A quiet village by (Ohio's best?) beaches...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Headland Dunes State Beach/Nature Preserve

 

 

So many people dont even know about this facet of Ohio.  Just beautiful.  Does our state do enough tourism promotion to out of state people to capitalize on this?

 

So many people dont even know about this facet of Ohio.  Just beautiful.  Does our state do enough tourism promotion to out of state people to capitalize on this?

 

 

Not really. But there is this:

 

http://byways.org/explore/byways/59836/

and don't forget that all important social event of the year, the Fairport Mardi Gras, which this year, for some reason, begins on July 4 instead of closing on that day, as has been the case for as long as I could remember-- http://fairportmardigras.vpweb.com/

 

...and sadly Perch Fest has been cancelled this year! http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/local_news/oh_lake/annual-perchfest-in-lake-county-canceled

So many people dont even know about this facet of Ohio.  Just beautiful.  Does our state do enough tourism promotion to out of state people to capitalize on this?

 

They don't even promote INstate.  Most people in Dayton don't know this exists.  I'd venture to say a quarter don't know Ohio has beaches to begin with (probably more than a quarter; I'm being generous).  Thanks for the photos.

I grew up right down the road!

 

I can remember having high school practice at Fairport Harbor. We would run drills in the sand, which sucked!

the real problem is there is no tourism promotion of ohio at all.

 

kind of sad i see tv ads in nyc promoting places like for example, mississippi, but never anything about ohio.

 

ohio has so much to offer, but nobody knows about it!

 

^ Exactly.  Ohio should run radio ads about as much as those annoying Pure Michigan ads I hear ever third mile.

Cute, I like the lighthouse.

^the building next door is also a museum and you can also go to the top of the lighthouse (at least you still could in the 60's))--great views. I think it was almost demolished in the 1940's.

Fairport Mardi Gras, 1950

notice the Diamond Shamrock plant (back then Diamond Alkali) in upper left at the height of its smog-spewing peak. I think the yellow tint of the photo means it's just old, or it could be the actual color of the sky, as I remember it :-P

So many people dont even know about this facet of Ohio.  Just beautiful.  Does our state do enough tourism promotion to out of state people to capitalize on this?

 

They don't even promote INstate.  Most people in Dayton don't know this exists.  I'd venture to say a quarter don't know Ohio has beaches to begin with (probably more than a quarter; I'm being generous).  Thanks for the photos.

That is true. I'm a Daytonian who knew nothing about Fairport Harbor before reading this thread. Looks like a great town though.

Fairport Beach in the 60's. Pollution? What pollution??

Fairport Mardi Gras opens Wednesday, July 1 - 5

 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fairport-Mardi-Gras/367397233316751?sk=timeline&ref=page_internal

 

Wow, so "Mardi Gras" has been totally kleenexed, apparently.

Fairport Mardi Gras--June 30 - July 4, followed shortly by Tall Ships

 

beautiful Fairport Harbor with fog rolling in. San Francisco on Lake Erie?

okay, I'm really out of touch. When the heck did Fairport Harbor get this upscale/ trendy/ hip??

 

Restaurant review: Small plates of The Pompadour big addition to Fairport Harbor

 

http://www.news-herald.com/lifestyle/20161026/restaurant-review-small-plates-of-the-pompadour-big-addition-to-fairport-harbor

The 76th annual Fairport Mardi Gras starts this Friday, June 30 (through the 4th of July); followed again this year on July 7 by the arrival of the Tall Ships. And if that wasn't enough for little Fairport Harbor, a summer concert series!--

 

Fairport Beach in the 60's. Pollution? What pollution??

 

Just curious what industries are in the background here?    I notice they are not there today.

 

Just curious what industries are in the background here?    I notice they are not there today.

 

Probably the Diamond Shamrock chemical plant that was on Fairport Nursery Road.

http://www.rsworld.com/snix66/diamond.html

^yes, that was "the Diamond" (as we used to call it). We could see the skyline from my neighborhood (I wasn't from the best part of town, to say the least). I remember going there on a field trip in chemistry class in the early 70's. We were walking up and down treacherous looking catwalks caked in God-knows-what chemical residue and, as I recall, we wore hardhats but no protective masks. I don't think that sort of thing would be allowable today (people are such wusses! lol) Here's an odd little video someone created about it--

 

A Fruitful Endeavor

 

An unusually cold winter and frost in May damaged the crop of grapes growing in Lake and Ashtabula counties. But Imed Dami, assistant professor of horticulture and crop science at Ohio State University, doesn’t mind. He’s happy the grapes are not only growing but thriving in an area that was once considered a polluted wasteland.

 

Dami chuckles as he talks about how people react when he tells him that the grapes are growing in the middle of a massive brownfield, an old industrial site, that is being cleaned up.

 

https://ofbf.org/2009/10/27/a-fruitful-endeavor/

 

 

Efforts focus on breathing new life into brownfield sites in eastern Lake County

 

Former Diamond Shamrock site, now called Lakeview Bluffs, has been in the remediation process since 2001 under the auspices of Bedford-based Hemisphere Corp. and its owner, Todd Davis.

 

Hemisphere Corp. specializes in brownfield projects and is overseeing multiple projects across the country. The company is developing Lakeview Bluffs under terms of a 99-year lease with Tierra Solutions Inc.

 

Some of the work at Lakeview Bluffs was paid for with $6 million in grants from the Clean Ohio Brownfield Revitalization Fund. Davis said a “substantial amount of remediation“ has continued at Lakeview Bluffs since that funding stream ceased in 2013.

 

“Given the regulatory, environmental and economic factors, you must be extremely patient as a brownfield developer,” Davis said.

 

Previously announced plans to build a sports academy, hotel, golf course and residential housing at Lakeview Bluffs have been put on the back burner as Hemisphere Corp. continues to work with the Ohio EPA to meet standards for remediation.

 

“There is no doubt in my mind that, ultimately, a development similar to our original vision will be realized at Lakeview Bluffs,” Davis said.

 

http://www.news-herald.com/article/HR/20160607/news/160609599

 

 

Great picture I found from July 4 (awaiting fireworks) in Fairport Harbor (annual Mardi Gras sadly postponed again this year ). From what I've read there's a lot of new stuff going in there--a new marina is planned, along with arts programs and small, independent food stores opening. Don't know if the population has increased. I remember when it was almost a thriving 5,000 back in the 60's. I think it was that high then.