovi
Howard Stern
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Foundation
Rolling Stone Magazine
Jann Wenner
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
King
Ranger Rider statue damaged in North Ridgeville stadium vandalism
North Ridgeville officials confirm the Ranger Rider statue at the Middle School stadium was vandalized before demolition. Superintendent Jim Powell says the horse was shattered and parts were found at St. Peter's after police alerted the district the morning after the incident.
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North Ridgeville
Jim Powell
St. Peter's
Matt Yunker
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Marci Rich
Angela Abookire
Marci
Anthony H
Marie Abookire
Marci Abookire Rich
Sharon Sofia Kessler
the Chronicle-Telegram
Chroniclet.com
Richard Hales
Albert Hales
John and
Ellsworth
Hales Superette
Advice
Ranger Rider
Carissa Woytach
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