Friday, April 22, 2011

Squint Shot 042211

As I was still taking some pictures from the southeast quadrant, looking northwestward, the current-day photograph shows a gaping hole at the left side where there used to be trees and buildings (lumberyard storage) in the 1940s. 

As the years have progressed, the trees were replaced by a parking lot used by Bob Smith, the lumberyard building was dismantled and moved down to a farm on South Fowlerville Road, and now the land has been excavated and set up for a future building.  At present, the parking lot that was created at the back of the property is used in the summer months for the farmer's market and this last winter, a portion of the unfinished ground was flooded for an ice skating rink.

But, for now, here are the two pictures:
The Orr Threatre closed in 1959 -- does anyone remember it?  My guess is the windows on the second floor of that building, which you can see in the old photograph, were covered when this became a movie house.

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