Flint Expatriates: Rockafeller

Showing posts with label Rockafeller. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Sign of the Times

Can you symbolically capture the decline of Rust Belt cities with these two signs, located just a few feet apart in downtown Cleveland? Is t...

2 comments:

›

Home

View web version

Popular Posts

The Ultimate List of Bars, Lounges, and Taverns

Damn, I mention the Mikatam and the comment section turns into a bar free for all. Even my mom joined in by hearkening back to a place cal...
Slim Chiply Lives: You Know You're From Flint if...

This happens to be the most popular post in the history of Flint Expatriates, originally published March 19, 2008. I got the list via email...
Flint Artifacts: The Farm Motel

A postcard of the Farm Motel (above) at 3615 Clio Road in better days. More recent shots below from 2011, supplied by Jimmy Rutherford, c...
Joni Mitchell and the East Side

Believe it or not, Joni Mitchell performed at a place called the Sippin' Lizzard Coffee House in the heart of what is now arson territor...
The Mikatam

I have to confess I have never been to the Mikatam and don't even know where it was located. Was it way out on Clio Road, or was that Th...
Flint Photos: Angelo's Coney Island Sign

If you're in the market for a visual metaphor of Flint's decline, look no further than this shot of Angelo's from a few year...
Gary Flinn on Mr. Magic

Gary Flinn, Flint's historian extraordinaire, has a nice piece on WJRT Channel 12 in The Flint Journal that's worth checking out : ...
The gangs of Flint

There's no doubt you'd be terrified if you saw this gang of toughs coming for you on the mean streets of Flint in 1972. From left to...
Milbourne Memories

Sarah Swart's old house on Milbourne Avenue. Sarah Swart left Flint in 1982. She returned with her husband, Victor, this summer for a...
The Sports Bar

Flint expatriate Bill Dakota remembers the late, great Sports Bar on his wikizine called Living in Flint : "When I was old enough,...

Powered by Blogger.