Michigan Minute
Take a break. Escape for a minute to a place of beauty, blinker light towns, beaches and oddities in Michigan, the Great Lakes State.
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Elsie took a great picture here, captures the mood of the day, your dad is classic and great memories. we have some of these old black and white vacation pics, wish we had more.
I know, they didn’t take hundreds of photos like we can now when processing film isn’t an issue. Thanks for checking in at Great Lakes Gazette!
My summers were spent in Gaylord experiencing freedom in “the country” where television shut down before midnight and there were no cars on the road after dark. My friends and I actually played a game of riding our bikes in the dark on those empty roads bombarding each other with water balloons! My grandparents would have a campfire burning and supplied all you could eat marshmellows and watermellon for snacks. We couldn’t wait for our grampa to drive us to Otsego Lake which was the next best thing to heaven. Ice cream and bubble gum from the consession stands and beautiful blue water offered us entertainment for hours. My sister and I remember the Teen Chalet dance place where you had to be 15 (?) to attend so we couldnt wait to go and dance to live bands with our summer friends. I played all day at the building site of “Call of the Wild” and knew where every animal was located in its’ display area. The year the town started their theme of Alpine City and elected an Alpine Queen was so exciting with a parade and different bands playing at the bandstand in town. The same stores are still in Gaylord and many of the same houses are still there off of Main Street including my late grandparents’ home. After all these years, I still long for the tranquility, the freedom and the feeling of safety in that wonderful place of my childhood.
Michele—Beautiful memories… thanks for sharing, and for following Great Lakes Gazette!