Michigan: A Picture Thread

I remember the first time I crossed the AMbassador Bridge as a child and ate dinner in Canada, I was grossed out by the flavor of "Canadian Sprite". My mom had to explain there was no such thing.

http://www.med.wayne.edu/biochem/pict/BRIDGE_SH.jpg

― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

OH me me me!!! But I'll have to reply from home so I can get some work done AT WORK.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

All from in or around Big Rapids:

http://www.infomi.com/city/bigrapids/spring1.jpg

http://images.worldres.com/property/a73000/73331/hotel.jpg

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/townviews/Big_Rapids_Michigan.jpg

http://rappsearch.com/ferris-winner1.jpg

And something I found the other day -- top right windows are where my high school band practiced, building unchanged.

http://willett.org/michiganhistory/bigrapids.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) Canadian Sprite...hahaha. however, we do have Canadian Mountain Dew... with no added caffeine

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

This page has downtown photos of dozens of Michigan towns and cities, though they're mostly "vintage" 50s/60s. One exception is Clare:

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/images/townviews/clare.jpg

― nabisco (nabisco), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/mi/MIALLtire1.jpg

I work right next to the world's largest tire. You can't see it from the library, though.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Ken, it's crazy how Ontario and Michigan differ so much in color in the pic you posted.

― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

(I like that Clare shot mostly for the very representative Michigan sky.)

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:58 (twenty years ago)

Nabbo, I can't get over how different our impressions are of MI. Lemme get home, I'll post loads of blue, blue sky and bluer lake and fall color everywhere -- Whitehall is postcard material from stem to stern.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

Krispie, the pic is x'd for me, but is it this one:

http://a7.cpimg.com/image/E1/C5/25036257-6e3d-01900109-.jpg
http://www.metrotimes.com/19/24/Images/bodUrbanTire.jpg

This used to be a ferris wheel at the NYWF64

http://www.toys-n-cars.com/images/images2/ferristoy.jpg
http://info.detnews.com/dn/history/stove/images/ferris.gif
ihttp://home.earthlink.net/~c318137d/Tire2.jpg
http://naid.sppsr.ucla.edu/ny64fair/map-docs/images/usrubber.jpg

I remember when it still said US Royal on it with the hubcap way back when.

― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

http://www.uniroyal.com/about/gianttire.html

― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:08 (twenty years ago)

(xpost to L) You lived south, I lived north! And to be honest the sky among those pics that most effectively grabbed me was in the very first one, which is Spring Street in Big Rapids, probably from about ten years ago. That kinda cold slightly-murky sky rules fall into winter and winter out to spring (see also the looming cloud presence in the pic right beneath), and then a good bit of summer is the kind of warm wet blankety look of that Clare pic. I get a little obsessive about different qualities of light, but I was pretty fond of all of those. Regular clear-sunny days (and obviously there were a decent number) just felt kind of off -- the real character up there felt like a sunny day with some weird vague shade thrown over it.

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:12 (twenty years ago)

Yes, that's the one.

x-post

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:13 (twenty years ago)

I love you PappaWheelie B.C.

My hometown:
http://www.pcsum.org/photos/mtu.jpg

I've posted this before (but as long as we're doing iconic postcards):
http://stuweb.ee.mtu.edu/~maubaill/HoughtonEndOfEarth.jpg

My family has a cabin on the center peninsula here (Agate Harbor, MI:
http://www.airphotona.com/database/stock/images/00409.jpg

Fall fun in the Keweenaw, the Lake Superior Rally:
http://winktimber.com/vintagerally/cars/mg/01ls_137-bkwyv.jpg

I really should stop. I'll be here all day.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:15 (twenty years ago)

More grand looming skies -- over bikers in the wonderful city of BAD AXE.

http://www.infomi.com/city/badaxe/summer2.jpg

― nabiscothingy, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:18 (twenty years ago)

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

Michigan is still the only state east of the Mississippi that I haven't set foot in. One of these days I'll correct that by taking my loop around Lake Michigan.

More pic's please.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

See, I feel like there's an inherent value judgement here because I dislike cloudy weather so maybe that's my issue -- but wait, you've complained to me about the greyness so I'm not totally making it up! And Big Rapids is only a tiny bit north of Whitehall, the greater difference is probably that B Rapids is considerably inland.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:20 (twenty years ago)

I've google-imaged for Albion for years but never came across this until today:

http://www.michigan.gov/images/East_Erie_St_16745_7._Kalamazoo_River.jpg

This was the river that acted as my front lawn in my last home in Albion circa 1983. I fell in that river and got sucked under a dam. Not sure how I survived...

― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pasty.com/cam/2005/b0922.jpg

An awesome resource for Upper Peninsula photos is http://www.pasty.com/cam/index.html.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Laurel and I have both eaten here (actually, Kelsey too, I think):

http://www.whitelake.org/new_site/proposal/images/dining/pekadillsFront.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pasty.com/cam/2005/b0921a.jpg

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Heh heh...I've got an old '76 issue of CREEM covering the "Wings Over America" tour that tells about McCartney asking the tour bus driver to pull over at the roadside just so he could get out and stare at that Uniroyal tire for ten minutes!

(xpost, pretending this is still ILM)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

(xpost) EATEN there, I practically GREW UP there. The big white house next door with the brick pillars on the front porch was the home of Eth@n Wende11, who was a nice enough boy in my graduating class. I never had cause to call his house but I heard his grandfather would answer the phone by saying "gooood eeeeevening" like something out of an old suspense film. Probably just a nice old man with a formal manner but look what a bunch of grade-schoolers can do with that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:28 (twenty years ago)

Ok one more and I'm done for now. This is east of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Luce County, I believe...
http://kentsgenealogy.com/august/crisp_h58.jpg

― dan m (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/communications/greatlakes/GlacialGift/Graphics/Space_Images/Mackinac_Bridge(GLNPO).jpg

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:30 (twenty years ago)

ok, obligatory mackinaw bridge

http://fellhauer-web.de/photography/gallery/mackinawbridge-w640.jpg

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:33 (twenty years ago)

One last of Albion before moving onto more universally interesting stuff:

http://www.albionmich.com/festival/2002/tour/aerial/images/aer2_jpg.jpg

Raise your hand if you've been to Greenfield Village:

http://www.acohardware.com/uploaded/images/FrontPageImages/Aprilpict.jpg400x400.jpg

http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/buildings/new-england/post-office/info/village.jpg

http://starling.us/skajler/2002-05-13_Field_Trip/S_2002-05-13-14-19-26_Greenfield_Village.png

http://www.first-to-fly.com/Adventure%20Images/Expeditions%20Images/Henry%20Ford%20Museum/1938%20Shop%20interior%202.jpg

― PappaWheelie B.C., Wednesday, 28 September 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

Just when autumn nostalgia hits, this thread comes in handy.

http://static.flickr.com/33/47614595_591b25e827.jpg?v=0

http://static.flickr.com/24/47614594_e05e379b81.jpg?v=0

― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:17 (twenty years ago)

Another weary October here:

http://static.flickr.com/14/17831961_08ec4de7ed.jpg?v=0

― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:19 (twenty years ago)

Good lord, if that didn't have the name of the place on there I'd be wondering why you took a random photo of a closed factory.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 September 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pasty.com/cam/2005/b0625.jpg

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:27 (twenty years ago)

Good lord, if that didn't have the name of the place on there I'd be wondering why you took a random photo of a closed factory.

It is still one of my favorite places in the world. Fuck a Comerica Park.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Is that a tunnel that leads to some underground Michigan Bond villian?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 29 September 2005 15:38 (twenty years ago)

Is that a tunnel that leads to some underground Michigan Bond villian?

http://mas.scripps.com/WXYZ/2005/02/18/05021817bonds_e.jpg

Bonds... Bill (bail) Bonds.

I was at the last Tiger Stadium game and have yet to visit Comerica.

― Miroslav Viscous (Andy_K), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

I've been to a couple of games at Comerica Park, but they were free tickets both times. It's...okay, but it's no Tiger Stadium.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

random photo of a closed factory.

That was actually the alternate title of this thread.

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 29 September 2005 16:50 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/2/3647881_9cd3d025f7_o.jpg

My childhood backyard last february.

― marianna (mariannapm), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.pasty.com/cam/2005/b0223.jpg

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

That's Lake Superior to the right, btw.

― dan m (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 September 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Hot summer means bigtime lake-effect off Superior this winter.

― scrimhaw1837 (son_of_scrimshaw), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

Buick City, the mile-long GM factory, now looks like this. I grew up about 4-5 miles east of it in Flint, MI.

went to this in 1984:

http://www.mackinac.org/media/images/2005/v2005-11a.jpg

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but at least that cake Flint's eating tastes good, right?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

http://www.bus.umich.edu/RossB-SchoolGift/img/Other-Gifts_lg.jpg

Yeah, but at least that cake Flint's eating tastes good, right?

lemme guess. one of the images ain't loading.

― kingfish superman ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kestan.com/images/michigan/42.jpg
More Lake Superior in the winter. I grew up not far from this place. Man this thread has made me homesick! Good thing I'm going for a visit tomorrow.

― beer (OutDatWay), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Let me try that again:

"Yeah, but at least that cake Flint's eating tastes good, right?"

