Carmine
Old Man with a Hat
This one means "get ready to switch expressways and exit..."
1960s view:
1960s view:
Car starts going thumpety-thump as soon as i cross the Ohio-Michigan border headed north. Every car i've owned had the same symptoms. Amazin'
When you've been away from home for a while, or not but just had a rough time away, what is usually the first thing you see that let's you know you're "home?"
I sort of hate to claim one that's already been used, but 100% "the big tire". I hated when they ditched the whitewall and hubcap. I'm sure this sign is iconic for millions of Detroiters given its proximity to the airport and "the Detroit Industrial Expressway" (to use the civil defense name). I made sure to point it out to a friend from Phoenix visiting Detroit for the first time.View attachment 139734
That's when I know I'm almost to one of my sister's house.Arborland Mall sign, US-23 at Washtenaw, Ann Arbor MI. The mall is vastly different since I first saw this sign in 1978 If you didnt know it then, you would recognize now but I digress.
Lived in Ann Arbor for 6 years (my undergrad, then wife's grad work at Meechigan), and then frequented it for 6 more years when my kids did their thing there, so its like a second home.
Plus, in my college days the sign meant you had arrived in friendly territory, all your transgressions forgiven on your way back from that school at the other end of Washtenaw in Ypsilanti. Eastern Michigan .. where you could find a party ANY night of the week vs. button-down, buckle-down U of Mich.
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More and more these days, we find ourselves traveling home "the back way." I hate driving I-95 and I-270 anymore. The back way usually brings us through Charlestown, WV, Harper's Ferry and finally past the old Point of Rocks rail road depot that is about twenty minutes from home. Whether driving home or traveling on the Capitol Limited, the old depot is there to greet me.
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What really gets me is that for what they charge to use the toll roads, they are in such bad shape. Also why is the state so broke with all the money they rob from the people who live there. That is the main reason I moved over the border two years ago. SO MANY MORE WILL FOLLOW. All the Illinois people spending their money in Indiana is keeping our taxes low. At least you live in DuPage Co. and not CROOK Co.2x and dont forget all the toll roads.
What really gets me is that for what they charge to use the toll roads, they are in such bad shape. Also why is the state so broke with all the money they rob from the people who live there. That is the main reason I moved over the border two years ago. SO MANY MORE WILL FOLLOW. All the Illinois people spending their money in Indiana is keeping our taxes low. At least you live in DuPage Co. and not CROOK Co.
Sad to say, "SO TRUE, SO TRUE".
That's my exit coming home from the cottage cuz I hate the exit at M59.
Illinois, The only state in the country where four of the last six governors are in prison.Sad to say, "SO TRUE, SO TRUE".
Illinois, The only state in the country where four of the last six governors are in prison.
That break in the escarpment depicted is in Grimsby Ontario where I live. Next time through be sure to stop in!QEW East, a few kilometers past Hamilton. The break in the Niagara escarpment right around St. Catherines.
When austerity measures grounded the company jet, I frequently made the drive between Detroit and Buffalo.
Before I got used to the drive, the "break" (subject to bridge traffic) meant I was 45 minutes from home.
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