Lorain Ohio

[@bkeith1853]

I was born and raised there. Escaped Lorain in 1983 as soon as I turned 18. It’s not like it use to be, when the steel mill sold out, and the shipyard and ford plant shut down many people moved out and the once lively downtown turned into a ghost town. Thanks for making the video, the good things still there are the lighthouse and the mile long pier. I have good memories of riding my bicycle and fishing in the lake. It was fun living walking distance from the pier. There is a reason you can buy a house there for under $100,000 there. It really isn’t that great of a place to live. Every city has its good and bad spots but Lorain has more bad spots than average and those spots are extremely dangerous.

[@alexandretalarmin1615]

Hello, live in Cleveland is dangerous? I ask because i want come from France for visiting Cleveland and discover all around too. And watching a sport NBA NHL... Visiting around the lake, buy a clothes with team of sport on it, many things of tourist:)))) I hope i dont will going on the bad place. I speak little English but i dont undertand well when the people speak because i dont pratice. I hope the people will understand me when i will coming in USA. Thanks

[@andrewslife1979]

@@alexandretalarmin1615 if you move to Cleveland stay on the west end of the city

[@DEE-o4v]

Same here...I won't say who I am..but yeah, I pretty much left around 1984 and never came back except to visit my parents.

[@miriamcoon6670]

I lived on the east side on the lake and we had a beautiful view of Lake Erie from our back yard and we could see Cedar Point on a clear day

[@realfunny7]

me 74 now born here worked in the Steel Mill for 30 yrs. as a pipefitter i was called The Midget - graduated from Admiral King HS 1967

[@WalshPhoto]

Thanks so much. I worked in Lorain as a photographer for the Morning Journal from 1990 to 2003. The whole place doesn’t look the same.

[@judithpayne6369]

Just came across this video. I grew up in Lorain, now live in Wyoming. I grew up in the ‘60’s and ‘70’s on the west side. Whenever we go back there we need to take a drive through town. It’s sad that the city looks pretty run down though, but I have my memories.

[@Otaku-420]

Thanks for all the Lorain video's man. Grew up there. Moved away in 92. A lot of nostalgia watching these. It's like an alternate universe. So much has change but still the same. Like I was born at St. Joseph, when ya drove by it all I saw was that shell. I was like Daaaaaamn! There used to also be a huge ship by the police station that was a fixture but it seemed to be gone also. Spent a ton of time at my grandparents, who lived in Elyria, so I'll be checking those out next.

[@AdrianRodriguezWebDevelopment]

thank you for the tour

[@jimmymesler2134]

Lorain died when all the business left. Used to be a lot of well off middle class. But now you are either rich or poor. I was born on the south side and it has changed there quite a bit.

[@DEE-o4v]

Compared to the 70's....Lake View beach looks pretty darn nice...it was bad in the 70's through to the late 70's....they started to finally FIX it up in early 80's...and it seems to have got EVEN better now...

[@GnosisMan50]

I was born in Lorain 66 years ago. My parents came from Mexico and of all places they ended up in Lorain. My dad had an auto body shop. We lived on Lehigh Avenue. Just thinking about this brings back a lot of memories. My siblings and I went to Saint Anthony school. My mom would give me $.10 to buy milk to go with my lunch or $0.15 to buy chocolate milk. I always looked forward to our lunch hour and recess. I also had a stingray bike and a school friend who had an entire side of his bedroom filled with comic books. Unlike today, Halloween was safe and we’d bring home a grocery bag full of candy and we’d go back out for more. I never thought that Lorain would become what it is today. I always thought that it would prosper far more than it is now and I’d still be there but things change and not always for the good. Such is life.

[@KristinKochsmeier]

My father grew up in Lorain Ohio, he grew up on Parkview avenue 979 Parkview avenue, my grandpa built the house my dad grew up in and the house next to it. The street next to Parkview avenue is Mildred avenue (named after my grandma).

[@marcomcdowell8861]

Haven't seen Lakeview Park in 30 years...thanks!

[@harlanforman1866]

I grew up in Lorain. Moved in early 70s. Lived on Homewood Dr just off 57 near Hills dept store. Looking for the big Easter Basket on the lakefront.

[@Saoco325]

I have mix feelings of this place. Landed there back in 95 when I was a 17 year old lost soul. This place bring back good memories, but mostly bad. Still have love for this place. Just because it was part of my journey.

[@KristinKochsmeier]

Why don't you show Parkview avenue?

[@chadbartley2063]

Thank u for doing vedio of lorain ohio ur best got question I'm fixing move there from tx got question

[@andrewslife1979]

If I were you you might want to look at Elyria or Sandusky Ohio they're much better cities than Lorain. Good luck

[@domstevenson8971]

there are def better spots in lorain than what i’ve seen here, i live and grew up near the hospital on the west side and i’d honestly say anything to the west of leavitt road is pretty nice/safe/expensive and mostly almost any house on lake road

[@marcomcdowell8861]

Wow, Rakich and Rakich, Janansko, all still open there. To be honest, my entire 18 years living there, not once did I venture behind the police station/city hall. I always thought it was a dead end street. Had no idea there were houses back there.

[@captain_hammer4760]

Ashtabula is located in the NE corner of the state, not Lorain.

[@kevinthompson238]

Nothing like home

[@disastertom]

Lorain is not located in the northeast corner of Ohio.

[@andrewslife1979]

You're right Lorraine is not in a far northeast corner of Ohio but it is considered a part of the Northeast Ohio region

[@JT0007]

🇺🇸👏

[@normandothegreat]

Robbed there Christmas Eve 1970 when my father was fighting in Vietnam, things you remember. I went to Charleston Elementary School and remember getting stabbed in my thigh with a pencil, they had to dig the piece of pencil out because they had real lead in them back then. Good times! ☺️

[@raulhavana5448]

You can't go to Lorain not go to South Lorain.

[@donogaming4881]

I live right arcross lakeview

[@nwothompson]

Where you going bra Elyria is way worse

[@DEE-o4v]

Too many blacks in Elyria........and well....too many Puerto Ricans in Lorain. a person has to pick their poison....me? Hell, IF I had to choose...I"d like in Amherst or Avon!

[@carolmccartney7607]

Your narration is very choppy and monotone. Your repeat the info too much. Bye!

[@altressad]

Good riddance!