Recycling old names

It was such a nice day today that I figured I'd go get some fuel in the truck while the sun was shining. I pulled in to the gas station and there was a semi parked out back with somebody's nickname on the door and "Shanty Plains Michigan".
I hadn't heard that in probably at least 50 years. So long in fact that I had to come home and Google it. Seems there's a Shanty Plains Alpaca farm too with a Google map showing it right next to what used to be the Shanty Plains Cemetery. They've changed the name to Clear Lake Cemetery somewhere along the way. The old school house is a house now. The place is eight miles straight south of me,but for the life of me I'd forgotten that it was ever called that. Looks like a few people have revived the name anyway.
Wouldn't be surprised if fergienewbie was hunting bunnies there today without even knowing it. It's about 3 miles from his brother in law's house.

lot of places around me like that i live next to where the dublin school and cheese factory both gone. bye the way the 1st state capital is in belmont wi right ? wrong its in leslie a couple miles up the road if i got the story right the railroad came through and belmont moved. check out new diggens area had more people than chicago .

Ya,there's another ghost town even closer to me called Amsden. There's a group of guys a little older than me who play country and gospel around here who use the name The Boys from Amsden.

i live on copper creek used to be a copper mine next to me. anacanda was going to develope it never did. then there are the places that arent there on some maps you will find the darlington airport never happened my dad wouldnt sell part of the farm they needed and im waiting for somebody to try and land in the back 40

Randy;

I was on Grow Road and Snows Lake. Walking was tough between the ice and the native grass planting. Someone was there before us; we didn't get any rabbits up. Might try it again at spring break up. Quite a few guys out for the close of bow season. I brought all my dogs home, so it was a good day.

Larry

around my home place was a road called niger mountain road.they changed it to black mountain road

You weren't far from there. It was two miles south of Fenwick road on Brown road at the corner of Jenks road.

We have Dago Springs road. Person took offense to it and so they allowed her to rename her part of the road Shepard's Drive. Everyone else kept the old name.

Close to Magnolia, Kantucky there were a cross road comunity called Ni--er Die, you can fill in the blanks.
The story goes that years ago a black man got drunk and froze to death before he could git home.
We had neighbors that came from down thar.

The names of some places should be changed.

I was just going to suggest Amsden, until I read you post. We have friends who own and live in the house that used to be the Amsden store. That would be what, three miles south, and a couple west of you?

What my friends [who lived there] and I called "Hog Lane" suddenly became "Ten Dollar Road" when the county decided to put up road signs about 30-some years ago.

Yep. I think Amsden died when they put the curve in the road. What we used to call Old 57 went straight through then turned a quarter mile north on Holland Road back to where 57 is now. They just made it a long curve from Amsden Road,across Carlson Road to Holland to avoid that hard turn for that quarter mile.

Auto industry is at a loss with all their look alike bar of soap sheet metal sedans. Gotta look at the logo badge to tell who built it.

So they dig up things of the past. Big deal.

Noticed the 2014 Silverado, in the 4 door has the Ford upper back window sharp corner, and the Toyota upswing on the lower rear of that back window.

What ever happened to individuality? Pride of brand? All that stuff that made us great? Ford's always blabbing about how they have been the #1 truck seller for 20 years or so bla bla bla. Funny only thing you see around here are old "never die" Chevys and all of them have loud mufflers.

Mark

True,but if you recognize a Chevy to be a 55 or 56,you'll recognize a Ford to be a 55 or 56. Style of the day has always happened.

Tiverton used to be called Saint Andrews but the post office balked and re-named the village.
The park was built a few years ago . Mrs. B&D was the primary force . The park is called St. Andrews but the running joke is it"s called St Lisa"s.

Well sir it looks like PUs are going the way of the bar of soap sedans.

On the sedans, notice how one mfgr came out with LED daytime driving lights and the rest of the pack followed suit.

One company comes out with white driving lights in the front bumper and the rest follow suit. Course if they are supposed to be FOG lights they missed that one too. Fog lights need to be yellow which cuts through the water vapor without reflecting back in your face as much as white.

On this one, glad I don't have to drive to work any more. All the added glare from those things is really to no avail of the owner (I know I had them on 2 trucks...didn't ask for them) and sure poses a vision for oncoming traffic (I know I faced them before I retired).......my references for the comment.

Now they are putting those magnifying headlights in upscale trucks too; aka GM for one. I don't know about you, but I really liked it when the industry went to plastic head light reflectors. They added side reflectors in the mould so that you could see to the side when making a turn like happened with sealed beam headlights and turning lights on the upper cut GMs for one, years ago.

Mark