Elyria Furniture Firm Expands with Two Stores and Neon Sign
Furniture company enlarges to 24 000 square feet at two Elyria locations and expands its warehouse to over 60 000 square feet after remodeling. President Milt Ardman cites downtown value with a 32 000 dollar Broad Street upgrade and a 3 000 dollar sign project featuring neon.
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West Broad
Milt Ardman
East Ave
Elyria
Ardman
Hamilton Ave
Broad St
Kennedy
Old Gove Property Improved on Middle Ave Street
The Old Gove block on Middle Ave between Sec ond and Broad Streets, once called Cheapside, is cited as a model of urban renewal. Florence DeLaVars remodeled the Loomis block to create a modern photographic studio with dark rooms, following six years earlier Lehman Johnson Real Estate improved their basement and first floor facilities.
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Elvira
Middle Ave
Second
Broad Sts
Gove
Florence DeLaVars
Gordon DeLaVars
Loomis
Lehman-Johnson
Lehman and Johnson
Rotarians Sponsor Milan Holiday Parade and Festival
Plans for a Fun Festival in Milan sponsored by the Mapleton District PTA include a 5 to 8 p.m. cafeteria supper on November 11, a bake sale bazaar and country store with homemade mince meat and noodles, a hobby show and a record hop to raise funds to blacktop the Nova School play area. Walter Smith of Nova invites contributions.
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New London
Mapleton
Nova
Walter Smith
Goodrich Store Reopens After 1934 Blaze in Elyria
The Goodrich Co. Elyria store, damaged by a May fire and remodeled at a cost of about 40 000, reopened with a temporary unit. Assistant manager Robert Miller, a 1956 hire, now leads a staff of 70 and oversees remodeling efforts and delivery to local farms. Past managers and executives attended the reopening events.
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B. F_s
Goodrich Co
Elyria
Harry Laughlin
Seer
Gerald Gerber
Foodrich
Robert Miller
Goodrich
Ely
T Ria
Bluebird
Elytia
Miller
Lorain
Cleveland
Maple Heights
Newark
New Philadelphia
Gulf Rd. project spurs traffic shift and parking rules
Elyria residents recall a contentious Gulf Road improvement that widened the street from two to four lanes at a cost of 333665. The project, aided by state and federal funds, changed parking rules and drew protests from Ohio Street residents while mayor Oscar G Dunn pressed for a faster completion time.
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Oscar G. Dunn
Ajpleton
Gulf Rd
Thejin Municipal Court
Rt. 57
Ohio St. S
Cleves
Land St
Hilliard Rd
Dunn
Elyvia Firom
Ohio St. Grew
A. J. Baltes
Norwalk
Laundry, Cleaning Company Moves Into New Elyria Building
Peerless Laundry and Dry Cleaning, Inc. operates from a newly completed 348 West Second Street facility with 64 employees. The firm, founded in 1903 by Harry Crisp, expanded after purchasing a Sandusky unit to improve loading and return of garments from customers.
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Peerless Laundry and Dry Cleaning. Inc
Peerless
Harry Crisp
E. J
Albert Crisp
West Second St
William G. Parsons
Peerless Laundry and Dry Cleaning, Inc
Union Tower and Supply Co
Cleveland
Union
Clarence
Robert
Ralph Roskoph
Elyria
Second St
Alfred Alten
Sandusky Company
Sandusky
Sudro Curtis Funeral Home Historic 38 Rooms Recount
The Sudro-Curtis Funeral Home on Second Street occupies a 38 room building with business space and two floors of living quarters. Harvey and Mrs Curtis run the operation with Ernest W Scheuffler as embalmer and funeral director and a staff of twelve. The facility includes a six funeral-capable first floor, complete with office and casket room, and provides 24 hour emergency service with extensive renovations and modern features.
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Moose Hall
Second St
Sudro-Curtis Funeral Home
Sudro- Curtis
Yeorner
Broad and
Cedar Sts
Harvey Curtis
Curtis
William C. Sudro
Ernest W. Scheuffler
Sudro-Curtis, Funeral Home, Inc
Oberlin Youth Wins Applied Science Degree at DeVry Lab
George Schaefer 19 of Oberlin has earned an associate degree in applied science after completing a 36 week TV and radio servicing training program at DeVry Technical Institute Chicago laboratories.
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Oberlin
George Schaefer
Chicago Laboraties of DeVry Technical Institute
Halloween Theme Floats at Lorain Center Meeting
Kay Harrison Women's Club members directed by Mrs William Gebbhardt carried out a Halloween theme at the Lorain County Center for the Sightless October meeting. Accordion players taught by Mrs C C Schwochow entertained the center and there was group singing.
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Kay Harrison
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Rotarians
Milan
Benercial
Bueun
B.F
Elyrians
Lehman, Johnson Co. Co
Sudro-Curtis
Alus
William
C. J
Cavalaris Lyndal
Annapolis
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