― Marie Antoinette (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 29 September 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Anyone been to Warren Dunes?

http://www.michigan.gov/images/Warren_Dunes_herman_47598_7.jpg

ihttp://www.epa.gov/glnpo/image/vbig/341.jpg

http://www.msu.edu/user/ristaugr/m.jpg

ihttp://troop32.nwsc.org/images/Sled_05013.jpg

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

And since we're doing some obligatory pics:

http://www.eballoon.com/images5/bctu4.jpg

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.creativearms.com/portfolio/images/Meijer.jpg

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

No trip to Meijer in the 70's was complete with a penny ride on Sandy:

http://www.gameroomantiques.com/Photo/KiddieSandyA.GIF

(My parents were too cheap to spend $0.50 on a cartoon booth to watch Woody Woodpecker)

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

More Sandy info:

http://www.bitw.com/bitwsandyhorse.htm

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:39 (twenty years ago)

I luvved Sandy.

― O'so Krispie (Ex Leon), Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Sandy got me thinking about the Aladan's Castle in the front corner of Meijer's we shopped at in Jackson, and how in the 70's, video games weren't, uh, video...but rather, weird little props slightly moving.

My earliest memory is a drag racing game where you sat in a seat with a sterring wheel and shifter (complete with working clutch), but behind the screen was an actual little orange car and a "christmas tree" to let you knew when to go. The rest was sound effects and number readouts.

I used to play one that had a helicopter on a wire and all you could control was clokwise or counterclockwise. You shot a beam of light at aliens that slowly arose from behind buildings. They had little targets on their heads.

Some similar era games I found here:

http://skyscraper.fortunecity.com/activex/637/images/museum.html

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 29 September 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)

http://www.freezout.com/mediac/400_0/media/DIR_26/PA180053.JPGf

Hoffmaster state park in Grand Haven. God, I miss the beach.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

MALLS, MALLS, malls.

http://www.waterwinterwonderland.com/center.asp

Fairlane Town Center:

http://www.taubman.com/Shopcen/Centers/Fairlane/Images/FLhome%20.jpg

Ye Olde Monorail that linked Fairlane to the hotel:

http://www.pressandguide.com/images/010704/8067_512.jpg

― PappaWheelie B.C., Thursday, 29 September 2005 20:17 (twenty years ago)

Soo Locks
http://static.flickr.com/4/8592758_e57242707e_m.jpg

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:47 (twenty years ago)

Mackinac bridge, GATEWAY TO THE U.P.

http://static.flickr.com/4/5125865_bdf997b5b0_m.jpg

and

http://static.flickr.com/22/32719897_301906bd1d_m.jpg

― lyra (lyra), Thursday, 29 September 2005 23:49 (twenty years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/26/48482056_d9eb8fb493.jpg

― Laurel, Sunday, 2 October 2005 02:42 (twenty years ago)

By the way! Laurel! It occurred to me the other day that maybe we just have different ideas of what constitutes clear, bright, and sunny. I mean, I moved to Michigan from southern Colorado, which is all dry-clear-bright; maybe normal Michigan-bright was just bound to seem gloomy in comparison.

― nabiscothingy, Sunday, 2 October 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

http://math.berkeley.edu/~flenner/pictures/Traverse/images/img_0033.jpg

― camandas (camandas), Sunday, 2 October 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

You know, Nabbo, I'll bet you're right after all. I've been meaning for the last couple of years to see the SW US, I've been told there are whole different qualities to the air & sunlight, different colors to things -- I'd like to see that. I'll let you be the judge in this case since you're better-traveled than I.

― Laurel, Sunday, 2 October 2005 21:55 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

My first dentist was on the top floor of the Michigan National Tower. In the waiting room I could look down on the smokestacks of the Board of Water & Light building.

ihttp://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/7111_michigan_national.jpg

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:50 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/7111_michigan_national.jpg

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://skyscraperpage.com/gallery/data/500/7111_michigan_national.jpg

― Mark (MarkR), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pressandguide.com/images/010704/8067_512.jpg

^^^ nicole?????

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://www.dsme.msu.edu/photo_archive/sci_day19a.jpg

― PappaWheelie V, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://pasty.com/cam/2007/b0227.jpg

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://i.ehow.com/images/GlobalPhoto/Articles/2290098/1001349-main_Full.jpg

― tony orlando and dawng (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 21 September 2008 16:10 (seventeen years ago)

Papawheelie, I grew up right down the road from you:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/375502501_680b3e51eb.jpg

― Pillbox, Sunday, 21 September 2008 18:11 (seventeen years ago)

Jackson!

I did most of my shopping in your lovely city (Meijer, Paka Plaza, etc.) when not in Battle Creek.

― tony orlando and dawng (PappaWheelie V), Sunday, 21 September 2008 19:32 (seventeen years ago)

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