Looking more like rural Lorain County to the west, this is a very unfamiliar and undesignated stretch of Lorain Road in Fairview Village in 1928. The very reason it is unfamiliar is because the present-day Lorain Road has not had farms for many decades. There is now no such thing as open land along this Ohio Route 10, a typical suburban main street of mostly businesses. (Western Reserve Historical Society.)

On the cover: The Fairview Village Fire Department got its first mechanized pumper in 1924. This is one of three group pictures at the time, so they obviously wanted to proudly pose with their new purchase. It also necessitated building the first fire station. The village’s first fire chief, Jack Schneider, in the white hat and uniform, included his little son George up next to the driver. (Fairview Park Historical Society.)