MICHIGAN TRAVEL TIPS
FROM
THE HOLOGLOBE PRESS
(The 248th Edition)
by
Victor Edward Swanson,
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In and around the week of Thanksgiving Day 2024, people were seeing and hearing about big snowstorms that were affecting the Great Lakes region and the northeastern region of the country, and the snowstorms were mostly related to lake-effect snow. For Michiganians, the snows were the biggest problem at cities and towns and roads along Lake Superior of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and along Lake Michigan of the Lower Peninsula. The end result was that people in the worst areas affected by lake-effect snow had from two feet to four feet of snow on the ground. The mess reminded me of my days as an employee in the broadcast department of AAA Michigan in the late 1900s and reminded me about how things have changed in the state. In 1965, AAA Michigan started up a broadcast unit, and it had come about by worked done by a guy named Len Barnes, who had over the previous few years gotten into the habit of calling WJR-AM and WWJ-AM on days when he went from the Detroit area to roughly the Traverse City area with some traffic information, such as about old Zilwaukee Bridge (which had existed for decades before the late 1980s) along I-75, and the broadcast unit had come about because the management had been for a few years involved in promoting safe driving (such as through the "Bring 'em Back Alive!" promotional campaign) and in promoting tourism in Michigan. By the way, one reason the broadcast unit was set up was to--at first--provide radio reports about tourism and traffic information to radio stations on the big summer holidays, and it was to counted what the media had been doing in the past few years--reporting, in essence, that traveling on summer holiday was dangerous, which was deemed by the management of AAA Michigan to be deterring travel on summer holidays and affecting tourism dollars for the businesses and such in the state. For 27 years, I was involved with the broadcast unit--the heyday of which was from 1976 to the early 1990s. By the way, by the very late 1990s and early 2000s, the management of AAA Michigan had abandoned the main reasons for the broadcast unit to exist--promoting safe driving and promoting tourism--and it even discarded the "Bring 'me Back Alive!" idea. At least in the heyday for the unit, for example, the "Weekend News Service" service helped to let radio stations, television stations, and news wire services know what main roads were closed during bad weather times or jammed so that weekend vacationers could well know if they could travel and where they could travel and when they could travel. For example, we might report that US-131 or I-196 or I-94 were in bad shape or impassable in the southwestern region of the Lower Peninsula. One particular bad time for southeastern Lower Michigan was on weekends of the January during which the Super Bowl was held at the Pontiac Silverdome (which was in January 1982). I contend the Weekend News Service did have value. When the broadcast unit was shut down, no entity really took up in earnest the reporting about the road conditions in bad winter times in the state, and, for example, even the Michigan State Police set up nothing useful. So when the big storms hit Michigan in November 2024, people had no idea what roads were being affected so much that the roads were not passable, and it seems no local radio station or television station helped get out information to the public, such as by supplying data to news wire services. When the big storms hit in November 2024, I heard and saw nothing about the road conditions, and I remembered the better times of years ago, even though I worked almost every weekend for about a quarter of a century.
Hey, have you heard that I am the best Detroit-television historian in the country--and, beyond that, in the world? Even though I can claim that I am the best Detroit-television historian in the world, I do have a lot of knowledge about the movies, having dealt in research about movies shown on television stations over the years, especially during the heyday of movies shown by television stations, which was from 1948 to about 2000 for the Detroit area, and I have to report that I attended movie-related classes when I was attending Wayne State University in the early 1970s or so. In the early days of television for Michigan, which cover the late 1940s and early 1950s, drive-in movie theaters were yet being built. For example, in the Coldwater area of Michigan, the Capri Drive-In was set up in 1954. Today, if you were to go to the Capri Drive-In, you would only see "snow" or a white screen, and that is because the Capri Drive-In is closed for the season. The Capri Drive-In still exists, unlike so many other drive-in theaters that once were set up in Michigan, such as one that I went to as a boy, which was on Ford Road in Dearborn Heights, which was called the Ford Drive-In. Given you might be all fed up with the snow, I thought I would remind you that the Capri Drive-In--an outdoor place--is yet in business and yet a place that you can plan to visit, especially next year--the next tourism season. In the 1954 construction phase, the drive-in was only given one screen, and then in 1986, a second screen was set up. Basically, the Capri Drive-In has a 150-feet by 75-foot screen ("screen tower") and a 80-foot by 40-foot screen today so that two movies can be shown at the same time. Oh, another thing the Capri Drive-In has today that it did not have years ago is a website, where you can learn about the history of the Capri Drive-In and more. Look for information about what you can and cannot do at the Capri Drive-In through the website for the business. Now--now--you have several months to set up plans to go to the Capri Drive-In. Of course, I have no idea what movies will be shown next year by, in essence, Tom and Sue Magocs at the outdoor place, since no schedule yet exists.
