LIMA OHIO THEN AND NOW

Cool video

I'm not even from Lima, I'm from Toledo, but for some reason I could not look away from how much change 50 years gives to a place. Really puts sentiment in perspective.....

A great American Boom town just like Toledo that suffered the late 80's economic decline and hasn't been the same since

Born there grew up there, haven’t been back in 34 years

I like the photo at 7 minute mark on W. Market St. with three young women walking in 1945. I do know that my mother lived with other young women on McKibben St. during world war II and got married in fall of 1945. I know where she worked, and we know the other friends she lived with. Then they did not have to find rides into Lima, at least not every day. It was a walkable town.

From great and nice to shit and ghetto

tHANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR THE MEMORIES. What ever happened to the Milano Club or the Alpine? Used to play there regularly

How about viewing the surrounding towns like Vauhsville, Columbus Grove, Rimer, Ottawa, Leipsic??

Thank you so very much. I really enjoyed this video. I used to play at the Milano Club in the old days.

Just expecting you showing tank producer site with Abrams.

DOES ANYONE REMEMBER THE LL BOWLING AND ARCHIE ACROSS FROM THE OHIO THEATER?

Sad how the city had potential of be the next new York but drug addicts and lazyness ruined the slightest chance

My father had a bar downtown called the New Yorker, and also had a Clark station in the early to middle 60s. I'd love to find photos. Thanks for this video.

I never heard of Lima, Ohio.

I cried....

From my understanding many small towns in Ohio went downhill, Mansfield, Canton, Zanesville, Portsmouth, Steubenville Dayton, Akron and Youngstown. Too many manufacturing jobs went overseas. Many people left these cities. Be optimistic it may take years or decades with some new ideas they will come back ! Tough times never last, but tough people do !

Please inlarg the caption!!

Grew up there on South Central

I'm new to Lima as a RTA driver. My family is a founding family of this city. Wow, great video and greatly depressing. I've asked so many people in the few months been here what to do for fun here. Answer to the individual is nothing, than pause, bars and bowling. First oil rig, locomotive giant, oil refinery, US army currently reliant on this town for its tanks. So much unknown history and future. Much work to be done. Why no rail passenger service? Trains going by constantly everyday by RTA station, all over city. Where are all the global warming nuts? Never on the buses.

The ghost of Lenny Bruce still goes through the 5 and 10 and the city park everyday and is still bored shitless.

Love It , Could call out each intersection before it was posted. Home is where the heart ❤️ is !!

Great Vid! Anyone have any photos of the old drive in theaters in Lima from back in the day?

Still in Lima. LSH-1966

Does anyone know about The Consolidated Bottling in Lima? I have one of their old bottles but can’t find any information.

Fond memories of Lima when I lived there in the 1970s. No longer the town I loved back then.

This Dope!!!!!! I went to Lincoln I lived on west street thru the alley. I grew up with ty mills,Ricky mills,Bob Compton. Next door to Ron Manley before we moved on Broadway street in front of Lincoln. Great times

I moved to California and my first time back I wanted to cry because it wasn’t home anymore

Well done

Thanks for putting this together. So many childhood memories.

I can’t believe lima used to be cool. I wouldn’t leave lima if it was the city it was in the past. It brings me so much pain to see lima the way it did.

I grew up here in the 80s. Brings back memories.

Didnt Ford have a large engine plant in this town?

Thing is the people left cause most of the work disappeared, when the locomotive factory went away

Some of the best made school buses were made by Superior Coach in Lima, Ohio. Rode one as a kid, owned one as an adult. Made an awesome camper.

Any now and then documentary about Lima, OH that makes no mention of the Lima Locomotive Works is about a half a documentary!

Interesting. I was a photojournalist with The Lima News from 1981-86, when it was on High Street. I still have some vague memories of the town. When I first moved to Lima, there was a neat, old-style Sohio Station on, I think, Main Street. Even then it could have been a museum piece. For weeks, I thought about stopping to photograph it. Then one day, I drove by…and they were tearing it down. That story is pretty much Lima in a nutshell. Fortunately I moved to Annapolis, Maryland where I’ve lived ever since. We appreciate our history here, and haven’t torn down everything that was good.

I live in lima

Oh, and it used to be a very desirable hotel.

Video is ok except for one glaring mistake, it was FROSTOP ROOT BEER NOT "FROSTYS"

I really don't miss that cesspool of evil called Lima, Ohio. That's why as soon as I graduated I got the hell out of there.

Pretty neat video but where was the Kewpee. It started in 1939 in Lima. I was hoping to see that rotating car lot.

Lima ohio home of the lima locomotive works that manufactured steam locomotives for the railroad

Lima trivia: name all 4 of the downtown movie theaters and the 4 drive-ins. (50s-60s)

Oh my God the root beer stand my dad took me to and Pangels I remember Pangels lolWell done on this video What a beautiful job. Some of things are still standing for when I was a kid. I do feel like it was more beautiful back then and they made Lima look worse as they tore down certain buildings and the worst thing they ever did was pull up the brick roads They made Mila look so pretty. I was born and raised in Lima I don't live there now because of the way it is unfortunately

I was born in Lima 51 years ago! I’ve not been back since 1986 , I would love to go back and visit ...

Bring back local groceries!