Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan
Sep 6, 2019 07:13:20 #
Wonderful set. Thankfully we can see part of the village through your Camara.
I am glad you posted this.
Ken
I am glad you posted this.
Ken
Sep 6, 2019 07:34:10 #
An excellent representation of a piece of our country’s development, and excellent photos of it, too. Thanks for posting.
Sep 6, 2019 08:32:14 #
mizzee
Loc: Boston,Ma
These were so much fun! Now you need to take a step back in time to Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts for a look at life in the mid-1800s and then Plimoth Plantation for the year 1620 with in-character re-enacters.
Sep 6, 2019 09:06:07 #
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Beautiful set of pictures and rich auto industry history David...I did not know they also have a windmill in MI!
Sep 6, 2019 09:18:23 #
mizzee wrote:
I visited Old Sturbridge Village in 2013. Maybe I'll take you up on the idea to post some photos from there. I'm glad you liked Greenfield Village.These were so much fun! Now you need to take a step back in time to Old Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts for a look at life in the mid-1800s and then Plimoth Plantation for the year 1620 with in-character re-enacters.
Saigon, have you not heard of the town of Holland, Michigan? They have windmills there, too.
Sep 6, 2019 09:22:49 #
Blair, Ken, jaymatt, mizzee, and Saigon--thanks for your nice comments.
Sep 6, 2019 09:27:43 #
Thank you so much for sharing your talent and a wonderful landmark in our country !!
Sep 6, 2019 09:37:35 #
fetzler
Loc: North West PA
I grew up in Detroit and visited the the Museum and Greenfield Village. It is the undoubtedly the greatest technology museum in the US and maybe the world. As a boy, I recall visiting the "Menlo Park Lab". In those days there was a table and chair in the lab. The table contained dusty laboratory apparati and the chair was nailed to the floor. Shortly before his death, Edison recreated experiments demonstrating the making of the first light bulb. Every thing was still there in the 1960's but is now gone. In the school, one of the desks has Henry Ford's initials carved in the desk. The initials of his school mate Edsel are also carved. Incidentally, the school was active with students until 1969. I once met a student of this school.
Detroit is such a depressing place for me to visit now as it has been destroyed. My sister-in-law visited her childhood home a decade ago and wept uncontrollably. A once beautiful city and now a garbage pit.
Detroit is such a depressing place for me to visit now as it has been destroyed. My sister-in-law visited her childhood home a decade ago and wept uncontrollably. A once beautiful city and now a garbage pit.
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Never knew that such a place existed. Great photos and kudos to Mr. Ford for his foresight in preserving a bit of history. 
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Sep 6, 2019 15:00:23 #
Thanks, all who have recently commented. I do appreciate that you enjoyed my pictures.
fetzler, I grew up in Detroit, went to Mumford High School and Wayne State University. I left in February 1960 for Mt. Hebo AFS, Oregon--my initial duty station in USAF after being commissioned a 2Lt. I had parents, a baby sister, and 3 families of aunts and uncles living there when I left. All of them, including 5 cousins, are now gone and I have no relatives left there. A cousin's daughter lives in her grandparents' home in Redford (she works at the Detroit Institute of Art). I have been back to the city several times--most recently in 2011--and have looked up the places I lived and went to school and church. It is pretty depressing to see what has become of the city.
When I retired from USAF in 1980, Detroit had fallen low enough that I didn't want to return there--most of my relatives had also moved out by then, and I was never very fond of shoveling snow. I ended up in Dallas, Texas and I've now lived here more than 38 years.
fetzler, I grew up in Detroit, went to Mumford High School and Wayne State University. I left in February 1960 for Mt. Hebo AFS, Oregon--my initial duty station in USAF after being commissioned a 2Lt. I had parents, a baby sister, and 3 families of aunts and uncles living there when I left. All of them, including 5 cousins, are now gone and I have no relatives left there. A cousin's daughter lives in her grandparents' home in Redford (she works at the Detroit Institute of Art). I have been back to the city several times--most recently in 2011--and have looked up the places I lived and went to school and church. It is pretty depressing to see what has become of the city.
When I retired from USAF in 1980, Detroit had fallen low enough that I didn't want to return there--most of my relatives had also moved out by then, and I was never very fond of shoveling snow. I ended up in Dallas, Texas and I've now lived here more than 38 years.
Sep 6, 2019 15:26:28 #
19photo30
Loc: Olympia, WA
Wonder why you couldn't have provided a download for each shot. Details would have been wonderful to me at least. I was there in 1967.
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