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on August 28, 2015 at 7:31 am | Reply Paula

Luanne, yes the gas pumps that had globes on top most of them did lite up, and I remember your families gas station from when I was little, my Dad use to stop there all the time in early forties. Great pictures and memories for you.
- on August 28, 2015 at 8:54 pm | Reply Luanne @ TFK
  
  Those old gas pumps with the globes are beautiful. They probably were more difficult to take care of (making sure the light didn’t go out) and took more power. And maybe they broke easily? But it shows how we became more and more utilitarian and less apt to make beauty out of practical objects. So cool that you used to go to Grandpa’s station!!!

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Cover photo shows flooding at the Water Works Bridge in Kalamazoo, March 26, 1904. That spring, the water got 6″ higher than the photo shows.
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KALAMAZOO AND SW MICHIGAN: This blog shares the photographs and stories of my mother's family--the DeKorn, Zuidweg, and Mulder families which settled in southwestern Michigan. It also occasionally shares the photographs and stories of my father's family from Chicago and Elmhurst, Illinois. Many of the posts are centered around the locations of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Goes, Zeeland, the Netherlands. *The PAGES listed BELOW tell about this blog and summarize the main family branches appearing on this blog. *The TABS at the TOP of the page are a quick way to find posts related to particular family branches.
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