1980 Harmon Building

Earlier this month, pictures were shown of the brick building at the northwest corner of the main four corners. It has been known as the Palmerton Block in the late 1800s, the Sidell Block in the early 1900s, and now I've told Paul Harmon we should start calling it the Harmon Block -- or otherwise known as the place where Harmon Real Estate is now located. These pictures were provided to me by Paul. The first one is looking northward on North Grand Avenue. Other than a different siding on the ground floor, from when Dillingham's Hardware was in business, the only other point of interest might be the sign for the Cedar Lounge. That location is now Lucky's Pub. The second and third pictures were particularly interesting to me, mostly because they are aerials. At the very end of my book, The Fowlerville Chronicles, there are current-day aerials, taken during the early summer of 2010. When I was snapping the photographs (which you can see many of them under November, 2010, squint shots), I tried very hard to replicate some angles of two 1956 aerial photographs, which are now safely stored in the Fowlerville Historical Collection at the village offices. Various close-ups of those 1956 aerials can be found in my book. It is fun to look at those and compare 60 years ago to today's Fowlerville. Which, of course, I had to of these 1980 aerials to the modern-day village. Things I noticed:
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~~At the left of the first picture, the old used car lot is not a large parking lot, part of which was iced over for skating this last winter.

~~The hardware is now a different color of paint.
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~~The sign for Keesler's furniture store can be seen at the right side of the picture. In a few years, it would be The Decorating Center until 2010 when Maria's School of Dance relocated to this building.

~~At the bottom left side, the old Ford garage is shown without its current rough-sawn cedar front, which was added in the late 1980s.

~~And, the gas pumps are no longer at the southwest corner.In this second picture, the only item that stands out to me is, at the upper left hand corner, a building for the Fowlerville Lumber Company stood where now a parking lot is located. Can anyone spot something I missed?