Category: Postcards From Another Millennium

This image is an older, but near duplicate of the image listed some months back. It shows the Upper Tahquamenon falls from a slight elevation and from the opposite bank from the previous posting.

The postcard is clearly dated 1948 on its face.

This placid photo features a small section of the Tahquamenon River near the village of Soo Junction, Michigan. It is not an incorporated town, only a populated area named by the locals as a convenience. This is in the upper peninsula of Michigan, in Luce County.

The Tahquamenon River flows through the center of the upper peninsula of Michigan on it’s way to the mouth at Lake Superior.
This card is dated on the front 1948.

This is again an image similar to one previously posted some months ago. It is obviously the same location from the prominent ‘bulge’ of water near the center of the falls present in both pictures.

The people shown in the photo at lower left are wearing clothing that indicates this image is from the 1940s. Close examination of the picture reveals another person on a ledge just behind the falls.

This is another image of a boat featured some months back. This image is closer in and in black and white, but otherwise the images are remarkably similar in that the boat does not appear to have been replaced, and the tourist still occupy the usual locations.

The boat itself is also called the Tahquamenon, as indicated by the name sign visible in the picture.
The brown marking in the upper right is damage from a decomposed rubber band. This image is hard to date, but is likely from the 1940s.
There is no description on the back.

This is the somewhat overbuilt signpost for Michigan highway M-115, which has one end in central lower Michigan and continues to the northwest where it ends at this sign.
The highway was originally earthen pavement when first constructed in 1929, but by the mid-30s the state was repaving the existing sections with asphalt and extending the highway with gravel as well.
There is no description on the back of this card. The auto in the picture, along with the initial construction date, indicate that this photo is from the 1930s.

This image shows the ferry landing at Mackinaw City, MI, emphasizing the line of cars waiting to embark for the trip across the Straits of Mackinac. There was no bridge at the time of this photo, and the famous Big Mac bridge would not be completed for another nine years.

There is no description on the back of this card. The identity of the ship shown is unknown.
This card is dated 1948.

This card features the car/passenger ferry called City of Cheboygan, a one time rail ferry of the Ann Arbor Railroad that was converted to automobile carriage in 1937.

There is no description on the back of cards from this era, only the writing shown on the front.
As indicated in the image, this photo is from 1948.

This is an interior view of the restaurant located in the Greyhound Post House and bus station in Mackinaw City, Michigan.

This carefully staged photograph shows the typical accoutrements of a table at a mid-1940s diner: the napkin dispenser, salt and pepper shakers, and a sugar dispenser. These are curiously all clustered carefully in one corner of each table, where in normal use they usually found their way to the center.
The slider shelf on the left hand counter indicates this was a cafeteria style service system. There is a small souvenir counter in the back, and a juke box on the right of the fireplace.
There is no description on the card.