A few more old local pictures

rrlund · Jan 9, 2014

The Carnation milk plant. They made condensed milk. I hauled canned milk in to there from 73 to 75.
Then there's a couple of shots of Main Street in Sheridan Michigan from different years.
I'm not sure just where that mill is. I don't know if it was the one on Egan Street across from where the new elevator was built or if it was over west of Pearl Lake where the rail road used to run.
Not just sure where that sawmill was.

J.Wondergem · Jan 9, 2014

I recognized the Carnation plant. We sold milk there in the early 50s.

rrlund · Jan 9, 2014

The old place is still standing,but barely.

farmerwithmutt · Jan 9, 2014

Nice pics we had carnation here. i can remember fritz our driver he had 2 tanks on the truck one for whey and the other for milk.
He would pull in and open the gate( how many do that now the top number i heard was 5 imagine them opening 5 gates now) drive up to the hog lot run some whey out back down to the milkhouse and pump the milk on open the gate and back down the road. i liked it we had cans before that. thanks for the memories

RayP(MI) · Jan 9, 2014

We too sold milk there, until we went grade A.
Recognize some of the other views too, but they"re
probably earlier than me.

ShadetreeRet · Jan 10, 2014

The first thing I noticed in the first photo, was the Sinclair sign and station. For some reason, I have always noticed gasoline signs.

IHRedRules · Jan 10, 2014

Too bad the ol' Carnation plant doesn't look so good any more. I just hate driving by it anymore.. i fear that it'll colapse as i'm driving by. Most of the roofs are gone on the buildings.

rrlund · Jan 10, 2014

Ya,one of my best friends owned that for several years. He owned it when they made the switch to Arco east of the Mississippi. He used to do a lot of work on milk trucks,go figure huh? I don't think they ever pumped gas there again after he sold it. There were a few other businesses in there before they tore it down. There's a grocery store there now.

Al L. in Wisc. · Jan 10, 2014

rrlund; I also noticed the H-C sign right away. I have a six foot H-C double-faced enamel sign. The pylon standard for that sign appears to be the same as the Texaco branded station signs. It was called a 'Lollipop' or 'Banjo' style sign. My late dad owned a small country store and we were Texaco branded...pumped 'Regular and Ethel' back in 1962-1963. Thanks for sharing.

rrlund · Jan 10, 2014

My cousin is married to a Sinclair. He and his brother collect anything Sinclair petroleum they can find.
The picture that I posted in another post of the corner of M66 and M57,there was a Texaco station on one of those corners for a lot of years. Ya,the sign was pretty much the same.
I remember that H-C station vividly though. When one of us kids would go with Dad to haul milk,he'd usually give us a nickel so we could walk over there and get a candy bar while he unloaded. There was a wooden framed curved glass case with the candy bars in it.

Dr. Walt · Jan 11, 2014

Randy:

Thank you for sharing. I always wondered where the Carnation Plant was located. When I was a youngster my Father was an Underwriter for Fred S. James & Co. Insurance Underwriters - (Corporate Insurance). Dad would often take us down to his office which was on the 9th floor of the Carnation Building on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles. This building was the Corporate Offices of the Carnation Milk Company and Fred S. James & Co. leased the entire 9th floor. My Father started out at the bottom as an Underwriter and worked his way up until he was the Senior Vice President of the insurance company.

Doc

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