tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244123422713926575.post12032876235530314..comments2024-03-28T11:44:19.174-07:00Comments on Flint Expatriates: Flint Postcards: McFarlan Park in the Early 1900sFlint Expatriateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08352270564340149006noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244123422713926575.post-64088861555323342702011-05-03T14:41:36.631-07:002011-05-03T14:41:36.631-07:00I'm sorry. I keep thinking of another lyric.
...I'm sorry. I keep thinking of another lyric.<br /><br />McFarlan Park is melting in the dark,<br />All the sweet green icing flowing down,<br />Someone left the cake out in the rain...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244123422713926575.post-81253502526378211392011-05-03T08:33:13.163-07:002011-05-03T08:33:13.163-07:00Built in 1920.
http://www.thedurant.com/Built in 1920.<br /><br />http://www.thedurant.com/Gordon Younghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17911010126952753812noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244123422713926575.post-38030164627108467202011-05-03T08:04:03.016-07:002011-05-03T08:04:03.016-07:00When was the hotel built?When was the hotel built?JWillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03243354011523248499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244123422713926575.post-47034744615377364182011-05-02T19:06:51.412-07:002011-05-02T19:06:51.412-07:00Where the hell is Ellis Park anyway? I meant McFar...Where the hell is Ellis Park anyway? I meant McFarlan Park, it was across the street from my Dad's office in the Metropolitan Bldg. Ahh, just the same, it was poetic too.unclebucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244123422713926575.post-29206680156888632662011-05-02T15:39:19.297-07:002011-05-02T15:39:19.297-07:00Interesting photo. Notice how wide N.Saginaw and D...Interesting photo. Notice how wide N.Saginaw and Detroit St. are. It looks like Detroit St.is a blvd. In those days, buggies and teams were still modes of travel. Sometimes there was a paved lane and a gravel lane and the teams would drop off the paved side and allow the motor cars to use the hard surface. The old Arctic dairy and probably a half dozen others used horse powered wagons to deliver milk until the forties. I know Sealtest(Arctic) and McDonalds dairy delivered in my neighborhood then. Bill the milkman was a friendly guy and let the kids pat his mare and give them ice chips on a hot summer days. Fifteen cents for a quart of orange aid. If you didn't get your milk off the porch quick enough, the cream at the top of the bottle would push the hard paper lid up a couple of inches as it congealed. I'm off track again...... Ellis Park was nice place to take a rest.unclebucknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3244123422713926575.post-19660732288767281082011-05-02T14:29:28.638-07:002011-05-02T14:29:28.638-07:00Little park that I pass through,
I carry off a pie...Little park that I pass through,<br />I carry off a piece of you <br />Every morning hurrying down<br />To my work-day in the town;<br />Carry you for country there<br />To make the city ways more fair.<br />...[...]...<br />All that I can see<br />I carry off with me<br />But you never miss my theft<br />So much treasure you have left.<br />As I find you, fresh at morning,<br />So I find you, home returning --<br />Nothing lacking from your grace.<br />All your riches wait in place<br />For me to borrow<br />On the morrow.<br /><br />Do you hear his praise of you,<br />Little park that I pass through?<br /><br />by- Helen Hoyt from "Ellis Park"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com