Aerial, looking west, of the Kalamazoo Flying Service located at 5607 Portage Road. The hanger and offices are visible in the foreground to the east of Portage Road which runs from left to right through the center of the image. In the top right...
Gentleman, possibly Earl Martin (president of the company), seated behind his desk in the Kalamazoo Sled and Toy Company located at 844 East Crosstown Parkway. Formally known as the Kalamazoo Sled Company and once the largest producer of...
Gentleman, possibly Earl Martin (president of the company), seated behind his desk in the Kalamazoo Sled and Toy Company located at 844 East Crosstown Parkway. Formally known as the Kalamazoo Sled Company and once the largest producer of...
Aerial view, looking northwest, of the newly opened Jewel Foods and Osco Drugs located off of South Westnedge in Portage, Michigan. Osco's address is 6390 South Westnedge (on the south end of the complex) while Jewel Foods address is 6330 South...
View, looking east, along Milham Avenue in Portage, Michigan. On the right is Palm Street and in the distance is South Westnedge Avenue. As of 2006 Milham has been widened from two to five lanes and this area has become heavily developed. The...
Fire Fighting; Businesses; Fire Engines & Equipment;
Image of the Kalamazoo Fire Department attacking a fire, resulting from a Naphtha explosion, at the Kalamazoo Sled Company. Naphtha is a generic term referring to flammable liquid hydrocarbon mixtures. The Kalamazoo Sled Company was originally...
Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan - downtown office (315 South Burdick Street - Kalamazoo, Michigan) shortly after remodeling in the mid 1950's. Formerly the Elite Theater, Fidelity Federal moved into the structure in the mid 1920's. Thirty years...
Interior of the First National Bank and Trust Company of Kalamazoo's Galesburg Branch located at 82 West Michigan Avenue in the city of Galesburg, Michigan. This image was taken in the lower level or basement and shows a framed display of bank...
Image, looking northeast, of the First Reformed Church of Portage located at 7905 South Westnedge on the northeast corner of South Westnedge and Brown Street. This is the third church building to stand on this site and was dedicated on March 5th,...
Image of the Portage Township Hall located at 7800 Shaver Road in Portage, Michigan taken soon after the completion of the hall in June of 1959. It was utilized as the seat of government for thirty years, until 1989 when the offices were move a...
The Fidelity Federal Savings and Loan - downtown office (315 South Burdick Street - Kalamazoo, Michigan) shortly after remodeling in the mid 1950's. Formerly the home of the Elite Theater, Fidelity Federal moved into the structure in the mid...
Image, looking south, of the Ramona Park entrance located on the eastern shore of Long Lake off Sprinkle Road in Portage, Michigan. This park contains swimming beaches, picnic pavilions, athletic fields and playgrounds. The park's history begins...
Aerial view, looking southeast, of the intersections of Portage Street (left to right through the center of the image), Lovell Street (left to right from Portage Street on the left to the lower right corner of the image) and Gibson Street (from...
Fire Fighting; Fire Engines & Equipment; Businesses;
Image of Kalamazoo Fire Fighters mopping up after the fire which resulted from a Naphtha explosion at the Kalamazoo Sled Company located at 844 East Crosstown Parkway in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Once the largest producer of children's sleds in the...
Fire Fighting; Fire engines & Equipment; Businesses;
Image taken by commercial photographer John Todd just moments after his arrival on the scene of a Naphtha Chemical Explosion and Fire at the Kalamazoo Sled Company located at 844 East Crosstown Parkway in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Naphtha is a generic...
Image, looking northeast, showing a portion of the Bloomfield Shopping Center complex developed by Harry A. Hurni of Kalamazoo, Michigan. The buildings in the foreground stand on the southeast corner of Portage Street and Bloomfield Drive and...
UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE - Two attractive young ladies, possibly college students, posed in semi-formal eveningwear while standing in what appears to be the living room of an apartment. The devise in the lower right corner is a radio on a T.V. stand. ...
Business Districts; Department Stores; Parking Lots;
Aerial view, looking east, of downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. The streets visible in the image are: Burdick Street (running from the left center edge to the lower right corner), Portage Street (running from the left center edge to the upper right...
Aerial image, looking northeast, of the DeNooyer Brothers Automobile Dealership located on Portage Street in downtown Kalamazoo, Michigan. DeNooyer's dominates the center of the image including (on the left) the used car division at 301 Portage...
Several businesses situated along the west side of U.S. 131 in the city of Three Rivers, Michigan. They stand just to the south of the U.S. 131 and M-60 (West Michigan Avenue) intersection. The first, from left to right, is the Chicken Coop...
