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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Flint Photos: Main Post Office in the Sixties

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Flint's main post office near the Farmer's Market in the sixties. Photo by Mary Fisher.
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Sufjan Stevens Ode to Flint

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

What's the Word?

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Just curious, in your household do you call them "Replacement Referees" or do you call them scabs?
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Buick Graffiti

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Two friends recently bought a house on the south slope of Bernal Heights in San Francisco and we spotted these oil change records scrawl...
Saturday, September 22, 2012

Flint Artifacts: Elks Street Carnival 1902

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The Policing Power of the Federal Reserve

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Flint's struggles with crime are well documented. In fact, according to F.B.I. statistics, it's the most dangerous city in America. ...
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Friday, September 21, 2012

The Legend of Captain Bubblegum

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Longtime reader and frequent commenter Smurf's Inc, also known as Wurstside Warrrior, raised the specter of the notorious Captain Bub...
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Thursday, September 20, 2012

More Industrial Gothic

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More Industrial Gothic images from the flood of 1960 in Flint.

Industrial Gothic

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I got a package in the mail today from artist and author Tom Pohrt that included a collection of Kodachrome Stereo Transparencies labele...
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Tuesday, September 18, 2012

My Daddy Strikes for Us Little Tykes

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Brett Herron, a Flint Expatriate who lived on Stevenson Street and graduated from Northern High School in 1990, reports from the front...
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