Oh, you may not see a movie at the Capri Drive-In for a few months, but there are other movie theaters that are open in the winter season. Hold it! I have an aside. I have not been to a movie at a movie theater for a number of years. The last movie that I saw at a movie theater was The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. I have to admit I am not interested in seeing almost all the movies at the theaters these days, because I think a lot are bad--it is hard to find fun movies being offered regularly. So much of the product is the same old thing--explosions and noise and dark settings. Yet, I will make a note here that you might want to see something at The Pines Theatre of the Houghton Lake area of Roscommon County in the Lower Peninsula, since the place is a wooden theater (or a wooden building), and it has been given restoration work of the last few decades. In essence, the theater is located along M-55 at Town Line Road, which is on the south side or the underside of the lake known at Houghton Lake, and it is about three miles west of a place called Prudenville, Michigan. It is difficult to say what movie you might see at the theater, since the owners do not book movies a long way into the future. It looks as if the owners set up things with distributors at a week or two or three before showings, and the choices are often based on what is happening in the marketplace with a certain movie, such as a new movie. If you are in the Houghton Lake area at about 7:00 p.m. some time in the future, think about being at The Pines Theatre--and get a surprise about what is showing.
Warning announcement! Because of incidents at schools for children and incidents at other places for people in general tied to "Sharia" or "Islamic Law" or even the religion/political system known as "Islam," I now regularly have this paragraph as a part of each edition of Michigan Travel Tips. The governmental system of the United States of America based on The U.S. Constitution and "Sharia" or, informally, Islamic law, are not compatible and cannot co-exist, and one reason is "Sharia" (et cetera) is a political system, in which there is one-party rule, and that one party is basically made up or controlled by religious leaders who base all the ways of their culture or society on "Sharia" or "Islamic Law." Those who uphold and practice "Sharia" have no tolerance for the existence of Christianity or Buddhism or Hinduism or non-religion, and that is a fact, and "Sharia" is a political system in which women are second-rate human bodies and in which clergy can be involved in determining business transactions, and there is no "freedom of speech" tied to politics in a society related to "Sharia." When you travel around Michigan and in other states of the country, watch for signs that rotten people are trying to teach you or family members, especially children, that "Sharia" is good and "Allah" is good and teach you or family members that the United States of America is bad and that, for instance, Christianity and Buddhism and Hinduism are bad, which I have evidence is happening and which is being brought about by people who are clearly working to make "Sharia" a dominant political system in the world (it is a political system as rotten as socialism and fascism and communism are, since it promotes violence and thuggery and coercion, and it promotes killing of non-followers behind the face of religion and a god, Allah). By the way, a society based on "Sharia" really creates nothing in the long run and does not advance the human society as a whole since it is too busy suppressing the ideas of people and keeping the ideas of the society based on ways of only a few minds up front (the political leaders), whose main purpose is to keep themselves enriched through the work of others, the many--it is a gang-run society really. Yes, if you run across people pushing the idea that Muslim stuff--particularly the true The Quran and not the translations of The Quran that are faked to hide the true nature of Islam--is better than the U.S. is, especially to little children, go public and make it known to other good people and fight back against it.
Something good happened to me during the big lake-affect snow period of November 2024. On one day, I went to pay my AAA Michigan membership at a AAA Michigan office. When I was there, a staffer pointed out services from AAA Michigan that I could get involved with, but I reported that I was already covered. I did see something at the office that I wanted to have. I noticed some fifty feet or more away from where I was being tended to that there was some type of "plushy" vehicles on a desk. I said--"I would like to have one of those.". I soon learned that the "plushy" had made a debut for the Woodward Dream Cruise of 2024; such "plushy" things had been handed out to people who signed up for some service--maybe the membership thing (which anyone can sign up for). I reported that, for years, I worked for AAA Michigan in the broadcast area, and I told some of the basic history of the broadcast services of AAA Michigan. A gal took my money for the membership renewal, and she said that she would see if I could be given a "plushy." In the long run, a manger came out with "plushy," and since he had joined AAA Michigan as an employee in 1997, he sort of remembered the broadcast days (a bit). In the end, I ended up with a "plushy," which I look at as something that celebrates my broadcast days at AAA Michigan. I have been thinking of calling the "plushy" something like "Towy" or "Towey" (for Towy the Truck or Towey the Truck). You see, the "plushy" is a white plushy tow truck--at 12-inches long and nine-inches wide and nine-inches tall--that has, for one, "1-800-AAA-HELP" on it. Oh, I remember getting my one-year pin for being at AAA Michigan at four years or so [the management team was a little late], and now I have a "plushy" tow truck. Cool!
Enjoy your traveling in Michigan!
And keep aware of the rotten people in Michigan.
Stay well!
Victor
Your travel tips in this edition of Michigan Travel Tips are:
The Capri Drive-In, Coldwater, Branch County, the Lower Peninsula.
The Pines Theatre, Houghton Lake, Roscommon County, the Lower Peninsula.
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