Saw another drive thru video of Lorain now, and the bank at 1:17 has only the four pillars left standing today. So sad.

I love Lorain Ohio I came to Lorain in 1948 Live there until June 2017 But my Heart still there . I still have a house there Love my Home I had to sale it to pay rent here in TN as my family here didn’t think I should move back as my husband passed away . But it will always be my HOME. When I die I’ll be coming home to be buried in Amherst as my husband is buried there already . Loved my Home there more than anyone could imagine . May19,2020

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Hello, great video! I am currently working on a story about the history of Lorain and the tornado. Would you consider lending us the use of any of the images in the video? We would give you all due respect, props, credit, etc. Thanks, Dan

Lorain , UNfortunately., IS Now the GROIN of OHIO.......

Lorain ohio used to be a great hard working city, clean, people was friendly, great city. Now skip to today, it is full of trash all over the city streets in downtown lorain and east side lorain is garbage, people have no respect, no morals, shows how everything is upside down these days compared to how great it once used to be in Lorain, Ohio

42 thousands views........and only 17 subscribers....that's Loran for you!

I lived and Loved in Lorain, Ohio.....

I was born and raised in Lorain too! :) Melody

KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. I WAS BORN IN LORAIN KEITH KUHN

Nice to look back but I noticed Lorain wasn't as cosmopolitan back then. Almost all white faces. Glad it's changed in that respect. Good music for the background.

YOU DID THE PERFECT MUSIC FOR THIS. KEITH KUHN

WOW I LOVE THIS KEITH KUHN

the second to the last picture is my grandfather at the home dairy co. 34th and broadway..

There was a time Lorain was a great place to live. It will always hold a special place in my heart.

It is so true for Ohio and Michigan and other states bordering us. I do not know what the future holds for us.

I graduated in 1964, and was in the first sophomore class in 1961. Went to Garfield elementary, then Washington at the end of 4th grade, then Hawthorne. In the video at 2:09 is a photo of The Kandy Korner at 23rd & Bdwy, with a row of new cars in front of it. My parents ran the Kandy Korner from 1947 to 1958 and we lived above the store. It was torn down around 1984. Yesterday I viewed the rubble of AKHS.

I was born in 1964 & graduated in AKHS in 1982...I grew up in the Campito area, 33rd Street & Dallas Avenue.

I was born, reared and still live in Lorain, Ohio.

It's true Toni Morrison left Lorain just as everyone leaves their town. It doesn't make it bad, it's just that you want something different. Besides when someone "comes" from a town, that speaks volumes about that community.

lorain aint shit and there is more mixed families in lorain, ohio most of the people in lorain have never been to a city. Everybody knows everybody and the pics. for this video is old and more than half the stores arent even on broadway anymore its like a ghost town.

Internationally acclaimed author, Toni Morrison, is a native of Lorain, but she, like most other educated blacks, left for a better life. It worked for Toni . . . :)

A wonderful song, and Lorain was in its glory in the 1960s when I came of age. You could get a job anywhere - Ford, steel mill, GM in Elyria, shipyards, Thew, etc. The rust belt of America is just that, and it started when companies outsourced work to areas of cheap labor - first our southern states, then other places around the globe. Manufacturing in the US will come back only if we reduce business taxes for companies with jobs for US citizens here. the Clambaker. AKHS 1964

I'm not from Lorain but when i 1st visited i thought it was cool. They have a nice lakefront which has potential to be great if they do something to it.

@cherisseshaw Whitney, Texas, about 1800 folks.

I don't know much about this town, just know two people from Lorain, Ohio that I work with. I like and respect them. They're decent people with great work ethic.

@alandhopewell Cool I moved from Lorain to texas back in 99 what city are you in

@R30HC2009 I remeber Rome I thinkis he from elyria got killed in like 97?

@ComaAlpha lol i just posted something on a casino great minds think alike lol

@stoughton1 Its a done deal Lorain will never be what it used to be for one everyone has moved,there is no entertainment,no shopping,and the ppl are soooo small minded but dnt get me wrng I love the town I was born in.The only way Lorain wld be something is to get better city officials who actually wna see lorain prosper i kno this is old but put something on the water. I think the casino wld b a great idea i remembr bck in day they said it wld brng crime hmmm without it ppl are gettn killed

@mgzamora13 exactly I moved away 12 yrs ago today

Poor gregscooter feels left out. Poor gregscooter wants to see black faces in which ever direction he turns and every image he sees. Further, he believes that nothing whatsoever matters or has anything of value in it unless somehow, somewhere a person with black skin is seen or mentioned. Guess what, Scooter, you're wrong. And you are a racist. Just another crummy black racist.

Wonderful little video. Many thanks, Stew!

My whole family on my mother's side Darby (Darabi) comes from Lorain and I have been back on many occasions to vist them, I must say Lorain is a wonderful City. It is really sad to think that Lorain is full of crime nowadays...I just wish it would go back to way it used to be. Thank you for posting this video! It does bring back the memories of the way Lorain used to be.

Amherst will soon take Lorain place, but Ill never forget her.

If people would just not give up on LORAIN and put 1/4 the energy of making it better as they do complaining about it......maybe just maybe things will change?

the east side is shit too. just look at cromwell. we had a business on the east side and we had to close it cause noone had any money around there. we closed up and so did every other place up and down colorado avenue.

my 88 year old father recognized Mr. Sims, the grocery man...very nostalgic..very nice..I enjoyed my school years here..lota of fun..and good people

not the east side

how old r u

i was born in lorain! and when i get older i'm coming back and i'm gonna fix that town. i love it still though !

Lorain is the real America. God Bless the people who ran the steel mill, shipyard, Lorain Crane, and the Ford plant. Many different cultures living together in the Great Melting Pot!!

I moved from Lorain in '91, and I now live in Texas...I realized watching this that the "Lorain" I remember is more than 30 years gone. Here's to the Dreamland, Tivoli, Ohio, Lanza's, Scott's, Heilman's Ranch House, Twin City Cab, El Campito sans sidewalks, and so much more, my old home town...goodnight. P.S.- with me gone, who points the cannon at City Hall these days?

wow! nice!!! too bad its ghetto as shit nowadays.... sad to see it go downhill

I grew up in Lorain - on the East Side. Went to St Anthony's Elementary School and Lorain High. Also, I taught school in Lorain for 7 years before I moved in 1979. Too bad that all of this has happened to the city.

LOL!!!!

Show a now video and you would want to puke.

i wish the world was still like this i really miss those times=(it is much safer back then, then how it is now

i was just in Lorain today! i know nothing about this town but my family is thinking about moving there. nice vid and great song!